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QuickBooks is used to set up invoices for customers, send out bills, and to keep a record of monies collected with bank reconciliation. It is also used to keep a database on customers. Using QuickBooks has been helpful to see who pays fast and who doesn't pay; to see who is giving the most business and who is only a casual customer. It is great at keeping track of payment and nonpayment and customer frequency.
- QuickBooks does a great job of easily creating invoices and bills and sending them out internally either by email or fax. It does provide the option to print as well for customers who cant be reached otherwise.
- QuickBooks creates detailed charts that let you see your business from a distance. You are able to see a week, month or even a year at a time. charts include income, payments not received, and most frequent customers.
- QuickBooks makes complex task easy by having built in formats for invoices, estimates, bills, payment receipts.
- QuickBooks also has easy bank intergration.
- QuickBooks largest setback is the UI. It is a bit cumbersome and not entirely intuitive if you have never used QuickBooks before.
- Occasionally QuickBooks has a hard time communicating with your bank, but it is usually fixed after a couple attempts.
- QuickBooks does need to be bought each year to stay up to date.
October 04, 2019
QuickBooks Pro - Good for the little guy
I use QuickBooks Pro in a sole proprietor business. Thus I do all the accounting/QuickBooks work as well as running the business. That means I use every relevant part of the program (I don't have other staff to hand the complicated parts to), and it also means that it needs to be usable by non-accountants. It needs to make sense to me so I can focus my energies on running my business, not spending all my time figuring out how to fix credit errors, for instance.
- Basic, daily tasks are simple, easy to find, and intuitive.
- Fixing my own input errors is surprisingly easy. I'm happy I don't have to run down the rabbit hole of double-entry details for minor corrections. And there's an audit log to keep track of what I've done.
- When I get stuck with how to do something, a quick google search easily reveals other users asking and solving the same issue, because there are so many QuickBooks users.
- Integrating other software into QuickBooks seemed quite complicated. I was happy when I got it working. I suspect moving to QB online would also solve that.
- I have IT clients who use QuickBooks Pro on a network, and occasionally a year upgrade creates some real challenges to get the multi-user access working again.
- Setting up QuickBooks to send invoices directly via email can be a real pain to get working properly. This has probably been the most frustrating thing I've done with QuickBooks, and sadly, multiple times. That setup process needs fixing, especially its ability to work on systems with multiple email clients and systems where the email client has changed or been upgraded.
We use QuickBooks Pro in the Accounting department. We use it to manage our General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Financial Reporting functions. In general, I'd say that QuickBooks allows us to have at our disposal the core functionality of a much more robust ERP system for a fraction of the cost, setup, and headaches.
- Track information in as detailed a format as needed.
- Allow the addition of users or clients without the hassle of traditional models.
- Produce information quickly and accurately.
- I have found the inventory module to be a little weak. More costing options would be nice.
- The reporting is very good, but being able to customize reports would be helpful.
- With the ease of setup comes the possibility of security risk. They seem to handle this trade-off well.
August 05, 2019
QuickBooks Desktop Pro makes accounting work quick
We currently use QuickBooks Desktop Pro for the accounts management of our entire organization. It helps us manage the bank accounts of multiple group homes that we operate, our day service, and our primary bank account. It helps us to keep an eye on our budget from a monthly and annual perspective.
- It is quick and easy to enter and print checks, and they post automatically to the QB bank register.
- It makes it easy to enter and track client invoices.
- It makes it easy to enter and track vendor bills.
- When you post payments from clients it makes it easy to create a bank deposit summary sheet.
- If you make an entry directly onto the register in the incorrect debit/credit column, you cannot simply reverse the error.
- If you make a deposit entry error, it is difficult to get removed from your "Record Deposits."
- You cannot print a check to "John Doe" if he is listed in your vendor list as "Doe, John."
- There is not a quick access icon on the Home Screen for transfers between accounts.
July 20, 2019
Quickbooks can't be beat
Quickbooks is being used to manage the accounting of the entire business. The Quickbooks software enables be to manage all financial aspects of my business including accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory all with just one piece of software. I'm also able to manage payroll by syncing the software to Intuit online payroll.
