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

Product Overview

QuickBooks Pro Desktop is designed for small businesses by focusing only on essential accounting tasks like reporting and invoicing. Key features include reporting, invoicing, and income and expense tracking. The software also provides basic inventory management tools, allowing users to classify products, track stock levels, and connect items to various accounts.

As an on-premise solution, QuickBooks Pro Desktop requires an up-to-date Windows operating system and Internet Explorer for installation and does not support cloud access.

Pros

  • Cloud or on-premise implementation
  • Includes business management functionality
  • Access to over 100 report templates

Cons

  • Inconsistent pricing
  • Limited customization opportunities
  • Plans can limit users

Target Market

Small business owners who need a comprehensive, locally installed accounting solution with strong reporting and inventory management features.

Not Recommended For

Businesses requiring cloud-based access, industry-specific functionality, or collaboration with more than two other people.

Video Overview

QuickBooks Pro Desktop will no longer be for sale after September 30th.

Integrations

QuickBooks Pro provides small businesses more than 15 integrated business solutions for their business including:

  • Accounting, Online Payroll & Direct Deposit Service
  • Online Banking and Bill Payment
  • Integration with Microsoft Word and Excel
  • The New QuickBooks.com Website
  • One-click Access to Quicken Business CashFinder
  • QuickBooks Training Seminars Support
  • QuickBooks Support Network
  • One-click Access to Ordering QuickBooks Supplies Online
  • One-click Access to QuickBooks Professional Advisors
  • One-click QuickBooks Updates Online
  • Quicken & Quicken Home and Business Conversion
  • TurboTax & TurboTax for Business Integration

Features

Accounts Payable

  • Tracks expenses and categorizes spending.
  • Simplifies sales tax calculations and check printing with batch processing.
  • Features reminders for timely financial obligations and bill payments.

Accounts Receivable

  • Centralizes customer data for efficient tracking and follow-ups.
  • Enables credit card payments and easy invoice creation with customizable templates.
  • Facilitates efficient receivables tracking and customer communication.

General Ledger

  • Offers a consolidated view of financial status, including receivables and payables.
  • Generates over 100 customizable reports with detailed transaction insights.
  • Creates and adjusts budgets based on spending history for financial planning.

Inventory

  • Tracks inventory to prevent overbuying and backorders.
  • Sets automatic reorder alerts for efficient inventory management.

Payroll

  • Manages payroll with accurate tax deductions and direct deposit options.
  • Automates 1099 printing for independent contractors.
  • Integrates payroll management for employee payments.

Purchase Orders

  • Simplifies purchase orders by selecting vendors and inventory items.
  • Automatically matches received inventory to corresponding purchase orders.

Time Tracking

  • Tracks employee time to ensure accurate billing and payroll.
  • Alerts for unbilled time and expenses when creating invoices.
  • Offers Time Tracker subscription for remote time entry and accurate invoicing.
Starting Price
$41 /month
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Pricing Details
Price depends on total users and add-ons

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 Pro Desktop

Anonymous
  • Containers & Packaging
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★
Ease-of-Use
★★★★★
★★★★★
Features
★★★★★
★★★★★

The system is a nightmare

May 31st, 2023 • Product Experience: 2+ years • Role: Purchaser

The system is a nightmare. I was promised Quickbooks had all these various functionalities and it literally has none of them. I can’t pull simple daily reports or more customized reports such as a sales report by part or customer. The invetory is not in real time so my sales team is blind in the field. It also does not show committed inventory unless invoiced. Watching my staff try to input a PO is unbelievable. The whole system is garbage.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★
Features
★★★★★
★★★★★

Integrations

December 21st, 2022 • Product Experience: 1-2 years • Role: End User

I don’t like it but we’re using it now. I’ve tried to get other software companies to do what I need but everything integrates with QuickBooks or Excel. I think QuickBooks does everything except for emails. I’m just going to use it because it does most of everything I want.

Pros

Integrations

Anonymous
  • Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

The cost after 23 years

October 7th, 2021 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I have used an for 23 years with payroll $650.00 a year we renewal is$ 349.00 year I called and asked why they renew every year when I do not use any of the new features and they took over my computer and found a problem that they did not support offered to fix for $ 2.00 to $ 2.80 per mb I had 400 mb $ 800.00 to $ 1120.00 or go to enterprise for 1500.00 quick book tech said it will crash in 3 months or less if I do not pay one of the options someone out there need to know this I have used this product with the invoice forms and the checks and payroll option this year will be if I pay to fix approx $ 2500.00

Cons

The cost after 23 years

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

June 5th, 2021 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Worse money Ive ever spent!!!

Pros

Nothing

Cons

How you spend 400$ for it then they want to charge 600 to learn how to use it.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

August 14th, 2019 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Solution lacks the ability to do job costing, as well as customizable invoices.

Anonymous
  • Metals & Mining
  • 11-50 employees
  • Annual revenue $1M-$10M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

June 10th, 2019 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Quickbooks is very user-friendly. Everyone in the company enjoys using it.

