ArcBill vs. QuickBooks Online Advanced

As described in my detailed list of improvements prior, I wish the system would upload bills and other things and separate out the line items on the bill instead of only finding the total. QuickBooks Online Advanced doesn't currently do this. I also wish that linking a bank account worked better than it does currently. This is why I have not given this rating a 10.

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• Budgeting is easy to input. Our entities have multiple departments, so using classes to separate and report the results of each department is important.
• Reports are easy to customize to provide meaningful data to the board and department managers.
• QuickBooks Online Advanced has a large market share of accounting software in use, so it is relatively easy to find new employees with prior experience with QuickBooks Online Advanced.
• Able to open both entities at the same time, which is helpful due to the number of transactions between the two entities.

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• Continued growth around AI usage and tool.
• There are still some reporting gaps that make setting up custom reports not absolutely top-tier.
• There can be a lot of UI clutter as different features keep getting turned on. Can become harder to navigate.

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It has become second nature to use Quick Books at the company. If you need a report you log in and pull the report. It helps expedite reconciliation of bank accounts, the automation of most tasks make it easy to get mundane tasks completed quickly.

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QuickBooks Online Advanced is highly usable and intuitive for most day-to-day financial tasks. Its interface is clear, and core functions such as invoicing, reconciliation, and reporting are easy to perform. While some advanced features like report customization or integrations can be less straightforward, overall the platform offers a smooth and efficient user experience.

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In the 5 years I have been using it, I cannot recall there ever having been an outage or not being able to access the system. Sure, there are issues with internet speeds sometimes that are unrelated to Intuit but it is a very reliable system.

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Since we do not integrate the software with other systems, I do not have any issues with speed related to that. Pages tend to load pretty quickly, but there are times when reports or other pages take a little longer to load than usual. It is not an overly frustrating amount of time, though, and it happens infrequently.

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The online training is good enough.

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I did not participate in this part particularly much. The implementation was simple and easy to perform. There were not any major issues that arose during the process. QuickBooks has made the processes pretty streamless and I believe they had anticipated many difficulties ahead of time. This was easy enough

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QBO is great because it does accounting very well, and it can integrate well with everything. I appreciate that it has third-party integrations with many other software companies, so we can focus on doing our accounting through QuickBooks while adding other software as needed through those integrations.

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Software is very flexible

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• Spreadsheet sync reduces manual data entry significantly. Exporting data into my customized Excel workbook that has complex formulas and macros for automating makes uploading changes and reconfiguring easy and convenient, saving a lot of time.
• Automating AP approval has reduced lost paper copies, improved internal controls, and reduced audit findings.
• Having banking connections has improved cash flow management, streamlined credit card expenses and reconciliation. I have found that utilizing it for my primary operating account actually makes things more difficult and can easily double-post payments, so I avoid using it on the checking account. It has been well for the credit card account, though.

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