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    Overview
    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 HCM

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AWorkday Human Capital Management is a cloud-native system offering a globally consistent user experience. Workday HCM is part of an intelligent, unified system with other Workday products.N/A
    Pricing
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday HCM
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday HCM
    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 HCM
    Considered Both Products
    Intuit
    No answer on this topic
    Workday
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    68 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    66 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    Features
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday HCM
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    6.6
    69 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    83 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pay calculation6.364 Ratings9.871 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration6.338 Ratings8.966 Ratings
    Direct deposit files6.656 Ratings9.072 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management6.352 Ratings9.069 Ratings
    Reimbursement management7.754 Ratings7.345 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.259 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings9.121 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    5.7
    43 Ratings
    28% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    -
    Ratings
    API for custom integration6.535 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plug-ins5.039 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    8.5
    101 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability8.482 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.695 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    8.5
    117 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards8.4100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.9117 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports8.1114 Ratings00 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    7.5
    124 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    -
    Ratings
    Accounts payable9.3119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Accounts receivable9.2121 Ratings00 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 Ratings00 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers7.240 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Accounting7.943 Ratings00 Ratings
    Localizations4.219 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations8.876 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Accounting6.838 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting7.647 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized Rules Framework5.427 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standardized Processes8.555 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    5.8
    59 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    -
    Ratings
    Inventory tracking6.056 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic reordering6.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location management6.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manufacturing module5.218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    6.8
    77 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Workday Human Capital Management
    -
    Ratings
    Pricing7.555 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order entry8.555 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit card processing7.251 Ratings00 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
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    9.0
    100 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Employment history00 Ratings8.195 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration00 Ratings8.997 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings9.092 Ratings
    Organizational charting00 Ratings9.891 Ratings
    Organization and location management00 Ratings9.888 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings8.763 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.6
    78 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Approval workflow00 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Balance details00 Ratings8.177 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings8.963 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.2
    98 Ratings
    1% below category average
    View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.187 Ratings
    Update personal information00 Ratings8.196 Ratings
    View company policy documentation00 Ratings7.976 Ratings
    Employee recognition00 Ratings8.959 Ratings
    View job history00 Ratings8.187 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.4
    25 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.425 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    7.4
    82 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Report builder00 Ratings8.978 Ratings
    Pre-built reports00 Ratings6.280 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings7.168 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.9
    60 Ratings
    10% above category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings8.955 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.9
    64 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings8.954 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.963 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings8.954 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings8.962 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings8.166 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings8.158 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings8.162 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings8.161 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings8.054 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    7.9
    44 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.938 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings8.042 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings7.840 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Workday Human Capital Management
    Feature
    QuickBooks Desktop Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Workday Human Capital Management
    8.4
    52 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings8.849 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.942 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings7.237 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.943 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings8.743 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.043 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings8.047 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday HCM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (135 ratings)
    8.2
    (134 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (42 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    6.6
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.2
    (29 ratings)
    8.0
    (27 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    CPA Rating
    8.5
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    QuickBooks Desktop ProWorkday HCM
    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
    Large organizations with extensive back-office support functions. With that in mind, WD is a great HCM system for mastering and controlling downstream data and providing strong support. Where WD falls short is the front-end user experience. If your intent is for the average Jane/Joe to use the system, you will find them frustrated or disappointed.
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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
    • I think what it does is not having worked on the side of talent acquisitions. Whenever we have a job interview, for example, you can go right there, you can put in everything in Workday Human Capital Management. If I need to go in and see what a coworker put in or notes all that, I can document everything there in Workday Human Capital Management. I think the other thing that makes it a lot easier is for performance management, goal setting. All these things can be done right there in the platform and it just makes it easier. So to store documents, I can do that. I mean it is like a one-stop shop all in one, so it's excellent.
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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
    • Should have more option in time sheet like choose project code or something.
    • On The pay page, it should have options to view past salaries; it may be there already but not in the version that I use.
    • The employee information page does not have a back button to navigate to the previous page.
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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
    It is work to make one system the source of truth for our data, but now that it is done, there is less work involved in staying on this path. This means for us that maintaining and/or implementing new modules like performance, finance, talent, etc. is simple. It's a no-brainer
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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's on a great path in terms of user experience. Their goals is to deliver a use experience that doesn't require training or instruction, like Amazon on the consumer side for example. That's hard to do when you're talking about complex business processes and important and sensitive employee information, but they're doing it well
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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
    In 2014, Workday has changed the update process. There will be two updates a year; the updates will be delivered to customers typically in a 24 hour window during these two weekends a year. They also keep the Community up-to-date about any planned outages, etc. There is weekly scheduled downtime on Friday night.
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    Performance
    Intuit
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    From my perspective, the system runs like a well oiled machine and I have not had any issues with customers complaining about speed. If a report is taking long to run, the report can run in the background and you can go about your business. For larger enterprises, there is additional space and machines to process the application in what Workday refers to it as Extended Configuration Tenant
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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
    Workday is still learning about the needs of higher education. I have seen rapid improvement in support and knowledge over the last year so am confident this will continue to improve. Overall however, I have found the Support Team to be extremely responsive and Workday offers the advantage of having support across several timezones so that we never wait more than a few hours for a response.
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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
    Some training is offered online. Cost is per-person. This also gets quite expensive. Training doesn’t follow a logical path A to B. Starts in middle. When you try to do it afterwards at your desk, difficult.
    • Training scenarios are not very real
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    Online Training
    Intuit
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    I have done for report writing and mass imports (EIBs). They give materials and you run through examples, i.e. you don’t just watch them do tasks, so that is helpful. Training is expensive – a single reporting writing class is $600 per person for virtual training
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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
    It was implemented before my joining the company. At my last company, we used Workday professional services.

    Based upon my experience at my last company, I would rate the implementation experience an 8/10. There are different ways to set things up and we had different people telling us different things. It set us back a couple of times.

    Regarding configuration advice, we could set things up where every manager has supervisory organizations, or have it financially based i.e. aligned to cost center/department. We chose the individual manager path and I think we should have chosen a department route. Going down the individual manager path, to maintain the information, we have to inactivate a supervisory org whenever a manager changes/leaves.
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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
    Workday is an incomplete product, by this I mean it must work alongside other products and does not work by itself. Trying to make several different products work smoothly together becomes very challenging. As compared to ADP products, when purchased all together work very well all together. Also, ADP has extensive Training programs and extensive Customer Support. So ADP's products are far superior to Workday's products in my opinion.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Intuit
    No answers on this topic
    Workday
    Workday has released Financials and is continuing to develop it's Human Capital Management footprint with the addition of Workday Recruiting. I think customers will find that is easy to add on additional functionality in the system. Workday does make it easy for customers to make changes without relying on IT resources. The Business Process framework is a visual tool that allows functional resources to make changes and see the flow of the transaction
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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
    • To get the most value out of all possible automation in Workday you really need to use a lot of their modules, otherwise you may not be able to solve for some pretty important and necessary needs.
    • The system maintenance is way more than what I have seen with some other systems and therefore you need a quite large team dedicated to it.
    • The ability to automate a lot of administrative tasks and the ability for employee and manager self-service definitely create a lot of opportunity for HR to spent time and effort elsewhere. A lot of the automation that can be leveraged in Workday also allows for eliminating third party vendors as well as the cost of their maintenance and integrations.
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