Did you know that by continuing to use QuickBooks year after year, you’re exchanging valuable time for endless manual data entry? This results in extended work hours, sacrificed evenings and weekends, and ultimately achieving less despite having more people—all to accomplish what an automated, CRM-connected accounting solution could easily provide.
So, what’s the true cost of maintaining the status quo? From a business standpoint, it means missed growth opportunities, lack of visibility into profitability and performance, and increased manual work for you and your team. More importantly, on a personal level, it means more late nights, missed family moments, and a lower overall quality of life. While QuickBooks may have been effective in the early stages of your business, its limitations become increasingly evident as your company grows and becomes more complex.
Here are five clear signs it’s time to consider transitioning from QuickBooks to a more robust, CRM-connected accounting platform like Accounting Seed.
1. You keep adding integrations to manage your accounting—with frustrating results
With QuickBooks, your CRM data doesn’t integrate with your accounting data, forcing you to add costly third-party integrations. Despite these connectors, you still face duplicate data entry and poor data hygiene, leading to errors, discrepancies, and wasted time. These integrations often break as your business evolves, requiring constant rebuilding. Accounting Seed, built natively on the Salesforce platform, offers a cloud-based solution that connects your front and back office seamlessly, providing a single source of truth across your business. Its flexibility ensures that what you build today will grow with your business over time, unlike other solutions that require patching together as you expand.
2. You can’t trust your financial data
As your business grows and gains complexity, the reliability of your financial data in QuickBooks becomes questionable. Customer information is scattered across multiple systems, making it difficult to identify the most accurate data source. QuickBooks relies on integrations that are not always in sync or real-time, leading to confusion and uncertainty when running reports and analyzing metrics. Accounting Seed, built on the Salesforce platform, houses your sales, operations, and financial data in one place, ensuring you always have the most up-to-date and reliable information. This facilitates seamless collaboration between departments and timely, informed business decisions.
3. Your business is expanding globally without the accounting support to match
QuickBooks is not a global solution, necessitating different accounting software for operations in various countries. This fragmented approach results in higher costs, disconnected data, and complex integrations. Accounting Seed supports global businesses across various industries and offers features for multi-company and multi-currency operations, making it well-suited for international expansion.
4. You’re drowning in spreadsheets, forcing you to make decisions based on old data
QuickBooks’ lack of advanced data tagging and multidimensional data slicing capabilities leads to a reliance on manual spreadsheet work. This consumes productivity and means that by the time data is sorted and formatted for leadership, it’s outdated. Accounting Seed allows you to assign multi-dimensional tags to your financial data, enabling easy categorization and real-time financial reporting. Out-of-the-box dashboards for key metrics provide instant visibility into your company’s performance, unlike QuickBooks, which requires creative integrations for multidimensional reporting.
5. You lack the business intelligence you need to drive your business forward
QuickBooks’ limited reporting capabilities hinder your ability to analyze revenue trends, compare performance across products, regions, or customer segments, and uncover actionable insights. This often necessitates additional apps and exporting data to spreadsheets, leading to inefficiencies and errors. Accounting Seed offers powerful built-in business intelligence capabilities, including advanced financial analytics, interactive dashboards, and charts. These tools allow you to visualize data, and spot patterns, anomalies, and opportunities, providing a comprehensive view of your business and facilitating growth.
By recognizing these signs, you can make an informed decision to move beyond QuickBooks and adopt a more advanced accounting solution like Accounting Seed. If you’d like to learn more about Accounting Seed and how it can help save you valuable time and money, contact us – we’re happy to help!