Quickbooks Desktop version inventory features

Hi Chrea and Ariell,

I appreciate your detailed responses, which I have reviewed, mostly understand and have some follow up questions.

For background, we are a small grower nursery that basically never changes.  Most of the business is customer retail handled at a cash register, the rest is wholesale with a 10 year old Windows XP computer and accounting program that can not run on Windows 10/11 so needs replacing.  We use the inventory module only for quantity tracking with no interest about cost accounting, so lacking a bin location field, use the xx.xx item cost to hold up to two 2 digit (00-99) bin locations and a custom report builder to generate pick tickets with one or possibly two bin locations for each item.

From what I think I have found following the links in your response, the least expensive Quickbooks only solution that includes bin locations and built in or custom pick ticket reports is the QBDT Enterprise Platinum which is $2,363 yearly for the first year, which includes Advanced Inventory and Advanced Reporting at no additional cost, but no mention if this is an introductory price or what it may cost in year two and beyond?

One alternative is to find a third party inventory application to add the multiple bin location and pick tickets features to either QBDT Pro ($840 per year) or Premium ($1,399 per year) whose additive yearly cost would hopefully be less than using the Enterprise Platinum.  As it is my understanding that both QBDT Pro and Premium include basic inventory, I believe my last and hopefully least expensive alternative is to use either Pro or Premium with the same item cost xx.xx bin tracking as with our existing accounting system along with a custom report writer application to duplicate our custom pick tickets?

As the payback for an automated system represents a small percentage of an already small business, I am hopefully going to be able to afford to advance our office with QBDT Pro and either a custom inventory or report writer application, versus finding a reasonably healthy XP computer and retaining our old accounting application.

I have spoken with Sales, received confirmation regarding the features and limitations of the QBDT Pro, Premier and Enterprise versions, but got no useful answers regarding the ability to use custom applications to meet our requirements, so very much looking forward to your response regarding our options?

Thanks again for all your help,

Jeff