Intuit quickbooks enterprise 2015 upgrade#
Intuit quickbooks enterprise 2015 software#

Intuit has told add-on software developers that they are discontinuing Intuit Sync Manager and services that support it on March 1st of 2016 (that's about 18-months from now). Sync- Manager - 'Your tombstone has already been cast…”

Intuit quickbooks enterprise 2015 upgrade#

The fact that Intuit has chosen to remove this functionality from Enterprise makes the product ‘significantly less useful’ to businesses that still do their own Payroll and Personnel management, and a lot of those businesses may simply decide that the few improvements in the 2015 product do not warrant the loss of Employee Organizer and so they just will not upgrade to Enterprise 15. Almost all ‘larger systems’ offer some form of data capture similar to Employee Organizer, it may be associated with their Payroll function, or in some cases its own Personnel module.

Thankfully most of that data from Employee Organizer can be printed out before migrating to the new version, but in my way of thinking Intuit may well have ‘cut their throats’ on this change for the worse. I asked a high-ranking member of the QuickBooks Enterprise product team about the reason Employee Organizer was being abandoned, and what would happen to the existing data, but I never got a reply. As I said I have no idea what will happen to the ‘wealth of data’ that was incorporated into the Employee Organizer of those clients when their Enterprise file is updated to the 2015 version. While not very many of my Enterprise customers used Employee Organizer, the ones that did absolutely positively ‘loved it’. Employee Organizer allowed you to track the entire ‘hiring process’, even before a candidate became an actual QuickBooks employee, you can’t do that in QuickBooks or QuickBooks Payroll. Since most small to medium businesses, the kind that use QuickBooks Enterprise, don’t really have dedicated Personnel Managers, this tool gave the same kind of resources you might see in much larger businesses. The Employee Organizer helped typical small businesses stay compliant with laws governing personnel matters and potentially allowed them to avoid the common mistakes that often times lead to litigation. I learned very quickly that keeping the right information, knowing what questions you could and could not ask, and insuring every aspect of compensation was managed ‘to the T’ were essential. Years (and years, and years) ago I served as Personnel Director for a fairly sizeable organization for a short time. For example, Employee Organizer allowed you to keep track of every pay-rate change, and even provided documentation concerning bonuses and performance pay awards. Employee Organizer allowed you to track and store critical employee information in one place within QuickBooks Enterprise, it shared data with the Employee Center and permitted the capture of things that QuickBooks Payroll simply can’t do. Įmployee Organizer (Figure 2 above) was a ‘free add-in’ to QuickBooks Enterprise and in years past it was one of their big ‘selling points’.

That’s right, QuickBooks Enterprise for 2015 no longer includes the Employee Organizer, and who knows what has happened to all the data you had recorded in it. If you are milling around inside QuickBooks Enterprise 15 looking for how you get to your Employee Organizer you might as well stop looking….it isn’t in there.

Employee Organizer – “You are ‘out of here’…” We have posted 5 or 6 articles about ‘what is new’ in QuickBooks for 2015 but in this article we want to review a few things you either won’t find, or things that are on their way ‘out the door’ as far as QuickBooks is concerned.