QuickBooks & QuickBooks Enterprise Migration · Microsoft Business Central
QuickBooks Got You
This Far. It Won’t
Get You Where You’re Going.
TechWise Group has migrated over 150 mid-market companies from QuickBooks to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, with zero data loss, a 90-day go-live, and a 3-day close on the other side. Led by former controllers who ran your exact numbers before.
QuickBooks Migrations Completed
Zero Data Loss
90-Day Go-Live
Former Controllers on Every Project
Tell Us If This Sounds Familiar
QuickBooks Was the Right Tool.
Until It Wasn’t.
QuickBooks works beautifully up to a point. Then the business grows past it, and the symptoms look like people problems before anyone admits it’s a system problem.
“Our close takes two and a half weeks. I’ve got three people doing nothing but reconciling for the first ten days of every month.“
Controller, $48M Manufacturer, Chicago
“We can’t run a consolidated P&L across our two entities in QuickBooks. We do it manually in Excel. Every. Single. Month.“
CFO, $62M Distribution Company, Philadelphia
“Our auditors told us QuickBooks audit trails don’t meet our SOX requirements. We knew it was coming. We just kept pushing it off.“
VP Finance, $85M Food & Beverage Company
“I joined six months ago. The company is $70M and running on QuickBooks Enterprise with 40 users. I told the CEO on week two we had to fix this.“
CFO (new hire), $70M Manufacturer, Los Angeles
The Hard Limits
What QuickBooks Can’t Do
That Business Central Does on Day One.
These aren’t workarounds. They’re architectural limits baked into QuickBooks that no amount of clever configuration can fix.
QuickBooks Enterprise
What you’re living with today
✕ Month-end close takes 10–18 days
✕ No real multi-entity consolidation
✕ No real-time job costing or WIP visibility
✕ Audit trails don’t meet SOX standards
✕ Reporting requires manual Excel exports
✕ 30-user limit creates access bottlenecks
✕ No native inventory or supply chain
✕ Disconnected from Microsoft 365 and Teams
✕ No compliance controls for HIPAA, FDA, CMMC
What you get on the other side
What you get on the other side
→ 3-day close: standard on every deployment
→ Full multi-entity consolidation, any structure
→ Real-time job costing and WIP on Day 1
→ SOX-compliant audit trails built in
→ Live Power BI dashboards, no exports needed
→ Unlimited users with role-based access
→ Native inventory, supply chain, manufacturing
→ Native Microsoft 365, Teams, and Copilot
→ SOX, HIPAA, FDA, CMMC controls from Day 1
A note on QuickBooks Online: QBO is even more limited than Desktop for mid-market companies. If you’re running a $20M+ business on QBO, the gap to Business Central is wider, but the migration is simpler. The data is cleaner and the move is faster. We’ve migrated over 150 of them.
Your Data Is Safe
Everything That Matters
Moves With You. Nothing Left Behind.
The fear of data loss is the number one reason companies stay on QuickBooks longer than they should. Here’s exactly what we migrate, and how we validate it before a single user goes live.
Full Transaction History
Every posted transaction: invoices, payments, journal entries, bills, migrated and validated. Your historical P&L and balance sheet reconcile to the penny.
Open AR & AP Balances
Every open invoice and unpaid bill migrates with aging intact. Your AR and AP aging reports on Day 1 of Business Central match your final QuickBooks reports exactly.
Chart of Accounts, Rebuilt
We don’t copy your COA. We redesign it for the reporting your board actually needs, dimensions, cost centers, departments, while preserving full historical mapping.
Customers & Vendors
Every customer and vendor record, contact details, terms, credit limits, full history, migrated and deduplicated. Your team doesn’t start over on relationship data.
Items & Inventory
Products, services, assemblies, and inventory quantities migrate with valuation method intact. We reconcile inventory values to your final QuickBooks balance before cutover.
Integrations & Third-Party Apps
Every QuickBooks integration is audited before the project starts. Most have Business Central equivalents, better ones. Nothing is left as a gap at go-live.
The Migration Process
From QuickBooks to Go-Live
in 90 Days. Here’s Exactly How.
