Overview
What is QuickBooks Desktop Pro?
Quickbooks Desktop Pro is accounting software from Intuit, Inc. It includes core accounting features, plus analytics and exportable reports. It is offered in on-premise and SaaS forms.
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Affordable accounting software for small and medium sized businesses
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QuickBooks Desktop Pro for nonprofit - a great choice
If they hadn't just forced an upgrade on users, doubled prices, and touted bad support as a benefit, they'd be OK.
great for the small business, not great for anyone else
Quickbooks Desktop Pro is top quality
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Financial, inventory management all in one. Made easy with QuickBooks.
Not a pro but I use Desktop Pro
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Popular Features
- Accounts payable (107)9.797%
- Bank reconciliation (108)9.797%
- Accounts receivable (109)7.474%
- Standard reports (108)7.474%
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What is QuickBooks Desktop Pro?
Quickbooks Desktop Pro is accounting software from Intuit, Inc. It includes core accounting features, plus analytics and exportable reports. It is offered in on-premise and SaaS forms.
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Features
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 9.9Pay calculation(61) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 9.8Benefit plan administration(35) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 9.8Direct deposit files(53) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 9.9Salary revision and increment management(49) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 7.3Reimbursement management(50) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Customization
This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.
- 8API for custom integration(32) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 7.8Plug-ins(36) Ratings
A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.
Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 8.9Single sign-on capability(75) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 8.1Role-based user permissions(88) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 9.6Dashboards(93) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 7.4Standard reports(108) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 8.1Custom reports(106) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 9.7Accounts payable(107) Ratings
This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.
- 7.4Accounts receivable(109) Ratings
This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.
- 2.1Cash management(97) Ratings
The software provides a complete picture of a company’s cash flows, streamlines payment processing, and includes cash forecasting.
- 9.7Bank reconciliation(108) Ratings
The software connects to a company’s financial institutions in order to reconcile accounting records with checking, savings and credit card accounts. Often month and year closing capabilities are included.
- 8.8Expense management(99) Ratings
The software can log and track business expenses and reimbursements, including travel-related expenses, with the ability to tie them to particular projects.
- 8.7Time tracking(47) Ratings
The software can track billable and non-billable employee time by project.
- 5.9Fixed asset management(64) Ratings
This includes the ability to track fixed assets (e.g., laptops), including location, check-in and check-out, maintenance scheduling, audit history, specialized property tax period reports, cost and depreciation.
- 7.9Multi-currency support(27) Ratings
The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.
- 5.6Multi-division support(52) Ratings
The software is flexible and supports bookkeeping practices along multiple dimensions such as locations, branches or products.
- 7.2Regulations compliance(39) Ratings
The software helps users adhere to typical accounting standards and regulations such as IFRS, GASB, or GAAP.
- 8Electronic tax filing(50) Ratings
The software provides a full electronic interface for the filing of repeatable taxes, such as payroll or sales tax.
- 9.7Self-service portal(38) Ratings
The software provides online portals for certain stakeholders to find information relevant to them, such as employees, vendors and customers.
- 7Global Financial Support(15) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 8.8Primary and Secondary Ledgers(37) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 7.4Intercompany Accounting(38) Ratings
Automatically balance and reconcile GL for intercompany transactions
- 8.5Localizations(17) Ratings
Meet reporting requirements with country-specific localizations
- 9.6Journals and Reconciliations(65) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 9.7Enterprise Accounting(33) Ratings
Create accounting for disconnected ERP and non-accounting source systems
- 8.1Configurable Accounting(41) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 7.8Centralized Rules Framework(24) Ratings
Integrate disparate ERP and transactional systems into single ERP instance
- 9.7Standardized Processes(48) Ratings
Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes
Inventory Management
The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.
- 6.4Inventory tracking(53) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 6.1Automatic reordering(32) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 6.2Location management(29) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
- 8.2Manufacturing module(16) Ratings
The software helps track and manage raw materials, work-in-progress items, and finished goods.
Order Management
The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.
- 6.5Pricing(50) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 7.3Order entry(49) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 7.1Credit card processing(48) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 9Cost of goods sold(58) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
- 9Order Orchestration(18) Ratings
Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.