- Inventory Management
- Customer Management
- Vendor Management
- Generating financial reports (P&L, Balance Sheet etc)
- Support should be US based, communication with support can be difficult at times.
- Too many updates. I don't think it's necessary to launch a new update every year.
- I don't think I should have to pay for a higher level of service to email a document as PDF.
September 27, 2019
Affordable accounting software for small and medium sized businesses
In our organization QuickBooks is used in Finance Department only, since it's an accounting software. It is the only accounting solution we need and it solves all the accounting tasks, including reporting.
- Memorized transactions
- Customizable reports
- Search function
- It freezes and shuts downs from time to time, other times it's really slow.
- Sorting is not supported (by name etc.)
December 14, 2018
After 16 years in business I still use QuickBooks Pro
Being a small business QuickBooks is used to manage all financial aspects of my business, including invoicing, purchasing, time tracking, and inventory. With the use of a few third-party utilities I'm able to manage all of these aspects and collect data from my smartphone while mobile. This allows me to stay on top of my business while out in the field with clients. As a business owner with no financial background it has been easy to learn and understand how my business is doing.
- Inventory management with low stock indicators has made it easy to ensure I have the necessary parts and supplies I need for my jobs.
- Time tracking and being able to invoice on that time makes it simple to bill clients for work I have performed. Prior to QuickBooks I had time that I wasn't getting paid for because I would forget to invoice for it.
- The extensive number of reports available as well as customizations allows me to see how my sales are doing on a regular basis in different areas of the market.
- The lack of a mobile app, and the lack of features in the former version, made it difficult to function while away from the desktop. However, I have found several third-party apps that fulfill these needs and often contain more features.
- The server/multi-user access can have problems occasionally which requires some finessing of the services to keep it running. Problems that were once resolved seem to reappear in future upgrades. Standalone and peer-to-peer multi-user installations don't seem to have these issues.
February 11, 2019
QuickBooks Pro is a User Friendly Accounting Software
I do accounting consultant work for several small businesses. I use QuickBooks because of the flexibility and ease of use that it gives me. I use QuickBooks to generate financial reports for my clients for their banking and tax needs. When my clients first came to me they didn't understand the importance of these financial reports until they starting seeking financial backing.
- The ease to make changes. This is important because if you see an error, you can double click on it and change it instead of having to make an adjusting entry to fix it.
- The ability to pull up detail quickly. If you run a summary report and you notice an account amount doesn't look correct; then you can double click on it to bring up the details without having to run another report.
- Ability to change the format of a report. When you run a report, you can go into the custom option and change the report criteria (time period, what accounts you want to show, reporting base (cash or accrual), etc.).
- When my cursor is on an entry in the bank register and I want to open the other bank account, instead of it opening my other bank account register it opens the register for the vendor that my cursor is on at the time.
- I have clients that operate on a cash basis so instead of saving this criteria when I run reports I have to keep going to the custom to change it from accrual to cash.
- I would like more options for my vendor and customer reports.
December 26, 2018
Small Business essential software
We've used QuickBooks Pro for a little more than two years and it is being used by the entire organization. We use it to record time, create invoices, estimates, purchase orders, and account payables. QuickBooks Pro is a complete financial software that lets you manage your business finances in one place.
- The dashboard makes it easy to navigate.
- Lots of modules which includes Record Time, Purchase Orders, Create Invoices, Create Estimates.
- Ability to set reminders.
- Lots of customizable report templates.
- It didn't let me customize decimal places in invoices and estimates.
- It takes a long time to load.
- The maximum number of simultaneous users for QuickBooks Pro is three users.
December 17, 2018
Accounting for the future, with a few minor improvements
We used QuickBooks as an alternative to traditional spreadsheet accounting. It handled all accounting functions across HR, payroll, and operational departments. We also had administrative staff inputting basic data.
- Bank reconciliation and outstanding payments tracking
- Custom reporting and analysis tools to look at long-term budget expenditure (not possible in traditional excel, or file is way too large)
- Payroll and ability t audit your own payroll
- Crossover with other payroll software, easy to share data between them for uploading purposes
- Price is high even for a large company
- If you don't save..... it's all gone. Would be nice to have an auto-save feature as with Cloud services
- Inability to cross reference by country in terms of taxes and payroll reporting. Big hit for us
December 12, 2018
Small Business Accounting is a Cinch with QuickBooks Pro!
