4 Key Indicators that You’ve Probably Outgrown QuickBooks

Suspect that you’ve outgrown QuickBooks? Congratulations! That typically means that you are growing beyond the capabilities that your small business accounting system can provide.

There’s a lot to love about Quickbooks including ease of use, affordable pricing, and good reporting. Some of the reported challenges that existing QuickBooks users voice as their businesses grow, include:

• Limitations on industry-specific business features
• Limitations on the number of users
• Limited transparency and deep business intelligence
• Limitations with file size data
• Instability and systems crashing
• Integration and automation challenges

How do you know when it’s time to explore the next level? Here are some of the red flags to watch out for…

1. You’re increasingly using spreadsheets to supplement reporting in an attempt to get critical business intelligence. One of the biggest indicators that you have outgrown QuickBooks is that manual processes have increased and you are consistently relying on alternative applications to get the data you are looking for.
2. You have multiple points of engagement in your business process, including but not limited to manufacturing, distribution, sales, customer service and so on that are not cohesive, easily reconciled or transparent. The key here is that you’ve noticed that communication between various departments and business processes are cloudy, not seamless or are difficult to reconcile on an ongoing basis.
3. Your team is sharing logins to access various systems or have to take turns using the existing system. You simply need a more robust and efficient way to allow employees to do their jobs optimally. Again, congratulations – you’ve grown your business.
4. You use or would like to integrate 3rd party applications into your business process to optimize efficiencies. If you are using multiple 3rd party tools to get to the information you need and want to keep them, acquiring a solid PaaS (Platform as a Service) application will allow you to do just that. If you want to minimize 3rd party tool reliance, then a cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution is worth looking into.

If you suspect that it’s time to level up from QuickBooks, mid-market ERP software exploration is a good place to start. A great application will be flexible, accessible anywhere, deployed easily, allow access for any user type out of the gate, affordable, scales easily and… won’t hold your data hostage.

If you’ve outgrown QuickBooks, that’s good news. Your business is growing. All you need to do is optimize, apply and grow even more…

Travis Healy is the Director of Business Development for Collins Computing. Collins Computing has been providing ERP software and services for over 30 years and is an Acumatica Gold Certified Partner. Contact Collins Computing for more information at 801-515-2000 or request a free ERP evaluation today.

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