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IMPLEMENTATION

Implement NetSuite For The Way Your PSO Actually Runs.

Every PSO arrives at NetSuite from a different place. You may be new to the platform, adding NetSuite Financials to SuiteProjects Pro, or trying to get both to work as one. Wherever you're starting, Top Step implements to how your business really operates - because we know both platforms and the professional services model behind them.

SUITEPROJECTS PRO + NETSUITE FINANCIALS

Start where you are

Which path is your PSO on?

Most professional services organizations are in one of four places. Each has a different "done right."  Which is yours? It shapes everything about the implementation.

New to NetSuite

A clean slate with the chance to design SuiteProjects Pro and NetSuite Financials correctly from day one, instead of inheriting a generic build.

What we'd focus on: Designing both systems around how you work, from day one.

You have both — but they don't work together

The full stack is licensed, yet month-end still drags and the numbers don't match. This is usually a focused optimization rather than a re-implementation.

What we'd focus on: Closing the gaps between the two systems. See our Optimization & Business Efficiency service.

On SuiteProjects Pro — adding NetSuite Financials

Consolidating onto NetSuite. The way your projects and billing are set up in SuiteProjects Pro determines how clean the financials side will be.

What we'd focus on: Getting your SuiteProjects Pro setup right first, so the two connect cleanly.

On NetSuite's built-in Projects — not SuiteProjects Pro

Outgrowing NetSuite's built-in project module? Today, there's a real difference between it and SuiteProjects Pro, the dedicated platform built for professional services.

What we'd focus on: An honest look at whether SuiteProjects Pro is right for you and a fresh build if it is.

Not sure which one you are, or you're somewhere in between? That's the first thing we'll figure out together.

Why it goes wrong

The platform is powerful. It is not self-configuring.

Generalist partners can get NetSuite live. What they miss is the professional services operating model, and that's where implementations quietly fail.

The system was configured for a general business model, not the realities of a PSO where projects, utilization, transactions, and margin are tightly connected.

Time, expense, and billing don't flow cleanly from projects to the general ledger. 

The system went live, but adoption didn't and teams still trust their spreadsheets.

Financials and PSA were treated as separate implementations rather than parts of one connected business process.

 

Old processes were carried into the new system, including the same workarounds and inefficiencies.

Data has no clear owner, so leadership quietly stops trusting the numbers.

Why it matters

A right-first-time implementation pays you back for years.

When the system matches how work gets done and the pieces work together, value becomes clear
quickly and adoption sticks.

Faster Time to Value

A system your teams use from week one, not months later.

Clean, Trusted Data

Accurate project and financial data that leadership can make decisions from.

Adoption That Sticks

Configured to how your people really work, with training to match.

A Foundation to Scale

Built to grow with you. Not a setup you'll patch around later.

THE TOP STEP APPROACH

People and process first. Then the platform.

Technology is rarely why a PSO underperforms in NetSuite — it's process and adoption. We've worked with professional services organizations since 2007, and only PSOs, so we start with your operating model and bring your team along.

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We meet you where you are

A clean slate, an add-on, or a fix. We start from your scenario and how you win, deliver, resource, and bill.

 
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Process before configuration

We align on how the business actually runs first, then configure to it. Change management is a core deliverable, not an afterthought.

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Depth in both platforms

We know how SuiteProjects Pro must be configured to feed clean data into NetSuite Financials, the gap generalists miss.

What we implement

One platform or both — built for how PS works.

One team, accountable for whatever you're implementing and for the integration in between - where PSOs get the most value when it is right, or the most pain if it's wrong.

  • SuiteProjects Pro — resource planning, time & expense, delivery, and billing
  • NetSuite Financials — GL, AR/AP, revenue recognition, and reporting
  • The integration between them — project events driving the right financial transactions, automatically
  • Data migration, testing, training — and a supported, rehearsed go-live

Built for how PS works

Not a generic NetSuite build.

Project-based revenue, utilization as a KPI, milestone revenue recognition, configured around your operating model. We stay through go-live, then hand off to a team that keeps it optimized.

Our Methodology

A proven path to a go-live you can trust.

Refined across hundreds of professional services deployments — applied the same way whether you're implementing one platform or both.

Structure & Analyze

Workshops capture how you run across delivery, resourcing, and finance.

Design

We design the solution across your platforms and map exactly how the systems connect.

Build & Configure

Configuration, integrations, and data migration. Validating one scenario at a time.

Validate

Hands-on testing with your team proves the business can run before go-live.

Deploy & Stabilize

Training, a rehearsed cutover, go-live support, and handoff to ongoing optimization.

Why Top Step

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READY WHEN YOU ARE

Tell us where you're starting.

Book a 30-minute call. We'll listen to where you are, be direct about what we think you need, and outline what the path forward looks like with one platform or both.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED

NetSuite Implementation FAQs.

About Us:  Our mission is to enable and empower Professional Services Organizations to become profitable, scalable, and efficient through change management, technology deployment, and skill set training with a Customer First approach.

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