MIP Fund Accounting vs QuickBooks Desktop Premier

• The vast array of account segmenting allows us to break down our business in many different ways, which gets us the information we need to make sure we are doing business right.
• We love the ability to process vendor EFT payments, which fits our green thinking and saves lots of paper.
• Having a cloud based platform allows us to work more efficiently and not have to worry about using the most recent version or keeping up with payroll updates.

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• Integrated credit card processing - posts automatically to customer accounts, allows online payment. It uses the most current technology.
• It maintains a good strong history of billing and collections and provides collection letters and assistance when you have past due amounts to collect.
• It allows you to download credit card transactions and post into the software automatically. It is easy to track spending details with this process.

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• The Budget Worksheet isn't the simplest to use and understand how the outcome will reflect. It took me some trial and error, and writing my own in-house procedures to feel comfortable with the budget worksheets.
• There are so many modules that Abila offers that it can be frustrating to learn that in order to obtain a certain feature you have to purchase another module, which may come with way more than you need or want. For example, with the Payroll Module you can select Direct Deposit for an employee but without the Direct Deposit module I can't access the feature to email the pay stub vouchers to those employees with Direct Deposit.
• There are so many reports available that it can be hard to remember where the report you need is located. Some reports don't include Unposted Transactions and some don't allow the same level of customization.

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• You can only have average cost for inventory. No last-in, last-out (LIFO) or first-in, first-out (FIFO).
• If you are not on a hosted solution provider, you may have problems accessing your data remotely.
• You have to keep upgrading and installing updates.

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• We were using an outdated version of Great Plains previously. It was DOS based, and only one user could even use it. I can't even describe the difference that has obviously made.
• We can produce information so much more timely and in a better format than with Great Plains.
• We outsourced payroll for a while, but came back to Abila because we found it was just as easy.

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• QuickBooks Premier Accountant version streamlines my processing of tasks making it easy to quickly switch between windows thus reducing time it takes to perform bulk of accounting entries.
• QuickBooks Premier is a desktop version and has to be installed on client's computer to provide access for the business owners. That can be time consuming and limits flexibility that online/cloud-based platform offers.
• Billable time tracking is a great functionality that helps me a lot in my business.

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