QuickBooks Desktop Pro vs QuickBooks Self-Employed

• QuickBooks does a great job of easily creating invoices and bills and sending them out internally either by email or fax. It does provide the option to print as well for customers who cant be reached otherwise.
• QuickBooks creates detailed charts that let you see your business from a distance. You are able to see a week, month or even a year at a time. charts include income, payments not received, and most frequent customers.
• QuickBooks makes complex task easy by having built in formats for invoices, estimates, bills, payment receipts.
• QuickBooks also has easy bank intergration.

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• Cross-platform compatibility (Browser, Android) makes it easy to see how my business is doing almost anywhere.
• Smart enough to recognize and automatically categorize most of my transactions, so I don't have to fuss with spreadsheets at the end of the year.
• Updates automatically and notifies me when it needs help, so I don't have to spend too much time babysitting it.
• Integrated with TurboTax and automatically exports year-end tax info for easy filing.

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• Preparing 1099s - It would be great if it were possible to exclude a particular expense from 1099 reporting. Sometimes a non-reportable expense (such as a reimbursement) is posted to a expense account that would normally be reportable. I would like not to have to create a sub-account, or manually exclude it at the end of the year. It would also be nice if there was a way to indicate the type of entity for a vendor. Sometimes, the name does not make it clear and I would like to be able to tell at a glance why it has been excluded.
• Payroll - allow more than one salary item on a single payroll check. Occasionally, a pay rate will change mid-period and it is necessary to have two salary rates in one check. Right now, we have to fake it out using a calculated hourly rate.
• Improve the downloaded transactions function. This is one of the only things that QuickBooks Online does better than the desktop version. Currently, the bank feeds function is awkward and unnecessarily complicated to use.

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• Automatic mileage tracking used to work a lot better than it currently does. I got a new phone, and now I have to manually input call tracking, because it just doesn't work anymore.
• When creating invoices, there should be a way to import data into an invoices from Excel, which would make the invoicing a lot faster. Additionally, being able to press ENTER to save a line item on an invoice would be nice. Currently it doesn't work that way.
• Editing invoices shouldn't require sending a reminder.

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• By entering our bills as they arrive we get reminders when payment dates are coming due as well as making it easy to track where the money is going
• Invoicing has made tracking money owed to us easy and cut down on having to call people looking for money owee to us.
• Quickbooks built-in templates for invoicing & quotes we have been able to have a more professional look to present to customers

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• Taxes were easier to do online rather than directly importing from the phone app.
• Somewhat tedious going through each transaction.
• Learning curve for all of the features.

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