QuickBooks - How does it compare ?

A Schedule of Unique Benefits

Quickbooks has many advantages over its nearest rivals. Some of these benefits include:

  1. Customised Reporting
  2. Quickbooks has the ability to select only the columns you require in each report.
    Specific date ranges can be used, across the end of your financial years. Reports can be run on either

  3. Multiple On-screen Reports.
  4. It is very useful to be able to refer to information on two reports, at the same time.
    Quickbooks allows both of these to be on screen at the same time.

  5. Drill Down Capability
  6. How is that number made up?
    That looks too high.
    Quickbooks allows you to drill down to the source document.

  7. User-definable Fields
  8. For more effective contact management, Quickbooks allows you to define fields in your
    Customer, Supplier and Item records.

  9. GST Inclusive or Net, option on data entry
  10. A real benefit, whereby GST inclusive amounts can be entered on a Cash Sale Docket or Invoice.
    The GST is split out automatically. Great for entering income off the Bank Statements.

  11. GST in Journals
  12. GST is processed in a Journal as for Invoices, Cheques and Bills. Whether the entry relates to
    purchases or sales can be specified.

  13. Editing List items
  14. With Quickbooks you can "hide" those Customers, Suppliers, Items and Accounts which you no longer are working with. The full list is easily recovered.

  15. Renaming of Customers, Suppliers and Accounts
  16. This is easily achieved, with data merged as well.

  17. Suppliers
  18. Preferred suppliers can be set for each stock item.

  19. Purchase Orders
  20. Purchase Orders can be created and used as the basis for receipting stock.

  21. Open Periods
  22. This enables you to retain data for several years in full detail. There is no Year-end purge or rollover.

  23. Class Tracking, Divisional Reporting
  24. This feature allows you to prepare a Profit Statement for each Division of your business, and view them side by side.

  25. Memorised Transactions
  26. Repetitive transactions can be memorised and automatically created in Quickbooks, saving time in future data entry.

  27. Cash Sales / Sales Receipts & Invoice Forms
  28. Separate screen display formats can be customised to record Cash Sales and Invoices.
    The printed documents can be customised differently as required.

  29. Logo Importing
  30. Quality of your logo is maintained on importing for use on Invoice.

  31. Calculator Function
  32. This is available on all amount fields, and allows the operator to add a series of numbers within the document.

  33. Statement Dates
  34. Dates can be set to allow Debtors Statements to cover any given period.

  35. Multiple Debtors Ledgers
  36. You can set up separate Debtors Ledgers, to cover different aspects of your business.

  37. Icon Bar
  38. The Icon bar is customisable and can include frequently used reports

  39. Job Costing and Estimates/Quotes
  40. The Pro version allows for Quotes to be created, markup determined, and Invoices created automatically.
    Standard reports provide comparisons of the Estimate with the actual costs and revenue.

  41. Progress Invoicing
  42. In the Pro version you can generate Progress Invoices based on different criteria, using the information held in an Estimate/Quote.

  43. Time Tracking
  44. The Pro version allows for the recording of Time against particular Jobs.

    These hours can be brought through to Invoices, and linked to the costing information.