QuickBooks Online vs. Workday Financial Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
QuickBooks Online
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
QuickBooks Online is a SaaS version of the QuickBooks product. It contains all of the features found in the local version. Higher-priced plans include greater automation, payment management, inventory and time tracking, and analytics features.
$20
per month
Workday Financial Management
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Workday Financial Management is built on a global foundation that provides organizations with the core financial management capabilities expected from a modern cloud solution. It goes well beyond just managing financial processes to achieve greater insight, improve financial consolidation and reduce time to close, instill internal control and auditability, and achieve consistency across global operations. By using an in-memory architecture and object data model,…N/A
Pricing
QuickBooks OnlineWorkday Financial Management
Editions & Modules
Solopreneur
$20
per month
Simple Start
$35
per month
Plus
$99
per month
Advanced
$235
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
QuickBooks OnlineWorkday Financial Management
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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QuickBooks OnlineWorkday Financial Management
Top Pros
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Features
QuickBooks OnlineWorkday Financial Management
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.3
95 Ratings
10% above category average
Workday Financial Management
8.1
19 Ratings
11% above category average
Pay calculation8.186 Ratings8.319 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.842 Ratings8.416 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.980 Ratings8.016 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management8.855 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.959 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
7.5
90 Ratings
2% below category average
Workday Financial Management
7.8
17 Ratings
3% above category average
API for custom integration7.474 Ratings8.114 Ratings
Plug-ins7.674 Ratings7.516 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.8
144 Ratings
8% above category average
Workday Financial Management
8.8
21 Ratings
6% above category average
Single sign-on capability8.9111 Ratings8.721 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.8134 Ratings8.819 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.5
171 Ratings
9% above category average
Workday Financial Management
7.9
23 Ratings
9% above category average
Dashboards8.5159 Ratings7.823 Ratings
Standard reports8.8166 Ratings8.320 Ratings
Custom reports8.2150 Ratings7.718 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.1
185 Ratings
6% above category average
Workday Financial Management
8.0
19 Ratings
4% above category average
Accounts payable9.0157 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Accounts receivable8.9171 Ratings8.114 Ratings
Cash management8.5157 Ratings00 Ratings
Bank reconciliation9.0177 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense management8.7161 Ratings00 Ratings
Time tracking6.570 Ratings00 Ratings
Fixed asset management8.071 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency support6.733 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-division support7.958 Ratings00 Ratings
Regulations compliance7.855 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic tax filing8.387 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service portal7.892 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Financial Support7.025 Ratings7.815 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers7.951 Ratings7.815 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting8.547 Ratings00 Ratings
Localizations8.135 Ratings00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations8.7103 Ratings7.712 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting7.840 Ratings00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting8.360 Ratings7.215 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework7.741 Ratings00 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.473 Ratings8.316 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
6.9
67 Ratings
9% below category average
Workday Financial Management
7.5
8 Ratings
6% below category average
Inventory tracking6.763 Ratings7.98 Ratings
Automatic reordering7.233 Ratings7.58 Ratings
Location management7.136 Ratings7.27 Ratings
Manufacturing module6.624 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
7.8
114 Ratings
2% above category average
Workday Financial Management
7.7
9 Ratings
2% below category average
Pricing7.872 Ratings00 Ratings
Order entry7.669 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit card processing8.484 Ratings7.79 Ratings
Cost of goods sold8.086 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Orchestration7.332 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility8.133 Ratings00 Ratings
Order exception Resolution7.229 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
QuickBooks OnlineWorkday Financial Management
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(202 ratings)
8.8
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.9
(25 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(117 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
2.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
1.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
1.2
(68 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
3.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
1.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
1.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
1.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
QuickBooks OnlineWorkday Financial Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Intuit
Since we run outside payroll for a couple of the companies, it is quite difficult to be as accurate as I would like when it comes to categorizing those payroll transactions, since they have to be imported via journal entries. Between that and the lack of a complex inventory management, are really my only complaints of the software. I do like the accessibility for myself, my employees, and my clients of the online version, something you don't get with desktop versions.
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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
  • Workflows for accounts payable invoice review are terrific.
  • Bill payment allows you to pay vendors online via ACH or check without having to write a physical check, which reduces admin time.
  • The cloud based login lends well to a remote or hybrid work environment for staff.
  • QuickBooks Online allows you to pre-configure vendors' general ledger expense accounts. This helps with general ledger coding accuracy and consistency.
  • QuickBooks Online integrates with Rippling HRIS, Coast, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, etc., which lends well to an efficient month-end closing and reduced administrative time.
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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
  • Purchase Orders cannot be linked to multiple bill payments which makes tracking purchase orders in QuickBooks Online obsolete. Without the function we have to track this within a different more manual spreadsheet.
  • Would be helpful if you could "split" bank transactions directly from the "review" downloads from the bank. Currently, to split transactions to multiple accounts we need to first categorize, then review after assigning to 1 account.
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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
It like the product 'right out of the box' and I trust Intuit will continually improve it over the years based on my experience with their desktop products. The large providers of Apps makes customizing the entire package relatively easy and seamless for a wide variety of business types.
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Workday
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Usability
Intuit
I had very little trouble setting up the program and migrating from our old accounting system. The daily usage is also very intuitive and easy. Anytime we run into minor trouble with the program, there are always tons of help available on YouTube, so we don't even look up the online manual anymore.
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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
We have rarely had outages in the last 10 years. I can only recall 2 times in the last 10 years where we were not able to access our client files.
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Workday
No answers on this topic
Performance
Intuit
There are tab issues. When I tab the field doesn't highlight and I have to backspace or delete what is in the field. Happens on the memo field and sometimes other fields. Very time consuming.
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Workday
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Intuit
In my experience, most representatives keep me on the phone for hours, literally, for a single issue and then usually cannot resolve it satisfactorily. I have 10 open cases that need resolution and, in my experience, there has been NO follow-up communication on any of 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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Implementation Rating
Intuit
The person in charge of QB needs to be very accurate with record keeping and is recommended to stay on top of tasks. The biggest issue we have is reconciliation, and those issues occur only when too much time has occurred between reconciliations
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Workday
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Alternatives Considered
Intuit
My employer was already using Quickbooks when I got here. As the Executive Director, I do all the day-to-day accounting. This program is easy to learn and use. I was able to add budgets by class so I can run P&Ls for each of the different programs as well as an organizational budget.
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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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Scalability
Intuit
As we have grown along our professional path, we have also expanded our use of QB. The scalability is easy and features seem to be waiting for you until you need them. We have increased profits by over 10x from our first year in business to the current and have yet to find a reason to look elsewhere
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Workday
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Intuit
  • QuickBooks has given us a useful portal by which to get an overview of our financials.
  • QuickBooks has given us a relatively easy way to send out invoices quickly and efficiently.
  • Due to the customization limitations on QuickBooks, we've had to get creative in third-party implementations to better represent our brand and to track financials.
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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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