QB Enterprise is a great choice
Updated June 27, 2022
QB Enterprise is a great choice
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise
Great product. With its little brother, QuickBooks Desktop scales from 1 user to 30 users. Handles small through medium-sized companies plus some very large organizations. Easier to implement than, say Dynamics GP. The ongoing cost of ownership is reasonable. Provides most organizations with needed functionality. Has useful add-ins for specific needs. Overall, very competitive in a tough market.
- Easy to format and modify account numbers.
- Customer billing and collections are easy to customize for user needs.
- Inventory offers both standard and advanced capabilities.
- Payroll can be done in house or using 3rd party vendors.
- Enterprise had excellent user support in a universe dominated by QuickBooks users.
- Despite a more advanced database used in Enterprise, large transaction counts may slow processing.
- Advanced financial statement presentation may require either their Financial Statement Writer module, advanced Excel spreadsheets, or other 3rd party products.
- Unique inventory builds may require third party products such as FishBowl.
- My Company both uses and supports QBDE. It has been a key driver of new business.
- ROI is very high as a Intuit ProAdvisor.
- Having supported both Dynamics GP (for over 25 years) and QBDE (for its entire life), I can unequivocally say, QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is the accounting package to use for growing enterprises in a wide range of industries.
In my practice, QBDE has provided my practice with all the functionality needed for a successful and growing practice. As I have implemented QBDE in a wide variety of industries, the product offerings have sped past nearly all customers growing needs.
QBDE can be used within days of installation. The users' needs for the chart of accounts, customer and vendor data must be carefully planned and tested in practice companies prior to the final conversion. If historical data from GL, AR, AP, PR, and inventory must be transitioned, then complexity rises significantly. Customers must be involved during this implementation process to ensure that their processes are preserved or improved.
The ability to drill down from financial statements to editing specific transactions is awesome. Yes, the feature has been copied in other products. Still awesome. The ability to edit and remove posted transactions is useful. The products have appropriate safeguards to detect and prevent unauthorized use of this powerful tool.
GP may be appropriate for very large organizations requiring strict audit controls. Having supported the product since its Version 1 days, I found it to be clunky, slow, and bug-riddled in its early days. Today, after many upgrades, it is fine, but it is saddled with 25-year-old technology. Once QD Desktop was released, quickly became the standard, and its big brother, QBD Enterprise was released. I moved ALL, yes, ALL of my Dynamics GP customers to QBDE.
Do you think QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise's feature set?
Yes
Did QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise again?
Yes