QuickBooks for a front end software

[totalautocare]

Has anybody who runs a larger or larger volume shop used QuickBooks for your estimating software?

 

What were your pros and cons?

 

I'm interested in it because I think the contact management is actually better than Mitchell, alldata etc. And want to link it to "sugar".

 

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[lmcca]

yuck, you would have to manually input EVERYTHING, no online parts importing, no labor importing etc. It may work for small shops but i see a major hinder to larger volume shops, and thats just those two things.

[PAPShop]

yuck, you would have to manually input EVERYTHING, no online parts importing, no labor importing etc. It may work for small shops but i see a major hinder to larger volume shops, and thats just those two things.

DO NOT DO IT!! DO NOT EVEN THINK OF DOING IT!!

 

For exactly the reasons above. It is currently what we do, we are looking at SMS because it is so time consuming and clunky to use Quickbooks. Nothing is smooth and there is a lot you have to "make do".

[GeeZ]

Doesn't work. It is a nightmare.

[kellyurl13]

We are not a larger shop(just over a million a year) , but have used it for 7 years with fantastic results. None of the bells and whistles that go unused and are really just sales gimmicks. Massaging it into what you want is time consuming, but it is so easy after that and you can follow the accounting a lot easier. I spent 16 years using various shop management software that was "clunky" to use and not very intuitive. QuickBooks has saved me a lot of money, not just from software cost and fees, but from my accountant also. If I factor in the time spent creating a system that works for me, I'm still thousands ahead of the game.