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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

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.

6.7
Avg 7.4

Customization

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

6
Avg 7.6

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.

7.7
Avg 8.1

Reporting & Analytics

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

8.4
Avg 7.8

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

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

7.4
Avg 7.5

Inventory Management

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

6.1
Avg 7.4

Order Management

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

7
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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The most common users of QuickBooks Desktop Pro are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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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 to use or not to use

Rating: 6 out of 10
September 30, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
20 years of experience
We use QuickBooks Pro to access our clients' information as well as track our own accounting income/expenses. Everyone in the organization is trained to use the program. In most cases QuickBooks Pro is fairly intuitive and easy to use, however, some of the users have trouble coding the entries into the proper categories. The biggest problem I've seen with QuickBooks is that users generate an invoice and then just write a check which leaves the invoice unpaid and double books the entry.
  • QuickBooks Pro works like a checkbook and is intuitive to use.
  • QuickBooks Pro makes it easy to track income and expenses by requiring a category to save the entry.
  • QuickBooks Pro tracks 1099 vendors and can print the 1099's directly from the program (if set up to do so).
Cons
  • QuickBooks Pro could use improvement with setting the category for the transaction. Most users aren't accountants and some can easily incorrectly categorize assets as expense items. A short accounting tutorial for users might be beneficial on types of expenses or assets like inventory.
  • QuickBooks Pro could use improvement with invoices to be paid. Some users will set up an invoice and then just write the check leaving the invoice in accounts payable and doubling the entry. More could be done to remind users to either pay the invoice or take them to that area and ask if they were paying an invoice or match up transactions easier.
  • QuickBooks Pro could use improvement with fixing transactions that are either doubled or need to be matched up but some of the categories cannot be changed with a journal entry and require countless hours of time to go back and edit transactions. It would be nice if there were some kind of override for accountants so we could easily manipulate any and all categories with a journal entry to fix problems we encounter when reconciling the books for tax purposes.
I would recommend the desktop version of QuickBooks Pro but not the online version. Our firm has a few users in the cloud with the online version and the features you get for free in the desktop version you pay extra for in the online version. Just about anyone can use QuickBooks if you know how to write a check but larger firms might want a more robust accounting system if they have more than 10 users or need to track inventory better.

Great Program to Use!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 05, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
5 years of experience
I use QuickBooks Desktop Pro on a daily basis, in both of my jobs. I love how easy it is to be able to reconcile our accounts. It's easy to correct and redo when you mess up on a reconciliation. I love how easy it is to enter and pay out bills, pull reports, enter expenses. It's a great, great program.
  • Reconcialtion
  • Bill Pay
  • Credit Card Charges
  • Invoicing
Cons
  • Audit trail easier to use
It's been great to use in the trucking industry when it comes to our billing department. It's easy to pay all our bills and receive payments. It's not the greatest for the trucking/load aspects of things. We can't control everything on our trucking side in there, therefore we have to get different programs.

What a breeze to use!!

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 29, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
2 years of experience
QuickBooks Pro is being used for our firm books and records. It is simple to use for the support staff and review by the accounting staff.
  • Almost too easy to use.
  • Inputting vendor invoices and printing checks is seamless.
  • Changing information once saved is a breeze.
Cons
  • Canned reports could be more flexible to use.
  • QuickBooks could make preparing reports easier.
Any organization could benefit from using QuickBooks. It is so user friendly!

Excellent but know how to use it

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 23, 2016
CM
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
6 years of experience
We use QuickBooks Pro as our accounting system. It's used for AP and financial reporting. We recently switched to a subsidiary ledger with another system for our AR but in the past we did use QuickBooks for invoicing.
  • The reporting function is very good. There are several canned reports that need minimal customization.
  • The Accounts Payable is useful and user friendly.
  • I enjoy being able to use the check register directly as needed. Some systems do not easily allow access to the register.
Cons
  • AR is not very user friendly. When you don't go through all the steps through that module errors result.
  • The payroll functionality is difficult to use. The entries are very confusing and hard to follow. Making changes is very difficult because the screen is different and by person.
  • A custom report manager would be wonderful!
You need to have someone who is well trained in the use of QuickBooks. If you have an occasional user or someone inexperienced, they don't follow the sequence of the modules and the file becomes less accurate. I have many clients that have to pay me to clean their file up because the AR and AP are incorrect.

I don't think it's very easy for a non-accountant to use.
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