QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Reviews: 4.2/5 — Solid Choice

The thing I like the best about QuickBooks is the ease of use of the system but that is probably about as much as I can say that I like about it.

I dislike the inventory control features in the system and how difficult that one module is to operate. It is supposed to have serial number functionality but trying to use if for such is next to impossible!

None...in fact we are in the process of migrating everything out of Quickbooks and into NetSuite OneWorld so that we have all of our companies in one location.

Easy to use and integrates with a lot of point of sale solutions. It also is very easy to setup accounts and sub accounts when configuring the chart of accounts for your business. Integration with online bank feeds is helpful, though it still has plenty of error messages even when it is working correctly.

Combining reports from multiple companies is very difficult and slow. It still has many bugs that can cause random error messages to occur.

It allows us to review and reconcile activity at our shops and create financial statements

Excellent support. They will help you deploy it.

The price. I helped purchase this for another company who only needed to add more than 5 users, mainly to create estimates and control inventory. They didn't need all of the other options. Luckily, it was a large enough company so they could absorb the cost.

Inventory, payroll, estimates, invoicing.

It’s easy to learn to use and very user friendly

Some processes could be improved for specific tasks with AR

Helps process AP and AR and reporting

The cost is reasonable and there are various levels of support based on your company needs. It is fairly user friendly and works well for multiple users who need access to the same data.

I find it difficult to get some of the reports I would like to see without multiple steps rather than direct access

We use quick books for all of our accounting needs both payables, receivables as well as payroll.

I like the Flexible options within the application. We've been able to set it up to provide the functionality we require to accurately input and track orders and sales. It generates important reports, allows controlled access as well as multiple users. We can also access multiple companies, handy for tracking inter-company transactions. Finally, it will grow with us. We don't see a near term need to move to a more expensive platform.

The graphics make for a slow response time. Because of this, we've only moved 2 of our 4 companies onto this platform. We've remained on Quickbooks Pro multi-user for the other 2 companies.

It helps us track inventory, invoicing and purchases.

It is very cost effective for us as a nonprofit.

It is very hard effectively manage a large number of funds.

Having a all in one Finance and accounting solution.

For a person not particularly well versed in accounting the software is fairly straight forward. The software well organizes the information you give in a user-friendly fashion.

For two years I worked in an engineering company's accounting office where QuickBooks was used to maintain records. As an accounting staff I was responsible for producing reports, making journal entries, entering new clients, updating records, and occasionally producing financial statements. My experience is this: for a person not particularly well versed in accounting the software is fairly straight forward (as stated above). However, for an accountant the software limits the ability to customize. As well in my experience, there were 1 too many times the software had glitches and we had to contact the customer service line to get assistance and correct a problem. Specifically, there was 1 day where I got into work and didn't have access to the software for 4 hours which is a major inefficiency in an accounting department.

I am reading this as "what did you use the software for, and did it help you?" In my use, the business used QuickBooks to solve the issue of organizing clientele records, invoice/accounts payable records, projects, employee time cards, reports. The benefits were many - the software did what we needed it to do. In retrospect, I wish it did more than just that. But the software does exactly what it says it will do for your business.

We have used Quickbooks daily for years, and is very easy to use. Love all the different features it offers. We also do our payroll through quickbooks, and love the quicker direct deposits that quickbooks offers, unlike other payroll programs

It's always challenging find the correct report that I want, but creating your own reports has proven to be fairly easy to do, so theres that. Our biggest dislike now, is that they've gone to yearly subscription only when you purchase the desktop version. What used to be very budget friendly for small start up businesses, not so much anymore.

So far the only issue we've encountered was with our payroll services, somehow our company file got corrupted and it wouldn't send direct deposits, quickbooks helped us work through fixing the problem so we could process our payroll and send the direct deposits

Quickbooks desktop enterprise is best for its accounting and reporting software and how forgiving it is. The reporting is robust and customizable which is nice when you want to make it the way you like to see it.

This is not so much a dislike but can be a very big con, is that, because it is so forgiving, anything can be changed and manipulated within quickbooks, which means you will always have to be careful and mindful of the course of action that you take.

Currently, quickbooks desktop enterprise is not solving any problems or benefiting our company in any capacity as we have now switched over to Oracle Netsuite, which is an ERP system.

It's easy to navigate, and the drill-down feature is very useful. Posting journal entries is a very simple process.

Producing consolidated financial statements was incredibly time-consuming and inefficient. There was also a lack of internal controls, as posted journal entries could simply be overwritten or even deleted.

We ultimately decided to migrate away from QuickBooks due to the complexities of our business and legal structure. Prior to our large growth, QuickBooks was a suitable tool for our accounting and bookkeeping.

Ease of use. The home tab has all the shortcuts to the basic accounting functions.

Not easy to connect with bank and cc for auto synchronisation of transactions as compared with QB Online.

Doing banks and credit card Reconciliation like a pro and the reports list is enough to review the books of accounts.

It does do bookkeeping well. At least thats what the accountants tell me. It is a proven product with a solid set of accounting and bookkeeping features. It does fund-based accounting which is essential to our business.

