Accounting & business management for small businesses
4.4/5 (594 reviews)Most popular features of all Operations Management apps
25 reviewers had the following to say about QuickBooks Online Advanced's features:
Looking forward to implementing some of the project management tools to monitor progress & help provide insight on maintaining profit margins.
Pros
Allows you to customize & place branding on invoicing & estimates, easy to produce aging reports & other useful information on financials (also customizable).
Cons
Application lacks sophistication in the importing & exporting of invoicing & other data.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
- Easy to use and straight forward - Reports -Send email features -As many user as we want
Cons
-Bad inventory management -Not enough filter feature
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Equipped our growing organization with the tools needed to manage the day to day challenges/ demands that arise.
Pros
Great shared access to financial data Options for running reports are easy App syncing is easier Cost effective Track income and expenses Invoice and accept payments Track time Manage bills Track inventory
Cons
Price increase Licensing fee is only good for one company file
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Have solid financial reports and management ability
Pros
Super easy to use, great reports, love it!
Cons
Wish there was progressive invoicing. Start with Sales order and not recognize the revenue until the sales order is turned into an invoice.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
The integration with our online donation tools is a wonderful feature that saves us a lot of time.
Pros
All of these features make it a great tool: Send and track custom invoices, Track income and expenses, Create and manage estimates, Sync bank accounts and apps, Manage and pay bills Instant sales and profit reports, Track inventory, Prepare and print 1099s.
Cons
We have not found anything that we don't like and the new versions always include new features.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering QuickBooks Online Advanced
Quickbooks Non-profit edition is an incredible value for a small investment!
I would recommend Quickbooks to small organizations that need a basic accounting software, small to mid volume of vendors/invoices.
Pros
Easy to use (General Ledger) Some flexibility downloading information to Excel (General Ledger) Price
Cons
Fixed Assets functionality is only available in Single-User mode Merchant activity is not applied automatically as promised if you have more than one GL account Reports are very rigid It does not have a report designer that gives the flexibility to download information Unable to upload activity from Excel without a 3rd party software It does not have account reconciliation system to keep track of balance sheet accounts
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
This is something we can help you with. Please reach out to us at QBCares@Intuit.com so we can provide you with further support.
Thanks for your feedback!
Nathaniel, The QuickBooks Team
QuickBooks online advanced solves the problem of filing paper documents by allowing you to upload them to the platform for filing.
and they make it so it fits the bill for a small business.
Pros
Can make any report needed to track product sales and stages of production.
Cons
Data synch to Desktop is considerably leass available and easy than to the online version.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering QuickBooks Online Advanced
See if you can start with Online, thats where its headed. I hate having a one seat version of QB but the network version is way overpriced for how much we need it.
ease of use and most reporting.
Pros
Reporting is mostly good, easy entries solving the double entry accounting needed in a single entry; vendor set up is easy;customer invoicing is streamlined; bill paying is clear
Cons
This software will not perform detailed reports for donor tracking; cannot compare actual to budgeted costs at a single point in time for actuals, that is, cannot run a report to show actuals to date versus an annual budget which is the most frustrating thing about quickbooks, reporting has to be to a month or a year compared to the same period.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Very user friendly, mobile capable, tracking expenses and report generation
Cons
Non specific for real estate investors (fix and flip)
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
From a client perspective, there are times that an audit of certain data (parameters) that drive how the system will ultimately function, would be of enormous benefit.
We have been using QBO much of 2019 and do look forward to upgrades, updates, and continued learning opportunities to improve our usage of the product and find out how it can help our workflow every day!
Pros
I appreciate the ease of being able to do simply daily tasks like invoicing customers, receiving payments, and logging bills and expenses.
Cons
Often, there seems to be a glitch in reports or some finagling that needs to happen to organize reporting.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Using QBO Software has improved our ability to keep up with our books, and track our employee time.
Pros
I have used this feature multiple times, and the representatives are always very helpful, friendly and professional.
Cons
It would be helpful to have an Accounts Receivable Report that is more customizable than the currently offered options.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We run our business on it and have to work around all the limitations, it gets the job done, but we spend a lot of time having to use excel outside the product to get things completed.
Pros
It has the basic accounting features that you would expect for a small business, but lacks the detailed features necessary for a bundled product business (one where your product is composed of Bill of Materials and you need to track the details on the sub components - think of gift baskets with 10 items in it, and the basket has a single SKU.)
Cons
There is really limited inventory tracking - as long as you stock and sell individual wigets your are ok, but if you sell bundles you are screwed.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Our biggest hurdle is the lack of inventory tracking by location.
Pros
Remote, web-based access; unlimited chart of accounts, products/services, categories and locations.
Cons
Inventory tracking with multiple locations is non-existent.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It took me about two months as the CFO to realize this product was not going to work for what our current and long term needs were going to be. We went out and found a new system and implemented within 6 months.
Pros
Easy to use for a small business or organization that is not to concerned about in depth reporting or data analysis
Cons
Not powerful or customizable enough for our use and not able to track with the detail that we needed to make smart business decisions.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It creates invoices and receive payments at one go.
Cons
It has very basic features which lacks advanced & necessary features like depreciation tables & footnotes below financial statements. Reports generated also lacks formatting options and unable to do detailed customization.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
The help search feature almost always has answers to solve my problem.
Pros
The desk top version is economical for our purposes. The reports are easy to produce for our board, and the file can be easily shared with our accountant.
Cons
I'm sure we could be using project management and budgeting features better but with so many separate projects going on at the same time with different start and end dates, I haven't been able to find a way to do this.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I would definitely use it unless you need high volume programs and can afford software that integrates other functions (like donor tracking, record keeping, etc)
Pros
IT is very easy to enter information, make adjustments and run reports. As a nonprofit, we are constantly generating that information for grants and donors - so it is very easy.
Cons
Managing donor data is easy to a point, if you have another donor database you might run into some difficulty trying to track contributions or donations.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
I'm beyond pleased to see how easy QuickBooks has made managing your organization, and appreciate the review. With this said. I'd like to discuss which point the donor database gives you trouble. Because the system easily integrates with other programs, I'll find steps you can take to keep tracking simple. Could you send me an email directly at qbcares@intuit.com? I'll dig right in, and look forward to hearing from you.
Jess, The QuickBooks Team
Makes fundraising easy to track and report for sure.
Pros
I assist a family member with a non profit organization from time to time and she uses this product and was the one who introduced me to it.
Cons
It makes doing business easy. I really like the self help section.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
We could save a backup on a shared folder and the secretary in the US could import that back-up into her QB.
Pros
Quickbooks offers powerful reporting options that are customizable.
Cons
It can be difficult to navigate and setup if your business is complicated.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It's performant, does user management, roles, and reporting well and provides a solid foundation for a small business.
Cons
It could be more intuitive and take 'less clicks' to get a job done - pre-made reports for example, common tasks, or less than three screen to change something in a journal entry..
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Report on CSV or Excel format can be imported to quickbooks and we could easily use the app even without an accounting background due to its simple and ease interface.
Cons
Moreover there is a limitation in listing number of products for inventory purposes.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It has helped me a lot in customer management and revenue management
Cons
We can store customer data and take care of them very easily.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
More accurate invoicing and A/R records
Pros
It is painless and tracks revenue and outstanding A/R and offers extensive reporting features.
Cons
None - it's really a great product and easy to use.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
