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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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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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A view by a CPA firm.

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 20, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
20 years of experience
We use it for our own bookkeeping and we work with our clients on using the software as well. It is the preferred software for the majority of our clients. We also use it in conjunction with Lacerte tax software to prepare tax returns by importing form QuickBooks to Lacerte.
  • Imports easily.
  • Switches between cash and accrual easily.
  • User friendly for our clients, but sometimes too user friendly.
Cons
  • The online version has improved, but needs to be more.
  • Clients set up the same account several different ways, for instance office supplies; office exp; off supplies; supplies - office. If the software could prompt them that a similar account already exists, that might cut down on this issue.
  • The software should default to prompting for report date before generating a report - it shouldn't have to be a change by the user.
Needs unique to a specific industry are the usual reasons that people don't select QuickBooks. The online version has more serious competition for most businesses than the desk top version - I see a need for improvement there. And Mac versions aren't easy to work with for PC based users - which is most accounting firms.

QuickBooks Pro is a Good Choice When You Need Job Costing

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 05, 2015
CH
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
15 years of experience
We use QuickBooks Pro with many of our clients. Our staff members are Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors. QuickBooks Pro is a great program to use when you need extensive job costing. We offer monthly bookkeeping services for clients on QuickBooks Pro, set clients books up on QuickBooks Pro, and troubleshoot when clients have problems with their accounting in QuickBooks Pro.
  • Job Costing - The job costing in QuickBooks Pro is robust. Especially if you use one of the QuickBooks payroll service offerings that work within the program.
  • Reports - You have the ability to customize reports in QuickBooks Pro. You can get a report for almost anything you may need.
  • Find - I tell clients that the Find Feature (Ctrl-F) can be their best friend in QuickBooks Pro. You can search with whatever criteria you choose.
Cons
  • User Roles - There are a handful of options when setting up a new user role. It would be nice if you could limit a user within an area in QuickBooks so that they could see specific bank accounts, for example.
  • Most of our QuickBooks Pro users are using the program on a hosted server. Oftentimes a client will be working in QuickBooks Pro in single-user mode and we cannot log in. It would be nice if we could have the ability to log them out.
  • It is a desktop software program. This ties the data to a specific computer or server.
Some questions we ask are: Do you need job costing? Do you have inventory? How many users need to access the data? Are you using a PC or a Mac? How will you process your payroll? We will recommend QuickBooks Pro when their is a need for job costing.

QB Pro and QB Online

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 06, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
10 years of experience
We are CPAs and use the product in our business and recommend QB to our clients.
  • Allows us to collaborate with clients.
  • Allows us to interface with other accounting & tax products.
  • Provides our clients with an end-to-end solution
Cons
  • Implementation
  • Journal entries
  • Interface with excel
Well suited to situations where the client implementing has personnel with experience. It is less appropriate to a situation where client has no accounting experience. The online version is great for clients who need to have a reliable place to work and security is good. We recommend the online version a lot. There is less concern about keeping the product updated etc.

QuickBooks Pro Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 01, 2014
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
2 years of experience
It is used by the Finance Team as our only bookkeeping and accounting tool.
  • Automated invoicing - being able to import our transactions to generate invoices saves us days of work each month.
  • Importing bank transactions - greatly helps with bank reconciliation each month.
  • Very user friendly interface - it is a very intuitive product, training coworkers that have not used it before is very straightforward.
  • Reports - I found the reports very comprehensive and customizable.
Cons
  • The online backup of the company file has not been successful for us. This is in my experience a very important function and should work well. I had been in touch with customer service on that issue and they consistently said it 'should' be working, but it wasn't.
I find it difficult to not recommend QuickBooks, however I don't have any experience with any competitors, so I can't in all honesty award it a 10.

My take on QuickBooks - the accounting standard for SMBs

Rating: 6 out of 10
December 08, 2017
CS
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
6 years of experience
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.
Cons
  • It would be better if Quickbooks integration with bank accounts was seamless
  • Quickbooks does not have features like ratio analysis built into the software
Quickbooks is well suited for people who are comfortable with accounting software. It is much more useful for certain industries such as manufacturing where there is more of a workflow from manufacturing, shipping, invoicing, receiving payments. Since it is ubiquitous people will find it easier to get support and help with it from sources like accountants or online videos.
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