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

QuickBooks on the Cloud

Get QuickBooks Enterprise on the Cloud

We can provide you with QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions on a cloud server. It's the safest way to run QuickBooks Enterprise in the cloud;

• Multi user access at anytime, from anywhere through the internet
• No dangers - you own the software and the data
• Option of local back ups and standby machine disaster recovery
• Quick set up
• Available added security

Our Cloud Server allows you to have access to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions from anywhere via the internet. Unlike other cloud based accounting systems you own the software and the data. We put your desktop licensed QuickBooks Enterprise on a cloud server, we can add extra secruity and disaster recovery. We can also integrate QuickBooks Enterprise with third party solutions.

Pricing: The hosting of QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions with up to 30 users on a cloud server approx £180pm

For further information and to discuss your needs please call us on +44 (0) 844 445 7133 or email us.

The Olympic Torch Relay

We were very lucky to witness the Olympic torch relay go right outside our office today!! We all got in to the spirit and stood outside the office to watch the hand over of the flame between two torchbearers.

We are all very excited about being in London for the 2012 Olympics and would like to wish Team GB lots of luck!

QuickBooks Enterprise Myths

QuickBooks Enterprise myths - here's the truth...

Myth 1: QuickBooks is only for very small businesses

Reality: QuickBooks is the No.1 financial management software for businesses with 20 to 500 employees. QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions is the most advanced version of QuickBooks designed for growing businesses with up to 30 users or multiple locations.

Myth 2: Businesses don't switch to QuickBooks from other mid-level accounting systems

Reality: More than 12,000 companies have switched to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions from Sage MAS 90, Microsoft Great Plains and other mid-level systems. And 84% of them say QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions is easier to use than their previous software. 

Myth 3: You're on your own to get up and running on QuickBooks

Reality: Your first year of technical support is included with QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, we also offer data conversion to help you convert your data from your current system. We provide local UK support services - remote or on-site depending on your preference.

Myth 4: QuickBooks isn't scalable and secure enough for more mid-sized businesses

Reality: QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions has the capacity to track 100,000+ customers, vendors, and inventory items so there's virtually no limit to your growth. You can add up to 30 simultaneous users as your business grows, and utilize the advanced user permissions for exceptional control over how users access your system and data.

Myth 5: QuickBooks cannot solve the unique needs of your business

Reality: QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions industry editions offer specialized tools and reports designed to work the way you do — at no extra cost. Enterprise Solutions also works seamlessly with other Intuit business services and 3rd party developed apps to solve the unique needs of your business.

QuickBooks Enterprise - Videos

Visit our website to see a video showing you how to use the company snapshot and search feature...these little features really do enhance your day to day usage of the software.

What's So Good About QuickBooks Enterprise?

There is an awful lot good about QBE as we like to call it.  But the single best thing about QBE is its price.  It is four times cheaper than the average mid-market accounting system.  Four times, not four per cent, four times !  A 20 user version of a Sage or Iris Exchequer mid-range system will cost about £20,000.  QBE costs £5,000.

Having got your attention I hope to keep it before you start thinking about what to do with the remaining £15k in your budget.

 

For me the remaining top 4 benefits are:

1. Easy to use.  Yes they all say that but some systems really are very difficult to use.  QBE is well designed to make it simple, it has an active technical community forum and it has tips and movies for most of the functions. 
2. Well connected.  Quickbooks has a huge base of users, most in the US but nevertheless this has resulted in a large number of independent business applications that connect to QuickBooks and the Enterprise system, QBE. They all connect through the QBE web connector so it’s a consistent and fairly simple set up.  We use an on line web time sheet system which took about 2 hrs to set up.  It has connections to CRM systems like Salesforce, Sage CRM, Sugar and a few CRM applications designed specifically for QuicBooks.  There are also a number of plug-in ecommerce applications and point of sale systems. 
3. Great filing.  QBE has an integrated document management system.  You can drag an email attachment onto the transaction or account and its available for look up at any time.  Besides this, QBE provides a click through to the original transaction from all of its reports. 
4. Smart financial report writer.  Its called QSW.  It completes the reporting job that many other systems leave undone.  Apart from enabling you to create the report through a designer in Excel it recognises the need to pull a number of reports into a financial pack.  Typically this would be a Balance Sheet, P&L, Cashflow, some divisional reports, a commentary etc,  Each of these are on separate tabs,  Once you are ready you run the report and it combines the lot into a PDF.

There are many other benefits and in the next post I will cover 6 – 10.

It’s important however to point out some negatives.

1.      You won’t look so good at a dinner party with other business leaders when the subject of ERP systems come up.  The others who preside over SAP, Sage, Microsoft and Exchequer may have a guffaw at your expense when you tell them that QBE is running your multi million pound business.  You will have to wait till the end of the evening for your payback as you drive off in your Porsche paid from the saving in switching to QBE. (Calculated saving over 5 years including maintenance and consulting fees).

2.      There is only one field that controls the fiscal period allocated to a transaction.  That is the document date.  For those of us who are used to the older systems this is a big weakness.  Typically, almost half of the supplier invoices are not posted into the period that corresponds to the date of the invoice.  There are two main reasons for this;

·         invoices are received late

·         there is a delay in getting them approved and entering them in the system. 

To a large degree, businesses are sending invoices out promptly, particularly in this economic climate, so it’s not as big a problem.  Nevertheless we would still opt for a separate fiscal period field.

3.      Certain accounts are fixed, their position cannot be changed.  This applies to the Exchange Gain or Loss account.  We would like to split it by currency and between gains and losses. 

Overall QBE is an amazing system because of its price and functionality.  It will make your staff more productive too.  There is very little need for on-going support once you are set up but, we will try our hardest to recommend add ons and reports. We have to do something !

Why Upgrade to QuickBooks Enterprise?

If any of the following statements apply to your business, then QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions can help you be more efficient:

• You need more than 3 simultanious users 
  
• You have specialised roles or departments (e.g. sales, purchasing, payroll)
• You want more control over what your users can see and do in QuickBooks
  
• You need more robus reporting or inventory control
• You operate in two or more locations, have remote workers or want access from home
• You use multiple company files to track your business
• You process a large number of transactions
• You would like more custom fields to track data specific to your business 
• You are running out of space to track customers, suppliers or items
  
  
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