ETAP vs QuickBooks Online Advanced: Which is a better fit?

Carlos: Hi, this is Carlos. I'm a senior electrical engineer. I use ETAP. I gave ETAP a three. For more information, see the links below. Before ETAP, it was really, really hard to accomplish some of the tasks that we had for some of the clients that we had. Especially in the low voltage [crosstalk 00:00:29] studies and the eye flash and having a way to calculate all the different values required to for our flash calculations. Some of the reasons why we selected ETAP was it's very well known in the industry. They saw a lot of resources. Their customer service seems to be very, very, very useful. They tend to respond very fast. Also they have a lot of presence in most of the cities where if you are trying to find a training class or a seminar, you're always going to be able to find one. And that's very useful. But yeah. So those are some of the reasons. So the onboarding with ETAP was quite straightforward. It really didn't require much effort in our end. It was mainly just setting it up in one of the computers with the licensing, everything. So the downloading process and setting it up really didn't take too much. It was pretty straightforward. So no issues there. One of my recommendations for getting ETAP is that the software itself is very powerful. It's very, very useful. And one of the biggest advantages that ETAP has is that it's very well known and a lot of the industry uses it. And so there's no way around it. So it's a very powerful piece of software and it's very capable. So I don't see any disadvantages of having the software and using it for our flash calculations and short [crosstalk 00:02:29] studies. It's very useful for those types of applications.

Kira E.: Hi, my name's Kira. I'm an executive assistant at North40 Capital LLC, and I rate QuickBooks Online a five out of five. North40 Capital went ahead and looked at Sage 50 and Xero as other accounting and program options. However, they had limited features, and the price didn't match up to what QuickBooks Online could offer for us. We chose QuickBooks online due to its reputation and features. The fact that we can job cost for our different properties that we own, as well as having full-fledged accounting, is great. We can also integrate with our payroll system, which is another great feature for us. QuickBooks Online was very easy to integrate with. QuickBooks Online has the feature of allowing your accountant to be invited to your account, allowing seamless integration. We were up within a week after getting our account to process our accounting. If you're thinking of needing a great accounting program that is simple and easy to use for a non-accounting brain but also have full-fledged accounting process if you are looking for inviting your accountant, QuickBooks Online is your way to go. It's a cloud-based program that has multiple users being able to have access to it at different locations, as well as it has full features of job costing, payroll, profitability reports, and more.