Make QB Enterprise a Modern Cloud Solution by Choosing a Great Hosting Partner!
Updated April 15, 2025

Make QB Enterprise a Modern Cloud Solution by Choosing a Great Hosting Partner!

Angela Meharg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

Enterprise is good value in the lower tier of comprehensive accounting systems. When well configured, it is excellent for manufacturing and wholesale users. While we don't use it ourselves any longer, we help other businesses that use QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise by designing custom reports that are not available within the application. This minimizes the need to export reports to Excel and cobble and reformat for the desired output.

Pros

  • Best value for the price point compared to alternatives.
  • Fairly easy to set up.
  • Automatic double-sided transaction entries.
  • Lots of Custom Fields (user-defined fields).
  • Lots of great integrated apps available to extend functionality.
  • Manufacturing and Construction-related industries

Cons

  • Files are easily corrupted - without being obvious to the users.
  • Intuit's minimum hardware requirements are insufficient for multi-user environments.
  • It's a challenge to access the data to use outside the application for other purposes.
  • With some integrated applications, we've turned it into a very decent ERP at a fraction of the cost.
We can add user licenses at any time - and we can also use an integrated application to AVOID having to add users yet still give non-accounting users access to the data that is critical to performing their work. We also chose a fantastic hosting partner to put Enterprise in the cloud - it keeps it much safer and makes it possible for people to work from wherever they need to be.
I came to the organization after it was rolled out so I can't really reflect on this question.
There is a tremendous community built up around QuickBooks - so much knowledge to tap into. There are Facebook groups that have been a goldmine for answering questions that help solve quite a number of puzzles about QuickBooks - and our processes and workflow.
If you need lots of custom fields (e.g. more than three), you want to manage inventory within QuickBooks, or you want to track Landed Costs, QB Online is not a tool for you. Enterprise functionality has been around for years and it's solid. It will be many years before the Online version will match the features that Enterprise has.
QuickBooks is very flexible and forgiving. If you have solid IT help, have a clear understanding of how to set up meaningful Charts of Accounts and Items, and know what you want OUT of your system, it's fantastic. The flexible-and-forgiving part also makes it easy to mess things up. I highly recommend finding highly qualified, specialized help for setting it up properly. I've seen some brilliant and innovative ways to use it, particularly for Manufacturing and Inventory, and Job Costing for Construction related industries.

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Feature Ratings

8.1
Accounts payable
9
Accounts receivable
9
Cash management
7
Bank reconciliation
8
Expense management
7
Time tracking
9
Fixed asset management
9
Multi-currency support
9
Multi-division support
9
Regulations compliance
6
Electronic tax filing
6
Global Financial Support
8
Intercompany Accounting
8
Localizations
8
Journals and Reconciliations
9
Configurable Accounting
9
8.7
Inventory tracking
9
Location management
9
Manufacturing module
8
8.8
Pricing
8
Order entry
9
Credit card processing
9
Cost of goods sold
9
Order Orchestration
9
9.0
Pay calculation
9
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Salary revision and increment management
Not Rated
5.0
Dashboards
7
Standard reports
7
Custom reports
1
9.0
Plug-ins
9
9.0
Role-based user permissions
9

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