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What is QuickBooks Desktop Pro?
Quickbooks Desktop Pro is accounting software from Intuit, Inc. It includes core accounting features, plus analytics and exportable reports. It is offered in on-premise and SaaS forms.
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Affordable accounting software for small and medium sized businesses
QuickBooks Pro, a Great Tool for Sales Tracking and Overall Business Processes
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QuickBooks Desktop Pro for nonprofit - a great choice
If they hadn't just forced an upgrade on users, doubled prices, and touted bad support as a benefit, they'd be OK.
great for the small business, not great for anyone else
Quickbooks Desktop Pro is top quality
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Financial, inventory management all in one. Made easy with QuickBooks.
Not a pro but I use Desktop Pro
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- Bank reconciliation (108)9.797%
- Accounts receivable (109)7.575%
- Standard reports (108)7.575%
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What is QuickBooks Desktop Pro?
Quickbooks Desktop Pro is accounting software from Intuit, Inc. It includes core accounting features, plus analytics and exportable reports. It is offered in on-premise and SaaS forms.
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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.
- 9.9Pay calculation(61) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 9.8Benefit plan administration(35) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 9.8Direct deposit files(53) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 9.9Salary revision and increment management(49) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 7.3Reimbursement management(50) 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.
- 8API for custom integration(32) 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.
- 7.8Plug-ins(36) 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.
- 8.9Single sign-on capability(75) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 8.1Role-based user permissions(88) 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.
- 9.6Dashboards(93) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 7.5Standard reports(108) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 8.2Custom reports(106) Ratings
Users can create custom reports.
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting
- 9.7Accounts payable(107) 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.
- 7.5Accounts receivable(109) 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.
- 2.4Cash management(97) Ratings
The software provides a complete picture of a company’s cash flows, streamlines payment processing, and includes cash forecasting.
- 9.7Bank reconciliation(108) 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.
- 8.8Expense management(99) Ratings
The software can log and track business expenses and reimbursements, including travel-related expenses, with the ability to tie them to particular projects.
- 8.7Time tracking(47) Ratings
The software can track billable and non-billable employee time by project.
- 6Fixed asset management(64) 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.
- 7.9Multi-currency support(27) Ratings
The software supports transactions across multiple currencies.
- 5.7Multi-division support(52) Ratings
The software is flexible and supports bookkeeping practices along multiple dimensions such as locations, branches or products.
- 7.2Regulations compliance(39) Ratings
The software helps users adhere to typical accounting standards and regulations such as IFRS, GASB, or GAAP.
- 8Electronic tax filing(50) Ratings
The software provides a full electronic interface for the filing of repeatable taxes, such as payroll or sales tax.
- 9.7Self-service portal(38) Ratings
The software provides online portals for certain stakeholders to find information relevant to them, such as employees, vendors and customers.
- 7Global Financial Support(15) Ratings
Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities
- 8.8Primary and Secondary Ledgers(37) Ratings
Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers
- 7.4Intercompany Accounting(38) Ratings
Automatically balance and reconcile GL for intercompany transactions
- 8.5Localizations(17) Ratings
Meet reporting requirements with country-specific localizations
- 9.6Journals and Reconciliations(65) Ratings
Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes
- 9.7Enterprise Accounting(33) Ratings
Create accounting for disconnected ERP and non-accounting source systems
- 8.1Configurable Accounting(41) Ratings
Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts
- 7.8Centralized Rules Framework(24) Ratings
Integrate disparate ERP and transactional systems into single ERP instance
- 9.7Standardized Processes(48) 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.
- 6.5Inventory tracking(53) Ratings
The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.
- 6.1Automatic reordering(32) Ratings
The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.
- 6.2Location management(29) Ratings
The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.
- 8.2Manufacturing module(16) 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.
- 6.6Pricing(50) Ratings
Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.
- 7.4Order entry(49) Ratings
Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.
- 7.1Credit card processing(48) Ratings
The software facilitates credit card processing.
- 9Cost of goods sold(58) Ratings
The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.
- 9Order Orchestration(18) Ratings
Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.
