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QuickBooks Desktop
What Is QuickBooks Desktop?
QuickBooks Desktop is an accounting software that helps businesses manage their finances. Key features include automated bookkeeping, customizable financial reporting, integrated invoicing and payments, sales tax calculations, and payroll management.
Who Uses QuickBooks Desktop?
QuickBooks Desktop caters to businesses across multiple industries.
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Reviews of QuickBooks Desktop
Virtual accountant
Comments: I have a very good experience it was easy to use and understand and I enjoyed having my very own personal accountant in my pocket when ever I needed one
Pros:
I loved using quick books because it offers so many services that help me lessen administration on the financial side mostly because accounting was never my strong point. I enjoyed using quickbooks because it did not require alot of training or previous experience to use it, it is simple and easy. I would do alot of my invoices on excel and loved that I could export all of my invoicing onto quickbooks with ease. I love that it made my financial nightmare of always having to call clients to remind them of payment and quickbooks made it easy with their payment reminder services. I enjoyed using quickbooks because it was designed for small businesses like mine and provides so many essential services needed to ensure your accounting is kept up to date with very little effort. It was an easy program to intergrate with my existing programs and gives various different options including an online version which I found very helpful when I was on the move and could use it on my phone,they also offer a cloud service which allows me to be able to access my information from where ever I am and the remote function helps me remote in to help me fix any problems my employees might of had and quickbooks customer service was amazing they were always available to help whether it was on site help or online.
Cons:
There is nothing that I could say I like the least but I was sad when quick books decided to stop the point of sale service it was a great help for printing receipts. And I would love for quick books to bring back the point of sale service
most popular accounting software / international applicability
Comments: All good but for medium sized businesses. If you are growing fast some capabilities could be missing.
Pros:
It is affordable for medium sized businesses and do not need high infrastructure costs. It has high lerning curve, so it is easy to hire people who knows it. QB desktop can be set even with help of in-house team. Priced moderately and do not need specific trainings. Has connectivity to the most popular payrol solution providers (Bamboo etc.) and banks.
Cons:
Not very efficient inventory tool, just accounting so it is needed is you operate large item volume to get additional inventory management solution. Good to have build in payrol solution to reduce license costs. It is needed industry specific packages f.e. construction to get field operations and efficient estimate creation tools. Sometimes is unstable during import of inventory data and needs more offering for RPA and dashboard creation. No IFRS specific reports.
Would Choose a Different Program
Comments: QuickBooks Desktop is great for simple things like A/R and A/P. If I could start over, I would not use any of the inventory options. The price continues to go up with less benefits of the program each year. When issues are reported among users, it takes years to resolve them. Customer support is not very helpful most of the time on the phone. There are very few resources for learning more about how the program works if you are unfamiliar.
Pros:
QuickBooks Desktop is easy to use and relatively intuitive one you learn the ropes.
Cons:
The inventory system for QuickBooks is horrendous and difficult to wrap your head around. The system crashes or "aborts" often and there are numerous glitches.
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Overall a good program for small business but expensive
Comments: Overall, I like the program and find it one of the better ones for small business but it is pricey and service is not the best.
Pros:
I like the ease of being able to have multiple accounts at the touch of your fingertips. It is also pretty easy to set up and maintain.
Cons:
The cost is high for a small business. And, service has been very difficult at times. I tried to switch to on-line and it was a nightmare and then going back to desk top was also a nightmare. My recommendations is to stick with one and make sure you back up often.
Quickbooks is a great tool for small businesses
Comments: Most small business owners that I know use Quickbooks and my bookeeper is most familiar with this type of accounting software. The wide use speaks volumes.
Pros:
I’ve been using Quickbooks over 10 years and the company I took over had been using it over a decade as well. I had never worked with an accounting program beforehand. I was surprised the ease of getting set up and making changes along with reports to run.
Cons:
My disadvantage is of importing from Shopify to Quickbooks. Maybe I’m not familiar on how to do it or if I need to get an app to make a smooth import.