- 9End-to-end order visibility(21) Ratings
Get updates on orders, inventory, shipments, planned supply, and invoices, and improve the quality of decisions through in-context analytics
- 3.2Order exception Resolution(16) Ratings
Monitor fulfillment tasks and resolve issues, view and evaluate varios options via what-if analysis and define and enforce change order rules
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Reviews
(1-5 of 5)QuickBooks -- The must have for any small to medium sized business
- Solid report formatting.
- Excellent data recall ability.
- Tremendous ease for adding transactions -- it's very intuitive.
- Connectivity to some banking is a little slow/sluggish. It does not always import transactions as they occur.
- Accounts payable
- 80%8.0
- Accounts receivable
- 90%9.0
- Cash management
- 80%8.0
- Bank reconciliation
- 100%10.0
- Expense management
- 100%10.0
- Time tracking
- N/AN/A
- Fixed asset management
- 80%8.0
- Multi-currency support
- N/AN/A
- Multi-division support
- 90%9.0
- Regulations compliance
- 90%9.0
- Electronic tax filing
- N/AN/A
- Self-service portal
- N/AN/A
- Global Financial Support
- N/AN/A
- Primary and Secondary Ledgers
- 80%8.0
- Intercompany Accounting
- 80%8.0
- Localizations
- 90%9.0
- Journals and Reconciliations
- 100%10.0
- Enterprise Accounting
- N/AN/A
- Configurable Accounting
- 90%9.0
- Centralized Rules Framework
- 100%10.0
- Standardized Processes
- 100%10.0
- Inventory tracking
- 90%9.0
- Automatic reordering
- N/AN/A
- Location management
- 90%9.0
- Manufacturing module
- N/AN/A
- Pricing
- 100%10.0
- Order entry
- 100%10.0
- Credit card processing
- 100%10.0
- Cost of goods sold
- 100%10.0
- Order Orchestration
- 80%8.0
- End-to-end order visibility
- 90%9.0
- Order exception Resolution
- N/AN/A
- Pay calculation
- 90%9.0
- Direct deposit files
- 90%9.0
- Salary revision and increment management
- 90%9.0
- Reimbursement management
- 90%9.0
- Dashboards
- 100%10.0
- Standard reports
- 100%10.0
- Custom reports
- 100%10.0
- API for custom integration
- 100%10.0
- Plug-ins
- 90%9.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 100%10.0
- Single sign-on capability
- 100%10.0
- QuickBooks gives me and my clients a quick view of cash performance.
- QuickBooks allows a deeper cost analysis using the % of revenue column to track expenses year to year
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Vendor Reputation
QuickBooks for Small Businesses
- QuickBooks Pro does invoicing well; I am able to customize my invoices to my company's specifications. The templates allow options for the design to be personalized to the needs of my company, including guides for making it easy to use windowed envelopes.
- It gives me a quick snapshot of where my financials are. I always have an idea of the financial in's and out's with just a click or two of my mouse.
- QuickBook Pro reminds me when bills are due, and records easily when payments are made. I never have to worry about missing a payment because of the flag reminders.
- It is software on my desktop computer at work, therefore, I cannot access it away from my office. This has been somewhat inconvenient, but I am aware that there are online options with QuickBooks that we are strongly considering for the future.
- Sometimes it is difficult to edit a list item. There is some inconvenience of not being able to right click and permanently edit a list item within an invoice. Instead you have to go to a menu item, look it up and then edit the item instead of being able to edit the original item within an invoice. You can, however, change the information within the invoice, you just aren't able to make permanent changes to the line item without going into the line item menu.
- When I am paying bills, I am not able to attach a receipt or list a notation about a payment confirmation number. That usually has to be done in the invoice itself, instead of in the 'pay bills' screen, which, at times, can be a hassle.
