QuickBooks Online vs. TallyPrime

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
TallyPrime
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
TallyPrime is a business management software solution focusing on accounting and invoicing functionality, designed with flexibility to suit different purchase and sales processes, followed by the business. Users can share invoices, orders and more via WhatsApp directly from TallyPrime.
$855
one-time fee
Pricing
QuickBooks OnlineTallyPrime
Editions & Modules
Simple Start
$38
per month
Essentials
$75
per month
Plus
$115
per month
Advanced
$275
per month
Silver
$855
one-time fee
Gold
$2,565
one-time fee
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
QuickBooks OnlineTallyPrime
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUsers can also rent the product for 3, 6 or. 12 month durations at a slightly higher rate.
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Community Pulse
QuickBooks OnlineTallyPrime
Features
QuickBooks OnlineTallyPrime
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.4
Ratings
8% above category average
TallyPrime
-
Ratings
Pay calculation7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.3
Ratings
8% above category average
TallyPrime
-
Ratings
API for custom integration8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Plug-ins8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
9.7
Ratings
15% above category average
TallyPrime
-
Ratings
Single sign-on capability9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.1
Ratings
3% above category average
TallyPrime
-
Ratings
Dashboards8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.5
Ratings
9% above category average
TallyPrime
-
Ratings
Accounts payable9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Accounts receivable9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Cash management8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Bank reconciliation9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense management8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Time tracking6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Fixed asset management8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency support7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-division support9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Regulations compliance9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic tax filing9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service portal8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Financial Support8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Localizations8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
7.5
Ratings
2% above category average
TallyPrime
-
Ratings
Inventory tracking8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic reordering7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Location management8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing module7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
QuickBooks Online
8.4
Ratings
8% above category average
TallyPrime
-
Ratings
Pricing8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Order entry8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit card processing8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost of goods sold9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Orchestration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Order exception Resolution8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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QuickBooks OnlineTallyPrime
Small Businesses
QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
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Score 8.9 out of 10
QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Zoho Books
Zoho Books
Score 9.0 out of 10
Zoho Books
Zoho Books
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
QuickBooks OnlineTallyPrime
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.9
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
2.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
1.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
1.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
3.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
1.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
1.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
1.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
QuickBooks OnlineTallyPrime
Likelihood to Recommend
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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There was a need to maintain a clear overview of the inventory for one of our clients, including tracking products, monitoring stock levels, and managing purchase orders. TallyPrime's inventory management feature allowed us to efficiently track and update stock quantities as products are sold or restocked. Which was a real savour for us.
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Pros
  • 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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  • TallyPrime simplifies tax management by automatically calculating various taxes, such as GST, based on transaction data.
  • TallyPrime's payroll module handles complex payroll calculations effortlessly
  • It offers user-level access control and encryption, ensuring that sensitive financial data is protected
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Cons
  • 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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  • TDL related automation is something that I'm very curious and TallyPrime should invest time to develop it and provide Knowledge training on it.
  • I feel the necessity to introduce the TallyPrime software access in a handheld device access or via web such that on the go transaction can be made noted in TallyPrime without resorting to Desktop environment
  • The UI should also be changed currently, whenever I sit, I use keyboard like a typewriter and that aesthetic must be modified with a feature
  • The theming feature should be introduced in the TallyPrime, earlier, in TallyERP 9, we have green color screen with some shades of green and now that they have changed that to some blue with bluish shade, I'm curious to have customized colors.
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Likelihood to Renew
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
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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I use it regularly, so I feel it as best apart from the User Interface. For recording general day to day transactions, it is apt and to go far beyond given features and for customization, there is a need for the Tally expert to assess the business requirement, So I feel the rating is apt in this judgement.
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Reliability and Availability
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
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
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
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
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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For petty transactions, Microsoft Excel is in place earlier to track the expenses and TallyPrime has replaced it with cost centers and sub-ledgers. Zoho Books being a cloud based accounting software, before considering TallyPrime, has suited the Business requirement to some extent, however, it is not adopted owing to certain challenges. SAP is far beyond the business requirement and the Learning curve is high in that.
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Scalability
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
  • 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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  • It gives the best return on investment, if alternative chosen it won't suit the way TallyPrime suits
  • I feel 90% will be the ROI of TallyPrime, the 10% is deduced as some manual intervention is needed at places
  • The learning curve is also good, which the reason, the newbie can grab the best of it
  • overall, the Impact is positive till the time Audit is in place
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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