I've used QuickBooks for 15 years at two different companies for managing all of the accounting functions. I am a full charge bookkeeper; process payroll through QuickBooks and related reporting, and run all financial reporting through QuickBooks. I've found ways to integrate timesheet tracking, expense reporting, client records, vendor records; all bank and credit card transactions are functions used through the program.
- Processing payroll is easy and reporting is even easier. If you take the time to set up the accounts correctly- your life will be a piece of cake!
- Reconciling accounts is so simple and streamlined. I look forward to it every month!
- Financial reporting made simple with a click of a button. If you need to see what totals make up an amount, you double click to get its history.
- Coordinating vendor purchase orders and their implications on forecasting is either not a function or I haven't figured it out yet.
December 12, 2018
QuickBooks for Small Businesses
We use QuickBooks Pro as our main accounting software for handling our business. We produce invoices, patient statements, and manage our financial reporting through it. I am able to easily see a snapshot of our financial status when I log in as well as find quick access to reports that I need generated. It is fairly user-friendly and allows me to accomplish all the financial tasks needed to run my business.
- QuickBooks Pro does invoicing well; I am able to customize my invoices to my company's specifications. The templates allow options for the design to be personalized to the needs of my company, including guides for making it easy to use windowed envelopes.
- It gives me a quick snapshot of where my financials are. I always have an idea of the financial in's and out's with just a click or two of my mouse.
- QuickBook Pro reminds me when bills are due, and records easily when payments are made. I never have to worry about missing a payment because of the flag reminders.
- It is software on my desktop computer at work, therefore, I cannot access it away from my office. This has been somewhat inconvenient, but I am aware that there are online options with QuickBooks that we are strongly considering for the future.
- Sometimes it is difficult to edit a list item. There is some inconvenience of not being able to right click and permanently edit a list item within an invoice. Instead you have to go to a menu item, look it up and then edit the item instead of being able to edit the original item within an invoice. You can, however, change the information within the invoice, you just aren't able to make permanent changes to the line item without going into the line item menu.
- When I am paying bills, I am not able to attach a receipt or list a notation about a payment confirmation number. That usually has to be done in the invoice itself, instead of in the 'pay bills' screen, which, at times, can be a hassle.
December 10, 2018
Good for smaller companies.
We used QuickBooks Pro in our finance, payroll, and Human Resource departments. It handled all of our accounting functions, to include AR. Payroll was a shared process with Human Resources. Human Resources also used it as a de facto HRIS system since the company did not have one in place.
- Payroll - fairly easy process to learn and repeat accurately.
- General ledger easy to set up and understand.
- Building custom reports for financials, payroll, and employee info is not difficult.
- Tracking employee changes, like pay rates, benefits, etc. This is a 100% manual process and there is no audit trail.
- Inability to access the system and make changes when another user is logged in.
December 07, 2018
Incremental improvements, but fundamentally the same for 20 years
Quickbooks Pro handles the accounting needs of our small to mid-sized business. We are able to handle everything from quotes, invoices, receiving payments, paying vendors, and handling deposits from a single application. Different departments can handle different aspects of the accounting system, and it is relatively easy to determine what sorts of users have access to which data.
- Handling all accounting needs from A to Z
- Providing the ability for multiple users to access only the parts of the system that they need
- Recent updates to fix long-standing glitches
- The graphical interface hasn't changed in nearly two decades
- The program itself is clunky and inefficient in terms of its programming
- Very few substantial changes across the yearly updates
December 07, 2018
QuickBooks Pro - divided whether to "love it" or "list it"!
QuickBook Pro is currently our G/L system. It is used for our G/L activity and reporting by a few individuals in the organization.
- Bank reconciliations: good tool to quickly reconcile bank statements to bank register.
- Chart of accounts: generally easy to set-up and manage.
- Bank load: accurately load bank and credit card transactions.
- Limited non-profit functionality (fund accounting).
- Limited number of dimensions.
- Reporting tool is difficult to make custom reports.
December 06, 2018
Excellent time-saving product
QuickBooks Pro is being used for time entry, project tracking, paying bills and invoicing.
