Encore MGR vs QuickBooks Desktop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Encore MGR
Coordinate your mobile workforce with live GPS tracking and real-time activity updates. Optimize routes and manage staff efficiently from any smartphone or tablet, even when away from the office.
- Live GPS team tracking
- Real-time activity updates
- Route optimization
- Activity duration monitoring
- Closest To feature
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Encore’s Manager App allows you to effortlessly coordinate your mobile workforce while away from the office. Use Manager App to see a live view map of your team’s positions on any smartphone or tablet, and make workflow adjustments, route changes, and activity checkups in near real-time. By directing in a mobile environment, you can now take your Encore account on the go, and experience even greater convenience when it comes to managing your staff. • Receive near real-time activity updates on your mobile device when users fill out forms, clock in and out, or turn their vehicles on and off. • Display the last-known GPS position of a specific device on a map. • Monitor the duration of certain activities, like vehicle stopped, idle, or moving statuses. • Optimize routes using the Closest To feature, which shows the distance between the job site and workers.
QuickBooks Desktop
Streamline expense tracking by capturing receipts and bills directly from your mobile device. Automate entries, attach documents for audit trails, and track business mileage with ease. Designed for existing QuickBooks Desktop users to save time and stay organized.
- Scan receipts and automate expense entries
- Upload bills and automate bill entries
- Attach documents to transactions
- Track business mileage with auto-calculated distance
- Organize digital audit trails
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Are you a QuickBooks Desktop Pro Plus, Premier Plus or Enterprise customer? Save time with receipt and bill capture to automate entries. No more lost receipts or time consuming expense reports! Easily attach documents to transactions. Scan receipts - Save time by automatically creating categorized receipt expense entries. Just photograph, import and review. - Stay organized by attaching digital receipt images to expense transactions for audit trails. - Accurately categorize, modify or record multiple receipt transactions at once. Upload bills - Save time by automating bill entries. Just photograph, import, and review. - Stay organized by attaching files to bill transactions for simplified audit trails. Attach documents to your transactions - Attach documents to transactions faster by directly uploading them. - Save time by directly attaching multiple documents to transactions at once. - Stay organized by eliminating the need to store physical documents. Track your business mileage - Add your business miles on your mobile and manage it all in QuickBooks Desktop. - Distance will be auto-calculated using starting and ending locations. - QuickBooks automatically fetches the IRS standard mileage rate to calculate mileage expenses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Encore MGR at 4.7 against QuickBooks Desktop's 1.9. Encore MGR also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). QuickBooks Desktop's advantage is ratings volume (119 vs 7). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Encore MGR holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QuickBooks Desktop has 119 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Encore MGR's written reviews are positive against 5% of QuickBooks Desktop's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Encore MGR | QuickBooks Desktop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better | 1.9 (119 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 4.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 119 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 206 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Actsoft, Inc | Intuit Inc. |
Customer experience
Encore MGR
QuickBooks Desktop
Bugs and requests
Encore MGR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
QuickBooks Desktop
Reported bugs
45 issues- App freezes at logo screen
- Receipts take hours to show on desktop
- Doesn't work with desktop version
- Broken after working
- Receipt management doesn't work
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- Transaction creation failed
- Not flexible to change business name
- New app not out yet, but discontinued app still charging
- App won't work with subscription
- Scanning is a joke, takes too long
- Seldom works correctly
- Mimics phone screen, can't link or find company
- Can't recognize QuickBooks invoice
- Only allows 1 page documents
- Mileage app is somewhat pointless
- Developers focus on logos, not fixes
- Can only select bank account for credit card receipts
- Have to scroll through all accounts to find the right one
- Shows no company
- Duplicate company names
- Scan tool stopped working
- Can't add multiple employees/users per account
- Doesn't support JPEG upload to bills
- Doesn't sync with desktop
- Freezes on upload
- Companies don't show up
- App crashes every time
- Camera recognition is horrible
- Nightmare to attach receipts
- No receipts travel to desktop
- Company shows up many times
- Deleted companies still show on mobile app
- No camera access after update
- Camera doesn't recognize edges of receipts
- Scan only captures partial receipt
- Limited functionality, can't update file names or delete receipts
- Can't login despite being administrator
- Subscription confusing, keeps asking to pay more
- Doesn't connect with QuickBooks
- ID or password invalid
- Company duplicated with different IDs
- Hard to attach receipts
- Have to scroll through expense accounts
- Semi-functional mileage app
- Save button is behind the keyboard
Requested features
16 requests- See sales orders or purchase orders on sign-on
- Ability to see documents (sales orders/purchase orders)
- PDF conversion for scans
- Ability to type expense account description
- Get receipt recognition back
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- Allow PO's to be made from the app
- Scan directly into QB again
- Support going straight to bills
- Fix bug where credit card is not recognized as a card
- Allow users to hide or delete deleted companies from the mobile app
- Allow camera and photo access
- Improve scanning to capture entire receipt
- Allow switching between companies
- Allow attaching multiple pages
- Improve mileage tracking functionality
- Allow direct upload of receipts to bills
In-app purchases
Encore MGR
No in-app purchases
QuickBooks Desktop
No in-app purchases
Questions
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