Overview
What is QuickBooks Desktop Premier?
QuickBooks Desktop Premier is an installed version of QuickBooks for general business, contractors, manufacturing and warehouse accounting, as well as nonprofits, professional services, and retail.
I wish I had upgraded my old software.
QuickBooks Desktop Premier [Is] Worth Every Penny
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Excellent Accounting Software
Great for small nonprofits!
QuickBooks is a solid, workable solution
QuickBooks makes quick work of a lot of repetitive tasks
QuickBooks - Fast and Easy
I'm no accountant...and this keeps my accountant happy!
QuickBooks Premier is really good for small businesses
QuickBooks NOT for attorney client escrow account management
Great reports in QB
QuickBooks Premier 2018 is the wave of the future in accounting!
QuickBooks Premier Works Well For Smaller Companies
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Popular Features
- Bank reconciliation (57)8.080%
- Standard reports (56)7.878%
- Accounts receivable (59)7.070%
- Accounts payable (58)7.070%
Pricing
What is QuickBooks Desktop Premier?
QuickBooks Desktop Premier is an installed version of QuickBooks for general business, contractors, manufacturing and warehouse accounting, as well as nonprofits, professional services, and retail.
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
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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.
- 7Pay calculation(46) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 10Benefit plan administration(20) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 8Direct deposit files(36) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 9.9Salary revision and increment management(27) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 9.5Reimbursement management(29) 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.
- 1.3API for custom integration(15) 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.
- 1.3Plug-ins(20) 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.
- 4.8Single sign-on capability(43) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 10Role-based user permissions(40) 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.
- 4.9Dashboards(48) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 7.8Standard reports(56) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 7.8Custom reports(54) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 7Accounts payable(58) 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.
- 7Accounts receivable(59) 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.
- 8Cash management(54) Ratings
The software provides a complete picture of a company’s cash flows, streamlines payment processing, and includes cash forecasting.
- 8Bank reconciliation(57) 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.
- 6.1Expense management(56) Ratings
The software can log and track business expenses and reimbursements, including travel-related expenses, with the ability to tie them to particular projects.
- 5Time tracking(28) Ratings
The software can track billable and non-billable employee time by project.
- 5.1Fixed asset management(39) 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.
- 9Multi-currency support(18) Ratings
The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.
- 7Multi-division support(33) Ratings
The software is flexible and supports bookkeeping practices along multiple dimensions such as locations, branches or products.
- 1.8Regulations compliance(19) Ratings
The software helps users adhere to typical accounting standards and regulations such as IFRS, GASB, or GAAP.
- 10Electronic tax filing(28) Ratings
The software provides a full electronic interface for the filing of repeatable taxes, such as payroll or sales tax.
- 8Self-service portal(17) Ratings
The software provides online portals for certain stakeholders to find information relevant to them, such as employees, vendors and customers.
- 9Global Financial Support(3) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 7Primary and Secondary Ledgers(6) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 9Intercompany Accounting(8) Ratings
Automatically balance and reconcile GL for intercompany transactions
- 5Localizations(1) Ratings
Meet reporting requirements with country-specific localizations
- 7Journals and Reconciliations(14) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 9Enterprise Accounting(5) Ratings
Create accounting for disconnected ERP and non-accounting source systems
- 7.1Configurable Accounting(6) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 9.9Centralized Rules Framework(3) Ratings
Integrate disparate ERP and transactional systems into single ERP instance
- 4.3Standardized Processes(7) 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.
- 1.7Inventory tracking(35) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 1Automatic reordering(15) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 8Location management(19) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
- 1Manufacturing module(17) 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.
- 10Pricing(30) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 10Order entry(31) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 7Credit card processing(27) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 6.3Cost of goods sold(34) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
- 10Order Orchestration(3) Ratings
Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.
- 1End-to-end order visibility(4) Ratings
Get updates on orders, inventory, shipments, planned supply, and invoices, and improve the quality of decisions through in-context analytics
- 5Order exception Resolution(1) 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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(435)Attribute Ratings
- 1.3Likelihood to Renew12 ratings
- 8.9Availability5 ratings
- 5.7Performance4 ratings
- 7Usability14 ratings
- 1.1Support Rating12 ratings
- 1Online Training1 rating
- 7.2Implementation Rating7 ratings
- 9Configurability1 rating
- 6.2Product Scalability4 ratings
- 7Ease of integration1 rating
- 7Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 8.1CPA Rating27 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 37)Appalling Fee for Basic Support.
- Easy to Use
- Comprehensive
- Easy to send to Accountant
- Horrible Support Options
- If I convert to subscription service, I actually lose some of the functionality
- Subscription is Very Expensive for Home Based Business
I wish I had upgraded my old software.
