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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    QuickBooks Desktop Pro

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AQuickbooks Desktop Pro is accounting software from Intuit, Inc. It includes core accounting features, plus analytics and exportable reports. It is offered in on-premise and SaaS forms.N/A

    Workday Financial Management

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AWorkday Financial Management is a cloud-based financial software platform built on an in-memory architecture and an object-oriented data model. The system unifies transaction processing, multidimensional reporting, and consolidation into a single environment accessible via web and mobile interfaces. Financial Operations and Automation The platform employs Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and specialized financial agents to manage core business cycles. These…N/A
    Pricing
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday Financial Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday Financial Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday Financial Management
    Considered Both Products
    Intuit
    Chose QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    QuickBooks Pro compares fairly well with the products mentioned above, but ultimately we mainly use QuickBooks Pro because it is easily adapted to most industries, and also because the majority of our clients use QuickBooks Pro, so it is easier for us to mainly use the same …
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    Workday
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday Financial Management
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    6.6
    69 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    8.1
    23 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Pay calculation6.364 Ratings8.323 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration6.338 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Direct deposit files6.656 Ratings8.220 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management6.352 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management7.754 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    5.7
    43 Ratings
    28% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    8.1
    20 Ratings
    7% above category average
    API for custom integration6.535 Ratings8.517 Ratings
    Plug-ins5.039 Ratings7.819 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    8.5
    101 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Workday Financial Management
    9.0
    25 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Single sign-on capability8.482 Ratings9.225 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.695 Ratings8.823 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    8.5
    117 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Workday Financial Management
    8.0
    27 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Dashboards8.4100 Ratings8.227 Ratings
    Standard reports8.9117 Ratings7.924 Ratings
    Custom reports8.1114 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    7.5
    124 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    7.7
    23 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Accounts payable9.3119 Ratings7.518 Ratings
    Accounts receivable9.2121 Ratings6.918 Ratings
    Cash management9.2107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bank reconciliation9.7119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expense management9.4108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Time tracking7.451 Ratings00 Ratings
    Fixed asset management5.669 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency support6.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-division support8.958 Ratings00 Ratings
    Regulations compliance8.342 Ratings00 Ratings
    Electronic tax filing8.355 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service portal5.941 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global Financial Support4.217 Ratings7.519 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers7.140 Ratings7.419 Ratings
    Intercompany Accounting7.943 Ratings00 Ratings
    Localizations4.219 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations8.876 Ratings7.716 Ratings
    Enterprise Accounting6.838 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting7.647 Ratings7.719 Ratings
    Centralized Rules Framework5.427 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standardized Processes8.555 Ratings7.920 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    5.8
    59 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    7.2
    11 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Inventory tracking6.056 Ratings7.611 Ratings
    Automatic reordering6.035 Ratings7.211 Ratings
    Location management6.032 Ratings6.810 Ratings
    Manufacturing module5.218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Financial Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    6.8
    77 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Workday Financial Management
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pricing7.555 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order entry8.555 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit card processing7.251 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold8.063 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Orchestration5.220 Ratings00 Ratings
    End-to-end order visibility6.123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order exception Resolution5.218 Ratings00 Ratings
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    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday Financial Management
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    QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
    Score4.2 out of 10
    Zoho One
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    MYOB
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Zoho One
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft Dynamics GP
    Score5.4 out of 10
    Microsoft Dynamics AX (discontinued)
    Score4.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (135 ratings)
    8.4
    (27 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (42 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.2
    (29 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    CPA Rating
    8.5
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday Financial Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Intuit
    For a small business, QuickBooks Desktop Pro is great! For a larger, more complex business, another system may be more beneficial. We actually run multiple businesses on QuickBooks Desktop Pro, but all are very small. The help feature is sometimes so beneficial, and sometimes it seems like you just can't get the right answer and need to find a workaround - but this is usually for more complex issues.
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    Workday
    Workday is well suited for managing employees throughout their full life cycle. It excels at housing employee data from the start of their time with the company through their departure. Workday is less suited to payroll functions, which could be more robust.
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    Pros
    Intuit
    • It is easy to manage and adjust inventory on hand.
    • It is easy to make reports and customize them to your needs.
