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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.

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 7.6

Inventory Management

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

6.1
Avg 7.5

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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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QuickBooks Pro is a User Friendly Accounting Software

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 11, 2019
DJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
15 years of experience
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.).
Cons
  • 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.
QuickBooks is a great software for someone that is new to an accounting software because it gives you the flexibility to fix any mistakes that you make without a lot of fuss. In my full time, I work for an organization with over 10,000 people and I don't feel that QuickBooks would be well received because of the ability for people to make changes without approval. The accounting software that I use on my full time job has more restriction than QuickBooks but that is fine for my full time job. My side work doesn't require that much restriction so QuickBooks is perfect for me.

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!

QuickBooks Pro- Friendly for both Business and their Accountants

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 26, 2016
KR
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
6 years of experience
At my previous job as a tax accountant I was helping my clients with their QuickBook Pro accounts, reviewing it, etc., or helping new clients set up a brand new account using QuickBooks Pro. I helped them with the basics of setting up the Chart of Accounts, Customers, Employees, Vendors, etc. I was also creating and reviewing reports and saving them as favorites and showing them how to filter on reports. I was creating journal entries, writing checks and creating SO and POs, etc. - the day to day process of any business.
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.
Cons
  • 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.
QuickBooks Pro is great for small businesses that don't have a lot of daily transactions or can lump a lot of their transactions into one. It is also user friendly and there are a lot of videos that are helpful when first starting. Once you get the initial items set up, the day to day process is a breeze.

QuickBooks Pro

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 10, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
7 years of experience
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
Cons
  • 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.
QuickBooks Pro is well suited for companies of any size and can even work for companies that manage multiple entities separately or related to each other. QuickBooks Pro is also well suited for the tracking or bank transactions and management of accounts receivable and accounts payable as well as inter company accounts and depreciation

QuickBooks - #1 for Small Business!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 06, 2015
JB
Vetted Review
Verified User
QuickBooks Desktop Pro
16 years of experience
We use QuickBooks for all accounting functions of our company, with the exception of payroll. In the past, we have used the payroll module, but currently we are using ADP as our payroll service provider. It addresses all of our current accounting situations and concerns.
  • Costing - We use the class codes to account for government grants and research projects
  • Accounts Payable - Very simple and easy to use
  • Reports - Customizable and very easy to run
Cons
  • Manufacturing - keeping up with costs (possibly another version does this better)
  • Reports - history on invoices (A/P and A/R) - wish some historical info on invoices was easier to capture in a report format
  • Bank Reconciliations - I use to be able to print several previous recons - no longer - do not like not being able to do this
I think it is best suited to businesses who are simple and have limited costing situations. Also, it is best to have someone with a healthy knowledge of accounting using it and closing the books each month. QuickBooks is so user friendly, it is easy to mess up for those without adequate accounting knowledge, and therefore it requires accounting discipline running it.
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