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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…
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A bookkeeping program that's easy to use.
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Popular Features
- Bank reconciliation (168)9.090%
- Accounts receivable (169)8.989%
- Accounts payable (170)8.888%
- Standard reports (171)8.686%
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Features
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 8.7Pay calculation(104) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 7.8Benefit plan administration(61) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 8Direct deposit files(90) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 7.7Salary revision and increment management(82) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 7.5Reimbursement management(83) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Customization
This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.
- 7.8API for custom integration(57) Ratings
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
- 7.1Plug-ins(68) Ratings
A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.
Security
This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.
- 8.3Single sign-on capability(118) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 8.2Role-based user permissions(154) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 8.4Dashboards(148) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 8.6Standard reports(171) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 8.1Custom reports(166) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 8.8Accounts payable(170) Ratings
This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.
- 8.9Accounts receivable(169) Ratings
This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.
- 8.4Cash management(155) Ratings
The software provides a complete picture of a company’s cash flows, streamlines payment processing, and includes cash forecasting.
- 9Bank reconciliation(168) Ratings
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.
- 8.3Expense management(155) Ratings
The software can log and track business expenses and reimbursements, including travel-related expenses, with the ability to tie them to particular projects.
- 6.5Time tracking(77) Ratings
The software can track billable and non-billable employee time by project.
- 8.1Fixed asset management(115) Ratings
This includes the ability to track fixed assets (e.g., laptops), including location, check-in and check-out, maintenance scheduling, audit history, specialized property tax period reports, cost and depreciation.
- 7.7Multi-currency support(57) Ratings
The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.
- 8Multi-division support(93) Ratings
The software is flexible and supports bookkeeping practices along multiple dimensions such as locations, branches or products.
- 8.2Regulations compliance(65) Ratings
The software helps users adhere to typical accounting standards and regulations such as IFRS, GASB, or GAAP.
- 8.1Electronic tax filing(87) Ratings
The software provides a full electronic interface for the filing of repeatable taxes, such as payroll or sales tax.
- 6.6Self-service portal(67) Ratings
The software provides online portals for certain stakeholders to find information relevant to them, such as employees, vendors and customers.
- 6.4Global Financial Support(32) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 8.1Primary and Secondary Ledgers(61) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 8.1Intercompany Accounting(75) Ratings
Automatically balance and reconcile GL for intercompany transactions
- 8.1Localizations(45) Ratings
Meet reporting requirements with country-specific localizations
- 8.9Journals and Reconciliations(126) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 8.5Enterprise Accounting(86) Ratings
Create accounting for disconnected ERP and non-accounting source systems
- 8.3Configurable Accounting(83) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 8.1Centralized Rules Framework(50) Ratings
Integrate disparate ERP and transactional systems into single ERP instance
- 8.7Standardized Processes(94) Ratings
Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes
Inventory Management
The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.
- 8.1Inventory tracking(100) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 7.3Automatic reordering(53) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 8.3Location management(66) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
- 6.8Manufacturing module(50) Ratings
The software helps track and manage raw materials, work-in-progress items, and finished goods.
Order Management
The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.
- 8.6Pricing(95) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 8.6Order entry(101) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 7.7Credit card processing(90) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 8.3Cost of goods sold(114) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
- 8.2Order Orchestration(55) Ratings
Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.
- 8.3End-to-end order visibility(52) Ratings
Get updates on orders, inventory, shipments, planned supply, and invoices, and improve the quality of decisions through in-context analytics
- 8.7Order exception Resolution(39) Ratings
Monitor fulfillment tasks and resolve issues, view and evaluate varios options via what-if analysis and define and enforce change order rules
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What is QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise?
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is a widely-used accounting and business management software designed for small to mid-sized companies. Enterprise is the most powerful of the QuickBooks solutions, with core accounting features plus customizable reporting, financial dashboards and advanced tools to manage employees, payments and different locations. Features include inventory management and order fulfillment from start to finish, job costing for end-to-end tracking of construction projects, and advanced pricing controls with integrated inventory.
