Ottimate vs. QuickBooks Online Advanced

Plate IQ has been a perfect addition to our company. We had invoices with grease, creases, folds, shaded characters, etc, coming into our office all the time. The ability to scan, or even better, have invoices come through EDI, has completely changed the way we are able to handle invoicing.

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QuickBooks Online Advanced is best suited for small businesses who don’t have any consolidation considerations. Additionally, the software tends to struggle when there are a large number of projects. The report screens will struggle to load at times and it will be difficult to view reports. However, it does really well at creating an all-in-one solution for companies who need payroll, accounting, and tax compliance in a relatively inexpensive bundle.

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• Payments; ACH, VCard and check. Domestic only however
• SKU tracking (the AI part that works reasonably well)
• Invoice Processing Automation (Think bill.com on steroids)

• It allows us to link to bank accounts in order to get up-to-date, real-time information, which is so important in today's lightning speed work world.
• The "canned" reports are excellent and allow for extreme customization also. This makes them very helpful to both me and my clients.
• The user interface for QuickBooks Online Advanced is easy to navigate and is intuitive for novices. The screens are well laid out and have cohesiveness on each screen to match tasks with others that match up well.

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• EDI options could increase.
• BIll pay module could be improved.
• Some support issues could be addressed sooner.

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• Proper advice in QuickBooks Online Pro for the usage if QuickBooks Online Advanced will be more efficient.
• More features and space in the app for organization of the self-created workflows.
• The stability of QuickBooks Online Advanced can still be better.
• There are still file-size issues and limitations on transactions and attributes of transactions.

QuickBooks Online Advanced is very easy to use and the data is very transparent. The reporting shortfalls (not being able to report the current month and YTD results on the same report) as well as the issues with the limitations with the management reports.

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QuickBooks Online Advanced is great and effective. I use it for almost three months and it definitely does their job

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No issue at any time with Availability

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It can be access at any time and reports is generate in less than a minute

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They have a dedicated support person for each customer who actually knows the product.

Turnaround is usually within an hour or faster.

The online training was easy to follow and understand. The online training gave us the specific instructions to follow

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I dont have any

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PiQ costs $250K less than netsuite (at a minimum). Unless you have/need netsuite, no comparison.

Bill.com isn't targeted, and doesn't give the functionality that PiQ has for analytics by SKU.

Expensify is the closest in ease of use. They are not competitive; just very similar.

QuickBooks Desktop is no longer being sold in the US, so we had to switch to the online version of the program. It is not a fully fleshed-out all-in-one solution offering everything the desktop version did. That being said, the desktop enterprise was overkill for many people.

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Software is very flexible

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• In my opinion, it has had zero impact on ROI now that we are paying for an additional year.
• Another negative is that we've spent a lot of time discussing this issue with Plate IQ, to no avail. They feel it's appropriate to charge a company for an entire year of service even though said company emailed to cancel prior to the end of the first year of service.
• We also wasted a lot of time onboarding this company only to find out that the software left a lot to be desired.

• QBOA has shown my clients the increase and decrease of my monthly income activity
• I am able to project my income and spending more easily
• The P&L reports has shown me a lot and by customizing to focus on my income and expenses has allowed me to better budget

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