- Accounts payable
- 80%8.0
- Accounts receivable
- 80%8.0
- Cash management
- 90%9.0
- Bank reconciliation
- 100%10.0
- Expense management
- 90%9.0
- Time tracking
- 90%9.0
- Fixed asset management
- 80%8.0
- Multi-currency support
- N/AN/A
- Multi-division support
- N/AN/A
- Regulations compliance
- N/AN/A
- Electronic tax filing
- N/AN/A
- Self-service portal
- N/AN/A
- Global Financial Support
- 80%8.0
- Primary and Secondary Ledgers
- N/AN/A
- Intercompany Accounting
- 70%7.0
- Localizations
- N/AN/A
- Journals and Reconciliations
- 90%9.0
- Enterprise Accounting
- 70%7.0
- Configurable Accounting
- 70%7.0
- Centralized Rules Framework
- 90%9.0
- Standardized Processes
- 90%9.0
- Pay calculation
- N/AN/A
- Benefit plan administration
- N/AN/A
- Direct deposit files
- N/AN/A
- Salary revision and increment management
- N/AN/A
- Reimbursement management
- N/AN/A
- Dashboards
- 90%9.0
- Standard reports
- 90%9.0
- Custom reports
- 90%9.0
- API for custom integration
- 80%8.0
- Plug-ins
- 90%9.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 90%9.0
- Single sign-on capability
- 100%10.0
- I am able to keep track of my books with decent accuracy. Most of the issues I have had have been because of not knowing how to use the software, but it has the features needed to keep things going.
- I am able to quickly see which invoices I have as outstanding, which makes keeping vendors paid on time. This is SUPER helpful for keeping track of the outgoing expenses.
- I am also able to track Customer balances and statements easily.
- Billing clients
- Managing vendor invoices
- Keeping track of monies coming and/or going from the company.
- Creating packing lists
- Monthly stats for staff meetings
- Tracking financials for more than one business
- Adding and tracking financials for additional providers
- Merchant transactions
- Employee payroll
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Implemented in-house
- The learning curve - how to do what I wanted to do and where to go to do it.
- Setting up items was and can be a bit cumbersome.
- Posting transactions
- Attaching invoices
- Daily snapshot reports
- None - after the learning curve, it's pretty easy to use.
Bookkeeping Ease
- As CPA, can set up to track who makes entries. Can track what is added and deleted, in case a problem arises.
- When used correctly, provides good information for generating financial statements and getting a trial balance to do annual tax returns with.
- QuickBooks in general provides certifications so that employees new to QuickBooks can learn and get up to speed quickly to work with our clients.
- Too easy to delete transactions.
- Does not give enough warning to voiding invoices, checks, deposits, etc that relate to a prior period. Once financial statements have been done, and the tax return filed, you cannot just void items, because it will void them in the period it was entered. For instance a check written 2/14/14 is voided on 3-25-15. The retained earnings is thrown off from what was used on the tax return because it was posted to QB's on 2-14-14 and is voided back to that date. This is especially frustrating.
- When you have an accountant's copy outstanding, when the client imports the changes, if any entry has been made to adjust cash, the client's bank reconciliations are undone and have to completed again. Very frustrating for the client and for the accountant, because the import of our changes caused the issue.
How many transactions do you expect to have? Large amounts of transactions, will slow the program down.
How many employees and how many states you have employees in? QuickBooks does not work with all states, and it does not work at all with local taxing agencies within a state. We have had issues with getting the information needed to print W-2's. Fairly large company.
- Accounts payable
- 70%7.0
- Accounts receivable
- 70%7.0
- Cash management
- 80%8.0
- Bank reconciliation
- 90%9.0
- Expense management
- 70%7.0
- Multi-division support
- 90%9.0
- Inventory tracking
- 30%3.0
- Automatic reordering
- 40%4.0
- Location management
- 40%4.0
- Credit card processing
- 80%8.0
- Cost of goods sold
- 70%7.0
- Pay calculation
- 80%8.0
- Direct deposit files
- 80%8.0
- Salary revision and increment management
- 80%8.0
- Reimbursement management
- 80%8.0
- Dashboards
- 80%8.0
- Standard reports
- 80%8.0
- Custom reports
- 70%7.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 50%5.0
- Single sign-on capability
- 50%5.0
- Definitely better customer service. Can help clients with issues and walk them through problems.
- More efficient that other software and definitely more efficient that manual records.
- Easy of accessing client information to do payroll, year-end work, etc.
Administrative staff, staff accountants, senior accountants, supervisors, partners.
They do all from year-end adjustments, enter accounts payable and receivable. Reconcile bank accounts, balance credit cards, clean up accountants receivable and payable issues. Process payroll. The company's books are kept on QuickBooks by the office manager. We also help clients who use the inventory module.
- General Ledger for client's activity for the year.
- To have information to do tax returns for clients
- To process payroll
- To obtain financial statements for clients who just have Excel spreadsheets of activity. We can enter activity totals and get a balance sheet and income statement for them.
- Keep track of locations, departments, classes of clients.
- Get clients on electronic data for ease in using for tracking how the company is doing.
