QuickBooks Integration: Take a close look before you buy
When an Electric company reaches a certain size operational software becomes a must. It gets harder and harder to hold things together.
If you are like most companies, you’re perfectly happy with QuickBooks for your accounting needs. What you really need is something more functional to run your operations. So you start your Google search. Many software products claim to integrate with QuickBooks, Peachtree, and a host of other accounting software packages. Most of them also claim to fit any service company from maid services to pest control to Electric companies.
We hear this sad story almost daily from our new clients: Everyone claimed to be integrated with QuickBooks. After they bought the software they found out that the link to QuickBooks didn’t work correctly. They eventually ended up disconnecting the new software from their QuickBooks after many hours of training and needless frustration. Here are a couple of simple steps you can take to avoid this problem:
- Don’t assume that all billing and accounting is done in QuickBooks. Many buyers found that their new software had its’ own Accounts Receivable. They needed to re-learn how to do the customer billing inside the new software program rather than in QuickBooks. Their staff became frustrated and reluctant to learn another accounting software. Finally, their accountant didn’t understand the new software accounting since they only worked with QuickBooks, so information and adjustments had to be reentered in QuickBooks to get the proper tax information.
ElectricPack Operations Software avoids this problem by focusing on QuickBooks. We create the customer billing and invoice in QuickBooks; just like you do now. No re-learning another accounting software product.
- Don’t assume that any generic service software will work for your Security Company. Take a minute to look at their website and see if they advertise as an “all-in-one” solution for all types of service companies, or specifically for the mechanical service contractor.
