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QuickBooks vs Acumatica

Take your business to the next level

Accelerate your growth and manage all your financial and operational needs on an intuitive cloud business management system to power your entire organization.

  • Increase efficiency with a single, comprehensive, and integrated cloud-based solution.
  • Improve accuracy with faster and more responsive accounting software.
  • Boost productivity with powerful and innovative features that simplify your processes.
  • Enhance your competitive advantage with a system designed to support the demands of your growing business.
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Signs that QuickBooks may be holding you back

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Scalability challenges
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Increased manual processes
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Limited industry-specific capability
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Lack of actionable insights
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Data silos from disparate systems
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Compliance risks (GAAP, IFRS)
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Capabilities to meet your challenges

Advanced Accounting Capabilities
Intercompany Accounting
Real-Time Reporting
Mobile App
Industry Editions
Personalization
Ease of Integrations
Customer Management

QuickBooks fulfills the basic accounting needs of fledgling businesses, but as your company grows, your financial requirements become more complex. Acumatica specializes in and delivers the core accounting features you need to run your business, like general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and bank feeds. But it also provides advanced functionalities designed to grow with you.

  • Tax Management – secure flexible tax reporting, handle sales tax exemption certificates, streamline tax zone reporting, and gain a complete audit trail.
  • Payroll Management – easily set overtime rules, manage deductions and benefits, set up pay groups and employee classes, and define earning type codes.
  • Global Accounting – use multiple base currencies, manage multicurrency pricing, and automate buy/sell relationships between entities across borders.

Acumatica also provides Deferred Revenue Accounting, Fixed Assets Management, Recurring Revenue Management, and more.

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As your business grows and expands locally and globally, you will need to manage multiple entities, currencies, and localizations simultaneously. To achieve this, you want a centralized system that goes beyond just accounting to integrate all your business operations. This keeps all your teams connected to the same set of real-time financial and operational data, fostering companywide collaboration and informed decision-making.

Multi-Entity and Intercompany Accounting allows you to centralize purchasing, invoicing, and reporting for multiple businesses and teams, automatically allocate accounting transactions among companies, and link bank accounts to specific companies for their exclusive use.

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Acumatica offers a collection of financial reporting and analytic resources that goes far beyond balance sheets and cash flow statements, enabling you to see the health of your company at a glance and quickly spot good or bad trends. Acumatica has a full set of essential reports that can be used out-of-the-box to access real-time data from the system. Easily modify reports, create new reports, and generate pivot tables, directly within Acumatica.

Screenshot of the Acumatica product to show real-time reporting capabilities of Acumatica in comparison to QuickBooks

Acumatica’s native mobile app boosts productivity by providing 24/7 remote access to ERP data on iOS and Android devices, allowing users to view accounts, manage approvals, start field service appointments, capture field reports, and retrieve real-time information. You can quickly check order statuses, review stocking levels by warehouse, and manage your business by exception. The app also supports capturing expense receipts, time entries, and electronic signatures on the go—all from a customizable mobile workspace with widgets, favorites, and KPIs to meet individual user needs and priorities.

Screenshot of the Acumatica product to show the mobile app capabilities of Acumatica in comparison to QuickBooks

Since QuickBooks only handles basic accounting, you may be using other industry-specific systems alongside it. Acumatica offers built-in, industry-specific capabilities, eliminating the need to work with disparate systems and data. Here are some examples of the industries we specialize in:

  • Manufacturing: Supports multiple manufacturing methodologies, including make-to stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, project-centric, job shop, batch, and repetitive manufacturing.
  • Construction: Tracks projects in real-time, eliminates costly delays, automates workflows to increase collaboration, streamlines communication, and allows for the whole team to log on anytime, from anywhere.
  • Distribution: Extensive suite of connected distribution applications for sales, inventory, purchasing, and warehouse management.
  • Retail: System for inventory accuracy, omnichannel fulfillment, perfect order rates, and seamless customer communication.

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Focusing on your experience, we designed Acumatica to be customizable to fit the way you do business. This includes personalizing user views and allowing each person to tailor their Acumatica experience based on their roles and needs.

