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QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

Overview

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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10 out of 10
March 04, 2024
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I love QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise and have used it for over 20 years. It is an all in one accounting, inventory, purchase orders, sales …
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Popular Features

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  • Bank reconciliation (168)
    9.0
    90%
  • Accounts receivable (169)
    8.9
    89%
  • Accounts payable (170)
    8.8
    88%
  • Standard reports (171)
    8.6
    86%

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Pricing

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Gold

1,261

On Premise
per year

Platinum

1,522

On Premise
per year

Gold with Remote Access

1,785.60

On Premise
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://quickbooks.intuit.com/desktop/e…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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.

7.9
Avg 7.5

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

7.5
Avg 7.1

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.

8.3
Avg 8.0

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

8.3
Avg 7.6

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

8.1
Avg 7.4

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

7.6
Avg 7.0

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

8.3
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

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

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Video

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QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Sage Intacct, NetSuite ERP, and Sage Accounting are common alternatives for QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise.

Reviewers rate Bank reconciliation highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Janna Jackson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think QuickBooks Enterprise is great for small businesses. I have used it for the 15 years to run businesses and it's great. It's very intuitive to use. You can do everything from bill pay to paying employees just from this software.
Frank Cahoon, CPA, CGMA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As mentioned earlier there are plenty of integrations that work with it making it easy to share or pass data between programs such as our shopping cart, order management software, tax reporting software, shipping, etc. The cost if significantly higher than the cost of regular Quickbooks Premier, but there as some nice features that help make the additional cost a little more palatable. We used to use Quickbooks POS with it, but that has been discontinued. We used that to print price tags to put on our products, but in my experience, QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise or all it does with barcode and such does not have an easy way to take a PO and print price tags for shipments as they come in.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I highly recommend any business to use QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise as it has so many facets to it that a large company or a small company can use it and either use all aspects of it or as little needed. In my experience, QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is easy to learn which makes it easy for a start up business or a seasoned professional to get what they need in no time.

I can't think of any company that would not be able to use this and love it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you run a small to medium sized business Quickbooks is likely to be a good fit for your company. Upon deploying Quickbooks you are given the option to start your company with 1 of approximately 8 different prebuilt company formats making the process much easier.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is a great software to use. However, the cost of the software has changed from $499-$599 every 3-4 years to an annual fee of $899 is a bit strangling to a small business. The software has not given an increase in value, only an increase in price. It's a little disappointing since I've been using this software for almost 27 years.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Best suited for mid-size companies that need more robust reporting than QuickBooks Online can offer. Better for only a few users (More gets tricky - even with RightNetworks.) Too cumbersome for small companies - QuickBooks Online is a much better solution overall - And seems to be developing well. There are few scenarios that I would recommend QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise - The last recommendation was because the company did not want their information online at all and felt that was more secure on the desktop.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The accounts payable process is so quick and easy with the remembered last transaction. This also reduces the time needed to figure out the coding from the Chart of Accounts.
Access by multiple staff concurrently reduces frustration of having to wait for access to a company's records and processes.
Staff do not have to have accounting degrees to be able to manage company records because QuickBooks generates the path for each entry that gets the data entered correctly for basic accounting principles and audits.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It gets the job done and does the basics well while being easy for new users to use. QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is well-suited for companies that need to have many users working at the same time. If you only have 1 or 2 users, then it is overkill.
February 07, 2023

Small Business QuickBooks

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It would seem to appropriate for small business to keep track of invoicing, collections and providing financial reporting. I think this product is great for small business. it is easy to use and more and more companies are allowing exports into QuickBooks now. We looked for a company that would export into QuickBooks when we were looking.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The Quickbooks Desktop Enterprise software has amazing tech support if you ever run into any issues. Great and integrated features. User-friendly software, very easy to use, and no need for training or prior language. Flexible for business daily activities and project management. Quickbooks has the features like Configuration of different Financial Statements, Personalized Invoice formats, and Data/Reports download into Excel. The customer billing and collections process can be customized to meet the user's needs. While great for small to mid sized businesses, this is software is not suited for a multi faceted business such as ours. It just cant handle all of the depth of processes that we require to run our business now.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks Enterprise is a good software package if you want ease of use. Setting up and training employees is very quick, but it does have some quirks for manufacturers. Multi-level BOM's could use some help and we had to take extra care to set up all BOM's to function properly. Relieving inventory could be a hassle if you don't have everything set up properly and stay on top of daily builds. Overall, QuickBooks is extremely easy to use and for the price it provides good value for a small business.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks Desktop is well suited for any small business that does not intend to grow or have many needs in terms of their financials. In my opinion, it is a good basic software that can handle the needs of most small businesses and I believe only needs repurchased once a year instead of a monthly subscription.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have been using QB desktop and QB online since their beginning, and I feel it is very user-friendly. I do feel that there should be an online free tutorial for every NEW QB user. I have found that some NEW users do not fully understand the system.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is a very user-friendly system, great for independent business owners and small businesses. It is a very intuitive system to use and learn, even for those who are not familiar with accounting. This is the perfect first software for first-time accounting software users and experienced software users alike.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have had vendors send me duplicate invoices several months apart, since i enter the invoice numbers the system catches if i have entered that bill before or not. We decided not to use the payroll module anymore based on the way payroll is set up. It was hard to use and if something happened all my info would be lost.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We were trying to implement the use of a scanner for inventory control and we were surprised to learn that Quickbooks only allowed this option if we were to subscribe to their Advanced Inventory program. We still utilize Quickbooks for 99% of our business functions/transactions but this setback forced us to find a third-party company to provide a scanning program that is compatible with our Quickbooks program.
July 22, 2022

Rich Feature Suite

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Quickbooks Desktop Enterprise has a pretty rich inventory portal so we use this version over the online version. I believe the online version allows for easier integration with other programs though. I also think the reporting capabilities are richer in the desktop version versus the online version. It has helped us to stay focused on areas where we were overspending.
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