- Order entry
- Search customers, vendors, products
- It doesn't do anything else good.
- Make multiuser real multiuser. Everyone must log out (cumbersome process) so one single user can do many tasks. They include Changing Sales Tax Rate, Deleting a customer, Defining fields for a customer, [Adjusting] product quantities, [Backing] up [QuickBooks], Delete a ledger code, Delete an inventory part, add additional notes.
- Could have lines between listing on invoices.
- Could track inventory product purchases. My old 1970's UNIX software did a stellar job of this. Suppose I buy identical products from numerous vendors. My old software listed 10 dates, 10 vendors, 10 quantities, & 10 prices. [QuickBooks] only lists the very last one.
- Lists sales commission for sales reps. I can input a sales rep but not print a report with his name, address, & commission. Pulling UPS out of the sales is another chore. We do it manually. (Why computerize?)
- About every 2 weeks [QuickBooks] won't allow me to restore a backup. I have to delete previous backups.
- Continual pop-up windows DO I LIKE THE SOFTWARE. When I say no & list reasons...they never fix it.
- There is a Price Level List. I can sell Item 1 to you for $1, to a store for $.35, & to a distributor for $10. BUT it is a long list. We have 1100 products. There is no search for the item that we want to update. I have to scroll through 1100 items to make a change.
QuickBooks - Fast and Easy
- Tracking accounts payable and receivables
- Has more features than Quickbooks Pro
- Easy to set up new clients and track their payments at a glance
- Financial Statements are easy to read
- QuickBooks does not support all banking institutions.
- When downloading bank information sometimes not all of the information imports.
- Charge too much for direct deposits.
QuickBooks NOT for attorney client escrow account management
- Invoicing
- Accounts receivable
- Tax prep
- Law practice escrow account management
- Bank account mangement
- Bank account reconciliation
QuickBooks Premier Works Well For Smaller Companies
- The bank related transactions are good. It's easy to record payments, make deposits, and reconcile the bank accounts. I like the feature that allows you to find the invoice being paid by the number when it's not clear who the correct customer is.
- Entering bills and credit card payments are a snap, especially for monthly recurring charges. You can use the repeat transaction function, but I like to use the copy function. Just change the date, invoice number, and amount if needed and it's entered easy peasy.
- Paying bills is another good function. Just click those you want to pay. When you are making a partial payment on an invoice, it's simple to adjust the amount to be paid. Voiding or deleting a check is easy when needed, but you need to be very careful when doing those transactions. Once in a while, I will pay a group of bills and issue the checks, and the next time I go to make a check run the last check from the prior group will show on my ledger as the check needs to be printed. So I have to watch that. It's also easy to print checks with the wrong date on them because QB will use the last date you used. So if you are entering AP invoices and they are dated a few days prior, the checks will come out with that date on them.
- I have to download a lot of my data from QB to do analysis in Excel. The download process is nice. There are a lot of options for canned reports to select, and you can save your favorites so you don't have to set them up each time.
- We create our invoices in QB Premier and it is my least fun function of the month. Last year we started to import the data from a cloud-based system that holds our timesheet data using a 3rd party product to perform the upload. This then translates into our customer invoices. The process is quick and easy, and it has shortened my billing process by 2 days because I no longer have to manually input the timesheet data to create the invoices. It's was a bit intimidating at first, but well worth the effort in the long run.
- Several times a month I need to explort some of my data from QB Premier into Excel to do analysis and there is a limit to the number of columns I can export at a time. When I am working with payroll reports, the columns exceed the limit, so I have to split the report in half and combine them again in Excel. It takes a lot of time, and the further we get into a calendar year the longer it takes. There is lots of room for manual error in this process and payroll data has to be perfect. I'm constantly double checking to make sure I'm staying true.
- I would love to have more functionality in setting up the templates. We've had to make some concessions on what we would like to show because of space constraints, there is no way to subtotal an invoice (for example, these are the total professionsl fees and these are the total reimbursable expenses) and if the invoice has multiple pages it does not subtotal the page or allow the customer to easily tell this is a multi-page document. It also took me quite a while to figure out how to get my reimbursable expenses onto the invoices from the import function.
- I would like to be able to tell the average days it takes a customer to pay their invoices. QB Premier will give you that data, but it won't allow you to select a specific time period so if you've had a customer for 10 years and they seem to be slowing down the payments, you can't tell because the canned reports will cover the entire 10 year period. I would like to see, for example, how this customer 's payment trends changed over time to help signal when a customer might be getting into a pattern so I can react quicker.
QuickBooks Premier is Great!
- The reporting features are quick and easy. True time saver!
- Great support including online groups and boards to help with those rare occasions when you need something special.
- Great plugins to help with some of the daily tasks required for a professional services firm.
