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

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User Reviews of QuickBooks Premier

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Submitted on January 25th, 2021 by Anonymous

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.

The Good…

Easy to move around the platform.

The Bad…

Inaccurate accounting for manufactures with high inventory turn.

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Submitted on June 3rd, 2019 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on May 7th, 2019 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on December 10th, 2018 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on November 27th, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on November 26th, 2018 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on November 19th, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on November 16th, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on November 13th, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on November 6th, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on October 19th, 2018 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on October 11th, 2018 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on July 16th, 2018 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on May 22nd, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on May 11th, 2018 by Anonymous

Does what its meant to do and attractive price tag

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Submitted on May 4th, 2018 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on March 14th, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on March 9th, 2018 by Anonymous

Great for accounting

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Submitted on March 7th, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on March 7th, 2018 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on March 7th, 2018 by Anonymous

Easy to use solution

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Submitted on March 7th, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on February 26th, 2018 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on February 26th, 2018 by Anonymous

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

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Submitted on February 26th, 2018 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on December 11th, 2017 by R.

Its a great tool to use for Construction

The Good…

the price and the ease of use for each module

The Bad…

it could be a little more detailed regarding customizing your reports

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Submitted on December 11th, 2017 by Anonymous

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.

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Submitted on December 11th, 2017 by Anonymous

Reasonable priced, but it has it’s limitations.

The Good…

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.

The Bad…

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.

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Submitted on August 15th, 2017 by Scott

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

The Good…

Accounting works good

The Bad…

Constant upgrading needed and the cost associated with that

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Submitted on January 1st, 1900 by Anonymous

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