QuickBooks Enterprise to be discontinued

Due to the recent announcement by Intuit UK who have confirmed that QuickBooks Enterprise is to be discontinued, support for QuickBooksEnterprise will start being phased out within a year as advised below. This is a decision that has taken us by surprise, as it was not something that Intuit effectively communicated to their customers.
 

QuickBooks Enterprise Discontinuation Time Scale 
- UK technical support will only be available until July 2015
- After July 2015 Intuit will provide support via email only
- No new versions will be released
- Payroll will stop after 2014/15 PAYE year end
- Intuit will only provide critical bug fixes until 2017

QBES Discontinuation timescale

While we don't agree with how Intuit have handled the situation, it is imperative that you start thinking of alternative accounting systems to replace QuickBooks Enterprise, we don't want people to feel stranded or rushed into making a decision. 

What does this mean?
Current users of QuickBooks Enterprise will regrettably have to move over to a new system within the next couple of years (sooner if you use UK Payroll).

Furthermore there is no longer any QuickBooks application for businesses with more than 5 users. As such, businesses who have outgrown QuickBooks Enterprise will also need to start making a decision about what alternative will best fit their business needs.

What we recommend.
There are three alternative solutions that best fit the gap left by QuickBooksEnterprise;

1) You can move to the US version of QuickBooks Enterprise, which will have a familiar look and feel but there is no automatic data conversion, it requires a work-around to cope with VAT on purchases and there is no UK payroll system. 

2) You can downgrade to QuickBooks Premier. This will only be viable if you have less than 5 users and comes with no automatic data migration. Although we are currently in discussions with a company who will be able to help provide this service.

3) Alternatively you could consider moving to Acumatica Entrepreneur. This is a full ERP system in the cloud, priced and configured for the smaller business. It does not have a payroll system but does have all the functionality required to cater for the business processing needs of a growing company. 

What is Acumatica Entrepreneur?
Acumatica Entrepreneur is hosted on a UK server and is provided on a monthly rental basis, with a minimum of 10 users and 1 company, it is configured to suit previous QuickBooks users and includes the data migration of all Nominal Ledger transactions and lists.

Benefits and Features
- Ease of use
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Fixed Assets and Intercompany Accounting
- Advanced Stock Management and Sales Order Fulfilment
- Project Accounting with Web Based Time Sheets and Expense Approvals
- Report Writer, Dashboard Designer and Generic Inquiry Creator
- Responsive html screens
- Multi- segmented product codes and account structures

Visit our dedicated Acumatica website for full list of features

Why Acumatica?
Founded in 2007, with headquarters in Kirkland, Washington, Acumatica have offices in Washington DC, Moscow, and Singapore. The company is operated by a team mostly made up of former Microsoft executives and with programmers who were the developers behind the Solomon ERP system (now Microsoft Dynamics SL).

Acumatica have won many awards; twice named in the 'Top 20 Coolest Cloud Companies' by CRN, awarded a 'People’s Choice Stevie' for Favourite Financial Management Solution and more recently won a CODiE Award for 'Best Supply Chain Management Solution' in 2014. They have also made great strides in the Nucleus Research ERP Value Matrix and are swiftly advancing towards 'Leader' status.


If you would like any further information then you can also visit our website www.quickerpsolutions.com or our dedicated Acumatica website www.cloudaccountingUK.com

Featured in the Brochure!

Our Director, James Morgan, has featured in the Intuit ProAdvisor Brochure. James spends regular time with the staff at Intuit advising on QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions and recently was interviewed and photographed.

QuickBooks 14 Alpha Testing

We have been lucky enough to be involved in the testing process of QuickBooks 14 - it's in the early stages, but spy some pretty exciting changes when it come to price levels and discounts! We'll tell you more as soon we are allowed to!

Working together with Intuit

Our director James Morgan has recently been working together with Intuit. So far he has done two webinars for the QuickBooks Pro Advisors about QuickBooks Enterprise.

More to come and soon there will be some for the users! We will keep you posted!

NEW RELEASE! QuickBooks 2013!!

The latest release of QuickBooks Enterprise sees a very exciting BRAND NEW LOOK! There are also some fantastic changes to the Customer, Supplier and Employees Centres.

• The Centers are now organised by Tabs allowing you to easily access notes, contacts and to-do lists.
• Multiple notes can now be added on each record.
• Multiple contacts can now be created for Suppliers, as well as Customers.
• Choose which fields are displayed in the Edit window.
• A number of new fields have been added to track information.

 

 

 For more information please visit our website www.quickerpsolutions.com 

or call us +44 (0) 844 445 7133

Dashboards , Drivers and mud

dash·board/ˈdaSHˌbôrd/

Noun:

1.      The panel facing the driver of a vehicle or the pilot of an aircraft, containing instruments and controls.       2.      A board of wood or leather in front of a carriage, to keep out mud.

How rally drivers, pilots and carriage drivers would smirk at the colourful charts that now go by the name of “dashboards”!

Well we think that they might just like ours! 

We have just released the second version of our own dashboard with the prototype for the third on its way and we have very much kept the driver and the pilot in mind.

Our dashboards run in a web browser on the client server.  The pages carry your branding and you control who has access to the site and the individual sections. 

 

We are providing a set of standard graphics and will continue to add to these. They will cover the financials, receivables, payables, inventory, sales and ordering, project management and even CRM.

Our aim is to provide the graphics which the accounting system doesn’t.

Not only do you have a graphical view of the information but there is drill down too.  Click on any segment of the graphic and you will see a list of the data that makes up the value.

Of course every business is different so we expect clients to request modifications or request their own specific graphics.

Just like our early adaptor client Learning Resources who needed to manage the performance of their logistics provider.  They needed to see how quickly orders were despatched.

There are many brilliant things about these graphics which should really excite managers and executives.  The graphics are refreshed all the time providing up to date information.

One further thing that will excite the CFO is the low cost.  They make Business Intelligence extremely affordable and very simple.

But the thing that will delight the drivers and the pilots in business is the addition of our collaboration pane.  Typically any measure or graph requires some action, good or bad, something is always communicated. We call it “Group Action”.

 It’s like a social network for business teams.

For example our outstanding order dashboard is showing that there is over £40k tied up in orders that  need to be picked.  Assume that for this business it’s a big problem and something needs to be done about it. 

 

Click on the icons that create a snapshot of the graphic, start a new action, give it a status and invite your team. 

 

They will be notified and before long the necessary actions are taken and they are all noted on your dashboard.

We predict that more communication within a business will take place in these action forums than in your email inbox.

If you want to stay out of the mud then get these dashboards fitted to your business!

Past Projects

We've updated our 'Projects' page! These new and improved project overviews, for a few diverse industries, show how our financial packages and integrations have worked to improve the efficiency and financial well being of companies like yours.

Visit our projects page www.quickerpsolutions.com/projects