Affordability

QuickBooks Enterprise provides everything business owners need to run a successful business at just a fraction of the cost of competitor products. The software is a function-rich, scalable package with comprehensive support that's tailored to meet the unique needs of businesses and their accounting requirements. For years QuickBooks has been pigeon-holed as being suited only to small businesses; the software now includes significant improvements in functionality and usability, including simultaneous access by up to 30 users, to satisfy the demands of medium and large companies too.

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Security

With larger businesses in mind, QuickBooks Enterprise manages users based on their specific roles within the organisation. Users are divided into Lists, e.g. John Smith and Roles, for instance, payroll officer. Set up is easy, simple to maintain and can be changed at any time by the administrator.

Now, access to specific areas within QuickBooks Enterprise is simplified by determining the user's role. For example, a sales manager can be set up to access only pricing and inventory but nothing else. Once the role has been established, it can be applied to all sales managers. Each individual needs only to remember their individual login details, which also provides the business operator with improved accountability and security.

Reporting

QuickBooks Enterprise users have more than 100 reports and graphs at their disposal. Each is designed to simplify a wide range of business and compliance activities as well as making it easier to work with your accountant.

All reports can be customised to suit individual user and company preferences and if desired, built from scratch while specific transactional details in each report can be drilled into and identified with just a few clicks.

The software's reports centre interface not only improves access to important company reporting, but gives clearer instructions on the purpose of individual reports and how to modify each to suit individual company preferences.

One of the most valuable tools for any business is the Financial Statement Designer within QuickBooks Enterprise. The program saves time in preparing balance sheets, income statements, financial ratios, cash flow statements and many more. The Financial Statement Designer comes with more than 20 customisable layout styles plus alerts, title pages, notes and compilation letters can all be created and edited to the user's liking.

QuickBooks Enterprise is ideal for large businesses, particularly those with multiple locations. The software's multi-site and multi-company reports connect locations and remote workers with ease. Parent companies and head offices can also combine reports to access data from subsidiaries, divisions or branches.

Scalability

QuickBooks Enterprise is as powerful and practical for one user as it is for thirty.

Available 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30-user packages, the software enables simultaneous access to the same company file by up to 30 individuals. This enables different stakeholders on and off-site to enter data specific to their areas of responsibility, increasing the efficiency of the business. Additional licenses can also be issued so access to a 30-user version, is not restricted to 30 specific individuals.

Ease of Use

QuickBooks Enterprise continues a long-standing reputation as being simple to use, and was developed for business owners, managers and accountants with even the most limited IT knowledge. The software incorporates sophisticated technology and an ever-expanding range of functionality.

More than $1 billion has gone into developing the product range aiming to ensure that it includes everything users need to perform their tasks with the added convenience of doing them with ease, speed and accuracy. The new home page design makes navigating the software elementary by ensuring virtually every function is no more than two mouse clicks away.

QuickBooks Enterprise is a comprehensive accounting solution made up in several parts, all with one goal - to help you run your business more easily and efficiently.

With such a comprehensive selection of modules within the Enterprise product, extreme emphasis has been placed on ensuring that you can access anything you need with simply a click of your mouse. QuickBooks' reknowned ease of use is taken even further in the Enterprise product with the company home screen, which allows you to access such a wide range of modules and functionality all from the one screen:

Retail

QuickBooks Enterprise Retail Edition tracks stock using different units of measure, computes the required components from your stock to build finished goods, tracks sales by item, sales representative or customer and determines which stock items are your top sellers. Less time doing the books means more time to spend with customers. What more could a retailer want?

Contractor

QuickBooks Enterprise Contractor Edition shows which jobs are profitable, gets airtight estimates, sets up and tracks holdbacks, and sets up multiple labour rates for employees, jobs and customers. Contractors don't want to spend time pouring over bookwork. QuickBooks Enterprise understands this, helping you do the books, managing job costs (with less chance of underquoting), and making larger profits, all in the one hit.

Non Profit

QuickBooks Enterprise Non-profit tracks and allocates donations and pledges, sets budgets from programs, creates and sends letters to donors, and generates non-profit industry-specific reports.

