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QuickBooks Desktop Pro

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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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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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  • 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.

9.3
Avg 7.4

Customization

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

7.9
Avg 7.5

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.

10
Avg 8.2

Reporting & Analytics

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

9.6
Avg 7.8

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

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

9.4
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

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

6.7
Avg 7.1

Order Management

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

8.1
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is 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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QuickBooks Desktop Pro Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviewers rate Single sign-on capability and Role-based user permissions and Dashboards highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of QuickBooks Desktop Pro are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Good but not if you're growing

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 24, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
9 years of experience
Our company has used Quickbooks Pro since 2008 for its basic accounting functions. With Quickbooks Pro, we are able to create purchase orders and process bills, create invoices, pull sales and financial reports. Working with government agencies that frequently like to audit, it is helpful to pull these comprehensive reports. These reports provide a top level view of the company and show insight into future financial decisions.

Quickbooks Pro lacks in the inventory department - we use it only for financial information.

For what Quickbooks Pro offers, it is highly intuitive and organized well. It has been easy to teach to others and I seldom run into issues. In the past, customer service has been stellar but the past few times I've reached out it seems they've moved to a foreign call center that offers little help. Their wonderful customer service was what compelled me to refer others to the software, but now I do so with hesitation.
  • Organize expenses.
  • Pay vendors.
  • Create Financial Statements.
  • Easy to reconcile bank statements.
Cons
  • Inventory!
  • Need capability to input sales orders.
  • Customer service.
First I would ask, what does the company provide? If it does manufacturing I would almost immediately say no. Tracking inventory is too crucial and this software only makes it more difficult. Then I would ask what size is the company? This really seems tailored more to small companies that do not have a lot of information that needs to be input. I would also ask if the employees are local or work remotely? Quickbooks Pro is desktop that can be shared through a connected network. If workers are remote, QuickBooks Online would be the next obvious option but I do not have much good to say about the online program.

The QuickBooks Review From A Partner Of A Small CPA Firm

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 07, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
20 years of experience
It's used by the whole organization. We train clients on it and oversee their accounting using it.
  • User Friendly
  • Easy for non accountants to grasp
  • Easy to spot and correct errors
Cons
  • 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
I think QuickBooks Pro is well suited for service businesses but inventory intensive businesses may be left unfulfilled.

Quickbooks Does What You Want So You Can See What You Want

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 25, 2019
HA
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
5 years of experience
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.
Cons
  • 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.
QuickBooks is well suited for any business where invoices, bills, and payments are used. Especially where customers have time to pay, it helps keep track of who is paying and how timely they are paying. I would guess it might be cumbersome to use if the customer base was over 500, but maybe with several users that would work.

Easy to use Quick Books

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 07, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
12 years of experience
QuickBooks Pro is being used as a general accounting program for the entire company and for providing bookkeeping services for the entire company.
  • Easy entry.
  • Easy data retrieval.
  • Good financial statement formats
Cons
  • Beginning and ending inventory for individual periods for profit and loss statements
  • Longer account titles
Size of business, complexity of transactions

QuickBooks Pro - Solid accounting software

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 20, 2017
SK
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
10 years of experience
Since we provide a service, we have found that Quickbooks Pro Premier Services edition allows us to charge for time and materials easily. We currently are aggregating employee billable time sheets which are easily imported into QuickBooks Pro, which then automatically appear when generating invoices. Each task item is assigned a price class and is calculated automatically by the system, making invoicing and the tracking of employee billable time really easy. Currently, QuickBooks Pro is only used by the accounting and operations department, there is no need to expand its use to other areas of the company.
  • Aggregation of employee time sheets
  • Granular control over invoicing
Cons
  • Emailing functionality leaves a lot to be desired
  • Invoice reporting functionality is very clunky. There is no reason why their reporting engine is so rudimentary - this technology has been around for decades to improve on the built-in reporting/invoicing templates.
  • Support for all kinds of font formats (only TTF are truly supported, OTF are not)
  • Support for vector formatted images in reports/invoices. Don't see why eps or svg files (open format) are not able to be used.
For the vast majority of accounting needs, QuickBooks Pro hits the nail on the head. Since we're a design agency, we do have some pain points surrounding the visual aspects of the software (like invoice design, email design).
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