No surprises. No off-track projects. Every milestone agreed before Day 1 and validated weekly. Here’s the process we’ve refined across over 150 migrations.
01
Discovery
Chart of accounts review, integration audit, user mapping, compliance requirements, data quality assessment. Every integration documented before any configuration begins.
Deliverable: Migration scope + audit
02
BC Configuration
Business Central configured to your close cycle, approval workflows, compliance controls, and Power BI dashboards, built the way your finance team actually needs it to work.
Deliverable: Configured BC environment
03
Data Migration &
Validation
Validation
Full QuickBooks data extraction, transformation, and load. Every balance validated against your final QuickBooks trial balance. Historical P&L intact and auditable from Day 1.
Deliverable: Validated data, zero loss
04
Training & UAT
Role-based training for your finance and operations team. User acceptance testing against your real QuickBooks data in BC. Your team confirms every number before go-live is set.
Deliverable: Trained team + UAT sign-off
05
Go-Live
Cutover on the agreed date. TechWise present for Day 1 and your first full close. QuickBooks retired only when your team is confident in BC.
Deliverable: Live in BC
06
Strategic Support
Quarterly Business Reviews with Power BI ROI dashboards. Ongoing support, patch management, and a named TechWise contact. The relationship starts at go-live, it doesn’t end there.
Deliverable: Ongoing partnership
The Zero-Surprise Guarantee
Every TechWise migration includes a weekly ROI checkpoint, a standing review of timeline, budget, and data validation status. If anything is off track, you know immediately. Not at go-live. Not on the invoice. Before it becomes a problem.
Why TechWise for This Migration
over 150 Migrations Means
We’ve Already Solved Your Problem.
Every QuickBooks migration has a version of the same three or four problems. We’ve seen all of them. Here’s what makes our approach different.
01
Former Controllers Lead Every Project
Not project managers. Not technical architects. Accountants who have closed the books on a QuickBooks company and know exactly what breaks in month one of a new ERP.
02
Your Budget Model. Zero Surprises.
Fixed-Fee or Time & Materials, you choose. Cost is scoped before Day 1. Our over 150 migration track record means we scope accurately. No “unforeseen complexity” invoices.
03
The Parallel Run Is Non-Negotiable
We run both systems simultaneously until your finance team trusts every number in Business Central. Most partners skip this to save time. We don’t. It’s how over 150 migrations end with zero data loss.
04
Compliance Is Built In, Not Added On
SOX audit trails, role-based access, segregation of duties, configured into the architecture before go-live. Not bolted on when your auditors ask. They’ll ask. We’ll already have it ready.
05
Your COA Gets Rebuilt, Not Copied
Quarterly Business Reviews with a live Power BI ROI dashboard. Your first close in Business Central will be better than your last close in QuickBooks. We make sure of it.
06
We Don’t Disappear After Go-Live
Quarterly Business Reviews with a live Power BI ROI dashboard. Your first close in Business Central will be better than your last close in QuickBooks. We make sure of it.
Migration Results
What Happens on the Other Side.
Numbers from actual TechWise QuickBooks migrations, not projections.
over 150
QuickBooks migrations completed
QB, QBE, QBO, all versions
3
Average days to close post-migration
vs. 12–18 days on QuickBooks
90
Days from kickoff to go-live
Fixed timeline, no exceptions
Zero
Data loss across all migrations
Every balance validated pre-cutover
“We’d been on QuickBooks Enterprise for nine years. Four entities, 45 users, and a close that took 16 days. TechWise moved us to Business Central in 11 weeks. Our first close was 4 days. The consolidation alone was worth every dollar, we used to spend a week on intercompany eliminations in Excel.”
CFO, $78M Multi-Entity Distributor, Chicago Metropolitan Area
Common Questions
QuickBooks Migration Questions
We Hear Every Week.
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Tell Us What’s Broken.
We’ll Tell You How to Fix It.
Every managed engagement starts with a free assessment of your environment: no scope surprises. Tell us what’s broken, what’s keeping you up at night, or what you’re trying to build. We’ll tell you exactly what it takes and which model fits.