QuickBooks Online Advanced vs. SoftLedger

Well suited: Day-to-day accounting needs such as fixed assets, prepaids, cash accounts and bank recs, integrations into other systems such as bill.com, creating financial statement reporting and management reporting, basic tax tracking, expense tracking. Less appropriate: More complex areas of accounting: lease accounting, stock compensation, automated revenue and deferred revenue recognition, more complex inventory management, consolidations can get tricky.

Incentivized

They provide more robust capabilities overall than QuickBooks (who we were previously using).

• 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.

Incentivized

• I want to control how reports are exported so I can directly export my payroll data to our third-party processors (retirement accounts, health insurance accounts).
• I want the AI to better recognize when a client is paying multiple invoices in one payment.
• I want client accounts to be easier to run ledgers for. For example, we use trust accounting, so I want to see each client's balance in our trust account.

Incentivized

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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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.

Incentivized

Very intuitive....there was not much of a learning curve to catch on to the nuances of a new system

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.

Incentivized

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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The online training is good enough.

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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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After using QBO, QBDP is marvelous. Take a cue from the desktop version. Vendor, Customer and Employee centers are great. Reporting is okay, but I can live with that. Payroll is excellent and I even file and pay my own taxes. I like that control. The fact that you can open multiple windows at one time is a God send. I do post mortems on all of the jobs and I may have 5 reports open at one time. (This would not be necessary if your reporting was better, linking more of QBDP database.) Everyday I am interrupted in a task to do a new one and I can go to exactly where I was in the previous task because I have multiple windows open. I am not going to stop harping on this until you do something about it. ALSO, I am not using your AI in QBOA

Incentivized

Software is very flexible

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• 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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