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The flexible, all-in-one solution for service businesses

Handle job costing, manage cash flow, and track clients—all with cloud access* that lets you work from anywhere.

To learn more about how we can help your business, call 800-450-8469 or contact sales.

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Unique business models call for unique solutions

QuickBooks Enterprise offers service businesses like yours a simple way to manage project estimates, billing, payments, and accounting functions.

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Maximize profits with accurate project costing

Enterprise comes with project-costing features specifically designed to help professional service firms track projections to actual results. You can track expenses in real time and react quickly if they run higher than expected. Accurate data will help you maintain and improve project profits.

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Time tracking made easy

QuickBooks Time Elite* lets employees keep track of time spent on a particular project, from anywhere. Best of all, the data rolls up into project costing reports and payroll in QuickBooks, reducing manual work and double data entry. You'll be able to save time and deliver work to plan.

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Pay employees with ease

With QuickBooks Payroll,* you can quickly pay employees and contractors right from QuickBooks with printed checks, direct deposit (included)*, or both. Utilize project costing, class and item tracking data for accurate paychecks. And with Assisted Payroll*, we manage your payroll taxes and filings for you—guaranteed on-time and accurate.*

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Get powerful business insights

Get the information you need with customizable reports bundled for professional services, or create your own with Advanced Reporting.* Drill down into account details to analyze missed revenue opportunities and identify your most profitable clients and team members.

200,000 companies rely on QuickBooks Enterprise*

“Through project costing, we can isolate one customer. Here’s their income. Here’s their expenses, and we can figure out how much actual profit we’re making, which is truly remarkable in a service-based industry.”

Joseph Cole, Business Development & Marketing Foliage Services

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Run your business from anywhere. Get Enterprise with cloud access.* Call 800-450-8469

Give your service business a customizable, all-in-one solution

Bill and PO workflow approvals*

Use customizable business templates to help save time on your repeatable purchase order and bill workflow approvals. One dashboard lets you manage cash flow, boost transparency, and help protect against fraud with a digital audit trail for each transaction. And employees get timely reminders so they don't miss an approval deadline.

Bill and PO workflow approvals*

Use customizable business templates to help save time on your repeatable purchase order and bill workflow approvals. One dashboard lets you manage cash flow, boost transparency, and help protect against fraud with a digital audit trail for each transaction. And employees get timely reminders so they don't miss an approval deadline.

Schedule and pay bills faster in QuickBooks*

Save time by scheduling and paying bills in QuickBooks. Use the funding source you choose and a digital or physical form your vendors prefer.* QuickBooks automatically marks the bill paid and notifies you once the money is sent. Gain financial flexibility by paying vendors from a card or bank transfer, then having the money sent via physical check or bank transfer.

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E-commerce integration*

Simplify e-commerce management, avoid stockouts, and gain a clearer picture of your profitability by integrating QuickBooks with top online stores and marketplaces. Inventory counts update with every sale, regardless of how many channels you sell in. Easily add product listings across channels, and work with your preferred shipping provider right in QuickBooks.

Additional fees apply.


Upload bills to QuickBooks

Save time by automating bill entries using the QuickBooks Desktop mobile app. Just photograph, import, and review. Have your vendors send email invoices directly to QuickBooks, which will automatically draft bill transactions for your review. Simplify your audit trails. Automatically upload or edit multiple bill transactions at once.

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Build customized proposals

Save time and make estimates easier by using our templates to make clear, concise proposals that will help you get the job.

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Attach documents to transactions

Attach documents to transactions faster by directly uploading them via the QuickBooks Desktop mobile app. You can even attach multiple documents at once. Eliminate the need to store physical documents and stay organized.

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Customize bill payment stubs

Maintain professional and consistent communications by emailing customizable bill payment stubs to your vendors. Save time by immediately emailing bill payment stubs to multiple vendors at once. Easily edit your logo, formatting, balance-paid-to date, and other required billing information, all from within QuickBooks.

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Know where your business stands

Powerful and accurate project costing

With up-to-the-minute project information, you can react quickly when costs cut into your margins. Track estimated costs and actual costs, and strategically plan for future projects. Easily attach digital timesheet entries to projects, and assign different hourly rates as appropriate.


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Powerful and accurate project costing

With up-to-the-minute project information, you can react quickly when costs cut into your margins. Track estimated costs and actual costs, and strategically plan for future projects. Easily attach digital timesheet entries to projects, and assign different hourly rates as appropriate.


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Monitor cash flow via cash flow dashboard

Get a single dashboard to monitor your incoming and outgoing cash flow. Track invoices, sales receipts, credit memos, payments, and more. Manage expenses by tracking paid and upcoming vendor bills, and consolidate multiple reports without manual calculations.

