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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    FunctionFox

    Score6.1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    FunctionFox provides TimeFox which is a timesheet and project management solution for small creative companies. The vendor says TimeFox is currently used by over 100,000 creative professionals in Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

    $5

    per user

    QuickBooks Online Advanced

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AQuickBooks Online Advanced is a SaaS-based accounting software designed to scale with growing businesses. It includes the functionalities of QuickBooks Online, as well as more robust business analytics, customization, and resource management.N/A
    Pricing
    FunctionFoxQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Editions & Modules
    FunctionFox Classic
    $5
    per user
    FunctionFox Premier
    $10
    per user
    FunctionFox In-House
    $20
    per user
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FunctionFoxQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsNo hidden fees. All customer support, and regular upgrades are included free of charge.—
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    Community Pulse
    FunctionFoxQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Considered Both Products
    FunctionFox
    No answer on this topic
    Intuit
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Would buy again
    150 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    134 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    153 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    124 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    131 Answers
    Features
    FunctionFoxQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of FunctionFox and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    FunctionFox
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    7.9
    116 Ratings
    4% above category average
    API for custom integration00 Ratings7.796 Ratings
    Plug-ins00 Ratings8.0101 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of FunctionFox and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    FunctionFox
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.4
    210 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.4184 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.3206 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of FunctionFox and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    FunctionFox
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.2
    225 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.3212 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.5225 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.7216 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of FunctionFox and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    FunctionFox
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.2
    233 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Accounts payable00 Ratings8.4220 Ratings
    Accounts receivable00 Ratings8.5219 Ratings
    Cash management00 Ratings8.5193 Ratings
    Bank reconciliation00 Ratings9.1223 Ratings
    Expense management00 Ratings8.5206 Ratings
    Time tracking00 Ratings7.7110 Ratings
    Multi-currency support00 Ratings6.557 Ratings
    Multi-division support00 Ratings7.297 Ratings
    Regulations compliance00 Ratings8.3103 Ratings
    Electronic tax filing00 Ratings8.8127 Ratings
    Self-service portal00 Ratings7.9121 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings8.297 Ratings
    Intercompany Accounting00 Ratings8.099 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings8.4199 Ratings
    Enterprise Accounting00 Ratings7.988 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting00 Ratings8.4111 Ratings
    Centralized Rules Framework00 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Standardized Processes00 Ratings8.4151 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of FunctionFox and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    FunctionFox
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    6.2
    91 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings6.291 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of FunctionFox and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    FunctionFox
    -
    Ratings
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    6.8
    150 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pricing00 Ratings6.8110 Ratings
    Order entry00 Ratings6.599 Ratings
    Credit card processing00 Ratings7.2129 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    FunctionFoxQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    7.9
    (235 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.7
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FunctionFoxQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Likelihood to Recommend
    FunctionFox
    If you are trying to track time across teams or functions, that is really what FunctionFox is designed for. I think this would work better for individual, smaller teams with similar tasks and activities, instead of for larger companies with more complex organizational operations. If you are just getting started with time tracking, this could be a good place to start.
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    Intuit
    Well suited for a larger company with many classes that need to be differentiated. It is relatively intuitive to use, whether you have used other versions of QuickBooks, or any other accounting software. Easy to dig into your accounts from wither the Balance Sheet or the Profit and Loss when trying to analyze performance.
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    Pros
    FunctionFox
    • With only a couple clicks I can still easily pull reports by employee on a weekly basis which provide the information I need to run payroll.
    • I pull reports by client each month for our monthly client billings, which we have broken down by project so I can easily see how our time was spent on their account.
    • We set a budget for the approved number of hours we can apply to any one project for the month, and the system provides the project manager with a warning as the limit comes near. That function has been fantastic!
    • FunctionFox's Help Desk personnel are wonderful, providing an exceptionally personalized experience. They take their time, and will even schedule a call to go into greater depth, such as an entire account review just to ensure you're able to use all the product features to your company's best advantage. Our entire team jumped on a half hour call a couple months ago, and she answered ALL of our questions, including providing us with info on some features we hadn't realized even existed.
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    Intuit
    • 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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    Cons
    FunctionFox
    • The function of the site is not as user-friendly as others, it's sometimes hard to find certain projects and organize data in order to track effectively. I would often need to download/export reports.
    • Sometimes a project would accidentally be created twice and hours billed to two separate projects for the same thing. Which made tracking and billing increasingly difficult.
    • Little to no organization of projects for billing and finance purposes, which makes it hard when we conduct billing as there is not a clear way to know if a project is complete, ongoing, rejected etc.
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    Intuit
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    FunctionFox
    All of my employees are used to it and introducing a new software to them requires them to get trained again increasing the costs. TimeFox is an easy to use and understand software. Another advantage of TimeFox is that is an online software and I can access it whenever I want to.
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    Intuit
    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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    Usability
    FunctionFox
    It's a good tool for tracking hours and overall budget. It does not give you insight into why there are those hours, or what part of the project has over burned. The tool is also tough to export reports and find the correct information throughout. Not only this, but I also have a hard time changing project details - there's no real easy way to and there's a larger room for error
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    Intuit
    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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    Reliability and Availability
    FunctionFox
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    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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    Performance
    FunctionFox
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    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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    Support Rating
    FunctionFox
    I haven't used FunctionFox for a lot of support requests. On the times that i've been having issues I've had the issue resolved within a day, most questions I have had i've been able to source answers online or from a colleague. From what I have experienced the support team seems great.
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    Intuit
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    FunctionFox
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    The online training is good enough.
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    Implementation Rating
    FunctionFox
    Unsure on implementation of FunctionFox - was before my time at the company. Everyone at the company had a good understanding of the product and how to use it by the time I joined. My understanding is we implemented ourselves with a few training sessions for the creative team and adding hours as well as training for the account team to add projects
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    Intuit
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    FunctionFox
    When we were looking for software we tested several, and FunctionFox was hands down the best value. While there are other options, and each company is different, nothing could come close to filling our needs the way FunctionFox has. The money we spend has been returned several times over.
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    Intuit
    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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    Scalability
    FunctionFox
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    Software is very flexible
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    Return on Investment
    FunctionFox
    • FunctionFox pays for itself just about every month in terms of how much more I am able to bill than before I started using the software, and how much less time I need to spend on non-billable admin tasks. I used to create invoices based mostly on what sounded fair, rather than on accurate time & cost records. I'm sure my clients loved it, but it wasn't healthy for my business. Now I base invoices on actual time and expense records, and end up with more money in my pocket.
    • It's not tangible, but FunctionFox has improved my ability to communicate with clients, and with freelance partners when I'm involved in a collaborative project. I can anticipate and discuss potential budget or delivery deadline overruns before they occur. The goodwill this builds has had a tremendously positive impact on client and partnership relations.
    • I fell into freelancing without a lot of experience running a business. FunctionFox has been a great teacher, helping me think through many issues that I wouldn't have even recognized as important. It is simple to use, with a UI that is neither intimidating nor overwhelming, and it has been super flexible in terms of molding it to suit the way I work.
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    Intuit
    • 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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    ScreenShots

    FunctionFox Screenshots

    Screenshot of Easily navigate throughout FunctionFox from the customizable Home dashboard.Screenshot of CEO Desktop enables users to visualize budgets and deadlines for specific projects.Screenshot of The Project Status page provides the users with  an overview of the projects and the different stages they are at. With the filters users can drill down to see specific clients or projects.Screenshot of The Calendar provides a great weekly or monthly view of project start and due dates, along with deliverables, milestones, and meetings.