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"Transferring from QuickBooks Pro to Enterprise was dead easy. I didn't have to run any systems in parallel — I just transferred it right over and started working in the new system."

Linda Jones | Controller, Robert Cohen Co. | Albuquerque, NM
"With the way permissions are set up, nobody has access to anything they don't need, especially payroll. And I can see all the activity, if I need to, in the log file."

Linda Jones | Controller, Robert Cohen Co. | Albuquerque, NM
"I was very familiar with another software that we used at the construction company I used to work at. But when I compared Enterprise to the other system, Enterprise was much lower in cost."¹

Linda Jones | Controller, Robert Cohen Co. | Albuquerque, NM
"Our custom P&L in QuickBooks is a great feature that has saved us money on payroll with the subcontractors."

Suzanne Woolum | Office Manager, Residential Drywall | Hiram, GA
"Anything that goes through the business goes into QuickBooks."

Suzanne Woolum | Office Manager, Residential Drywall | Hiram, GA

Keep a Competitive Edge with QuickBooks.

Control costs and cash flow, saving time and money, with QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise.

Keep your profits in place.
The customizable reporting features built into our contractor
accounting software lets you stay on top of job costs and
cash flow so you can stay profitable through project
changes. Plus, payment optimization tools help you get paid
faster.

Develop accurate job costing estimates.
Inaccurate job costing can lead to lost profits, unhappy
clients, and missed opportunities. Enterprise helps move
construction projects from initial estimates to a clear,
professional quote. Then it helps you manage costs
throughout the project and track the bottom line.

Exceptional data capacity.
Are your vendor, customer, and item lists growing? Enterprise contractor software handles supersized data files with ease. And, you can work in two company files at once.²

Expanded user access and connections to the field.
Increase productivity and accomplish essential tasks faster with simultaneous access for between 1 and 30 users.³ Our Hosting Service⁴ allows users to access your files from anywhere, any time,⁵ and you can connect remote workers with Field Service Management.

Run your most critical reports with ease.
Advanced Reporting⁶ puts the information you need at your fingertips. Find the right report fast with reports bundled for the contractor industry. Save time with templates auto-filled with your company information. Plus find answers to your reporting questions with our robust help portal.

Technical expertise not required.
You don't have to be an accounting software expert to make Enterprise run smoothly for you. Your subscription to Enterprise includes access to U.S.-based product experts to help you all along the way.⁷

Special Features for the Construction Industry

When you're juggling bids, estimates, change orders, vendors, subs,
employees, and a whole lot more, it's good to have these special
Enterprise features in your toolbox:

New! Payments Screen Search
Options
New! Industry-Specific Report
Bundles
Improved! Powerful Tools for
Accountants - Now Available
for You
Improved! E-Invoicing
Disallow Negative Inventory
Quantities
Total Any Column on Sales
and Purchases
Customized Chart of
Accounts

The Job Costing Center
Advanced Job Costing Tools
Change Order Functionality
Flexible Billing Rates
Estimates
Scheduling
Work Orders
Job Costing

New! Payments Screen Search Options

Forget scrolling through multiple pages of customer transactions to find a payment by date. You can now sort any column in the payments screen (date, order quantity, order amount, amount due, payment) and quickly find the transaction you're looking for.

New! Industry-Specific Report Bundles

With Advanced Reporting, our most powerful QuickBooks reporting tool, you won't need to sort through hundreds of reports to find the right one. We've bundled together the reports that our nonprofit customers have found the most useful.

Improved! Powerful Tools for Accountants - Now Available for You

We've unlocked several key tools previously reserved for accountants, to give you even more control over your books.
- Write off an outstanding invoice as bad debt.
- Speed up troubleshooting by using prior account balances to locate account discrepancies.
- Manage your lists more actively with our review list changes function. See what's been added, changed, and deleted in the
Chart of Accounts, Items, Fixed Assets, and Payroll Items lists.

Improved! E-Invoicing

A smarter solution for sending invoices and recording payments. Now, email invoices to your customers with a Pay Now link. All completed payments will be automatically applied to the invoice record, making invoice tracking a snap.

Disallow Negative Inventory Quantities

Maintain control of your average cost by preventing it from resetting when you have inventory on hand.

Total Any Column on Sales and Purchases

Reduce tedious work by totaling quantities and custom fields, like weight, on sales forms. Verify you're ordering the correct amount without having to manually total quantities on purchase orders.

Job Costing

The Work-in-Progress report is just one new Job Costing features.

Customized Chart of Accounts

Get immediate access to important information like your work in progress, overages and shortages, labor, materials, and more.

The Job Costing Center

A single screen summarizes key information on all jobs, such as job profitability and job costing highlights.

Advanced Job Costing Tools

See job profitability, estimates vs. actuals, job cost details, and profit and loss by job.

Change Order Functionality

Track and highlight changes to existing estimates, viewing all change orders for each job and their resulting cost impacts.

Flexible Billing Rates

You can assign different billing rates to your employees based on the job, the difficulty of the task, the employee's experience level, or other criteria.

Estimates

Turn estimates into invoices, billing by service items, percent complete, or dollar amount. View estimates versus actuals by job.

Scheduling

Schedule to-dos, reminders, due dates, etc. in the built-in calendar.

Work Orders

Create work orders from estimates and turn them directly into invoices.

Key Reports

Track your job costs automatically as you pay bills, employees, and subcontractors. Enterprise lets you see how you're doing at every phase of the job. Special Construction reports include:

Job Status
Job Costs by Job
Cost-to-Complete
Unpaid Bills by Job

Expenses Not Assigned to
Jobs
Billed/Unbilled Hours by
Person and Job
Open Purchase Orders by
Vendor

Job Status

Keep track of all of your jobs with one report.

Job Costs by Job

View a summary of job-related expenses of each job.

Cost-to-Complete

For each open job, see the percentage complete and cost to complete.

Unpaid Bills by Job

Quickly get a handle on the bills that have not been paid by job.

Expenses Not Assigned to Jobs

Get visibility to all of your expenses that are not currently assigned to a job.

Billed/Unbilled Hours by Person and Job

See how much time each person has spent on each job.

Open Purchase Orders by Vendor

View all of your open purchase orders by vendor at a glance.

Real Business. Real Stories.

Download this case study and learn how Enterprise has helped other contractor businesses flourish.

Robert Cohen Co. (PDF)
Robert Cohen Co. started out with QuickBooks Pro, but the company's growth pushed them to find a more powerful solution. Enterprise has helped the company save money, obtain accurate job costs, reduce time spent on reporting and maintain data security with user permissions.