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QuickBooks Desktop Premier

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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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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
  • 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.

8.5
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 7.7

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.

8.5
Avg 8.2

Reporting & Analytics

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

8.3
Avg 7.8

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

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

7.9
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

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

8.1
Avg 7.5

Order Management

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

8.2
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is QuickBooks Desktop Premier?

Quickbooks Desktop Premier is the on-premise version of Quickbooks designed for various industries. It features core accounting capabilities, including general ledger, double-bookkeeping, and reporting. It also includes invoice status tracking, contractor management, and time and inventory tracking. Premier in particular is designed to enable industry-specific tasks for general contractors and organizations in manufacturing and wholesale, nonprofits, service, and retail sectors, as well as servicing general business needs.

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QuickBooks Desktop Premier Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

AccountEdge and MIP Fund Accounting are common alternatives for QuickBooks Desktop Premier.

Reviewers rate Pay calculation and Credit card processing highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of QuickBooks Desktop Premier are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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QuickBooks Desktop Premier

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 25, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Premier
5 years of experience
We use QuickBooks Desktop Premier to prepare bookkeeping for select clients, restore bookkeeping files prepared by other clients, and to enter year-end journal entries for our clients who prepare their own bookkeeping.
  • Makes it easy for our clients to enter bills and payments
  • Clients can easily record sales and payments received
  • Easy for clients to reconcile their own bank accounts
  • For clients with multiple businesses, QuickBooks Desktop Premier allows them to create separate files to track each of their businesses separately
Cons
  • When entering year-end entries for our clients, it is frustrating that AR and AP need to be the first line of a journal entry. This makes it so you can't adjust both AR and AP in the same AJE
  • It is easy for our clients to make mistakes when filing their GST returns with QuickBooks. If balances aren't cleared, GST paid and collected can be doubled up in subsequent filings, resulting in incorrect GST returns being filed.
  • Some functionality is catered to unsophisticated users to make it easier for them to track data (AR & AP specifically), but any errors or incorrect entries in these accounts are very difficult to correct. For accounting purposes, a simple journal entry can correct the ending balance, but it is very difficult to have the AR and AP reports reflect the updated balances.
  • The new subscription prices are very high, so we have been referring more of our clients to QuickBooks Online. This allows them to invite us as users to their account, while also saving money every month. It is disappointing that users can no longer buy a perpetual license for the product and must now pay more for a 12 month subscription than they used to pay for a perpetual license.
  • Backwards compatibility between desktop files would make it much easier for some of our older clients to continue using their old QuickBooks Desktop Premier versions each year so they don't have to learn an updated program. This would also allow us to prepare journal entries for our clients with older desktop versions and still have them be able to restore the updated file to their version of QuickBooks Desktop Premier.

QB can help you run your business from behind the scenes

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 30, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Premier
3 years of experience
Used as accounting software to generate account receivable, account payable reports, P&Ls, and documents needed to prepare tax returns. We use it to analyze the business on a monthly basis. Aids with budgeting and planning for the future. Provides and environment whereby we can contact clients and follow up on receivables, etc.
  • 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.
Cons
  • Adjusting entries
  • Self created communications for emailing clients
  • Journal entry suggestions
I'm unsure how it would work for different types of businesses but for my purposes, it works.

QuickBooks Desktop Premier [Is] Worth Every Penny

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 03, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Premier
6 years of experience
I use QuickBooks Desktop Premier for all the financial and accounting needs for one of our companies.
  • Allow you to make changes on previous months.
  • Allows you to create a copy of an expense.
  • Very easy to reconcile your bank account.
Cons
  • Reports
  • Accounts entry
QuickBooks Desktop Premier is well suited [because] it allows you to make corrections easily, make a copy of an expense, and it allows you to reconcile your bank statements easily.

QuickBooks for nonprofit

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 06, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Premier
12 years of experience
As a small nonprofit we use QuickBooks to manage our bookkeeping and financial reporting, grant administration and donation collection. It also allows us to track functional expense allocations through the use of classes and grant expenditures through customer jobs.
  • Customer / job invoicing and tracking is simple and straightforward. Easy to manage accounts/grants receivable through the program.
  • Customizable templates to add our logo, identifying information and messages to invoices and receipts allow us to produce more professional, non-cookie-cutter statements.
  • Payroll modules integrate seemlessly with reporting structure, which avoids having to make entries separate from payroll reporting.
Cons
  • QuickBooks reporting templates need some work to allow more customization, especially with the heading labels, subtotal breaks and terminology for nonprofit statements to match industry standards.
  • QuickBooks premier industry versions do not have the same journal entry view as the Accountant's version, which shows a list of previous entries at the bottom half of the screen.
QuickBooks Premier is well suited for small nonprofits who need more than just straight bookkeeping.

Great solution for Payroll

Rating: 7 out of 10
April 27, 2016
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Premier
7 years of experience
We are only using QuickBooks Premier for the payroll module. I use Blackbaud Financial Edge for all other accounting tasks.
  • Tracking employees
  • Tracking payroll items
  • Tracking associated payroll taxes
  • Printing W-2's
Cons
  • 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.
I think for small businesses it probably does a pretty good job.
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