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See if your business is ready to move up to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions

QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions has everything from QuickBooks Premier but it's designed specifically for growing businesses. Plus, if you have more than 3 users the total cost of ownership for QuickBooks Enterprise is often less than for QuickBooks Premier.

The following information and self-tests can help you quickly determine if your business can benefit from moving up to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. Check if any of the following statements apply to your current QuickBooks environment. QuickBooks Enterprise can help if:

1. You need more than 3 simultaneous users.
2. You have specialized roles and departments, such as Sales, Purchasing or Payroll.
3. You want tighter control over user access to safeguard your sensitive data.
4. Your business operates in two or more locations.
5. You process a large number of transactions.
6. Your reports run slowly or users receive "file in use" messages.
7. You need more custom fields to track data unique to your business.
8. You need to track more than 14,500 products, customers or vendors (see below for how to check for this).

Here's another quick way to check if you're outgrowing your current QuickBooks software:

Open QuickBooks and press the F2 key on your keyboard to check your current List quantities. (Look for "Total Names" and "Total Items" within the "List Information" section on the right side of the screen.) If either your Names or Items lists are nearing 14,500 then you should consider moving up to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions to get the additional list capacity your growing business needs.

QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions offers the most capacity of any QuickBooks product. You can add hundreds of thousands of Names (customers, vendors, and employees) and hundreds of thousands of Items (inventory, non-inventory, and service items) so there's virtually no limit to your growth.

5 Reasons Why QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions is the Right Solution for You

QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, designed for growing businesses, is the most powerful QuickBooks product. It has the capabilities and flexibility to meet your business' unique needs as it grows - and it could save you thousands of dollars in up-front and on-going maintenance costs versus comparable systems.

1. Capacity, Speed, and Users to Scale With You

• Easily scalable from 5 to 30 simultaneous users
• Handle hundreds of thousands of inventory items, customers and vendors
• Will support numbers as high as 99 billion
• Run and use QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions more quickly via Windows Terminal Services
• Built with a powerful industry standard Sybase 10 SQL database to scale with you and provide improved multi-user performance - including the ability to back up in multi-user mode

2. Enhanced Functionality to Help Make Better Decisions

• Advanced user permissions enable or restrict access to 115+ areas and activities
• Apply and calculate foreign currencies automatically on transactions, such as sales orders, invoices and purchase orders
• Download transactions from your financial institution directly into QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions
• Over 120 built-in reports and the included Intuit Statement Writer (a $150 value) to help you create professional financial statements
• Connect multiple locations and remote workers, plus use the QuickBooks Instant Messenger to chat with remote workers and perform remote actions
• Easily set up and process EDI transactions with TrueCommerce's EDI solution, a $795 value included free with QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions
• Advanced inventory tools to track bill of materials, different price levels, inventory items and purchase, stock and sell the same item in different units of measure
• Manage multi-location inventory, serial/lot tracking, schedule production, and utilize bar coding with Intuit Warehouse Management ES
• Track and manage your workers and their work with Intuit Field Service Management ES

3. Flexible to Work the Way You Want

• Customize QuickBooks reports, invoices and estimates to your needs
• Add and track information by creating up to 30 custom fields, with new data formats and format validation.
• Edit quantity and item assembly components, and print with the click of a button
• Retrieve your QuickBooks data with ODBC compliant applications such as Microsoft Access and Excel to see data just the way you want - build custom reports, link your various business applications and build custom queries or tools
• The flexibility to use Linux as your database server operating system

4. Expandable and Customizable to Your Exact Needs

• A comprehensive selection of optional tools and applications to meet almost any business or accounting need - add exactly the capabilities your company needs, and no more
• Expand your capabilities with included EDI integration by TrueCommerce, CRM, manufacturing, and many other key areas with QuickBooks-compatible software solutions
• Comes with free license of each of our applications which are designed applications designed to help you streamline your key tasks around Field Service Management and Warehouse Management
• 3rd party developers can even create custom design applications that work with QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions

5. Fraction of the Cost of Competitive Multi-user Systems

• QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions costs $5,000 for a 10-user license - competitive multi-user systems can cost $20,000- $40,000
• Includes the Full Service Plan with unlimited technical support, free product upgrades, free data recovery services, and up to 10 GB of online back-up

What's New in QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 10.0

More Custom Fields with Improved Reporting

You know better than anybody what business data you need to track and how you want to use it. More custom fields have been added to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions for customers, vendors, employees and items so you can capture, track and report on the unique data you need. Set custom fields to accept certain formats such as date, phone number, or select from list to reduce data input errors and improve the quality of your data output. Plus use advanced filtering and sorting to run reports on the custom field information you care about

• Track information with two to three times more custom fields for customers, vendors, employees, and items. Create up to 15 custom fields for items and up to 30 to be used across customers/employees/vendors.
• Set custom fields to accept certain formats (e.g., dates, phone number, dropdown lists) to improve the accuracy of data input and output.
• Use advanced filtering and sorting to run reports on the custom field information you care about.