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See profitability by customer or project

Access an interactive dashboard that shows your sales profitability by customer, and modify the report to show profitability by geography, customer fields, and more.

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Professional services chart of accounts

From assets like bank accounts, investments, property, and equipment to utilities, salaries, and more, you can organize and customize your information the way you need to see it. Plus you can get a real-time snapshot of profitability metrics by customer.


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Manage customer prepayments

Improve your team's efficiency, productivity, and bottom line by easily recording and tracking customer prepayments and deposits on sales orders, and then automatically apply that payment when the sales order is converted to an invoice. Give your customers transparency and proof of payment through the process.

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Keep customers organized and projects profitable

Track project progress and completion percentage

At any point in time, service businesses can zero in on the progress and profitability levels of a particular project. Now you can instantly determine if the engagement is scheduled to finish on time and if costs are expected to meet, exceed, or fall below forecasted budgets.

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Track project progress and completion percentage

At any point in time, service businesses can zero in on the progress and profitability levels of a particular project. Now you can instantly determine if the engagement is scheduled to finish on time and if costs are expected to meet, exceed, or fall below forecasted budgets.

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Task management

Never miss a deadline or a milestone. Schedule to-dos, reminders with due dates, and more–right from a built-in calendar. Reduce errors and keep your projects on track.

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Flexible billing frameworks

No matter how many different hourly rates your team bills, Enterprise can handle it. Costs are calculated automatically based on each employee’s unique hourly rate—and reflected that way on client invoices. You can assign different billing rates by client, project, or service. Consolidated invoices will reflect billable amounts by hours worked, flat fee arrangements, or a combination of both methods.

Flexible billing frameworks

Employee time tracking

Reduce errors and improve productivity with our best time-tracking tool. QuickBooks Time Elite* gives your employees mobile time tracking* from any device. Employees can clock in or out with just one click, take a break, change project codes, or add timesheet details instantly. You can compare budgeted vs. actual hours, assign projects, and track progress. Plus, you can track unbilled time and expenses by person, project, client, or service.

*Formerly TSheets Elite; per-employee fees apply.

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Automatic mileage tracking*

Efficiently record mileage for business trips on Desktop or mobile* so you can more accurately charge back your customers. Run a report of all your business trips in one place. And simplify your year-end taxes by consolidating your mileage data and automatically accessing the latest IRS rates to calculate deductions.

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Mobile payments, e-invoices, and more

Let customers pay their way and keep the cash flow coming in. Customers can choose to pay with a credit card, bank transfer, an ACH payment, or cash. You can also email invoices with a "Pay Now" link to make payments a snap for your clients. And all the incoming payments are recorded in your books.*

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Receipt management*

Save time by using a mobile device to capture receipt data – just photograph, import, and review. Automatically categorize or modify receipt expenses and record multiple transactions all at once. Assign permissions to users to easily review transactions via email or within QuickBooks.

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Salesforce CRM connector*

Sync QuickBooks and Salesforce to reduce duplicate data entry and provide one source of data between sales and support to serve customers better. Generate sales orders and invoices automatically so you get paid faster, and get more visibility into your entire sales pipeline.

Key reports tailored for service-based businesses

Project costs detail

Use several key tools previously reserved for accountants for easier, more accurate cost accounting, like using prior account balances to locate discrepancies.

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Project costs detail

Use several key tools previously reserved for accountants for easier, more accurate cost accounting, like using prior account balances to locate discrepancies.

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Expenses not assigned to projects

Make sure nothing slips through the cracks. This report gives you visibility into all of your expenses that are not currently assigned to a project.

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Open balances by customer / project

Keep track of all your open balances by customer and project. Quickly get a handle on the bills that have not been paid by project so you can estimate how much is due and help ensure you get paid.

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Project status

Keep track of all of your projects with one report. Get a bird’s eye view of how your business is doing. Track the day-to-day details while not losing sight of the big picture.

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Billed / unbilled hours by person & project

See how much time each worker has spent on each project. Add billable hours to your next invoice and minimize hours you can’t rebill to your clients.

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Costs by project

See where your money is going. View a summary of project-related expenses for each project.

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Cost to complete

By project, see the percentage complete and cost to complete so you can cut costs if you need to, or discuss cost overruns with your client before it’s too late.


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Industry-specific report bundles

Enterprise includes 17 reports designed for Professional Services, including 6 reports on project costing, so you can make informed business decisions. In addition, Advanced Reporting* allows you to create your own custom reports from scratch using the raw data in QuickBooks. If the data is in QuickBooks, you can report on it to gain a deeper understanding of your organization.

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Frequently asked questions

Now available: QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise 24.0