Built to scale with companies, QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise enables up to 40 users, and has over 200 3rd party integrations including industry specific apps. Dedicated versions for construction, manufacturing and wholesale, retail, nonprofit, and professional services are available as is hosting for remote access. Dedicated account management, on-demand training, and 24/7 technical support comes automatically with the Priority Circle loyalty program. Pricing starts at $1,200 annually with multiple packaging options to fit business needs.
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Features
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting Features
- Supported: Accounts payable
- Supported: Accounts receivable
- Supported: Cash management
- Supported: Bank reconciliation
- Supported: Expense management
- Supported: Time tracking
- Supported: Fixed asset management
- Supported: Multi-currency support
- Supported: Multi-division support
- Supported: Regulations compliance
- Supported: Electronic tax filing
- Supported: Self-service portal
- Supported: Global Financial Support
- Supported: Primary and Secondary Ledgers
- Supported: Intercompany Accounting
- Supported: Localizations
- Supported: Journals and Reconciliations
- Supported: Enterprise Accounting
- Supported: Configurable Accounting
- Supported: Centralized Rules Framework
- Supported: Standardized Processes
Inventory Management Features
- Supported: Inventory tracking
- Supported: Automatic reordering
- Supported: Location management
- Supported: Manufacturing module
Order Management Features
- Supported: Pricing
- Supported: Order entry
- Supported: Credit card processing
- Supported: Cost of goods sold
- Supported: Order Orchestration
- Supported: End-to-end order visibility
- Supported: Order exception Resolution
Payroll Management Features
- Supported: Pay calculation
- Supported: Benefit plan administration
- Supported: Direct deposit files
- Supported: Salary revision and increment management
- Supported: Reimbursement management
Reporting & Analytics Features
- Supported: Dashboards
- Supported: Standard reports
- Supported: Custom reports
Customization Features
- Supported: API for custom integration
- Supported: Plug-ins
Security Features
- Supported: Role-based user permissions
- Supported: Single sign-on capability
- Supported: User-level audit trail
Additional Features
- Supported: Job Costing for end-to-end tracking of construction projects
- Supported: Advanced pricing controls with integrated inventory
- Supported: Custom reports including industry specific reports
- Supported: Dedicated account management, on-demand training, and 24/7 technical support
- Supported: Dedicated versions for construction, manufacturing and wholesale, retail, nonprofit, and professional services are available
- Supported: Hosting is available for remote access
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QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Integrations
- Buildertrend
- Shopify
- BILL
- QuoteWerks
- Mycroft Assistant
- GlobalCapture from Square 9
- Deltek TrafficLIVE
- Promys Enterprise PSA
- Miva
- ServiceTitan
- Gusto
- SalesForce
- Square
- Over 200 3rd party app integrations
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Competitors
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
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- 9.8Likelihood to Renew17 ratings
- 10Availability4 ratings
- 10Performance3 ratings
- 9.2Usability11 ratings
- 6Support Rating5 ratings
- 9.1Online Training3 ratings
- 7In-Person Training1 rating
- 9Implementation Rating8 ratings
- 10Configurability3 ratings
- 10Product Scalability3 ratings
- 9.1Ease of integration2 ratings
- 10Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 9Vendor post-sale3 ratings
- 7.2CPA Rating9 ratings
Reviews
(76-100 of 188)QuickBooks Desktop - Good, but Online is Better
- Sending invoices.
- General Ledger Accounting.
- Detailed Reports.
- Clunky User Interface.
- Not as user friendly as QuickBooks Online.
- Difficulty with remote work.
Has been a big help to my business - all in one finance department.
- integration with MS Outlook for sending invoices.
- Ease of creating and editing reports.
- Allowing multiple users to work in the system.
- Sometimes when there are new updates to Outlook or to QB they suddenly stop working well together.
- More competitive rates for the merchant services feature.
Worth the investment, and then some!
- Coding.
- Splitting Transactions Into Multiple Accounts.
- Creating Easy To Read P+L.
- Would like to see more suggestions from the software on creating rules for repeat codes.