Rapidly Add or Edit Multiple List Entries from One Spreadsheet View

Save time by entering and editing your customers, vendors, item, or account information in bulk. You can even copy and paste data from other spreadsheets.

Change Assembly Components on the Fly

Save time with new enhancements to Inventory Assemblies. Change quantity and item components on the fly to make substitutions or accommodate special customer requests. Add custom fields, such as serial or lot numbers, to track builds more closely than ever before. Plus print your build assembly with the click of a button and see the quantities needed to accurately build a job.

• Quickly, easily edit quantity and item components to make substitutions/accommodate special requests.
• Add custom fields to assemblies, and track builds more closely than ever before. Add serial or lot numbers to assemblies, then search and report on which items you are consuming over time.
• Print your build assembly with the click of a button - employees can see the quantities needed to accurately build a job.
• Improve efficiency by batch printing your assemblies.

Fully Integrated Document Management

Organize all your business documents in one place. Document Management lets you attach documents - electronic or scanned files - to any QuickBooks customer, vendor, employee, account or transaction. Because your documents are backed up online (up to about 1,000 2-page PDFs), they are easy to share with your accountant and employees, and accessible from any internet connection. You can even scan documents right in QuickBooks.

Give Your Forms a Distinctive Identity with FREE Professional Designs

Ensure that your invoices and other forms get the attention they deserve. Access new FREE professional designs that you can customize for your business. Create a distinctive look and apply it across all your invoices, statements and other forms all at once.

Customize Your Company Snapshot

Stay on top of your business from a single screen, with data presented just the way you want it. Choose at-a-glance reports that are most crucial for managing your business. New report options include yearly expense and income comparison, detailed expense and income breakdown, and a top customer list.

Redesigned Report Center

Get the insights you need to make more profitable business decisions. Now it's easier than ever to find just the report you need to understand how your business is doing and spot opportunities to cut costs and boost profits. You can also tag your Favorite Reports to instantly access the reports you rely on most.

Reengineered Intuit Statement Writer

Easily create financial statements with the reengineered Intuit Statement Writer, a $150 value included at no additional cost. Intuit Statement Writer links your QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions files with Microsoft Excel so you can build and update professional statements. New enhancements let you create Microsoft Word-based reports and documents, create up to 16 statements within a single Microsoft Excel workbook, and send consolidated reports in PDF format. Plus, documents and statements can be saved as a custom report template for easy reuse.

• Link QB Files with Microsoft Excel to build and update professional statements
• Create up to 16 statements in one workbook.
• Create Microsoft Word-based letters, cover pages, and documents in your report, and bring QuickBooks financial data into your documents.
• Batch print your statements and documents.
• Generate financial statements on a per-class or per-job basis, or as a combination of classes.
• Conveniently access over 50 statement and document templates in-product or online.
• Set any date range for reports, including 4-week months or 13-week quarters.
• Save documents and statements as custom templates for easy re-use.
• Send consolidated reports in a .pdf format.

 

Industry-specific editions include features designed for YOUR business

QuickBooks Enterprise Manufacturers and Wholesalers Edition

• More than 11 manufacturing and wholesale-specific reports
• Unit of Measure Conversion translates inventory between different units of measure to avoid errors when an item is ordered in one unit of measure and sold in another
• Track status of inventory items with one click
• Manage multi-location inventory and do serial/lot tracking with Warehouse Management ES
• Build and track assembled items - including material and non-material costs
• Edit quantity and item assembly components, and print with the click of a button
• Create up to 100 price levels for your item and customers
• Track back orders, sales orders, purchase orders and print pick lists and packing slips

QuickBooks Enterprise Contractor Edition

• 18 job cost reports, 9 contractor-specific reports
• Job Costing Center: summary of job costs and profits
• Alerts notify you when subcontractor's liability insurance and Workmans' Comp expire

QuickBooks Enterprise Nonprofit Edition

• Statement of Functional Expense Report (Form 990), plus 8 nonprofit-specific reports, donors/grants, budget by programs
• Donation, Pledge, and Thank-You forms
• Track donors and contributions with customized reports such as the new Donor Contribution Summary report and Donors/Grants report

QuickBooks Enterprise Professional Services Edition

• 17 professional services-specific reports, including 6 project cost reports
• Proposal and invoice templates

QuickBooks Enterprise Retail Edition

• 10 retail-specific reports, such as Customer Payment by Type of Payment Report
• Work Order Form and Daily Sales Form

QuickBooks Enterprise Accountant Edition

• Works with all QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions desktop files including the industry-specific editions
• Create professional financial statements with the included Intuit Statement Writer
• Unlimited customization of financial statements
• Includes all features and reports from QuickBooks Pro, and Premier industry-specific editions

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Written by Ruth Perryman, MBA, CMA, CFE, CFM

Ruth is the president of The QB Specialists, an Intuit Solutions Provider that has helped thousands of businesses nationwide get the most out of QuickBooks and payroll. Ruth has over 20 years of industry experience, including 5 years as a Chief Financial Officer. She is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and a member of Intuit’s Trainer/Writer Network. She is also certified in QuickBooks Enterprise and Point of Sale.

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