An accounting software system for startups and small organizations. The software will no longer be for sale after September 30th.

Product Overview

QuickBooks Desktop Premier is an accounting software for small to medium-sized businesses, offering inventory management, job costing, donation tracking, and advanced reporting. The software supports up to five users and offers both on-premises and cloud-based capabilities.

Pros

  • Customer support community
  • Includes IRS Form 990 tools
  • Industry-specific features for NPOs

Cons

  • Bank reconciliation issues
  • Limited flexibility in reporting
  • Requires on-premise deployment

Target Market

Small to medium-sized businesses, especially those requiring specialized industry features. Ideal for sectors like manufacturing, wholesale, retail, contracting, professional services, and nonprofits.

QuickBooks Premier builds on the sound foundation of QuickBooks Pro, giving users additional industry-specific features. The system is available in a General Business Edition as well as several Editions that provide customized features based on a company’s type.

QuickBooks will no longer sell this software after September 30, 2024.

Key Features

  • Inventory Management: Effectively manage inventory with features like tracking reorder points, categorizing items, and generating reports to identify items that need restocking.
  • Profitability Tracking: Create customized reports to access profitability by product, client, or project.
  • Automated Invoicing and Payment Reminders: Automates invoicing processes and reminds customers of due payments, helping businesses get paid faster.
  • Cash Flow Hub: Enables users to monitor their cash position, including tracking overdue bills, payments, and cash balance trends.
  • Milage Tracking: It has upgraded mileage tracking capabilities that allow users to automatically log business mileage through their phones and desktops.
  • Customizable Reporting: Features over 150 customizable reports. Users can generate detailed insights into different aspects of their business.
  • Multi-User Support: Supports up to 5 users.
Starting Price
$75 /month
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Product Overview

Developer Overview

  • Name Intuit
  • Year Founded 1983
  • Headquarters Mountain View ,California ,USA
  • Type Public (NASDAQ: INTU)
  • Est. Size Over 10k employees
  • Est. Revenue Over $1B

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User Reviews of QuickBooks Premier

Anonymous
  • Building Materials
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Enterprise is easy to use but it does NOT post accurate COGS

January 25th, 2021 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Enterprise is easy to use but it does NOT post accurate COGS to the P&L. It uses “average cost” instead of Bill of Materials total. For a manufacturing company that turns it’s inventory components multiple times annually, average cost is not an accurate reflection of the true cost for all build assemblies.

Pros

Easy to move around the platform.

Cons

Inaccurate accounting for manufactures with high inventory turn.

Anonymous
  • Construction & Engineering
  • 51-250 employees
  • Annual revenue $10M-$50M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

June 3rd, 2019 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

The software is sufficient from an accounting stand point but in terms of construction, it is not able to handle management of larger projects and multiple projects at one time

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

May 7th, 2019 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

The reporting is too stagnant, with little room for manipulation or change.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

December 10th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I don’t like that you have to drill down into the system to find anything associated with the non profit.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

November 27th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

For accounting, it is great. It’s probably a 4 or 5 out of 5. For other functions like bill of materials or material resource planning, it is probably a 1.

Anonymous
  • Construction & Engineering
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

November 26th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Quickbooks is not a project management software. It’s hard to track job to job and profit loss

Anonymous
  • Family Services
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

November 19th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I love Quickbooks. I use an older version so I am shopping around for new options to see what else it out there compared to Quickbooks, but I have always been quite happy with it.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

The solution is ok for basic accounting

November 16th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

The solution is ok for basic accounting but it does not handle industry specific options for my trucking company. I need to determine fuel costs and if we are profitable on some of these trucking jobs. I am not an accountant so I do not know how to customize the program easily.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

November 13th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Quickbooks Premier is not user friendly. We want to be able to track everything on a project by project basis and work up to roughly 500 projects annually varying in size and scope.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

a huge deciding factor for us to purchase this software

November 6th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Generally speaking, someone here in our office is usually helpful enough to handle a QB error and we don’t need phone support. That was a huge deciding factor for us to purchase this software as other software providers charged a lot for phone support.

