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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LivePlan

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    LivePlan is business plan software for entrepreneurs. Features include the pitch creation, sample plans, financial assessments, and performance dashboards.

    $15

    Monthly & Annual billing options available

    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
    LivePlanQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Editions & Modules
    LivePlan Premium
    Starting at $30/month
    Monthly & Annual billing options available
    LivePlan Standard
    Starting at $15/month
    Monthly & Annual billing options available
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LivePlanQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsLivePlan Standard Includes: - Step-By-Step Instructions - Automatic Financial Statements - Full Financial Forecast - One-Page Pitch Builder - 500+ Sample Plans LivePlan Premium includes everything in Standard, plus: - Industry Benchmark Data - Financial Forecast Scenarios - Performance Dashboards - Milestone Planner - LiveForecast - Syncs with Xero & QuickBooks All subscriptions come with a 60-day money-back guarantee and access to expert customer support.—
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    Community Pulse
    LivePlanQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Considered Both Products
    Palo Alto Software
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    Intuit
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    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
    LivePlanQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of LivePlan and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    LivePlan
    -
    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 LivePlan and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    LivePlan
    -
    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 LivePlan and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    LivePlan
    -
    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 LivePlan and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    LivePlan
    -
    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 LivePlan and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    LivePlan
    -
    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 LivePlan and QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Feature
    LivePlan
    -
    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
    Best Alternatives
    LivePlanQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
    Score4.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    MYOB
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Microsoft Dynamics GP
    Score5.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LivePlanQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    7.9
    (235 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 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
    LivePlanQuickBooks Online Advanced
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Palo Alto Software
    All businesses require solutions and tools for organization and control of expenses, spreadsheets were always the first option, but since the arrival of LivePlan, all work is easier and more automated. With LivePlan we have charts and graphs that are automatically created based on our data, this is a great time and money saver. LivePlan is a tool that has worked from day one and has met our expectations in creating the total budget.
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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
    Palo Alto Software
    • It makes it easy and simple to plan and budget the business.
    • It allows creating of accurate business forecasts.
    • It has detailed yet easy to use and customize built-in templates to help you get along with business planning easily.
    • It integrates and works perfectly well woth accounting tools like QuickBooks such that it is easy to import the accounting data.
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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
    Palo Alto Software
    • UX: It's beyond time for an overhaul, especially on mobile. It can make the app seem dated.
    • The accounting software integration has been prone to break and need to be re-setup, though that seems to have improved.
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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
    Palo Alto Software
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Palo Alto Software
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Palo Alto Software
    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
    Palo Alto Software
    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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    Online Training
    Palo Alto Software
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    The online training is good enough.
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    Implementation Rating
    Palo Alto Software
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Palo Alto Software
    We did not really find a similar solution. All other solutions are focused on project management, [there's] nothing on generating a business plan. There is nothing on this level that helps people without any business experience write the plan. They have samples, instructions what to write where, how to prepare for pitching, and generate dashboards. Nothing in this market gets anywhere close to this solution.
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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
    Palo Alto Software
    No answers on this topic
    Intuit
    Software is very flexible
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    Return on Investment
    Palo Alto Software
    • It has made it easy to create sensible budgets and run our business within the proposed budgets to avoid overspending.
    • It allows us to keenly follow up and keep track of how the business is performing thus getting to know on which ares we should improve.
    • It helps us have accurate future insights of the position of our business thanks to its forecasting functionality.
    • It helps us to create outstanding business plans and fund the plans which help us grow our business by improving its productivity.
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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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