- 9End-to-end order visibility(21) Ratings
Get updates on orders, inventory, shipments, planned supply, and invoices, and improve the quality of decisions through in-context analytics
- 3.2Order exception Resolution(16) 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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(1-25 of 26)Quickbooks is a valuable tool for small and medium businesses
- It identifies and recognizes the classification of payments made so most of the payments to vendors is automatically filled out by the software.
- Quickbooks also corresponds between accounts so a payment made on a company credit card in the bank account is transferred to the credit card account
- Quickbook allows a multiplicity of reports, such as last fiscal year, or last fiscal quarter etc. It is possible to see it as details or as broad catagories such as travel, or subscription and dues which allows at a glance where funds are being spent
- On occassions when downloading a bank statement or a monthly credit card statement it does not recognize the OFX data, so a new account has to be created.
- With the Desktop model there is no easy way to update after online support ends. For security reasons we do use the online Quickbooks system
- Changing an expense to a vendor is not straightforward. What is needed is a list of expenditures that includes not just one off expenses but the list of vendors too, so that if a one time expense becomes a regular expense it should change to vendor with just a click.
Quickbooks Pro
- QuickBooks generates a P&L easily. This can be done in many different ways; company -wide, per client, etc.
- QuickBooks generates a Balance Sheet easily.
- QuickBooks also tracks AR and AP very well.
- QuickBooks has room to improve on their cashflow report. We do not use the report in QuickBooks.
- QuickBooks has room to improve the credit card entries. In order to match the entries to the credit card statement, you have to go in to manually input the entries and vendors. For example, if I pay ATT one month and the vendor charges my credit card as "ATT Houston," and the next month, they charge under "ATT Sugar Land," I would have to either manually attached both of these entries to ATT the vendor, or set up 2 new vendors as "ATT Houston" and "ATT Sugar Land."
- QuickBooks has room to improve the way it integrates with other accounting systems. For example, if a subsidiary does not have QuickBooks Pro, you have to create a separate excel model to run a consolidation model.
QuickBooks Pro is well suited for setting up a new accounting system, maintaining accounting records, generating P&Ls, balance sheets, trial balances, etc. many important and crucial accounting documents. The system does a great job of creating an audit trail and housing all the details of a company's accounting system.
- Generating templates, and formatting forms that need to be sent out
- Reports
- Imports and exports to/from various formats
- SUPPORT
- Pricing
- Speed
- The developer has gotten too greedy and forces upgrades on users when everyone knows they're not necessary, except as an income producer to the developer
- Easy to use and learn
- Flexible
- Efficient
- Cost accounting is somewhat cumbersome
- Integration with 3rd party payroll could be more efficient
- This is the desktop version, and our version does not handle touch screens or two-fingered touchpad very well
Quickbooks Pro <3
- Customer & Vendor Files/Records
- Payroll & Taxes
- Some are scared by the price tag
Accounting software that is a good value for the money.
- Easily lookup vendor information.
- Easily lookup customer information.
- Invoicing feature is lacking & difficult to use.
- Software crashes randomly occasionally.
I can process credit cards through QBDP as well as generate a Pay Online link on an invoice to accept both credit card and ACH payments on the web. When I'm running payroll, which happens now and then, QuickBooks is all I need to generate checks and do the necessary government payments.
- Ease of use.
- Robust expense management.
- UI tweaks for style and function.
- Better invoice design tools.
The go-to solution for all things accounting
- Honestly, it's pretty much the go to solution when it comes to accounting software.
- It can be used for any size business, from a single self employed person to large companies with multiple departments.
- Intuit is constantly updating the software, keeping it up to date, and has multiple optional features that can be added, such as multi-user support, online invoicing, payroll, credit card processing, and more.
- The only downside it the Intuit knowledge base for support is rather lacking, and if you run into a problem, it can be hard to find the solution. However, there is excellent Peer support from other users on the Intuit forums.
QuickBooks Pro - Good for the little guy
- 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.
It does everything I need but doesn't slow me down. It also saves me a lot of time at tax time.
