Quickbooks is a widely used accounting package for many small businesses and for the money, it provides good functionality. However, as you grow, you may feel some pains from using Quickbooks, including but certainly not limited to a delay in response time from the application as you select menus and try to navigate through the program. Once these symptoms start rearing their ugly head, there is little that can be done to reverse the effects. It is no wonder then, why a majority of the new customers we work with are migrating off smaller packages like Quickbooks.

There are a number of advantages that a company will realize by migrating off of Quickbooks and onto Dynamics GP and this is discussed in a recent article entitled Practical Advice for Comapnies Who Have Outgrown Quickbooks. According to this article, there are 10 big benefits that a company will realize:

1. More modules - Dynamics GP provides over 50 modules to Quickbooks’ 16
2. More features - Dynamics GP offers 1,531 more features than Quickbooks Enterprise
3. More users - Microsoft Dynamics GP can scale up to 1,000 concurrent users while the most you can expect to get out of any version of Quickbooks to date is 20.
4. More account number segments - many mid-sized companies need 3 - 4 segments to properly record transactions and create the types of reports they need. Quickbooks limits you to 2 segments while Dynamics GP will allow you up to 10 segments.
5. Better financial reporting - Microsoft Dynamics GP offers 700+ standard reports versus Quickbooks 112. Further, only Dynamics GP allows users to view reports with real-time data through a intranet business portal. And if that weren’t enough, GP offers more than 200 out of the box Excel reports that contain an active ODBC connection back to the GP database and over 70 SQL Reporting Services reports.

Interested in the other 5 benefits you’ll realize by migrating to Microsoft Dynamics GP? Click here to download the entire report which goes into the above reasons in much greater detail, provides the other 5 reasons and also gives you some tips on what to do with Quickbooks until you make the change.

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