QuickBooks Gets Invoicing, Resale of Products Done

I use QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise for two businesses. The first uses it exclusively for client management, book-keeping, and to sync up with TurboTax. It does what we need it to do for this in-person, geographically-centered business.

For the other business, we use QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise only to create invoices for clients who prefer to pay by check rather than using online payments. This is because we do not prefer the QuickBooks interface for online payments since most clients who want to do online payments do not want to use the QuickBooks option. It is good for what we need it to do to for creating invoices in this business.

The key problems that it addresses are how to create professional, branded invoices for clients that aren't co-branded with the processor's details (like PayPal). It allows both businesses to do this and track payments for clients we issue invoices to.

For the in-person business, we sync our bank accounts with the software to allow for up-to-date information transfer. This is helpful to be sure that everything is tracked as it should be.

Both of my businesses have experienced growth over the last seven years although I doubt that QuickBooks has directly impacted that. As far as supporting our growth, it works as well now as it did when we started seven years ago. There are not any features that we're utilizing now that we weren't when we first started, so although this works it hasn't been a major player in supporting our business growth.

It was quite simple to install and get started with using. It took me a while to get used to how to create an invoice or how to account and then how to input items that we'd purchased online which went into repairs AND that same item needed to be included on an invoice for clients. Although that process took some time, I've tried other systems and the learning curve is similar. I don't believe QuickBooks Desktop is better as far as simplicity of how the system is constructed/how easy it is to learn. It seems on par with others in the field.

I didn't not expect to be able to include a tax on some items (those that we buy then resell) and not others, like our services. Where we're based, we don't charge tax on services but we do on items resold. I did not expect that it would sync with TurboTax, since they're both owned by Intuit, and that is a plus for both of my businesses.