QuickBooks Desktop Pro makes accounting work quick
- 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.
Small Business Accounting is a Cinch with QuickBooks Pro!
- 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.
QuickBooks Pro - divided whether to "love it" or "list it"!
- 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.
It is not suited for those with complex organizations that would need multiple dimensions such as project and region.
I deal for the professional or new users
- 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.
Quickbooks - Begrudgingly Necessary For Today's Business
- 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.
An Accounting persons best friend !
- Inventory Control - we are able to easily control what inventory comes in and goes out through our use of this feature.
- Invoicing - we are able to easily invoice clients without the hassle of hand written (and sometimes illegible) invoices. Printing, emailing and saving invoices to a PDF make getting the invoices out seamless and allows cash flow to continue uninterrupted.
- Billing - we use this feature in an unconventional way that allows us to see what we are paying out for services rendered by contract employees. Again super easy and seamless processing of outgoing funds.
- The new updates coming in 2018 edition are covering some of my basic concerns and desires, for instance, the ability to stamp invoices PAST DUE within QuickBooks is going to be very useful for us.
- I would like very much for the Bank Feeds center to work a bit less complicated perhaps direct linking to the bank as opposed to pulling the bank web address to access.
- I work on three monitors, my current version will not allow me to utilize all three monitors. I understand the upgrade is going to fix that. I am very excited for this.
QuickBooks Pro- Friendly for both Business and their Accountants
For other clients I was reviewing their books and cleaning up any accounts or reports needed.
- QuickBooks pro was user friendly especially for those users that do not have a business or accounting background. Once set up the daily functions are pretty easy.
- Being able to save favorite reports helped my customers a lot so that once I ran a report for them they could save it and just change the dates.
- Ability to create checks or journal entries that will be posted frequently is a huge help. Especially being able to set up re-occurring entries to automatically post so that you don't have to. For example - depreciation, rent payments, etc.
- Connection to credit card receipts is best for users that receive their sales receipts via credit cards.
- The employee and HR section can be hard to work with - like payroll. But this is [true] with a lot of accounting software. Linking with your payroll company more easily than it is currently set would be good.
- Ability to create customer reports within the system would be good.
Bookkeeping Ease
- As CPA, can set up to track who makes entries. Can track what is added and deleted, in case a problem arises.
- When used correctly, provides good information for generating financial statements and getting a trial balance to do annual tax returns with.
- QuickBooks in general provides certifications so that employees new to QuickBooks can learn and get up to speed quickly to work with our clients.
- Too easy to delete transactions.
- Does not give enough warning to voiding invoices, checks, deposits, etc that relate to a prior period. Once financial statements have been done, and the tax return filed, you cannot just void items, because it will void them in the period it was entered. For instance a check written 2/14/14 is voided on 3-25-15. The retained earnings is thrown off from what was used on the tax return because it was posted to QB's on 2-14-14 and is voided back to that date. This is especially frustrating.
- When you have an accountant's copy outstanding, when the client imports the changes, if any entry has been made to adjust cash, the client's bank reconciliations are undone and have to completed again. Very frustrating for the client and for the accountant, because the import of our changes caused the issue.
How many transactions do you expect to have? Large amounts of transactions, will slow the program down.
How many employees and how many states you have employees in? QuickBooks does not work with all states, and it does not work at all with local taxing agencies within a state. We have had issues with getting the information needed to print W-2's. Fairly large company.
- User Friendly
- Easy for non accountants to grasp
- Easy to spot and correct errors
- Inventory function is weak
- Ease of use is a double edged sword in that it's easy to make errors.
- Doesn't have a real debit credit methodology to it
Easy to use Quick Books
- Easy entry.
- Easy data retrieval.
- Good financial statement formats
- Beginning and ending inventory for individual periods for profit and loss statements
- Longer account titles
Ease of use
- Easy to use - most users can figure out how to write and record a check.
- It prompts for accurate reconciliation of bank accounts.
- It has a useful credit card expenditure tracking system.
- The ability to easily change cash transactions after reconciliation is a problem.