- Invoicing - time and purchases are easily entered and transferred to invoices that can be printed or emailed with little effort.
- Integration with merchant services to receive payments is smooth and requires just a few clicks.
- Estimates do not flow well. Seems it should create invoices much easier.
- Inventory is a nightmare and convoluted.
December 17, 2018
QuickBooks is THE accounting software for business
Daily bookkeeping, A/R, A/P, reporting, reconciliations, budgeting and forecasting. The accounting department is outsourced to a contractor with the President & CEO having oversight. However, all have access and utilize QB on a daily basis for all financials within the organization.
- A/R-A/P Particularly with forecasting, budgeting and tracking
- Vendor tracking - Utilizing as a vendor information database with contact information and tax information is helpful.
- Customer tracking - Utilizing the Customer portal to track payments for all tuition for school and also billing/invoicing.
- Reports can manipulated for month end and quarterly reporting.
- Multi-user -with different access points for vendor, employee and audit firm usage.
- Design layout - graphics are a bit dated
- Color schemes - would be nice to customize
- Multi/single user notification - It would be helpful to know what mode it is when logging in in case you need it changed offsite with other users using the system remotely.
December 14, 2018
Meh
Quickbook Pros is an accounting software for small businesses. We are a small to medium small business backed by a large company and have found that QuickBook Pro is used to ensure that our financials all balance out at the end of each month and at the end of each quarter. Particularly we appreciate that we can end a year with the right numbers.
- Visuals - Appealing to the eye and the design is makes it easy to process information.
- Navigation - The user experience is incredible. Low learning curve.
- Support - the 24/7 live rep and the online support helps for anything you can't figure out on your own.
- Glitch heavy - the program is great when it works.
- Tax management - we wish it had a tax capability.
- Purchase order creation leaves much to be desired.
December 10, 2018
QuickBooks Pro
We use QuickBooks Pro in our accounting department. The program is very user friendly and easy to manage. We enter journal entries to track our bank activity and internal transfers, we also use QuickBooks Pro to cut checks and pay our accounts. We have 7 entities and use QuickBooks Pro to manage all of them. Moving from from entity to another is seamless and convenient.
- Immediate updates to reporting
- Able to manage multiple entities
- Vendor tracking and 1099 organization
- Multi user mode has glitches, often we cannot have multiple users in the same entity.
- QuickBooks Pro is expensive and the support for the versions expires if you don't upgrade. This is discouraging, especially for small companies like mine.
- It would be great if we could import info into journal entries via excel rather than enter each line individually.
December 07, 2018
Quick Books Pro
We use it across the whole organization. It tracks our job costs, revenue and billings.
- Very user friendly interface.
- Logical layout and easy to navigate.
- Ability to drill down in most fields to provide additional details and information.
- We have experienced some issues when using the product with Adobe Acrobat and lost the ability to save PDFs. This ability has been restored but was a concerning nuisance at the time.
- No other issues.
December 07, 2018
QuickBook Pro a Tool for Small Businesses
QuickBooks handles all our accounting needs (from procurement through payment). We particularly like its ease of use, ability to specify workflow hierarchy, link to purchasing order processing, check and auto payment options. It is reliable and maintained through periodic updates. It is a very cost-effective solution for a business our size.
- Handles purchase orders and purchase order processing
- Allows tracking of expense categories
- Writing checks
- Automated payment processing
- Banking reconciliations
- Built-in help file should be updated and made a bit more intuitive with enhanced searching capabilities
January 25, 2018
I deal for the professional or new users
We use QuickBooks Pro for a majority of our business clients. We also use it for our firm's accounting and payroll. It provides the functionality necessary to keep accurate financial records while being easy enough for he clients to use themselves.
- Expenses and accounts payable - QuickBooks Pro allows users to input bills, write checks, and post debit transactions easily. The Write Checks function helps new or inexperienced users by offering a familiar interface to input the transaction, while more experienced users have other options that allow faster entry, while still capturing the necessary information.
- Bank reconciliations - The software makes reconciling bank and credit card statements easy
- Customizable Chart of Accounts and classes - Users and take advantage of the highly customizable Chart of Accounts and Class feature to categorize income and expenditures and produce reports that are valuable to them. You are only really limited by how much detail you want to input to the transactions.