    • We also use it to pay our employees directly.
    • It is easy to make year-to-year comparisons to see where we can make improvements and the current financial situation.
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    Workday
    • The flexibility of going beyond handling the accounts, where we can handle cash, assets, and accounting simultaneously for the customer.
    • The single platform offers grants management where you can organize the lifecycle of the grants and synchronize it with any criteria of grant closing out scheme.
    • I personally liked Project billing with the essence of evaluating project revenue and nice reporting templates that can be shared with the customer at any stage of the project while having the flexibility of auditing the reported cost.
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    Cons
    Intuit
    • QuickBooks Desktop Pro has been around for a few years and after an update[,] they force you to look at the changes/updates before you can use [them] after updating.
    • QuickBooks Desktop Pro does not have 2FA.
    • QuickBooks Desktop Pro should offer a way to store backups to a personal cloud without having to map a local network drive.
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    Workday
    • Some of the Workday updates last till like 10 in the morning which prevents employees to clock in and check their times and some cases their schedules
    • Workday can work on opening documents quicker instead of taking couple of minutes or notifying the user when they are ready to download
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Intuit
    I'd love to keep using it, and do intend to - though we've not been pleased with price increases over the past several years. In fact, we used to subscribe to the payroll service, but QuickBooks priced themselves out of reach for us, so we discontinued that. Currently, pricing would be the primary reason for NOT renewing, if we didn't.
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    Workday
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    Usability
    Intuit
    The set up was quite easy. I took some online training causes, and figured our the rest pretty quickly. The only issue I had during the implementation process was it was very hard to change some of the GL Account name to reflect the needs of a non-profit organization, such as Net Assets. At the end I had to scratch what I did, and used the existing formats that the third-party bookkeeping firm shared. Everything else is simple and easy to manage and implement.
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    Workday
    Workday is easy enough navigate, as long as it is properly set up. With that said, it can be put together in a modular fashion as well, allowing for a very high degree of flexibility in terms of design and process delegation. Finally, it makes consolidation achievable in times previously unthinkable.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Intuit
    I haven't experienced a time when QuickBooks Pro was unavailable when I needed it in the entire 20 years of using the software
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    Workday
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    Support Rating
    Intuit
    They are awful. Intuit doesn't spend real money on support. They appear to have typically said, first-level script readers who are sending messages to the senior people for anything even a little bit difficult. Many of them don't speak particularly good English. Considering that they recently doubled (or, if you are paying annually, tripled) their pricing, and touted as one of the benefits that it includes [..] support, it's a real ripoff. However, we have to use the product because it is ubiquitous. I look forward to the day a competitor comes up with something good enough, which has excellent support, that matches all the features QuickBooks Desktop Pro currently has [...] or at least gives us a way to have all the functionality we currently have without excessive sacrifice [...] so that we can switch. I was very satisfied with QuickBooks for many years. This latest [rise] in price, and their sheer gall at touting the benefit of the 100 to 200% increase as being [the] inclusion of support, is what turned me so far against them.
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    Workday
    Our support team has been awesome. They are extremely knowledgeable and have been able to guide us through all of the challenges we have faced. Workday's community online is also extremely helpful with many trainings and help topics that can be reviewed at your convenience.
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    In-Person Training
    Intuit
    Best thing I ever did was to attend a two day training seminar on QuickBooks, I learned an immense amount in a short time with hands on training by experts. I strongly recommend such training for anyone using any part of the software. It will pay for itself in the first month.
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    Workday
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    Implementation Rating
    Intuit
    We implemented the software ourselves. The training we received on the software was done by taking a community course teaching us how to use QuickBooks. It allowed me to get started with some basics of how to use the program and have not needed much assistance since completing the course work.
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    Workday
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    Alternatives Considered
    Intuit
    We tried switching from QuickBooks Desktop Pro to QuickBooks Online, but there were a lot of issues and bugs so we ultimately decided to stay with Desktop Pro. Unfortunately, we are losing a lot of Online Banking capabilities on 5/31 as we have an older version of QB, but we plan to stick with Desktop Pro. In terms of invoicing, SaaSOptics beats QuickBooks in almost all aspects as it's all automated and takes seconds to create and send invoices. However, SaaSOptics is not really a full ERP program so it wouldn't serve us as a main bookkeeping software like QB.
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    Workday
    Despite Airtable also being easier to use one thing that differentiates and put forth Workday Financial Management tool above is it's key features and better suited functionality for handling confidential data. The other positive note where Workday Financial Management performs high is it key analytics tool that's easier to use and representation of information into insightful dashboards.
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    Return on Investment
    Intuit
    • Training time is low compared to other accounting packages
    • It was difficult to adapt to DCAA requirements, [which] required [the] hiring of [a] special consultant for that
    • QuickBooks Desktop Pro is a standard for small companies and makes it easy to hire bookkeepers
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    Workday
    • We were able to combine 4 different HR modules into one system.
    • We reduced data breach incidents by 95% after shifting to Workday. One of our legacy softwares had vulnerabilities.
    • The initial learning curve was higher than projected. We spent about a week to 10 days extra time deploying it, which affected the profit center that year.
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