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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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Popular Features

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  • Accounts payable (107)
    9.7
    97%
  • Bank reconciliation (108)
    9.7
    97%
  • Accounts receivable (109)
    7.5
    75%
  • Standard reports (108)
    7.5
    75%

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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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What is QuickBooks Online?

QuickBooks Online is a SaaS version of the QuickBooks product. It contains all of the features found in the local version. Higher-priced plans include greater automation, payment management, inventory and time tracking, and analytics features.

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Sage 100 (or Sage 100cloud is a business management software offering a broad range of modules designed to meet the many needs of virtually any business. It encompasses financial operations and accounting, payroll, business intelligence, CRM, eBusiness, manufacturing and distribution.

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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 7.5

Customization

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

7.9
Avg 7.1

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.

8.5
Avg 8.0

Reporting & Analytics

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

8.4
Avg 7.6

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

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

8
Avg 7.4

Inventory Management

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

6.7
Avg 7.0

Order Management

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

7.3
Avg 7.4
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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 Pay calculation and Salary revision and increment management highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of QuickBooks Desktop Pro are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks is perfect for small businesses. As I mentioned earlier, a lot of times, managers in small businesses wear many hats and knowing your financial software is easy to use, affordable and dependable is essential to running a successful business. In addition, as a government contractor, QuickBooks allows us to structure our accounting procedures in ways that are acceptable for reporting certain things to the government and do it effortlessly. There are many features within QuickBooks Pro that small business probably doesn't need or use, however, it's great to know they are there if we were to use them (i.e. budgeting features).
Jonathan Thommarson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks is great for small businesses. I am sure that large companies could benefit from it as well. It provides all of the tools and more for my business and has plenty of features that help me manage my books well.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks is well suited if you need a platform that can controll all of your bookwork and office work. If you want things to be in one place and easy then use QuickBooks. It might not be best suited for someone in a smaller company or who works by themselves. It would work no problem but you may find yourself not using a lot of what is there to offer.
Katie Rubalcaba | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Christy Moonan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 08, 2016

QuickBooks Pro Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Most of our clients are very happy using QuickBooks Pro, as it is a straight forward and reliable program. And it is also well suited for most industries, with a few exceptions of where our clients need to turn to alternate software because QuickBooks Pro is missing the functionality that they need.
December 23, 2015

Bookkeeping Ease

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

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.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If someone cannot use standard cost for inventory they will have a problem. Also, if the client wants fairly sophisticated job costing we recommend Enterprise. I find that QuickBooks is good for the majority of our small business clients.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 30, 2015

Pro on Pro

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[Suitability depends on] a client's attention to maintaining the books and records. If they aren't interested they are better suited to finding someone who can handle this aspect for them and then utilize the reports to help run their business.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
John Walczak CPA CFE | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Any situation with large customer databases or significant inventory are not well suited to QuickBooks Pro. Large customer databases will quickly use up the "items" in QuickBooks. Once an item is used (name, inventory piece, etc) it is gone forever, even if the item is deleted in QuickBooks. Inventory management in Pro is not very powerful, but for the low price, you cannot expect much.
Judy Berkley, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Jim Bird | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QuickBooks Pro is very well suited for the small employer with 1-25 employees where you need a basic set of financial statements and do not want a high level accountant working in your bookkeeping area.
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