QuickBooks is beloved by small businesses for good reason. The accounting software makes basic financial management seamless for early-stage companies just getting off the ground.
But there often comes a point as you scale when QuickBooks starts holding your business back rather than supporting growth. Common growing pains include:
Limited custom reporting
QuickBooks’ canned reports barely scratch the surface of data and insights you need to run a growing organization. As you add new business units or revenue streams, reporting complexity increases exponentially. Pretty soon your finance team is manually extracting data to build custom reports in Excel – a tedious, risky process.
NetSuite Solution: Robust Reporting and Analytics With built-in business intelligence across all modules and departments, NetSuite gives you 360-degree visibility with a few clicks. Finance can consolidate global financial data, sales can run real-time pipeline and forecast reports and executives have custom dashboards displaying the exact KPIs they need to guide daily decisions.
Data silos and manual processes
As a small business, it’s easy enough to toggle between QuickBooks for accounting, spreadsheets for reporting and other disjointed systems for order management, inventory, etc. But as you grow to hundreds of SKUs, thousands of orders and a multi-entity legal structure, those manual workarounds turn finance into a juggling act. A single visibility platform becomes imperative.
NetSuite Solution: Unified Platform NetSuite operates off a single cloud database giving you one version of the truth across financials, revenue management, fixed assets, procurement, inventory, manufacturing, billing and more. With 100% visibility and seamless end-to-end processes, you can support scale while keeping ops lean.
Outgrowing third-party apps
QuickBooks touts integration with hundreds of apps to augment functionality from payroll to planning to procurement. But we’ve seen clients outgrow those ancillary systems as complexity increases. One manufacturing client had an Advanced Production module that capped at managing just 75 SKUs in QuickBooks!
NetSuite Solution: Purpose-Built Functionality Designed from Day 1 as an integrated ERP platform, NetSuite gives growing businesses license to…well, grow! All core business processes from discrete manufacturing to revenue recognition are baked into the suite – no more third-party accent apps required.
Caution keeping pace with ecommerce
QuickBooks + Shopify seems like a perfect pairing…until order volumes outpace what QuickBooks Online can handle. Many retailer clients struggle once they reach tens of thousands of SKUs and hundreds of thousands of orders, causing performance slowdowns. QuickBooks simply wasn’t engineered to process and report on huge ecommerce data volumes in real-time.
NetSuite Solution: Built for Omnichannel Commerce NetSuite provides complete visibility and management control across all channels with unified reporting on financials, orders, inventory, and customers across web and brick-and-mortar. Thanks to NetSuite’s cloud infrastructure, system performance scales rapidly on pace with the largest ecommerce operations.
Outgrowing multiple QuickBooks company files
Once you begin opening international subsidiaries, running multiple divisions or adding new lines of business, a single QuickBooks Online company file gets unwieldy. Marie Kondo would cringe at the duplicate lists and clumsy intercompany accounting many growing businesses tolerate! At some point, you must migrate to a global accounting system – easier done sooner than later.
NetSuite Solution: Multi-Everything! NetSuite gives growing enterprises one cloud ERP platform to rule locations, currencies, subsidiaries, business models and more. No matter how complex your business structure gets as you scale and expand globally, NetSuite has you covered with flexibility for multi-entity management out of the box.
Why Choose SuiteRep for NetSuite Implementation?
Once the pain of QuickBooks scalability limitations hits home, we understand the urgency to get a modern cloud ERP like NetSuite up and running quickly. At SuiteRep, we specialize in helping fast-growing businesses make that leap successfully via informed NetSuite implementations that check all the boxes: built-in best practices, clear business processes, frictionless user adoption and helpful change management.
Here are a few reasons growing organizations consistently choose SuiteRep as their NetSuite implementation partner:
Guiding High-Growth Transitions for 15+ Years: We live for that pivotal moment when an organization realizes they’ve outgrown their small-business accounting software like QuickBooks…and needs to elevate to an enterprise-class system ASAP without missing a beat on growth ambitions. SuiteRep has guided hundreds of fast-moving companies through that transition smoothly and successfully – typically more nimble than large SI shops yet bringing bigger breadth of expertise.
100% Focused on NetSuite: Some big integrator shops sell dozens of competing solutions across ERP, CRM and other platforms – but SuiteRep works exclusively within the NetSuite ecosystem. Our team of NetSuite developers and consultants undergoes the most rigorous NetSuite training and certification to translate software expertise into rapid implementation velocity focused strictly on what’s best for your scaling business.
Built-in Leading Practices: Whether coming from QuickBooks or a legacy on-premise system, we help you transition to next-gen business processes with NetSuite – not just replicate outdated ways of operating. Our solutions incorporate proven industry best practices and process templates honed from hundreds of diverse NetSuite engagements.
NetSuite alignment lets us fast-track clients’ business transformations and time to outcomes. If you’ve outgrown QuickBooks, lean on SuiteRep’s NetSuite prowess to take your company even further, even faster. Contact to explore your growth potential unleashed by NetSuite.
