Every ERP migration proposal has line items for software licensing, professional services, historical data conversion, dimension mapping, integration setup, and post-migration training. Most proposals do not have a line item for pre-migration chart of accounts cleanup. This is where cost blowouts happen. The single strongest predictor of migration cost is not the platform, not the transaction volume, not the historical period, not the integration inventory. It is the quality
Every ERP migration guide on the internet is either sales content dressed as advice or generic project management thinking. This one is different. Written for the CPA or controller who will actually execute the migration from QuickBooks Online to DualEntry, sourced to DualEntry's own documentation, and organized as a working checklist. Covers the two-path decision (connector vs opening balances), the numeric COA renumbering requirement, the QuickBooks-specific gaps to plan ar