QuickBooks Gets Invoicing, Resale of Products Done
For the other business, we use QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise only to create invoices for clients who prefer to pay by check rather than using online payments. This is because we do not prefer the QuickBooks interface for online payments since most clients who want to do online payments do not want to use the QuickBooks option. It is good for what we need it to do to for creating invoices in this business.
The key problems that it addresses are how to create professional, branded invoices for clients that aren't co-branded with the processor's details (like PayPal). It allows both businesses to do this and track payments for clients we issue invoices to.
For the in-person business, we sync our bank accounts with the software to allow for up-to-date information transfer. This is helpful to be sure that everything is tracked as it should be.
- Creating simple, professional, branded invoices.
- Saving secure files.
- Syncing with bank accounts.
- Exporting invoices to end to clients.
- Online payments! Most of my clients who want to do online payments do not want to use their online payment system, and QuickBooks Desktop does not have an intuitive option to allow for the processing fees that go along with using other vendors for this. It is a BIG downside for my business that's mostly online where most clients do not want to use QuickBooks for payment.
- A simpler way to sync account information from my small banking institution. The files come over but they're cumbersome to translate to QuickBooks Desktop. I tried QuickBooks Online and that's worse.
- There are too many accounting-centered options for my businesses. Both are small but need more options than what is offered in QuickBooks Online, yet the additional features of QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is just too much for our needs. We need a middle of the road option that is efficient for small businesses.
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise - The perfect one-stop accounting solution for a mid-size business
- Excellent report generation.
- Sales tax tracking.
- Accounts receivable tracking.
- Accounts Payable tracking.
- The program sometimes takes to long to load.
- Payroll reports need improvement.
- Intuit sometimes places adds for new software with updates.
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise - a candid review
- Inventory control.
- Reporting and analysis.
- Integration with 3rd party software solutions.
- QuickBooks needs a better system for tracking inventory turns.
- QuickBooks needs better cashflow modeling.
Single Source Full System Accounting System that is simple to use
- Number of Vendors and Customers.
- Ability to have several company files.
- Batch Entry of bills.
- being able to drill down from summary reports.
- Being able to see the history of a transaction.
- Warning you of double entry of invoice number, check numbers etc.
- Would like the dollar amount to fill in when you are using items like it does when you are using expenses.
- To be able to add items when using bank feed to jobs and items.
- Be able to edit jobs as a sub account of a client after the job has been created.
- Be able to import company letterhead as a template to be used for collections.
- Work in Progress report.
Good for the price, but some features to be desired
- Easy to use, especially for an accounting novice
- Essential reports are easy to pull
- Invoice feature is fairly simple - and we can get paid directly through QuickBooks
- They recently added a cashflow prediction feature and it does not work at all
- In general, QuickBooks does not work for SaaS accounting - we've had to pay for an additional vendor to help us accurately recognize revenue
- My experience of the desktop specifically is that it's a bit clunky and prone to crashing, so I will often use the online version
QuickBooks Desktop Review
- Reporting
- Reconciling
- Account Creation
- Customization
- Automation of transactions (ease)
- Web capabilities
Versatility of QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise
- Application of various sales tax rates.
- Versatile reporting for multiple types of industries.
- Customizable templates.
- Limit to number of users.
- Bulk update is not available to change expense category.
Very easy to use, and very user friendly
- Invoicing
- Payroll
- Accounts Payable
- Setting up Chart of Account
QuickBooks Review
- It is a nice tool to generate financial statements: income statements and balance sheets.
- It is easy to pull detail reports from QuickBooks to get budget to actual variance.
- I like the drill down functions to help identify discrepancies and fix them.
- It takes time to download multiple years data.
- It only allows storing one set of plans (or budget) and forecast. Therefore, a monthly forecast has be to done in Excel online.
- I hope there is a way to download multiple journal entries at the same, rather than one at a time.
