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Besides banking, what are your other "must-have" integrations? Any sense as to why QuickBooks is so entrenched with accounting firms? I've seen Xero mentioned

Besides banking, what are your other "must-have" integrations? Any sense as to why QuickBooks is so entrenched with accounting firms? I've seen Xero mentioned more often lately, and curious how they broke through the QB barrier to entry.

chorsestudios 5y ago
I manage QBO for a small business and would love to dump QBO as well. I have encountered a lot of bugs that required support to resolve. My other "must-have" integrations are Shopify and Fishbowl Inventory. Xero seems to be the other viable alternative, and at least in my case they broke the QB barrier by supporting my current business critical software as well as several other potential services I have my eye on.
reaperducer 5y ago
I ended up on QuickBooks because my accountant insisted on it when i started my business. About ten years later i found out she's part of some kind of insider program. She probably thinks it's just cool for her to get special access to stuff. But i don't think she realizes it's a plot to lure small businesses into the QuickBooks platform.
- nickff 5y ago
  The Quickbooks Accountant program isn't 'special access to stuff', but Intuit does offer accountants a special version of the software (at no charge IIRC), which allows them to easily work with many customer files with no complicated licensing requirements (as is the case with many other softwares).
  - donmcronald 5y ago
    > isn't 'special access to stuff' > a special version of the software (at no charge IIRC) So the accountants get it for free as long as they offer up their customers for Intuit to exploit / price gouge? That sounds pretty shady to me.
    - nickff 5y ago
      The plethora of proprietary accounting softwares are a pox upon accountants; put yourself in their shoes, and imagine that you had a variety of customers who each had their own software. Would you (as an accountant) want to pay for a license for each software, and have to learn how to use it? Do you think your clients would reimburse you (for the training and the license)? Would you have to set up some complicated and confusing virtual machine? I think that giving (outside) accountants free licenses is or should be table stakes for these accounting packages.
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chorsestudios 5y ago

I manage QBO for a small business and would love to dump QBO as well. I have encountered a lot of bugs that required support to resolve. My other "must-have" integrations are Shopify and Fishbowl Inventory. Xero seems to be the other viable alternative, and at least in my case they broke the QB barrier by supporting my current business critical software as well as several other potential services I have my eye on.

reaperducer 5y ago

I ended up on QuickBooks because my accountant insisted on it when i started my business. About ten years later i found out she's part of some kind of insider program. She probably thinks it's just cool for her to get special access to stuff. But i don't think she realizes it's a plot to lure small businesses into the QuickBooks platform.

nickff 5y ago
The Quickbooks Accountant program isn't 'special access to stuff', but Intuit does offer accountants a special version of the software (at no charge IIRC), which allows them to easily work with many customer files with no complicated licensing requirements (as is the case with many other softwares).
- donmcronald 5y ago
  > isn't 'special access to stuff' > a special version of the software (at no charge IIRC) So the accountants get it for free as long as they offer up their customers for Intuit to exploit / price gouge? That sounds pretty shady to me.
  - nickff 5y ago
    The plethora of proprietary accounting softwares are a pox upon accountants; put yourself in their shoes, and imagine that you had a variety of customers who each had their own software. Would you (as an accountant) want to pay for a license for each software, and have to learn how to use it? Do you think your clients would reimburse you (for the training and the license)? Would you have to set up some complicated and confusing virtual machine? I think that giving (outside) accountants free licenses is or should be table stakes for these accounting packages.
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