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QuickBooks Desktop Premier

QuickBooks Desktop Premier

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.

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Appalling Fee for Basic Support.

3 out of 10
December 20, 2022
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Bank reconciliation (57)
    8.0
    80%
  • Standard reports (56)
    7.8
    78%
  • Accounts receivable (59)
    7.0
    70%
  • Accounts payable (58)
    7.0
    70%
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Pricing

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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.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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.

8.9
Avg 7.5

Customization

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

1.3
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.

7.4
Avg 8.0

Reporting & Analytics

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

6.8
Avg 7.6

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

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

7.1
Avg 7.4

Inventory Management

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

2.9
Avg 7.0

Order Management

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

7
Avg 7.4
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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

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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.

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Reviewers rate Benefit plan administration and Role-based user permissions and Pricing highest, with a score of 10.

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

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Andrew Newman CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use it throughout the organization for time keeping billing and invoicing. We sync it with payroll (QuickBooks Mananged Payroll) and with Bill. com which is our portal for payment and client receipts and invoicing. All employees have different levels of access and keep track of their time in the program. We use the program in a shared file server environment.
December 24, 2015

QuickBooks Premier

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I work for a CPA firm. We use QuickBooks for some of our clients. The program is either used in conjunction with the clients already established QuickBooks data or as a software to create financial statements for clients who do not utilize financial statement software. It is used firm wide.
December 23, 2015

Accountant

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks is used across my organization and with my clients for their business financial software. It's a bit cost prohibitive but still competitive compared to other products, such as Sage 50.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

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.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's just being used by the Accounting/Finance Department right now. We have about ten departments, so we make use of their "classes" and memorized transactions. Thinking about moving away from QuickBooks.....weak in budgeting area.
Kimberly Galland | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks Premier is used to manage accounting for multiple companies; provide invoicing, prepare financials and annual accounting for tax returns. All business clients are using QuickBooks Pro or Premier. 10% use QuickBooks Online. It tracks income and expenses and allows clients to process payroll checks and returns. It is user friendly, offers easy file transfer, and many helpful adjustment features for accountants to use for review.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Managed all financial transactions, except payroll, but including inventory, for a small manufacturer with multiple, global distribution channels. We used QuickBooks Premier Manufacturing edition from 2007 through November 2013, before upgrading to the Enterprise edition.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The vast majority of our small business clients use QuickBooks. We helped clients set up QuickBooks and provided ongoing support. We used it in our CPA firm for our own bookkeeping as well as to facilitate bookkeeping for in house clients. We also used it to run payroll for a number of clients.
Cristine Delos Santos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This software is used by the entire organization and it helps us a lot in the overall bookkeeping process for our clients. It makes financial generation easy and quick which make work more efficient.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks Premier is our most recomended product to our clients. It can handle just about anything you need to do for a small business except advanced inventory and combined reports. The look and performance is amoung the best in the industry, which our clients love, along with the affordability of it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
All of our staff use QuickBooks to assist our clients with their bookkeeping needs. Several of our clients are working in a hosted environment which allows us 24/7 access of their accounting data. The hosted environment allows us to assist our clients on a daily basis. We also utilize Bill.com to create a virtual accounting department for our clients.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
May 05, 2015

President

Andrea Campbell, CPA,CITP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use QuickBooks to run most aspects of my business, billing, payroll, general ledger. It lets me run my business quickly and efficiently from one platform. As a sole practitioner, I don't have a lot of time to waste on the back office. I appreciate the efficiency I get from QuickBooks.
May 01, 2015

Loving Quickbooks

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use QuickBooks for 90% of our clients. It is user friendly, simple to operate, and has lots of bells and whistles that can be very useful if necessary. Having the vast majority of our clients on the same system makes training of staff and clients a simpler process.
April 30, 2015

Owner

Tony May | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use the software for the business and also host several clients using Cloud9. It addresses the client's need for an easy solution to manage the books and records and it allows us to assist the client with various issues. It creates a solution that allows us to provide additional services, such as payroll, bill pay or complete back office functions. Having complete access to the client's books and records facilitates the tax preparation and tax planning processes.
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