- Budgeting
- Inventory more
- Fixed Assets
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- Training new users
- Damage to some files
- Inventory
- Bank reconciliations are a breeze with this product.
- Easy to enter checks or bills. Can enter bills and have system write all checks you want to pay at one time.
- Credit and Debit memos
- Undeposited funds. When client does not use it properly, it is cumbersome to fix the account.
- Inventory very frustrating and cumbersome. Cannot rely on values. Clients not knowing how to use it properly. Junk put in, junk comes out.
Quickbooks Pro to use or not to use
- QuickBooks Pro works like a checkbook and is intuitive to use.
- QuickBooks Pro makes it easy to track income and expenses by requiring a category to save the entry.
- QuickBooks Pro tracks 1099 vendors and can print the 1099's directly from the program (if set up to do so).
- QuickBooks Pro could use improvement with setting the category for the transaction. Most users aren't accountants and some can easily incorrectly categorize assets as expense items. A short accounting tutorial for users might be beneficial on types of expenses or assets like inventory.
- QuickBooks Pro could use improvement with invoices to be paid. Some users will set up an invoice and then just write the check leaving the invoice in accounts payable and doubling the entry. More could be done to remind users to either pay the invoice or take them to that area and ask if they were paying an invoice or match up transactions easier.
- QuickBooks Pro could use improvement with fixing transactions that are either doubled or need to be matched up but some of the categories cannot be changed with a journal entry and require countless hours of time to go back and edit transactions. It would be nice if there were some kind of override for accountants so we could easily manipulate any and all categories with a journal entry to fix problems we encounter when reconciling the books for tax purposes.
- Accounts payable
- 20%2.0
- Accounts receivable
- 40%4.0
- Cash management
- N/AN/A
- Bank reconciliation
- 60%6.0
- Expense management
- N/AN/A
- Time tracking
- 10%1.0
- Fixed asset management
- 10%1.0
- Inventory tracking
- 10%1.0
- Automatic reordering
- N/AN/A
- Location management
- N/AN/A
- Pricing
- 30%3.0
- Order entry
- N/AN/A
- Credit card processing
- 20%2.0
- Cost of goods sold
- 30%3.0
- Pay calculation
- 20%2.0
- Benefit plan administration
- N/AN/A
- Direct deposit files
- 10%1.0
- Salary revision and increment management
- 10%1.0
- Reimbursement management
- N/AN/A
- Dashboards
- 40%4.0
- Standard reports
- 70%7.0
- Custom reports
- 70%7.0
- API for custom integration
- N/AN/A
- Plug-ins
- N/AN/A
- Role-based user permissions
- 80%8.0
- Single sign-on capability
- N/AN/A
- QuickBooks Pro makes it easy for any member of the team to quickly and efficiently pay a bill or record a deposit leaving more time for other aspects of the business.
- Tracking expenses
- Reporting for income tax purposes
- Budgeting
- Finding ways to cut the costs and money with the 2 year comparisons
- Using budgets to stay on track with our planned expenses.
- Price
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- Making sure that all the opening balances were correct.
- Getting the journal entries posted to reflect all the proper account balances from our previous software.
- Using QuickBooks is as easy as writing a check
- Reports are just a click away
- Classifying transactions properly for accounting purposes if you have no accounting knowledge
- If you've generated an invoice and forget to pay the invoice but have written the check anyway it's nearly impossible to fix
Easy to use Quick Books
- Easy entry.
- Easy data retrieval.
- Good financial statement formats
- Beginning and ending inventory for individual periods for profit and loss statements
- Longer account titles
- Accounts payable
- 90%9.0
- Accounts receivable
- 90%9.0
- Cash management
- 80%8.0
- Bank reconciliation
- 90%9.0
- Expense management
- 90%9.0
- Fixed asset management
- 80%8.0
- Multi-currency support
- N/AN/A
- Credit card processing
- 90%9.0
- Standard reports
- 90%9.0
- Custom reports
- 90%9.0
- Role-based user permissions
- 90%9.0
- Single sign-on capability
- 90%9.0
- Better access to accounting data
- Bookkeeping
- Financial statments
- Bank reconciliations
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Third-party Reviews
- Implemented in-house
- Getting used to a new system
- Understanding where to find input locations
- Data entry
- Financial statements
- Bill pay
- Credit memos
- Debit memos