- The ability to enter an incorrect date w/o notice or prompting that the date is outside the accounting period.
- Ability to add vendors wtihout proper 1099 set up.
Inappropriate: someone who makes a lot of input errors with dates - I specifically recommended a more complex program to a client because this client is dyslexic - QuickBooks would not work for him as the dates and amounts are just accepted without a logical check. He needs a program that limits dates to the current accounting period and doesn't allow changes to reconciled data.
QuickBooks Pro is reliable for our firm and clients
- Keeping transactions organized. We use it for multiple bank and credit card accounts to create organized financial statements.
- Payroll.
- Time tracking. All of our employee's time is entered into QuickBooks and invoiced directly from that what was entered.
- Detailed billable/billed time reports with total amounts adjusting for different billable rates for different employees.
QB's used by CPA firms
- Very flexible reporting.
- Drill down to detail.
- Good historical reporting.
- Alerting clients when they are changing something in a prior period. For example, if they void an old check, it changes their financials since the date they issued the original check.
- Make the use of credit card entries easier. Most clients don't understand how to use it.
- Better options on class reporting.
Quickboooks Enterprise for Midsized Business
Separately I've set up a different company to use Quickbooks as a simple to use data base program and I load monthly income breakouts into that module and analyse it by state and month for our state reports.
- Banking, bank reconciliations and Credit Card Reconciliations. Quickbooks allows for detailed breakdowns of all expenses and types and a very flexible bank/credit card programming that allows me to manage all my accounts in the least amount of time.
- General Ledger data entry and analysis is easy to do with unlimited GL entry forms and other customizations possible using the GL entry screens and tracking.
- Quickbooks also has a background audit trail function that allows you to review any changes made to the data in any amount of time and to also recover data on deleted transactions.
- Quickbooks data base grows and grows. Our data file is now 2 Gig. I have tried to shrink it many times but the program is cumbersome and so far I have had little success. My only real complaint.
Excellent Application with lots of extras!
- When creating purchase orders QuickBooks allows you to fill in as much or as little vendor information that you would like. You can add as many columns as you would like, and it automatically gives you a grand total without having to enter any formulas. It saves time.
- The reporting tool allows you to track jobs, cost, vendors and everything related to them. You can generate a detailed report or a summary report. You can click on an item on the report and it will show you everything related to that. Maneuvering is very easy.
- There were a few instances where an invoice and credit memo had to be created and it was easy as pie to do. It was really simple to connect it to the original invoice. It helps immensely when tracking finances.
- More functionality with the reporting would make generating reports in certain instances a lot easier.
- Job, PO and finance linking needs to be tweaked. It took a few unneeded steps to get to where we needed it to be.
- Editing new job entry, errors and job tree needs to be less complicated.
- How detailed are the reports?
- Will I be able to access all related entries from the report?
- Can I get heavily detailed reports with little or no issues when selecting the required options?
Works as a bookkeeping tool for a mom & pop business. Confusing for a trained accountant.
- The ability to attach documents and files to transaction is great. IT is nice to have all of the relevant documentation in one place. This eases subsequent review, such as in an audit.
- The ability to easily download reports into excel, either new or existing files is simple and effective. It facilitates having information is more than one place, which goes against the goal of having everything resident within QuickBooks, but I may be overthinking the situation.
- I had used QuickBooks about 7 years ago when I was accounting for the wind-down of multi-million dollar corporation after a merger, and it easily met all of the ledger and reporting needs in that case. I'm an accountant by training, and am experienced setting up closing routines, schedules, entries etc. The ability to initiate, track, summarize and report on recurring and adjusting journal entries in QuickBooks Pro is confusing at best. I didn't have this issue with the previous version.
- The downloading and updating of bank data especially, I use the free version of interface with PNC, is more confusing than seems necessary. I have used Quicken since it was introduced in the late 90's and the ability to load transaction data from banks/credit card systems is critical, and Quicken's interface is much more straightforward.
- It is more of a bookkeeping product than an accounting product. Maybe that is all I really need, but its flows are not intuitive to me.