- Customization of reports can be limiting.
- Busy interface compared to QB online.
- Hard to find where certain lists or information can be found.
My accounting platform of choice!
- QuickBooks Premier has all the basic functions of the QuickBooks Basic plus industry-specific tools for inventory management, cost-tracking and much more.
- QuickBooks Premier has an extensive set of reports that can be customized for profitability analysis. Plus AR/AP reports are an excellent tool to help manage cash flow.
- QuickBooks Premier is inexpensive in a long run as opposed to QuickBooks Online where you pay monthly recurring fees, those add up quickly!
- Learning some of the advanced functions can be time-consuming, but there is lots of online support through QB community and YouTube training videos.
- While it's more efficient and comprehensive, QuickBooks Online gives instant simultaneous access to business owners and accounting professionals. Same cannot be said about QuickBooks Premier desktop version.
Quickbooks Premier Review
- Estimates
- Invoicing
- Reports
- Income Tracker and batch transaction ability especially with in-activating old estimate/proposals.
- Allowing the user to specify page breaks.
- Backup naming conventions should be set to increment automatically instead of deleting previous versions.
QB for Leading Edge Firms
- Integrated credit card processing - posts automatically to customer accounts, allows online payment. It uses the most current technology.
- It maintains a good strong history of billing and collections and provides collection letters and assistance when you have past due amounts to collect.
- It allows you to download credit card transactions and post into the software automatically. It is easy to track spending details with this process.
- I would like to be able to choose how i want to view accounts receivable aging. I would like some flexibility to sort and choose how to present the data.
- For a seasoned accountant, I would like to see some of the restrictive controls that are in place for novices to be able to be relaxed so that I can easily make some entries and adjust some balances that ordinarily a regular user would not be able to do.
- I would like to see an easy way to clear old outstanding checks that need to be reversed without affecting prior balances/history.
Great solution for Payroll
- Tracking employees
- Tracking payroll items
- Tracking associated payroll taxes
- Printing W-2's
- Interface with Georgia Department of Revenue for payroll forms is not the best it could be. There are some forms that just don't interface well.
- I have had issues sending the required year end payroll forms to Georgia in the past but it was better this year.
QuickBooks Premier does a great job for my clients!
- It is intuitive for the client. For example, when the client goes to write a check, a screen opens that looks like a check.
- It does all the debits and credits behind the scenes, so the client does not need to have an understanding of debits and credits.
- There is a lot of support and a big community of users, so it is easy to get help, and to find staff that know how to work with the software.
- The desktop version is much more robust than the online version, and the processing speed is much better.
- You can only have average cost for inventory. No last-in, last-out (LIFO) or first-in, first-out (FIFO).
- If you are not on a hosted solution provider, you may have problems accessing your data remotely.
- You have to keep upgrading and installing updates.
Non-profits will benefit, subject to a few workarounds
- Intuitive interface.
- The many add-on products available (from Intuit and third parties) allows for customization and flexibility.
- Price provides functionality at a good value.
- I would like to see the ability to record more than one account receivable account and/or account payable account in the same transaction.
- I would like to see more non-profit specific functionality, such as the ability to account for housing allowances within payroll.
- Another piece of non-profit functionality I would like to see would be the ability to create and e-mail donor statements with my organization's comments and the necessary IRS disclosures.
Good value for the money. You get what you pay for !
- Easy to use
- Ability to Import Bank and Vendor Information
- Run Payroll Easily
- Speed of software opening
- Pricing Structure/Discounts for accountants should be increased as we refer clients
Given the alternatives, Ill stick with Quickbooks.
- Integrates well with the other software I use
- Easy to navigate
- Easy to set up
- Good support network
- Reporting is old and inflexible
- Levels of security are not very flexible
- Multiuser is cumbersome
Accountant
- Ease of use
- Easy reports
- Home page provides a roadmap for users
- Widely available
- Cost is a bit high
- Inventory value has a tendency to change even after a closing date is entered
- Accountant version has some difficulty with applying customer credits and zeroing out balances (the apply credits)
Quickbooks Supporter for Small Business
We use QuickBooks for most of our offsite client accounting. When a client wants to process in house, we recommend the QuickBooks Premier program. In house, we use QuickBooks Premier for our own company data. Monthly accounting in house for clients are done on Intuit EasyAcct for multiple general ledger and payroll processing.
The ease of use and understanding by all firm personnel make QuickBooks a preferred choice for clients.
- Ease of use and understanding. Drop down tabs for various functions. Reports tab, Employee tab for payroll processing, Banking tab for check writing or register, etc.
- Ability to make changes on the go without much difficulty.
- Can go back indefinitely for comparison reports, etc.
- Check voiding from previous periods. Should be able to tell the system what period to void the check in. This is a function available in Peachtree.
