ERP Comparison
Acumatica-vs-QuickBooks
As your company continues to expand, you may be discovering the limitations of QuickBooks and seeking a more robust solution to support your growth.
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Signs That You Have Outgrown QuickBooks
Inability to scale with the business
Frequent manual input and process inefficiency
Not tailored for industry-specific functions
Lacking actionable insights
Limited customization flexibility
GAAP, IFRS, industry compliance risks
Real customers with real results
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90% less time
to gather data
80% less time
to complete quarterly statements
5 days saved
to close books
40% less time
to process shipping
7 hours saved
per day on invoicing
5 fewer people
to process the same number of orders
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Background
QuickBooks by Intuit is a good starter accounting package at an affordable price, designed for basic accounting needs. However, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution is necessary for businesses requiring more comprehensive management of processes beyond financials. An ERP system can handle accounting, financial management, and other business requirements like manufacturing and distribution.
In the comparison chart below, we evaluate Acumatica against QuickBooks Enterprise, which is Intuit’s top-tier QuickBooks product. QuickBooks Enterprise can be installed locally (on-premises) or hosted on the cloud. It’s important to note that Acumatica and QuickBooks serve different purposes, making a direct side-by-side comparison challenging. We aim to highlight the benefits of upgrading from QuickBooks to an ERP system and the advantages of choosing Acumatica.
- QuickBooks is ideal for basic accounting but limited in handling broader business processes.
- An ERP system like Acumatica offers comprehensive business management capabilities, including manufacturing, distribution, and more.
- Upgrading to Acumatica provides significant advantages for businesses needing broader operational management.
IntraCoastal Environmental Customer Success Story
KEY RESULTS
• Deployed ERP system as a full-fledged business process system to differentiate itself against competitors
• Scaled project accounting across three separate entities
• Able to position itself for quick and unpredictable changes in the market
• Easily rolled out ERP to internal employees
“Acumatica positions us for growth and lets us establish our own workflows to keep up with our needs. We have ultimate flexibility to make sure our ERP works the way we need it to, not stuck with what used to work.”
Why Acumatica Cloud ERP Solution?
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True Cloud
Acumatica was designed and built as a cloud-native application suite. QuickBooks Enterprise is a client-server architecture that can be “hosted” in the cloud. It does not feature cloud-native capabilities such as access via a standard web browser only, a true mobile-friendly user interface, nor seamless product upgrades.
Full Function ERP
Acumatica offers a complete ERP and CRM solution, including vertical-specific modules. QuickBooks Enterprise is limited to Financials Management, Payroll, Order Management, Inventory, and Pricing.
Full Relational Database Export
QuickBooks uses a proprietary database and does not provide a true export function, requiring a third-party utility to access the underlying database. Acumatica allows users to export their full database at any time for any reason.
Flexible Licensing Options
Both products are available through subscription licensing, but Acumatica also offers alternate options to accommodate customers’ unique requirements.
Scale As You Grow
Acumatica allows you to scale as your company grows without penalty and can accommodate multiple companies, multiple languages, and multiple currencies. QuickBooks Enterprise limits you to a maximum of 40 users and struggles with supporting “multi-“ capabilities.
ROI
Acumatica provides a much greater return on investment (ROI) due to its industry-leading functionality, modern and future-proof technology platform, customer-friendly business practices, and unlimited user pricing model.
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Capabilities To Meet Your Challenges
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Advanced Accounting Capabilities
QuickBooks fulfills the basic accounting needs of fledgling businesses, but as your company grows, your financial requirements become more complex. Acumatica specializes in and delivers the core accounting features you need to run your business, like general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and bank feeds. But it also provides advanced functionalities designed to grow with you.
- Tax Management – secure flexible tax reporting, handle sales tax exemption certificates, streamline tax zone reporting, and gain a complete audit trail.
- Payroll Management – easily set overtime rules, manage deductions and benefits, set up pay groups and employee classes, and define earning type codes.
- Global Accounting – use multiple base currencies, manage multicurrency pricing, and automate buy/sell relationships between entities across borders.