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

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

April 19th, 2019 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Provides erroneous data and customer service charges everytime you call for assistance.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

Every year we have to pay additional money to get our W2’s and are frustrated by this. The system never does what it is supposed to

Anonymous
  • Air Freight & Logistics
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

November 5th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

It’s a great program that does everything we need it to do

Anonymous
  • IT Services
  • 51-250 employees
  • Annual revenue $10M-$50M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

October 30th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

We were unhappy with some of the changes made to the program and the customer support. We are worried about future changes.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

October 18th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

It was limited for inventory management, but in terms of accounting, it did everything we need.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

Quickbooks is not an ideal inventory management program

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

July 5th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Quickbooks is getting outrageously expensive and their payroll services are really messed up which resulted in an IRS audit

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

Using it for a long time. Does everything I need it to do.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Good for general accounting but not for a general contractor

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

Quickbooks Pro is good for general accounting but it’s not a fit for us a general contractor. If you’re looking for a basic way to track expenses and revenue then it works well. However, it doesn’t have cost codes, project tracking, and chart of accounts which we need for drill down reporting.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

Errors in turning estimates into invoices, sometimes it modifies the invoice to a different date and we have to double check everything

Anonymous
  • Health Care Equipment & Supplies
  • 11-50 employees
  • Annual revenue $1M-$10M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

It struggles with invoicing and billing terms that it just won’t do, doesn’t integrate well with banking and causes double entry errors

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

April 25th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

fed up with them, they keep changing everything, have a list of cutomized reports and every time they do an upgrade it messes up all my reports.

Anonymous
  • Specialized Consumer Services
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

April 23rd, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Every month something crashes with this system. Their support takes forever to determine what is wrong and can’t offer any assistance. We pay over $500 a year for this which we think is ridiculous.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

April 18th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Quickbooks feels more like it’s geared towards large businesses, which we are not. The reports are cumbersome to set up and offer more features than we need, such as invoicing.

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

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

April 3rd, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Does not handle as many industries under the system as needed. The home screen has just become obnoxious. There’s so much functionality available that isn’t needed.

Anonymous
  • Diversified Telecommunication Services
  • 1K-5K employees
  • Annual revenue $1B-$10B
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

It’s too expensive they are forcing me to upgrade and it seems just too expensive. The price continues to go up and the functionality doesn’t seem to justify it. We are paying almost $700 per year just for payroll and another $200 for the software

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

We have to manipulate a lot of data in order to get reports

March 21st, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

We have to manipulate a lot of data in order to get reports. What scares me is after we pull a report if the heading is different it pulls up different figures. If we pull by projects and they forget to put or tie it to a vendor then it doesn’t pull

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

Simple to use solution

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Fed up to my teeth with QB

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

Fed up to my teeth with QB. I dislike that the customer service and relationship is very poor all they care about is getting our money and taking care of us is low on the totem pole. For the size of my business QB doesn’t adopt well to our needs. We spend hours on the phone trying to get it worked out and it’s a hassle.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

We use QB Pro Desktop 2012 and it’s a great accounting program. However, we have customers we have to invoice on the spot and QB is very slow at doing that.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

March 8th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I like the functionality and have used Quickbooks for many years, however I am unhappy with their latest version forcing me to use cloud storage.

Anonymous
  • Household Durables
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

March 5th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Bad programming. Multi-user mode creates issues within database.

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

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

March 5th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I have been using this product for many years and I am finally fed up with it, it’s not worth the renewal. The functionality is ok but the service is horrible.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

February 28th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I wanted something simple, the chart of accounts is always messed up for the 5 companies we keep the books for, trying to get a hold of them can be difficult, Quickbooks pro is not a bad program I just want something less complicated

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

This makes it hard to track all costs associated with guest accounts

February 28th, 2018 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I can’t use online invoicing for our guests because we also have a deposit policy. This makes it hard to track all costs associated with guest accounts. Another dislike is we have to have 2 QB accounts, one for us and one for our accountant. This means we have to duplicate the information so he can see it.

Anonymous
  • Internet Software & Services
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

I really like the program because it has all the accounting features we need. We also get excellent local support which is nice. I was fairly new to using it but it was easy to learn.

Anonymous
  • Consumer Goods
  • 51-250 employees
  • Annual revenue $10M-$50M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

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

The software is not user friendly for tracking POs and invoices. There is also limited inventory capabilities which is important to us as a manufacturer.

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

The product is fairly easy to use and online access is a plus

June 19th, 2017 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

The product is fairly easy to use and online access is a plus. I enjoy the peace of mind knowing that everything is backed up in real time, at no additional cost.

Pros

The Online version of QuickBooks pro is a lot of "business" features that I realized we relied on so much with the Desktop version.

Cons

quickibooks pro 2017 feature

Anonymous
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

Loved it till a few days ago

January 27th, 2015 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

I have used quickbooks pro for the past 20 years and have loved it till a few days ago. This product is great for a small business. However if you have a problem you will be waiting on hold for at least 2 hours. I started to use the payroll about 10 months ago as I have always paid out to my employees as sub contractors, after using this product for payroll and deciding did not want it they told they were going to shut down my quickbooks and that I would not be able to use quickbooks pro whatsoever. All I wanted to do was stop the payroll monthly fee as I was not going to be using it anymore. This is terrible. I am running 4 different companies with Quickbooks and now I am shopping for another product other then Quickbooks. Up until yesterday I loved the product and have recommended to all of our business associates. I have on multiple occasions trained people how to use the product but will highly now recommend looking for something other then Quickbooks

Pros

I really liked everything about it till yesterday

Cons

Customer service. Having someone that speaks well. Finding out that if I want to stop a certain service that I cant and they will shut my Quickbooks down

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

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

December 16th, 2013 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

Pros

Exporting reports to Excel is convenient.

Cons

Reports are not very customizable. I would like to be able to manipulate them.

Kieran
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

December 16th, 2013 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

A basic small business accouting program with options for expansion.

Pros

Customer support

Anonymous
  • Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
  • 1-10 employees
  • Annual revenue $0-$1M
Overall
★★★★★
★★★★★

QuickBooks Pro Desktop Review

December 10th, 2013 • Roles: Purchaser & End User

they need to improve their inventory futures

Pros

Billing System

Cons

Inventory

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