Enterprise is Robust and Yet Still Easy to Use
- Advanced Inventory
- Statement Writer
- Advanced Pricing
- More robust storage for lists and data file size limits
- Equipment costing to jobs without special work arounds
- Report filters are not consistent through the program
- Limited Permission lockouts for financial reporting
Reliable and useful for office!
- User friendly for first time users.
- Helps track open sales orders.
- Helps with running commissions report for sales reps.
- Be able to print out formatted reports.
- Invoicing
- Purchasing
- Customer database
- Reporting
- Data retrieval
- Creating builds could be easier
- Customer search
- Template customization
Surprisingly well done and affordable ERP!
- Chart of accounts--very strong here as you have full control
- Accountant connect--giving the proper levels of access to an outside accountant is awesome
- Bill payment--you can connect to outside services like Bill.com and pay bills automatically via ACH
- Connection to bank accounts to easily link bills and credits to the account ledger
- Not great as an ERP--though they seem to be headed that way
- No weights of items--no LxWxH dimensions
- Online version hosted only at Right Networks--should be fully online
- No direct integrations with LTL shipping
Flexible QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise
- This application manages all the accounting related activities.
- It also help to generates all the financials form this application including custom reports.
- We can also pass the entries GL wise.
- Sometimes it is working very slowly when we work from server.
- Best value for the price point compared to alternatives.
- Fairly easy to set up.
- Automatic double-sided transaction entries.
- Lots of Custom Fields (user-defined fields).
- Lots of great integrated apps available to extend functionality.
- Files are easily corrupted - without being obvious to the users.
- Intuit's minimum hardware requirements are insufficient for multi-user environments.
- It's a challenge to access the data to use outside the application for other purposes.
Pleased with our QuickBooks!
- Easy Purchase Order "copy" function.
- Product Category function allows items to be easily sorted.
- Sales Reporting Functions are relatively easy to create and sort.
- I've heard complaints from Accounting regarding the Payroll features but am not personally familiar.
- Product/Item search function seems to sort products by some method other than standard alphabetical at times making it troublesome to locate/add a specific item that is similar to others.
QuickBooks for a quick business world
- Easy to make sales orders, estimates, and purchase orders.
- Maintain inventory.
- Receiving payments and payment history.
- You need to have a over average system to run over a network when sharing a company file.
Quite happy with QuickBooks
- Quote to order process.
- Inventory management.
- Financial reports.
- Form design could be better.
- Inventory management.
- Reporting.
- Sales reporting.
- Financial reporting.
- Sales reporting.
- Integration with Office 365.
Well suited to inventory management. Our inventory is key to our business success. QBE allows us to easily watch our levels.
Not well suited to sales commission reporting. This process takes us a long time every month to calculate.
Stuck in the Middle with You: QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is Best for Mid-sized Organizations
- Solid basic reports on profit, loss, cash flow, and assets
- Good structure for paying employees and handling deductions and other payroll functions
- Solid AP functionality and good ability to handle multiple payment types, split transactions, and other needs
- The software has gotten really slow over time as invoices are attached to reports.
- Changes made to electronic payment filing have messed up managing electronic payrolls and necessitating additional steps and rights.
- User management is a challenge.
Great Bang for Buck!!
- Reporting.
- Tracking.
- Detailed analysis.
- Excel integration.
- Easier printing to PDF files.
- Automatic generation of fixed asset numbers.
QB Enterprise - I'm on board!
- We are able to quickly see our real-time inventory at each site and deliver just-in-time deliveries to our customers where they need it, when they need it.
- Our reporting is now robust and paints the whole picture, helping in our decisions regarding cash management and future investments.
- We are beginning to realize savings from accurate inventory movement and better control of Receivables and Payables.
- Moving our accounts to new software, as expected, was painful. It involved a great number of resources and time to ensure accuracy.
- Although robust, the reporting is not always intuitive. It takes time and effort to create reports specific to your individual needs. The "boxed" reports are thorough, but fairly generic. But, I suppose they have to be to meet the general needs of a wide and broad user base.
- The program is fully featured, so, you can expect a long learning curve, especially when you roll it throughout the company at once.