Anonymous
  • Diversified Consumer Services
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

October 19th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Quickbooks really does not do well with fund accounting and is very slow

Anonymous
  • Industrial Conglomerates
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $1M-$10M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

October 11th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

The solution doesn’t allow us to do any kind of forecasting for material or budgets

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Quickbooks is great when you want to do large job costing

July 16th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Using Premier Manufacturing. Doesn’t do a good job when we want to manage inventory for the different jobs we are doing. Quickbooks is great when you want to do large job costing, but when you try and drill down into a specific job, it doesn’t do a great job of unifying the information on a single job basis

Anonymous
  • Renewable Electricity
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

May 22nd, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Functionally the program is good but I dislike the reporting. As a nonprofit, the reports are generic and don’t allow for customization which makes it difficult when generating P/L and cash flow statements to show categories for grants.

Anonymous
  • Family Services
  • 11-50 employees
  • Annual revenue $1M-$10M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

May 11th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Does what its meant to do and attractive price tag

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

May 4th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Been using nonprofit version. Total pain to use, it doesn’t give us any flexibility in terms of reporting especially within restricted donations. We need something that can truly create sub sections within the chart of accounts

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

March 14th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

For what I do, it’s great, but truth is I use this because my accountant uses it. It’s easy enough to put in all the financials, export and send then to my accountant and not have to worry about it for a few days.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

March 9th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Great for accounting

Anonymous
  • Construction & Engineering
  • 11-50 employees
  • Annual revenue $1M-$10M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

March 7th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Our company owner always has an issue with the billing. We have retainage of 10% not shown on the invoice at all and we can’t do that currently with Quickbooks.

Anonymous
  • Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

March 7th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Everything works fine with Quickbooks but it’s not e-commerce friendly and not a good format for entry for information, given that everything else is good. I wish a customer could view my inventory and have better customer integration

Anonymous
  • Professional Services
  • 11-50 employees
  • Annual revenue $1M-$10M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

March 7th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Easy to use solution

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

March 7th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I love Quickbooks Premier and would not change a thing about it. I’ve used it for years and find it very easy to use and learn.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

February 26th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

There isn’t much that I don’t like about it, but I know that it is old and been around forever and there is something more up to date available, a lot of people don’t like change though

Anonymous
  • Health Care Providers & Services
  • 51-250 employees
  • Annual revenue $10M-$50M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

February 26th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I want the system to be more complex where I can have everything in 1 system, the solution is too basic, it can handle 9 entities but it is too basic. Quickbooks is really friendly and I recommend it for a small company

Anonymous
  • Food Products
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $1M-$10M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

February 26th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

To be honest I hate Quickbooks Premier. I dislike almost everything about it but mostly the payroll. I also need multiple company reporting which it isn’t able to do.

R.
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

December 11th, 2017 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Its a great tool to use for Construction

Pros

the price and the ease of use for each module

Cons

it could be a little more detailed regarding customizing your reports

Anonymous
  • Construction & Engineering
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Had already used QB and upgraded to Premier

December 11th, 2017 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Had already used QB and upgraded to Premier to handle our job costing. We still just use a regular spreadsheet for our job costing. The functionality showed to us by the vendor did not work out the way we wanted. We will continue to look at outside job costing solutions that integrate in with QB rather than try to have the program handle it ourselves.

Anonymous
  • Construction & Engineering
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Reasonable priced, but it has it's limitations

December 11th, 2017 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Reasonable priced, but it has it’s limitations.

Pros

My provider was at least helpful and able to teach me about Excel spreadsheet work-arounds. It's easy to use and I've used it for 12 years, so I am an old user.

Cons

I hate the cashflow projections. It sucks, and it is not useful. It is pointless. That is the main thing. I need to do cashflow projections 6-8 months ahead. I am in construction and we work on long timeframes. That is what I mostly wanted to find in a different program but I can't find anything out there.

Scott
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

August 15th, 2017 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Love the product but the lack of service and constant updated without fixing everything is driving me away from INTUIT

Pros

Accounting works good

Cons

Constant upgrading needed and the cost associated with that

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Premier Review

January 1st, 1900 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Total pain to use, it doesn’t give us any flexibility in terms of reporting especially within restricted donations. We need something that can truly create sub sections within the chart of accounts