- When making changes to prior periods, a warning should popup to ask Are you sure? This could avoid random changes made by mistake.
- More explanation to the user as to the cash vs accrual function of the program.
QB can help you run your business from behind the scenes
- It's intuitive if you have an accounting background.
- The help section typically offers reliable information to answer questions
- I like the email functionality with sending invoices directly to clients.
- Adjusting entries
- Self created communications for emailing clients
- Journal entry suggestions
Accountants Choice for Small-Medium Businesses
- Allows accountant's copy or portable file transfer so the accountant can work in the file while the client continues to use it. Files can easily be shared through secure Intuit server, email, or secure file transfer such as Dropbox.
- Offers relatively easy payroll calculations within the software that clients can manage on their own.
- Using bank feeds and downloads speeds up the monthly accounting process or entering large amounts of data at once.
- Inventory feature is very poor and not designed for novice users.
- Accountants' have the ability to correct multiple transactions relatively easily but regular users do not.
- It allows inexperienced users to make adjustments or post to accounts that are in error. The accountant must spend time correcting the mistakes at the client's expense.
Do you need the ability to invoice clients or track billable charges? You can easily create invoices and email or allow online payments.
Do you need to track inventory? There are other software that may track detail inventory better.
Do you need to process payroll for employees? Offers cost effective and user friendly options
How many users need accesss to the software?
QB Premier Manufacturing Edition
- Although there are reporting limitations, producing basic reports from QuickBooks is very simple and fast.
- Fairly easy to use and to learn for entering basic transactions.
- Integrates with many software offerings (CRM, Bill.com, etc.).
- File stability suffers with increased size and complexity of data file. Best for very small companies with limited inventory.
- Add-ons (such as payroll or credit card processing) would be convenient, but are over-priced compared to outside offerings.
- Limitation: Works well only as an accounting system. Does not work well as a CRM, ERP, asset manager, supply chain manager, etc.
Quickbooks 2015
- Keeping receipts and disbursement a organized
- Accounts payable
- Tracking receivables
- Better handling of nsf checks
- Inventory
- Remote Access Capability- This feature of QB is essential for us since we target the markets of Hawaii and Australia and our Operations Team is in the Philippines.
- Easier reconciliation of bank type accounts - The interface provides us, bookkeepers, with a list of transactions which we can modify (if recorded wrong) on the spot. It also makes it easier to track unrecorded bank transactions for the given period.
- Import of IIF and Excel files - It makes recording numerous transactions faster and more accurate than recording each entry one at a time. It improves our effectiveness and efficiency as bookkeepers.
- Recognition of duplicate vendor and customer name.
- QuickBooks Premier is easy to use, yet flexible and powerful enough to handle some complicated accounting scenarios.
- QuickBooks Premier offers a wide array of canned reports. Custom reports can be easily created.
- QuickBooks Premier with Enhanced Payroll gives us the tools to handle complex payrolls with multiple variables.
- Support for older versions of QuickBooks ends after three years, then users must purchase the newest version at full price. Renewals should be deeply discounted for existing users.
- I would like to see better in-product inventory tracking, so we can choose LIFO or FIFO rather than the ambiguous "average cost" method.
- I would like to be able to assign payroll taxes to jobs for better job costing.
- Financial reports are easy to run and detailed enough to make business decisions for your company. The ability to memorize frequently run reports with customization is just an added bonus.
- Include supporting documents as attachments to transactions to easily reference details
- For companies with mulitple employees accessing QuickBooks, the customer user roles and audit trail are a great feature to be able to see and know who is doing what within your QuickBooks file.
- I would like the ability to rearrange the chart of accounts or edit items in multi-user mode. Having to switch to single user mode to make a simple edit disrupts work flow.
- The sync tool speed could be improved.
- The ability to fix a previous reconciliation without undo-ing all reconciliations after it.
- The program is easy to learn and use. We can train our clients' personnel how to use the program with out difficulty.
- It is easy for clients to generate bills and manage accounts receivable.
- It is easy to manage accounts payable and allows clients to pay their bills electronically.
- Transactions can be imported electronically for credit card and banking transactions.
- It is easy to reconcile bank and credit card accounts.
- We can import data generated by QuickBooks into our tax and accounting software.
- Reporting - it would be nice to have an option to remove subaccounts when certain reports are generated.
- The program could be more flexible in the reporting area. For instance, accumulated depreciation is sometimes presented before the fixed asset accounts on the balance sheet. It would be nice if rows and columns could be manipulated more to get a better looking report.
- Easy to use, but also easy for clients to mess up.
- Prints financial statements with ease.
- Easy setup.
- Continuously requires the purchase of updated versions to run payroll. Instead of updating entire software package, a payroll update should be available.