It is not a product that integrates with anything else. Reporting is very limited. It only runs on Windows. There is not a cloud version (you can host Windows in a cloud environment and run QuickBooks on the virtual machine, but thats a lot more expensive and complicated than cloud-based software as service. Perhaps most of all...Intuit. They are just not a great software company. Several bad updates and of course some real screw-ups over the years

Our critical accounting is done using QuickBooks. It does accurately get the job done. We can get basic reports. But beyond the essentials, we have not had many benefits.

Incredible platform with the ability to do it everything. It's a one stop accounting software and the integrations with other tools is increasing all the time.

Customer service is some of the worst I've ever experienced. I'm continuously disappointed by the lack of response. When I do get a response, it's typically not as helpful as I'd like for it to be. They don't really seem interested in helping customers. If they're not selling me something, they're not engaged.

Really all accounting components. Cash flow, net income, accounts receivable and payable. It's all good stuff as long as you know what you're doing.

Easy to learn, efficient accounting for business. I used this for a small bookkeeping firm and used the many version that were published. Would recommend for similar businesses like that one.

Slow, not very broad, too basic and limited in what it could do. I felt that learning many of the functions took a while, however it was easy to master once familiar with it.

Bookkeeping, Accounting and finance. It was a quick and effective way to book journal entries, hence the name. Would use in the future for small business uses.

According to softwareconnect.com, QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions offers the most comprehensive business management tools for growing businesses with up to 30 simultaneous users. Enterprise Solutions allows you to customize any of the 120+ built-in Reports and forms to look the way you want. My business uses Quickbooks everyday and it has been easy for us to navigate through.

I dislike the online help and agents we come into contact with, it seems like they are always unsure what the solution is and just tell us things we already know. It has happened once or twice where we will be in the program and it will just automatically shut down. We are not sure why this is. But for the most part, it is a good Enterprise and has served us good in the long run.

Not much. It's easy to navigate.

Quickbooks is a very useful tool for performing accounting/financial functions for a small to midsize accounting department. It is useful in creating ledger enteries, examining transactions, and assisting with month-end close.

Quickbooks is not as functional for larger accounting departments and becomes less useful as the scale of the accounting tasks increases. Higher volume requires a more substantive ERP system.

Quickbooks was used to perform daily accounting functions and processes within the accounting department. It was also used for financial tasks. It was beneficial in centralizing account information and managing ledger accounts.

Quickbooks user interface is very clean and easy to use. All basic accounting features are laid out and can be accessed easily. One of the best features is that due to the popularity of Quickbooks, there are a ton software and programs that can be synced to it. Importing CSV files to record large amounts of data is easy to do.

The ability to access prior records and edit it is bad for proper internal control. Quickbooks can become "buggy" at times which makes it very frustrating during the month-end close period.

We use Quickbooks Desktop Enterprise for our basic accounting needs. It's easy to use and the ability to sync with multiple outside programs helps save us a bunch of time.

The ability to search through SOs and POs is very easy and convenient .

The program constantly asks me if I want to update to the new software every time I log in.

It connects with our ERP system well.

I can keep records for many customers. The other version has too few customer numbers.

It’s so complicated to use. It’s not user friendly and has problems syncing with multiple users.

Keeping high volumes of records.

Great for setting up vendor lists and setting up for check writing. Easy to review checks before printing, Great for 1099's, it fills out the forms for you and you just print. My boss was not very tech savvy and had no problem learning to use the software.

We had an issue updating vendors. Seems like it should have been easy but we had to call support to get the vendor list to update.

We were filling out 1099's by hand previously and this software made it so much simpler. We could pull the vendors we need to send them too and it would print the forms.

Reporting is simple. Reconciling and bank feeds is pretty simple, although i wish the vendor name would autofill in the vendor field. Right now, it just goes into the memo, if that.

Wish I could use the online version for multiple companies that I run. But it gets costly for a solopreneur who is running several entities. So I go with the desktop version because it doesn't cost me anything extra. The biggest downside is I can't have multiple companies open at the same time. I have to close one before i can open another one.

Reporting is simple. I like the year to year comparison with %/$ change

Easy to enter transactions. Clear user interface.

Constant updates. Mac doesnt always play well with windows

Nothing in particular. Just used for basic accounting

It's very easy to use even for those without an accounting degree.

It does not do in depth reporting. Not the best software for construction accounting.

It's an easy to balance your books.

That you are able to pull so many different variations of reports that best suit the business.

To many ways to find the same information - sometimes it works out but other times it just gets confusing.

Bookkeeping - it keeps all the information in on centralized location

I've been a fan of the intuit products. So I like how the quickbooks can auto load into TurboTax

Does not meet our needs. Very difficult to keep track of specific contract information pertaining to finances.

Were not. Quickbooks does not really meet our needs. We're transitioning to Deltek costpoint

Easy interface for use and realtime views.

Can't account for values less than a penny

No problems just day to day operations

Adding information about deposits or writing a check.

I do not like the navigation of inputting data.

To keep track of spending and donations.

easy to use and has alot of cool features

It has its limitations and is not as easy to use as zuora

The business problems it solves is documenting.

Quickbooks is really easy to use corporate accounting software. Common sense layout and ease of use are high.

I don't suggest desktop software. You can do so much more with QuickBooks Online, specially with their API.

General business accounting.