Compared honestly
A Spruce alternative that keeps QuickBooks
ECI Spruce: ECI's business management system for lumber, building-material, and hardware dealers — point of sale, inventory, and accounting in one — sold through a quote-only process.
Public facts and our own experience, nothing else. The right tool depends on your size and on where the pain actually is.
What ECI Spruce is good at
- Point of sale and inventory built for the dealer counter
- Accounting, purchasing, and reporting in one integrated system
- A long history in the LBM and hardware trade
Where it stops for a distributor
- It's an accounting replacement — QuickBooks and your accountant's workflow go away
- Quote-only pricing and per-seat licensing, so the true cost surfaces late
- Implementation is a project with a timeline, not an onboarding week
Pick ECI Spruce if…
- You want a single integrated system with its own ledger and point of sale
- Retail counter traffic is the heart of the business
- You've decided to leave QuickBooks
Pick FlyoverOS if…
- Contractor sales on estimates and contract pricing are the heart of the business
- You're keeping QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise
- You want to be running in weeks, everyone logged in, price known up front
Either way, protect your books. With FlyoverOS, QuickBooks stays your ledger the entire time — every invoice and payment lands in your own file, and if we disappeared tomorrow your accounting would be intact and current. Read how we handle your data.