- Preparing 1099s - It would be great if it were possible to exclude a particular expense from 1099 reporting. Sometimes a non-reportable expense (such as a reimbursement) is posted to a expense account that would normally be reportable. I would like not to have to create a sub-account, or manually exclude it at the end of the year. It would also be nice if there was a way to indicate the type of entity for a vendor. Sometimes, the name does not make it clear and I would like to be able to tell at a glance why it has been excluded.
- Payroll - allow more than one salary item on a single payroll check. Occasionally, a pay rate will change mid-period and it is necessary to have two salary rates in one check. Right now, we have to fake it out using a calculated hourly rate.
- Improve the downloaded transactions function. This is one of the only things that QuickBooks Online does better than the desktop version. Currently, the bank feeds function is awkward and unnecessarily complicated to use.
January 17, 2018
Quickbooks - Begrudgingly Necessary For Today's Business
Quickbooks Pro has been our accounting software since before I started working at the shop. We use it for our payroll, checking, invoicing and billing, and credit card management. While not the easiest programme to learn, it at least maintains a standard of use throughout its versions.
- Check Register and Check-Writing is top-notch and intuitive
- Reminders for tax payments, liability payments, bill payments, invoices are easy to find
- reconciliations are laid out in a clear manner
- Tech support transparency: most problems we come across were fixed with a company recovery from a previous backup file. When we first had issues, calling tech support had involved remote access, cursor moving around to random menu items, then telling me that it would require them to repair the file in-house and that we would be charged for the repair.
- Tech support in general: the times we had called for tech support, we were greeted by either a script reader or a tech rep who threw technobabble in such a way that it made me, someone who has an IT background, a little leery of calling them again.
- Resource management: Quickbooks is a RAM eater. Quickbooks is best as one of one or two foreground programmes running; any more, especially with a graphics programme, and even our RAM-heavy design computer slows down.
- Allow a choice of integrated browsers rather than using Internet Explorer.
- Forced to update every three years to maintain services.
January 16, 2018
QuickBooks Pro for even your least Tech Savvy business owner!
Quickbooks Pro is used to keep track of all financial transactions from the checkbook to bills and invoices. By using Quickbooks pro we were able to streamline our bill paying process and keep more accurate records. By allowing us to invoice directly through QuickBooks we keep better records of our accounts receivable. Even our least technical user has no problem navigating in QuickBooks.
- Invoice templates make setting up invoicing a breeze
- Categorizing transactions so they are billed to the right departments or cost centers
- Layout is extremely easy to navigate for even the least tech-savvy user
- Reporting functions have great flexibiltily to create custom reports as well as already having the basic reports built in
- Sharing with the accountant couldn't be any easier!
- Depending on the financial institution used connecting to automatically download transaction is tricky
- Renaming rules in the online version is not user-friendly and defaults on its own lumping most transactions together (IE: everything that comes in as a check # becomes renamed to the last vendor a check was written to & recorded)
- Desktop version is much more user friendly in general than the online version
December 08, 2017
My take on QuickBooks - the accounting standard for SMBs
Quickbooks is the accounting standard for small businesses. The information from Quickbooks is used by everyone within the company. Keeping financial records is required for any business and Quickbooks is a simple way to do so.
- Quickbooks is the standard and it does well to run reports and export them over various time periods and so on.
- Sharing information with others and working with others is easy because of its ubiquity and people's familiarity with it.
- Importing information from bank accounts is simple with banks that support file downloads in the supported format.
- It would be better if Quickbooks integration with bank accounts was seamless
- Quickbooks does not have features like ratio analysis built into the software
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About QuickBooks Desktop Pro
Quickbooks Desktop Pro is accounting software from Intuit, Inc. It allows a user to create invoices and track sales, enter and pay bills from vendors, and download bank and credit card transactions directly into QuickBooks. It contains analytic features, and its reports can be exported into Excel. Its home page conveys an overview of business activity at a glance, providing insight into business processes. Quickbooks Desktop Pro for Windows Desktop can be obtained presently for a one-time purchase fee of $230, while Quickbooks Desktop Pro Plus is available for $200 annually as a cloud-based service with the support, data backup, and free updating typical of cloud-based services.
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