#1 most frequent
United States of America
92.2%107 installations of 116
What is QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise?
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is a widely-used accounting package designed for small to mid-sized businesses. It is the top of the QuickBooks line. Pricing starts at $3,000 for five users, and goes up depending on the number of additional users. They also offer an Advanced Inventory module for $999 / year.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Bank reconciliation
The software connects to a company’s financial institutions in order to reconcile accounting records with checking, savings and credit card accounts. Often month and year closing capabilities are included.
Category average: 8.4
Pay calculation
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
Category average: 8.3
Journals and Reconciliations
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
Category average: 8.7
Areas for Improvement
Time tracking
The software can track billable and non-billable employee time by project.
Category average: 7.1
Multi-currency support
The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.
Category average: 7.5
Global Financial Support
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
Category average: 7.5
Who Buys & Uses QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise
#2 most frequent
Canada
5.2%6 installations of 116
#3 most frequent
Australia
0.9%1 installation of 116
Pros
- Robust financial reporting for grant funding, board reviews, and profitability analysis
- Effective inventory management, including multi-location tracking and Bills of Material integration
- Scalability to handle increased transaction volumes, customers, and vendors without performance issues
Cons
- Challenges with creating custom reports and accessing multi-year historical data
- Concerns regarding the software's cost and subscription model
- Desire for improvements in user interface and overall usability, including batch functionality
Very good accounting package
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise tracks data, very well. It's generally stable, crashes can usually be attributed to a network interruption or some other machine error. The data file updates with each transaction, so if there is a crash, it's not necessary to go back and see what transactions have to be re-entered. The reporting is quick, easy, reliable. It's keyboard friendly, so in most cases, the use of a mouse is not required.
Pros
- Generally, a mouse is not needed!
- Updating as each transaction is posted means, in the event of a crash, power failure, whatever; all the posted transactions are securely in the data file and can be pulled up on another computer, if the computer being used crashes.
- Reporting is generally user friendly, in that one can see the desired results by setting a few parameters for the report.
Cons
- They could go further with reporting, by making more options available in a given report format.
- They could bring the price down.
- They could make it easier to open multiple companies at once.
Return on Investment
- With QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise we can keep up with our accounting internally and don't have to take it to a CPA firm every month.
- Payroll is also able to be done internally and we don't have to hire a payroll service.
- When we need information, it is available to us so management decisions can be better informed.
Alternatives Considered
FreshBooks
Other Software Used
LibreOffice, Microsoft 365, PDF Xchange Viewer and Editor
Solid Product for all levels of business and users
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise has been our Accounting software for the last 5 years aand has provided us the flexibility and depth of data that we need. The software aligns with other QB Desktop products so ease of use is excellent. Built-in reports are highly customizable and vendor reporting is a huge plus. We make the most of the customer summaries and rely greatly. The flexible reporting does make the end of month close much easier to tie out. If I have one complaint, it's that there are some funny hiccups in reporting across multiple years (except not when reporting on "All" years.
Pros
- Ease of Use
- Flexible Reporting
- Credit Card Automation
Cons
- Reporting across multiple years
Return on Investment
- Time Savings
- Reduced errors
Other Software Used
Encompass from ICE Mortgage Technology
QB Desktop Enterprise Oilfield Services
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Basic accounting system, Invoicing, Purchasing, Vendor Payment, Customer Contacts, Vendor Contacts, Corporate Asset Listings. Basic financial reporting, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable management. Sales commission tracking and reporting. Specific reporting requests. Check ledger, Deposit records, Wire transfer records, and associated reporting. Monthly financial statements, annual financial statements. Sales tax tracking and reporting with liability calculations. Custom purchasing reporting and control.
Pros
- Invoice creation using COA defined elements.
- Vendor payment utilizing purchase orders.
- Basic financial reports with some requirement for filtering.
- Purchase orders using COA defined elements.
Cons
- Custom reporting, report writer
- Asset tracking
- Inventory
- Batch reporting based on a standard time period,
- more flexibility setting parameters for A/R
- Better sales tax reporting
- Saving confgurations for Forms - saving logos and formats
Return on Investment
- Meets our needs for invoicing, saves manual process resulting in one staff position reduction
- Onsite install saves us several thousand dollars.
- Inventory has caused an external processing and data entry expense - this costs a couple of thousand dollars initially and now annually is a cost of $2,000 labor.
- Statements that are not reflective of individual customer terms render some customers' statments useless.
- Vendor payment management has eliminated late fees saving several hundred dollars per year.
- The new licensing scheme has us looking at competitive systems and we are finding more than we expected at much less cost.
- Customer support for assistance on older versions to recover the admin password cost us 4 months of delay and at least five thousand dollars in staff time.
- Inability to make current history and setup configuration transfer to online - tried for several months, with QB Support which is not highly qulaified - many foreign phone answerers that just move to recover account option - total waste of time.
Alternatives Considered
NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics GP, FreshBooks, Epicor Kinetic (formerly Epicor ERP) and GRAVITY
Other Software Used
Quickbase, Microsoft Excel
Usability
Great desktop solution for those who have outgrown regular QuickBooks
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We serve a client that needs bookkeeping for manufacturing, inventory tracking, and client billing.
Pros
- automate builds
- profitability reporting
- large capacity for customers, vendors, and inventory items
- desktop based
Cons
- cost
- can be time consuming to set up
- desktop based
Return on Investment
- consolidating AR and AP helped to ensure accurate bill payments, and streamlined customer account tracking.
QuickBooks use in 2025
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use QuickBooks for all of our accounting functions. It is user friendly; goes anywhere we go and has a tremendous capability for customization. I use the import functions, and this saves a lot of time when bringing in data from other applications. Even though there is a lot that can be done it is also easy to start using with not too much training.
Pros
- Import data
- Create reports
- Pay bills
Cons
- Single user/Multi user modes getting stuck
- crashing
- TLG files
Return on Investment
- easy to use
- reporting is clear
Other Software Used
aBILLity, Ramp, BILL
