Exact Online vs. QuickBooks Online

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Exact Online
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Exact Online is a configurable, cloud-based multi-purpose Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Suite from global company Exact Software, headquartered in the Netherlands.
$158
per month
QuickBooks Online
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
QuickBooks Online is a SaaS version of the QuickBooks product. It contains all of the features found in the local version. Higher-priced plans include greater automation, payment management, inventory and time tracking, and analytics features.
$38
per month
Pricing
Exact OnlineQuickBooks Online
Editions & Modules
Exact for Time & Billing
$158
per month
Exact for Wholesale Distribution
237-554
per month
Exact for Project Management
316-369
per month
Exact for Manufacturing
422-739
per month
Simple Start
$38
per month
Essentials
$75
per month
Plus
$115
per month
Advanced
$275
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Exact OnlineQuickBooks Online
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Exact OnlineQuickBooks Online
Features
Exact OnlineQuickBooks Online
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Exact Online
7.5
Ratings
1% below category average
QuickBooks Online
8.3
Ratings
8% above category average
API for custom integration8.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Plug-ins7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Exact Online
8.0
Ratings
2% below category average
QuickBooks Online
9.7
Ratings
15% above category average
Single sign-on capability8.00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Exact Online
4.7
Ratings
42% below category average
QuickBooks Online
8.1
Ratings
3% above category average
Dashboards4.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Standard reports6.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Custom reports4.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Exact Online
6.9
Ratings
11% below category average
QuickBooks Online
8.6
Ratings
10% above category average
Accounts payable7.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Accounts receivable7.00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Global Financial Support5.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers5.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations6.00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Configurable Accounting7.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Cash management00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Bank reconciliation00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Expense management00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Time tracking00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Fixed asset management00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Multi-currency support00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Multi-division support00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Regulations compliance00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Electronic tax filing00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Self-service portal00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Localizations00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Exact Online
7.0
Ratings
12% below category average
QuickBooks Online
7.5
Ratings
2% above category average
Inventory tracking7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Automatic reordering00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Location management00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Manufacturing module00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Exact Online
6.7
Ratings
16% below category average
QuickBooks Online
8.4
Ratings
8% above category average
Pricing7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Order entry7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Cost of goods sold6.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Credit card processing00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Order Orchestration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Order exception Resolution00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Exact Online
6.7
Ratings
11% below category average
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
Billing Management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Period Close7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Exact Online
6.7
Ratings
13% below category average
QuickBooks Online
-
Ratings
Budgeting and Forecasting8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Costing8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost Capture7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Capital Project Management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Exact Online
-
Ratings
QuickBooks Online
8.4
Ratings
8% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
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User Ratings
Exact OnlineQuickBooks Online
Likelihood to Recommend
4.0
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8.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
1.9
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
2.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
1.1
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
1.3
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Exact OnlineQuickBooks Online
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a big company and have an active accountant then this system can be for you, it has many options but you need dedication. But the price starts from €39 and then you are not there...Most of the time you need other options to make it complete. Like ERP functions + €199~ want to book hours? +€129. And this is all per month... It goes up so fast that it's not interesting for small companies. When there are better options on the market that are even free...
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I appreciate the ability to auto-generate invoices for recurring transactions, which saves time, as well as the option to set up auto-generated transactions. The report option is super helpful when reviewing information, as you can click to view the details in the report without having to go back and forth.
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Pros
  • Complete pack with many options, use it as CRM, ERP or simply for your bookings.
  • Many connections with external programs, webshops, etc.
  • Automatic backups.
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  • It enables me to do a P&L for each specific program as requested by the county for the grant money that they give us.
  • It enables me to do [an] organizational budget as well as a budget for each specific program
  • It enables the accountant and the auditor access at any time for transparency
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Cons
  • Support... It's bad, and when you want to stop or step back it's near impossible.
  • Price, they tend to increase it without warning, and with all the extras it goes up fast.
  • If you wanna spend all your time in accounting buy Exact... It can be complex and many handlings needs to be done.
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  • Purchase Orders cannot be linked to multiple bill payments which makes tracking purchase orders in QuickBooks Online obsolete. Without the function we have to track this within a different more manual spreadsheet.
  • Would be helpful if you could "split" bank transactions directly from the "review" downloads from the bank. Currently, to split transactions to multiple accounts we need to first categorize, then review after assigning to 1 account.
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
QBO needs better integration with non-Intuit products and developers need to use Intuit's open API to develop better add-ons. Clients are having a great deal of problems with their data importing from the bank and this takes time away from better revenue producing activities. Although the efficiencies are there, they are outweighted by the shortcomings of the product. When we ran a parallel of QBO versus other cloud accounting products, we had more issues with the QBO product than any other
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Usability
No answers on this topic
I had very little trouble setting up the program and migrating from our old accounting system. The daily usage is also very intuitive and easy. Anytime we run into minor trouble with the program, there are always tons of help available on YouTube, so we don't even look up the online manual anymore.
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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
We have rarely had outages in the last 10 years. I can only recall 2 times in the last 10 years where we were not able to access our client files.
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Performance
No answers on this topic
Everything process has its bugs lately with the new interface. Nothing has worked smoothly since this all began last month.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
In my experience, most representatives keep me on the phone for hours, literally, for a single issue and then usually cannot resolve it satisfactorily. I have 10 open cases that need resolution and, in my experience, there has been NO follow-up communication on any of them.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
The person in charge of QB needs to be very accurate with record keeping and is recommended to stay on top of tasks. The biggest issue we have is reconciliation, and those issues occur only when too much time has occurred between reconciliations
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Alternatives Considered
I would not select Exact Online, but I can direct you to better options. Due to the high price, getting behind the competition and support I would suggest options like Zoho Books for you bookings, or CyberStockroom as ERP. And here in the Netherlands e-boekhouden.nl is a real nice, cheap, and fast working booking platform for the smaller companies.
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QuickBooks Online is an accounting software package that allows companies to use a cost-effective and efficient software package. QuickBooks Online allows companies to prepare their balance sheets and income statements. It connects with a variety of other applications, which allows you to be efficient. We are very pleased with QuickBooks Online, and we would highly recommend it.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
As we have grown along our professional path, we have also expanded our use of QB. The scalability is easy and features seem to be waiting for you until you need them. We have increased profits by over 10x from our first year in business to the current and have yet to find a reason to look elsewhere
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Return on Investment
  • Negative: High costs and implement time turned 1 client in to the negative, and after 2 years of use wants to stop.
  • Positive: Once an ERP connection is running you can automate a lot in the process.
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  • I think the help function is cumbersome and hard to use. When I go to refresh myself on a function, say quarterly, I feel like I have to cast about just looking for it.
  • The account reconciliation works, but in this place that could benefit from messaging, there are no easy helping functions flagging things like amounts that fit the discrepancy.
  • Even styling invoices and documents is more cumbersome than it should be.
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ScreenShots

QuickBooks Online Screenshots

Screenshot of the accounting and bank transactions interfaceScreenshot of an overview of the accounting inventoryScreenshot of book marksScreenshot of the business tax overviewScreenshot of the customer hubScreenshot of the dashboard