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QuickBooks Online
What is QuickBooks Online?
QuickBooks Online is an accounting software and app that allows you to manage your business anywhere, anytime. Used by over 7 million customers globally, QuickBooks provides smart tools for your business, yet is easy to use. You can organize your books, manage expenses, send invoices, track inventory, and even run payroll. With QuickBooks Online, you can get organized, save time, and even get paid fast by adding payment features. Best of all, you can try it for free for 30 days.
Who Uses QuickBooks Online?
The #1 Accounting and Financials software for Small Business globally.
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Reviews of QuickBooks Online
Business Management With QuickBooks Online
Comments: I am happy with QuickBooks Online because it makes running a business easy. I am able to view and pay bills along with send out invoices all through QuickBooks. I am able to run reports on open orders and helps me stay on top of things.
Pros:
The thing I liked most about QuickBooks Online was the ability to quick report an item and see past purchase orders, sales orders, bills and invoices.
Cons:
The thing I liked least about Quickbooks Online was the inability to search items through quotes. It makes it difficult to view how many times an item has been quoted.
Is QuickBooks For You?
Comments:
Overall QuickBooks makes processing payroll a really easy task for me, when I need support the support line has always been there and I'm never left waiting for long, with all my queries being sorted.
There are so many different functions to QuickBooks which I haven't got round to using yet but those that are in the system are great.
When it comes to audits the information is super easy to get from a report so all questions are answered in record time making us more efficient.
Pros:
What I like most about QuickBooks is that once you get used to the system and it's workings it does make things easy to use. I can always personalise what I need and delete out those things I don't to make processing payroll that much easier.
Cons:
How difficult it can be to find what I'm looking for in the reports section.
QBO stinks
Comments: When I used the old desktop version, I could look forward to reconciling my bank statement to the penny. All that change with the online version. With it, reconciling became such an impossible task that I only knew what was in the bank by using the bank's app. QBO would be off by thousands of dollars. They will offer you a bookkeeper to fix the mess for you for several thousand dollars, witch I don't have, or you will have to leave it with an accountant to try to figure out. Either way, you're going to pay. Tax time is a real mess. Plus never really knowing how your business is doing. It seemed like every entry is counted twice. I sat thru hours of help videos on you tube to try and figure this trainwreck out but it never made sense to me that a company that is named Intuit could be so Un intuitive. If you are a small business, I would look at other accounting software company's to work with. Once you get started with this one and you want to change to another you will have to pay for a conversion of your QBO file to something else and that NEVER goes well Trust me. Do your homework and find something else from the start.
Pros:
Remotely sending invoice to a customer and getting payment online is very enticing. The desktop version can only do that with the aid of another app. The idea of tracking milage is also a nice add on if it were accurate.
Cons:
I used QB desktop for 25 years and really found it helpful but they steered me toward the online version and things went downhill fast. They have to convert your old file to the new layout and they made a hash of my file. I had to hire local "Expert" to try to fix it at my expense. The chart of accounts was changed drastically. The time saving features didn't materialize. They only thing that was constant was the need for another expert at my expense.
Accounting and Financial Management made simple and fun!
Comments: Wow, my experience with QuickBooks has been just amazing, I am able to manage to manage my financial and accounting processes as well as provide invoices and reports in an intuitive way. High recommendations to non-users and people who want to elevated when it comes to financial management.
Pros:
Intrigued with how the platform has a clean and well organized interface. The customer support team is always responsive and user-friendly incase of hitches I love how the in-built have been designed to work together to provide smooth operation of tasks. QuickBooks is price friendly based on how well it delivers.
Cons:
I have no issues with QuickBooks at the moment reason being is that there are weekly updates to features and once a problem is addressed, they are usually keen to ensure that it does not occur again.
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Comments: Love the product, it is my go to accouting product for the SME market
Pros:
The ease of set up of the system from a wide spectrum of clients
Cons:
Sometime the software is a bit slow depending on your internet connection
