Looking for a good QB add-on for time-tracking for multiple employees.

These are the advantages of QBO over Desktop - I am a Pro Advisor certified with Quickbooks Online. If the Pro Advisor you are talking to is trying to move you into Desktop, they do not want to work with QBO. QBO Plus is superior to any of the desktop versions if it matches your industry needs.

The following is from the QBO Intuit Certification Documentation:

Specifically to your question: QBO allows the setup of unlimited users to view reports only or enter time tracking, depending on the subscription level chosen. This is not so in QuickBooks desktop.

And QBO has its own set of third party apps built just for it.
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QuickBooks Online Advantages over QuickBooks Desktop:

In addition to the general advantage of having cloud-based accounting with QuickBooks Online, here are some specific ways in which the features in QBO present significant advantages over the features available in QuickBooks desktop versions:

>> Invoice/Sales Receipt Automation –
In QuickBooks desktop versions, you can memorize these transactions, but QBO will go further and send them out automatically to clients.

>>Delayed customer charges/billing –
QuickBooks desktop versions won’t automatically create invoices for unbilled time and costs, but QuickBooks Online will do it.

>>Activity Log – QuickBooks desktop offers the Audit Trail, which tracks a transaction being created, modified, and/or deleted. The Audit Trail does not track logins, third party activity, or list changes. The Activity Log in QuickBooks Online tracks all those activities.

>>No need for an Accountant’s Copy – There is no need to transfer data back and forth via an Accountant’s Copy when doing your work in a client’s QuickBooks Online data. (In fact, there is no such thing as an Accountant’s Copy in QBO.) Just log right in and do the work.

>>Automatic e-mail reporting – In QBO, you can set up memorized reports and memorized report groups to run automatically on schedules you set, and the reports are sent automatically to specified recipients. QuickBooks desktop versions don’t do this.

>>Bank transactions are automatically downloaded nightly – In QuickBooks desktop, you have to enter a password each time and initiate a bank download manually. QBO does it all for you, nightly, and automatically.

>>Unlimited report reader and time tracker users – QBO allows the setup of unlimited users to view reports only or enter time tracking, depending on the subscription level chosen. This is not so in QuickBooks desktop.

>>Both Class and Location tracking – While QuickBooks desktop allows for reporting on the company “pie” by class, QuickBooks Online Plus offers specifying either a class or a location or both on transactions, and can report on whatever is being tracked. This is a management tool that QuickBooks desktop just does not have.

>>For Accountants –
Multiple Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable lines in journal entries:

QuickBooks desktop allows for just one A/R or A/P account per journal entry. As a result, recording yearend and reversing journal entries with multiple A/R and A/P accounts is time-consuming in QuickBooks desktop, but very easy in QBO.

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Mainly you need to find a Certified Pro Advisor who is certified in QBO.
Like me.

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