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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    QuickBooks Online Advanced

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AQuickBooks Online Advanced is a SaaS-based accounting software designed to scale with growing businesses. It includes the functionalities of QuickBooks Online, as well as more robust business analytics, customization, and resource management.N/A

    Square Invoices

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ASquare Invoices is a software invoicing solution from Square headquartered in San Francisco, California.N/A
    Pricing
    QuickBooks Online AdvancedSquare Invoices
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    QuickBooks Online AdvancedSquare Invoices
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    QuickBooks Online AdvancedSquare Invoices
    Considered Both Products
    Intuit
    Chose QuickBooks Online Advanced
    Quickbooks is very functional bookkeeping software. The point of sale and estimating/invoicing software from Square seemed simpler and more functional for what we needed.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    155 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    138 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    158 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    135 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    QuickBooks Online AdvancedSquare Invoices
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of QuickBooks Online Advanced and Square Invoices
    Feature
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    7.9
    118 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Square Invoices
    -
    Ratings
    API for custom integration7.797 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plug-ins8.0103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of QuickBooks Online Advanced and Square Invoices
    Feature
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.4
    213 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Square Invoices
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    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability8.5187 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.3209 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of QuickBooks Online Advanced and Square Invoices
    Feature
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.2
    228 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Square Invoices
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards8.3215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.5228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.8219 Ratings00 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of QuickBooks Online Advanced and Square Invoices
    Feature
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    8.2
    236 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Square Invoices
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    Ratings
    Accounts payable8.4221 Ratings00 Ratings
    Accounts receivable8.5222 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cash management8.5195 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bank reconciliation9.1226 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expense management8.5207 Ratings00 Ratings
    Time tracking7.7111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency support6.557 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-division support7.297 Ratings00 Ratings
    Regulations compliance8.3104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Electronic tax filing8.8127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service portal7.9122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.298 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Accounting8.0101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations8.4202 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Accounting7.989 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting8.4112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized Rules Framework8.887 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standardized Processes8.4153 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of QuickBooks Online Advanced and Square Invoices
    Feature
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    6.2
    91 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Square Invoices
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    Ratings
    Inventory tracking6.291 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of QuickBooks Online Advanced and Square Invoices
    Feature
    QuickBooks Online Advanced
    6.8
    152 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Square Invoices
    -
    Ratings
    Pricing6.8111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order entry6.5100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit card processing7.1131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    QuickBooks Online AdvancedSquare Invoices
    Small Businesses
    QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
    Score4.1 out of 10
    Zoho Invoice
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    MYOB
    Score8.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Microsoft Dynamics GP
    Score5.4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    QuickBooks Online AdvancedSquare Invoices
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (238 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.7
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.4
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    QuickBooks Online AdvancedSquare Invoices
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Intuit
    Well suited for a larger company with many classes that need to be differentiated. It is relatively intuitive to use, whether you have used other versions of QuickBooks, or any other accounting software. Easy to dig into your accounts from wither the Balance Sheet or the Profit and Loss when trying to analyze performance.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    Square Invoices is the best service that I have found for what it does: it's easy to use, nice to look at, and never seems to go to spam or be lost by clients. Clients mention that the setup is easier than services my competitors use. You can even attach your contract to the invoice, which is wonderful in case there are questions later on. Unfortunately, not being able to have clients alter quantities or select add-ons means for half of my services, I have to use a different, inferior service.
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    Pros
    Intuit
    • 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.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • Adding a customer to invoice is super simple and takes minimal effort.
    • Payment collection is easy and seamless because Square Invoices allows the recipient to pay using credit/cards.
    • One of the fest features is allowing invoices to be recurring. If my contract stipulates a flat fee monthly, I can set the invoices to recur monthly for the duration of the contract.
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    Cons
    Intuit
    • Continued growth around AI usage and tool.
    • There are still some reporting gaps that make setting up custom reports not absolutely top-tier.
    • There can be a lot of UI clutter as different features keep getting turned on. Can become harder to navigate.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • The reports section is not always the easiest to understand. It seems like I have to stop and think about options instead of it being 100% intuitive.
    • With the fees we pay per transaction, it would be nice to be able to add additional "limited" users for no extra cost.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Intuit
    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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    Block, Inc (Square)
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    Usability
    Intuit
    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.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Intuit
    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.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
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    Performance
    Intuit
    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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    Block, Inc (Square)
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    Support Rating
    Intuit
    No answers on this topic
    Block, Inc (Square)
    The only time I had a problem was a false chargeback from a client. Square Invoices referenced our contract and ruled in my favor, and they did so in a timely manner. I sent them the contract and my email history with the client, and they quickly unfroze the amount of money.
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    Online Training
    Intuit
    The online training is good enough.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
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    Implementation Rating
    Intuit
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Intuit
    QBO is great because it does accounting very well, and it can integrate well with everything. I appreciate that it has third-party integrations with many other software companies, so we can focus on doing our accounting through QuickBooks while adding other software as needed through those integrations.
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    Block, Inc (Square)
    Square Invoices is easier to use and automatically transfers your money to your bank account vs Paypal that holds your money and you have to manually transfer and it takes 3-5 days (many times more). Square Invoices looks better overall, and for the same fees as Paypal, provides a better service overall.
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    Scalability
    Intuit
    Software is very flexible
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    Block, Inc (Square)
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    Return on Investment
    Intuit
    • 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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    Block, Inc (Square)
    • I love that I can sort my invoices in total, or by a specific time period to see how my sales are doing and comparing to prior time periods.
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