QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

The system is a good general accounting program but once you begin requiring industry specific requirments, the system begins to fracture. As a construction company we need to assure all of our expenses are mapped correctly across different projects. The system would show that it was mapped to an account but when you would go and look, the line item would not be there. I spend hours analyzing the different accounts, trying to map all the items correctly. The support around the system is also frustrating. I have called numerous times but they are never able to help.

The system and support have been slowly going downhill. They also continue to raise their prices; it no longer seems like they want to work with small businesses. When I call for support issues, I have to wait usually an hour to speak to someone. At that point, I was already frustrated, and more often than not, the person was not knowledgeable enough to help me. I had an issue with my time tracking recently, and it took DAYS to resolve. I cannot run a business using such an unreliable system.

I have been a Quickbooks user for 20+ years and have never had an issue with it, but as of late, every time they do an update, all of my data gets moved around. The last update, I had to search five different areas to find various PO’s. My register is also off. With another update pending, I am refusing the update and I now stand the risk of losing my login. I have had to search to find a new solution to assure I can keep my business running.

Quickbooks is good as an accounting software but once you begin trying to make it work across specifics industries, it begins to fracture. We are a steel manufacturer and the system struggles with any type of inventory planning. We also have trouble tracking the costs of raw material. I would go as far as saying that we have no way to truly track or understand the cost of material in the system. At this point we have a slew of spreadsheets trying to keep us efficient.

The enteprise version is a robust accounting tool but it is not set up to support a government contractor. To have it work to meet federal cost accounting requirments, you either need add-on tools or be willing to commit a great deal of time for manul processes. My biggest issue is being able to split expense line items by percentage to allocate across several projects. It allows me to list the expense, but I have no way of committing percentages. I have had to use Excel to track the expenses.

The Enterprise version is a very economical system for small to medium-sized organizations. However, once a company starts expanding, the system begins showing it’s limitations. Our company exceeded it’s allowable file size and we have been paying to shrink our file data every few years. Though the software is economical, we have began to question if there may be a more stable software for our data, even if we have to pay more.

The software is great to help a small business develop but once we began really expanding, the software actually severely began limiting us. It isn’t a true ERP, rather requiring add-ons to have it meet specific industry needs. As a manufacturer and distributor, we were not accurately tracking material or production schedules and the CRM/sales modules were severely lacking. We had to make the decision to move off of the software to assure we could meet our 5 year growth plan.

Our compnay, after expanding locations, required multi-entity accounting. We are using one of the more basic QuickBooks versions and explored moving to their Enterprise. The system was great for the multi-entity requirement but did not offer automation for intecompany transactions. I was not able to map the expenses for automation, rather left with manually mapping the transactions across entities. This was not conducive to an effective workflow and we have had to look outside QuickBooks.

We are a specialty contractor using the Enterprise Contractor edition.The software works fine; it’s okay. It does the basics of what we need it to do but still leaves us with manual tasks. Our industry specific needs such as job costing and coding and budget tracking per job, the software lacks. As a growing business, the software will get us by but it is not great at meeting indivdualized project needs.

With the recent update, the payroll structure was changed. In the past, we had control over the payroll but now it is pulled into Intuit. However they are not able to consolidate the records for multiple state taxes. I used to be able to tag multiple employees with different states and it would calculate the report. Without the ability to consolidate, support has advised me to run multiple payroll cycles. This is time consumng and not efficient!

As our business grew, the software was not able to keep up. The inventory module is cumbersome and very slow. Because it does not integrate with our quoting software, we have a great deal of double entry. We also are about to double our user count and we are not sure the system will be able to handle the added users. The system is not equipped to handle medium to larger enterprises.

The system worked okay in some areas but when it came to the payroll, we ran into some serious issues. When calculating payroll, the software was not calculating the taxes correctly. In one profile, the taxes would report accurately but in creating a separate report, there would be missing taxes and the system would throw them into suspense. Despite reaching out for support the problem has remained.

