Intuit Enterprise Suite vs. M1

QuickBooks does the basics of accounting pretty well, but is woefully deficient in its allowing of control to the user. Exporting information is in CSV format or Excel. It will export to no other spreadsheet software. Importing of information seems to have been made difficult by the intention of the developers of QuickBooks, to make it difficult. The CSV format for importing is simple enough, but you must, on your own, usually through a third party, find the appropriate column labels. Some reports are good but often, you find yourself needing a report with a category that is simply not available for that report.

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The M1 ERP is tailored for small to medium organizations, offering good features at least in the components utilized by my organization such as customizable workflows, user-friendly dashboards, ability to process orders, and track the entire orders lifecycle. It also has good customer interaction features in the CRM part. It provides robust data security, and offers scalable modules to grow with your business. Implementation is not challenging if you don't have so many customizations in the software.

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• Ease of processing payroll and providing all necessary reports and documents in one software such as tax forms and forms related to the financials.
• Ease of creating purchase orders to tie to vendor bills to track purchases made by the organization.
• Ease of creating financial reports with various filters and exporting them to PDF or excel for a simpler read and study of profit vs. losses.

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• Allows for component parts to be scheduled independently through the plant
• Once parts are built, it is easy to duplicate/reuse parts across they quoting and ordering modules and customers
• If used properly and consistently, M1 will provide accurate job cost analysis to determine estimating, training, efficiency and other issues.

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• owner access to view only and not be charged.
• One price includes at least ten users per entity.
• Become free when you charge take over a certain amount of payments
• be faster when pulling up reports and dont show ads
• include more AI features. The current ones too basic
• include property management software so the properties accounting can stay with Intuit

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• Some of the functions are pretty detailed - and so they take a while to generate screens and pages in reports.
• We actually use it for 2 companies we own - and it would be nice if the inter company communication was a little smoother. It's hard to share some data, and not everything is possible to be shared.
• Customized reports need to backed up before any updates to M1 or they're lost. It seems M1 overwrites the report folders everytime you run an update - so you have to keep track of what you've changed in Crystal Reports and restore it.

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Because I love the software and the people behind it are passionate about building the features to support business growth. They have built so many features I have asked for and it gets better and better

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I really enjoyed using this product and it was great having all the tools we needed in one place. I thought that employees would hate the time tracking capability, but they actually appreciated it. In the nonprofit industry, it is important to track time spent on projects for grants and this tool allows our staff to do this with little to no effort.

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Because it would be helpful if ECI would provide better documentation, communication and workflows to understand how each field interacts within the system and how each of those touch other areas within M1. It would also be useful if ECI would provide prescheduled training for how to customize things with M1 through Design Studio

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Excellent. I am the first Lighthouse customer and I see first hand that their team cares, they care about not just the features but about their customers and their success. They truly want their customers to succeed

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Support has been great and timely

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Low cost and a lot less dev work required

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M1 is light years ahead in overall cost and proficiency. It allows so much more control and flexibility as compared to its competitors. When choosing M1 we went through many demos and M1 was the only ERP that met our needs and still does. We also control our own data which is a big plus for us.

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• QuickBooks supplies a platform for basic accounting
• It allows us to operate our business from a banking and taxes perspective.
• It could do much more from a business management perspective.

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• Time savings having to only enter certain information once and have it follow through the entire order process from quote to cash

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