Quick overview for those who have questions or concers if you should purchase Enterpirse Solutoins Edition
Overall Satisfaction with QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions
I have been using QuickBooks for over 10 years and currently using QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Manufacturing and Wholesale 15.0 for our financial and accounting software within our business. We are a information technology and service company with nearly 1,000 active customers. We have over six active users in QuickBooks starting with our officers, billing department, and the procurement and financial department. As the financial coordinator I am a certified ProAdvisor as well. Enterprise Solutions has the highest number of users allowed with many other multiple features including advanced inventory and handles over $1 million per year in sales. What I like about the Enterprise Solutions Edition is the class tracking which allows you to produce a more detailed Profit & Loss, FIFO Inventory method, Inventory Assembly and Find and Select Items within Advanced Inventory. You can also create Debit and Credit Journal Entries for your accounting purposes. You can manage fixed assets, create purchase orders and sales orders and use the Sales Order Fulfillment Worksheet and track serial numbers or lot tracking for inventory parts. On a day to day basis I am constantly running financial reports, adjusting invoices and entering parts purchases. Many reports are created from Open Purchase Orders and Sales Orders to a Collection Report. This edition is very user friendly but does have a few things that would make my world easier if these features were added e.g., making changes in the Chart of Accounts/Item List without having to go into Single User Mode. This step requires all users to be logged out. There are just a few small issues that eventually Intuit will more than likely fix as they hear more concerns.
- Class Tracking - allows you to produce a more detailed Profit & Loss Report
- Advanced Inventory - keeps track of your inventory along with Fixed Assets
- Sales Tax - Paying sales tax with the Sales Tax Liability Report gives you the breakdown of the different fields the State Tax Department requires
- Chart of Accounts - When updated or changing an account code, it automatically changes the history of all the entries made in lieu of manually changing all entries
- Home screen - It is mapped out for you to enter your business entries clearly
- Reconcile - Reconciling the bank statements is very eary
- Making changes in the Chart of Accounts or Items Lists sometimes require you to be in Single User Mode. Also, merging a contact name (customer or vendor) requires this as well. If QuickBooks fixed it where you do not have to go into Single User Mode I could get more thing accomplished at one time
- Running reports - Custom Report field needs more detailed or user friendly fields to create reports that are not generally created along with color coded charts per customer etc
- Entering credit card payments that are tagged to a Purchase Order; the steps are confusing. Had to watch a video to figure out how to tie the two steps together.
- Has increased efficiency when creating batch invoices
- Able to give better customer service when email statements and invoices to customers
- Produces quick standard reports
The only other software program I have used is Quicken and it is not at all effective within the size company I work for. We have inventory, billing, customer/vendor/employee fields and multiple bank accounts including credit card accounts. QuickBooks tracks all these fields and you can run a report on about anything for your CPA. Profit & Loss Reports, Balance Sheet Reports and Standard Cashflow Reports for Owner/Officers forecast and budgets/
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Feature Ratings
Using QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions
6 - This is used by our Billing Coordinator, 2 Procurement Coordinators, Financial Coordinator and 3 Officers. This is the meat and potatoes functioning when running the company. We quote, order, bill and receive all under this edition. We also budget and forecast the future holdings of the business. We can also see what group/team produces the most revenue and who is falling short.
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Implementation
- Implemented in-house