We are using the Manufacturing edition on Enterprise and with every upgrade, our system is changed and messed up. We have customized the software to meet our needs but those customization are altered with the updates. Our categories are constantly changed and any time I want to find a PO, I need to search 5 different locations because the historical data is constantly being moved.

Quickbooks Enterprise handles the accounting well but for the supply component of our business, we struggle to make it work. We ship hundreds of orders per a month and trying to create a shipping label from the software is a night mare. We also have to invoice each line indivdually instead of being able to combine line items. We have a great deal of Excel sheets to try to operate the business efficiently using the software.

The software is not equipped to efficiently handle a mid-sized, growing business. We house multiple entites under our umbrellla, needing to track them separately and then consolidate for reporting. Quickbooks is not able to efficinently process the reporting. To have any reports we have been forced to use a string of Excel sheets with a great deal of import/export processes. Overall it is not a great fit for a growing business.

It works great as an accounting solution but does not suffice to support the needs of a contractor

There is no forecasting tool in terms of manufacturing

The software has difficulty handling all of our company locations as separate entities and a lot of manual data entry has to be done to record our payroll entries and basically any outside solutions we use because QuickBooks can’t handle the full needs of our enterprise. We have outgrown this solution.

Quickbooks Enterprise is a great financial platform and does everything I need there. It doesn’t handle production well for manufacturing, but I wouldn’t replace it for the accounting

Quickbooks doesn’t allow me to do consolidated systems and I feel the system is maxed out

Quickbooks has been a pain. We had to use an advanced inventory add-on to meet our needs. It crashes all the time, it’s complicated. We pay an IT guy to keep us up and running because I don’t have the time to sit in a server room for 6 hours to make it work. Quickbooks just shut us down this morning and kept us hostage for money, $4,740/year to keep our service going.

The internal controls are very lacking and I don’t like them. Quickbooks tends to get very weird with dates, closing the month out

It’s limiting in terms of projecting budgets and profitability, we develop our own software and it’s not condusive to integrating with other solutions that are built

QuickBooks is the best platform that help to streamline all the vital tasks of the business ranging from finances, payroll, purchasing to sales.

It’s good but at some point it becomes so easy to manipulate and need something with a few more options. We are concerned that we will outgrow it. We need better inventory control than it can offer

The reporting is so limited that I have to merge multiple reports because I can’t get the information I want into a report format

We’ve been with Quickbooks for 22 years, but it’s gotten to where it’s not user friendly and has a lot of glitches.

Great for accounting but lacks the order management feature we need.

Good solution but does not offer modules we need.

Feeling like they are forcing us to go to the cloud, they are shutting off features since I bought the software a few years ago. I can no longer email out of Quickbooks or use the FedEx shipping integrator

We’re okay with it but our database gets very extensive because we maintain purchasing records for all customers for years and it is slowing down the system.

The accounting parts are great, but the reporting from sales reports to dashboards to provide quick data analysis are issues. The inventory solutions are poor on the part size

I feel that we have outgrown the solution and that it doesn’t meet our needs any longer. We need a solution that can handle all 3 business entities in 1 unified solution.

What I would like to improve is the integration of purchasing to accounting. Project Management integration is lacking as is the estimating

it’s fine and I like it but they recently jacked the price up almost 100%

The only thing that I don’t like is that the customization of the solution and being able to do drop down menu’s in templates, When you add items to the class section you can add and classify and create reports based on a class, We need to be able to run more custom reports on class sections and options. The system also doesn’t allow me to do bulk pricing

It’s expensive and clunky, we don’t want to micromanage our inventory, everyone knows how to use the system which is a big advantage

There is a lot of moving parts and cost centers and it’s tough to manage all the data and journal entries. It works for now and keeps the books, I just think what we are wanting to grow Quickbooks will not be the best in terms of metric analysis and data we would need access to

Quickbooks was fine, until our management started needing real-time data, and our contracts were becoming more and more complicated. Multiple cost centers is an issue, and so is central management of time/expense

Wonderful, I like it very much.

The solution did not satisfy us compared to the QB Online.

A supposedly easy to use accounting software package.

QB Enterprise allows for tracking your accounting needs at a cost that is much less than a number of other solutions.