As money in a non-profit organisation is always tight, the budgeting facility allows for every dollar to be tracked on a monthly basis, and budgets can even be created on a per program basis.

Professional Services

QuickBooks Enterprise Professional Services Edition tracks job costs, writes proposals, sets up and monitors retainers, and tracks and manages labour rates.

The Professional Services menu lists the most commonly used tasks professionals need to perform each day. Think of this menu as a short-cut to those activities you do most often. Using it will help save you time!

Manufacturing and Wholesale

QuickBooks Enterprise Manufacturing & Wholesale Edition includes the ability to track mileage and shipping expenses, handle volume discounts, issue work orders to your manufacturing plant, and document damaged goods.

The real change with QuickBooks Enterprise — and something that makes this product unique when compared to other accounting software in a similar price range — is fully customisable menus, data-entry windows, templates and reports. This flexibility leads to increased efficiency, improved business management and a reduction in costs.

QuickBooks Enterprise is the solution for enterprise businesses. However, we realise that some things are more important than others to different roles within an organisation. As such, we have addressed the unique needs, wants, and concerns in six specific areas.

Executive

Executives have the ability to Monitor Business Performance, control their company data through advanced security, all the while knowing that QuickBooks can grow with your company as you expand.

More than 100 reports and graphs can be generated within the Reports Centre to keep a close eye on your business. View reports with detailed financial information and convert each into a PDF file for email, so the recipient views the report just as you do. By connecting multiple locations and remote workers you can manage business growth. Parent companies and head offices can combine reports with QuickBooks Enterprise to pull data from subsidiaries, divisions or branches, so you can determine which units are performing and which ones need improvement. The advantage of QuickBooks Enterprise is line items within each report can be drilled into, so you can know what exactly makes up each figure - making your business increasingly transparent.

Finance

QuickBooks Enterprise delivers premium return on investment year after year while giving business operators complete control over finances at the same time. More than 100 detailed financial reports and graphs are easy to create and are at your fingertips.

Finance managers will also appreciate QuickBooks Enterprise's multi-site and multi-company reporting capabilities. Here, multiple locations and remote workers can be connected over the company's infrastructure while parent companies and head offices are able to quickly combine reports to access data from subsidiaries, divisions and branches.

The software allows simple, simultaneous access by up to 30 users and makes it easier to work with your accountant. The accountant's copy of the company data file includes a new dividing date showing which periods are for your accountant to work in, and which are for you. An 'always on' Audit Trail enables accountants to quickly spot possible trouble spots or errors.

IT

QuickBooks Enterprise is built on a dynamic SQL database, meaning it can be scaled to meet virtually all requirements as a business grows and changes. It runs on a client-server or terminal-server network, which allows multiple users simulataneous access to the same data files at the same time without losing performance functionality.

Sales

Sales managers are under constant pressure to perform, a task made even more challenging in the current economic climate. Accurate, up-to-date and easily accessible sales and debtor information must always be at their fingertips.

QuickBooks Enterprise has incorporated a comprehensive range of useful reports to maximize the performance of sales managers. The software's customized report writer generates reports to track prospects, sales, invoices and much more. All are at the user's fingertips saving time and effort. Plus, QuickBooks Enterprise is one of the only accounting products on the market which allows users to drill down to each transactional detail, from the report itself. Most competitor products allow users to view the report only, not the transaction details.

The software has the ability to integrate with numerous CRM packages giving you the ability to track sales from "Suspect" through to "Closed" and confirmation when the invoice has been paid.

QuickBooks Enterprise enables sales managers to produce quotes and estimates both of which can be simply and easily converted into invoices. Once invoiced, the software updates stock levels and alerts you when additional stock needs to be ordered. All stock costs and retail prices are stored within the software enabling users to generate accurate quotes instantly.

Want to test the power and benefits that QuickBooks Enterprise holds for your business? Install the 90 day trial absolutely free of charge and with no obligation. Contact one of our Customer Services team to receive either a download or physical CD, it's your choice.

If you have any questions during your trial period of QuickBooks Enterprise, feel free to give one of our friendly sales team a call. Or why not find a QuickBooks Accredited Consultant to come out to you, to show one-on-one how you can get even more out of your software?