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Acumatica unifies your financial and operational data, providing a single platform for growth and scale. With QuickBooks, you have to tack on additional software packages to get this extended functionality. With Acumatica, it’s all built in, so you can do more with less software.

In addition to Acumatica’s built-in advanced accounting, CRM, inventory and warehouse management, and billing solutions, our open cloud platform seamlessly integrates with hundreds of third-party applications. This gives you even more freedom to extend and customize the platform to meet your unique needs with integrated solutions and services from our technology partners. It also provides you with the flexibility to retain your preferred functions within your existing software stack.

Acumatica has an integrated CRM solution for managing leads, contacts, opportunities, and more. Having all accounting, marketing, sales, billing, and financial data in a unified database enables businesses to make better decisions with a single, accurate set of real-time data. With an integrated CRM-ERP solution, every aspect of the customer’s journey is connected to this same dataset, providing businesses with an instant, 360° view of all customer information.

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On-Demand Webinar: Improving Cash Flow and Operations
Hear directly from the COO and CFO of Phoenix Renovation and Restoration, a QuickBooks graduate, as they share how moving to Acumatica helped the company achieve consistent positive cash flow and greater operational efficiency.

Awards, recognition, and reviews

Acumatica is recognized as one of the best ERP software products on the market by leading industry organizations, publications, and our customers.

Acumatica Badge for G2 Mid-Market Leader Summer 2024
Acumatica Crozdesk Leader 2024 Badge
Acumatica Badge for Trust Radius
 Acumatica Badge for Software Reviews Champion
Acumatica Badge for Stratus Award 2023
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Accounts Payable
Accounting AP Automation
Accounts Receivable
AR Automation, Real-time Self-Service Portal
General Ledger
Full Audit Trail Accounting
Multi-Currency and Multi-Language Support (Partial)
Multi-Currency and Multi-Language Support (Comprehensive)
Job Costing
Flexible Costing, Project Accounting

Fixed Asset Management

Multi-Company, Intercompany Accounting

Credit Management





Basic Reporting
Reporting Customizable, Role-Based Dashboards
Real-Time Financial Reports, Consolidated Reporting





Mobile Device Access (QuickBooks Online only)
Mobile App Mobile Device Access (anytime, anywhere) to functions
like CRM, WMS, MDC, and more.





External Integrations Only
Built-in 
Customer 
Management
Marketing Automation
Sales Automation
Service and Support (Case Management)
Self-Service Customer Portal




Limited Custom Workflows, Approvers Restricted to Paid Users
Process Management User-Defined Workflows, Custom Approval Workflows
QuickBooks Online Advanced Only:
Email and Mobile Notifications
Business Events-Triggered Notifications:
Email, Mobile, and SMS Text





External Integrations Only
Industry-Specific 
Functionalities
Built-in and Native Integrations 
Construction: Procore, ProEst. and CFMA Benchmarker Connectors
Manufacturing: Demand Planning and Scheduling
Distribution: Order Management with Embedded WMS
Retail: Native POS and eCommerce Storefront Integrations
and more...





Not Open API/Swagger Compliant
API, Data
 and 
User Access
Open APIs and Web Services Integrations
QuickBooks Online Only:
Own and access your data, now and always -- 
in full, usable formats
Data in read-only access for 12 months after cancellation
Limited User Access
Unlimited User Access





Some training is free; most need a subscription
Training Professional online training that is free and comprehensive




Success stories from our QuickBooks graduates

"With Acumatica Construction, we have access to current data that helps us understand where our business is coming from, how profitable it is, and just where it stands at any point in time."
Eric Hugunin, Chief Operating Officer
Phoenix Renovation and Restoration
"Acumatica has allowed us to be a better digital business. From Sales to Operations, Admin to C-Level Executives, Acumatica allows us to have insight into data to make good decisions to grow our business in a powerful way."
Bryan Papé, Founder and CEO
MiiR
"The biggest time savings for us is not having to go out and wander through our yards of product to see what we've actually got on hand. Having a live inventory of what we have across seven different locations has been a huge time savings for people."
Patrick Sauter, Vice President
Dakota Red Corporation

What real users have to say about us on G2:

Acumatica reviews sourced by G2


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