- Acumatica also provides Deferred Revenue Accounting, Fixed Assets Management, Recurring Revenue Management, and more.
Intercompany Reporting
As your business grows and expands locally and globally, you will need to manage multiple entities, currencies, and localization simultaneously. To achieve this, you want a centralized system that goes beyond just accounting to integrate all your business operations. This keeps all your teams connected to the same set of real-time financial and operational data, fostering company-wide collaboration and informed decision-making.
Multi-Entity and Intercompany Accounting allows you to centralize purchasing, invoicing, and reporting for multiple businesses and teams, automatically allocate accounting transactions among companies, and link bank accounts to specific companies for their exclusive use.
Real-Time Reporting
Acumatica offers a collection of financial reporting and analytic resources that goes far beyond balance sheets and cash flow statements, enabling you to see the health of your company at a glance and quickly spot good or bad trends. Acumatica has a full set of essential reports that can be used out-of-the-box to access real-time data from the system. Easily modify reports, create new reports, and generate pivot tables, directly within Acumatica.
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Acumatica offers a collection of financial reporting and analytic resources that goes far beyond balance sheets and cash flow statements, enabling you to see the health of your company at a glance and quickly spot good or bad trends. Acumatica has a full set of essential reports that can be used out-of-the-box to access real-time data from the system. Easily modify reports, create new reports, and generate pivot tables, directly within Acumatica.
CRM
Acumatica has an integrated CRM solution for managing leads, contacts, opportunities, and more. Having all accounting, marketing, sales, billing, and financial data in a unified database enables businesses to make better decisions with a single, accurate set of real-time data. With an integrated CRM-ERP solution, every aspect of the customer’s journey is connected to this same dataset, providing businesses with an instant, 360° view of all customer information.
Industry Editions
Since QuickBooks only handles basic accounting, you may be using other industry-specific systems alongside it. Acumatica offers built-in, industry-specific capabilities, eliminating the need to work with disparate systems and data. Here are some examples of the industries we specialize in:
- Manufacturing: Supports multiple manufacturing methodologies, including make-to stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, project-centric, job shop, batch, and repetitive manufacturing.
- Construction: Tracks projects in real-time, eliminates costly delays, automates workflows to increase collaboration, streamlines communication, and allows for the whole team to log on anytime, from anywhere.
- Distribution: Extensive suite of connected distribution applications for sales, inventory, purchasing, and warehouse management.
- Retail: System for inventory accuracy, omnichannel fulfillment, perfect order rates, and seamless customer communication.
Personalization
Focusing on your experience, Acumatica is designed to be customizable to fit the way you do business. This includes personalizing user views and allowing each person to tailor their Acumatica experience based on their roles and needs.
Ease of Integrations
Acumatica unifies your financial and operational data, providing a single platform for growth and scale. With QuickBooks, you have to tack on additional software packages to get this extended functionality. With Acumatica, it’s all built in, so you can do more with less software.
In addition to Acumatica’s built-in advanced accounting, CRM, inventory and warehouse management, and billing solutions, our open cloud platform seamlessly integrates with hundreds of third-party applications. This gives you even more freedom to extend and customize the platform to meet your unique needs with integrated solutions and services from our technology partners. It also provides you with the flexibility to retain your preferred functions within your existing software stack.
How Acumatica Supports Your Growth Journey
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Awards, Recognition, and Reviews
Acumatica is widely regarded as one of the top ERP software solutions, consistently earning recognition from industry leaders, trusted publications, and, most importantly, our satisfied customers.
Our Industry Expertise
Built by Acumatica, Delivered by a Top Partner
Though many companies claim to work with manufacturing firms, it’s all about finding the one who can deliver for your specific business needs. Few solutions exist today that can handle both the financial, process, and inventory management needs of companies like yours, and even fewer partners know how to deliver such a solution.
At Cloud 9 ERP Solutions, a Gold Certified Acumatica Partner, we have worked with companies like yours to configure and deliver Acumatica Cloud ERP, a product ready and able to handle your challenges.
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