What accounting software does QuoteWerks work with?

QuoteWerks integrates with the following accounting software:

Use a different accounting software? We also have integrations with others through 3rd party Accounting add-ons.

I already use QuickBooks or Peachtree. How will QuoteWerks compliment them?

QuoteWerks quoting software fills in the gap between contact management software (CRM) and accounting software.

CRM software helps you to manage your customers and leads, including daily communications, setting reminders for follow ups, tracking marketing campaigns, etc.

Accounting software helps you to manage receivables, payables, purchasing, inventory management, asset management, payroll, etc.

The advantage to having your CRM software and Accounting software be separate software packages is that each can do what they respectively do best.

Enter QuoteWerks...

QuoteWerks helps you create quotes and proposals quickly and easily integrating with both your CRM and your accounting software.

It gets your customer information from your CRM software, creates links to your quotes for the customer, schedules follow up calls in the CRM software for the customer, records emails sent to your customer in your contact management software, etc. QuoteWerks leverages all the functionality that you rely on in your CRM software.

Once the quote becomes an order, QuoteWerks then creates the customers, products, and invoices for you in your accounting software with no re-typing! Once the order/invoice is in your accounting software, your Accounting software can take over and do what it does best.

The solution is complete. From your CRM to QuoteWerks to your Accounting. It is for this reason we call QuoteWerks®...The other half of CRM®.

Reasons not to use your accounting software to create quotes

If you currently use your Accounting software to create quotes (often referred to as estimates), you may already be aware of the limitations of using your Accounting software to create quotes.

Part Number and Inflexibility issues
In most accounting software, in order to create a quote for a part number, the part number must already exist in the accounting software.  This is a problem for several reasons.  Whenever you need to quote a part number that is not already in your accounting software, you will need to create a new entry for it including description, cost, price, GL accounts, etc - before you can use it in the quote.  Not all quotes result in orders, so you will end up with a lot of part numbers in your accounting software that have never actually been sold.  To make matters worse, many accounting packages do not allow you to delete items once they have been entered into the accounting software, so that part number that you have never used will be stuck in your accounting software forever.

Administrative issues
Who is going to create these part numbers in the accounting software?  Are all the salespeople in the company going to have the security rights to add part numbers to your accounting software?  Of course, you could have your accounting person add these part numbers for your salespeople every time they create a new quote, but that would be a tremendous waste of your accountant's time.

Pricing and Security issues
Using accounting software to create quotes is for larger offices that have many sales people, poses even more challenges. First, requiring sales reps to have access to your accounting software raises many security related issues.  Your accounting software should only be used by the people who are well trained in accounting and the use of your accounting software. Furthermore, once sales reps have access to the accounting software, it is possible for them to view information other than quotes such as the companies' finances.  Lastly, accounting software licenses are typically more expensive than quoting software licenses. 

Portability
If you have remote sales reps in the field with laptops, will you install a copy of your accounting software on each of their laptops and then somehow try to merge those quotes back with the master accounting installation in the office. Accounting software is not designed to do this. Accounting software does not have the ability to let the sales person create a quote on a laptop, and then send it back to the main office where it can be imported into the master installation in the office. QuoteWerks can do this.

Lack of specialized quoting features
Quoting software is more flexible and more powerful in many ways. Quoting software has richer content, pictures, spec sheets, supports more pricing methods, links to other software such as your contact manager, and more.  It focuses more on the assembly of the quote with a Configurator, required items, price comparison features, price refreshing, links to external pricing data sources, etc. It is more flexible in that you can easily adjust profit margin, quote products on-the-fly without first creating them in the database. Quoting software gives you much more control over the look and feel of the quote that the customer receives.  Quoting software has built-in automation for assembling the quote, additional literature, spec sheets, etc and then automatically emailing it.  Quoting software also includes much more flexibility in your ability to create reports to retrieve information about your quoting and ordering.  QuoteWerks stores it's data in an industry standard database format so that you can use any software to retrieve information from. Accounting software usually stores their data in proprietary database formats that only the accounting software can read.  Not all accounting software packages can track commissions (since commission calculations are usually complex). 

There are more shortcomings to using accounting software to create quotes, but you get the idea...

Do any of these quoting difficulties sound familiar?  QuoteWerks can overcome all of them!

In Summary:

There are many reasons QuoteWerks customers use the QuoteWerks Accounting software integrations.

Most importantly, they use it to stop cluttering their accounting software with quotes and products that they haven't sold.

Eliminate the re-typing. When the quotes become orders, QuoteWerks creates the customers, products, and invoices for them with no re-typing!

It keeps their sales people out of their Accounting Software.

Remote sales reps can still create quotes remotely on the road and have them sync back to the main office.

Download the QuoteWerks Demo Version today and take our accounting integrations for a test drive.