QuickBooks is not good if you want to really have a grasp of your inventory. There is no real "invnetory management" to speak of, just reports that do little more than show sales by periods.
One of the main things you SHOULD be able to do is "page down" through your inventory, usually by Class, Category, Supplier, Manufacturer, etc. This makes for much easier price changes, and stock level adjustments. With QB, you have to leave each item and call up the the next, a very cumbersome thing when changing several hundred prices.
I could go on all day, but to make it simple, if you want to really stay on top of and manage your inventory to maximize your return on investment, QB sucks.
You might try MYOB. It's comparable to QB in many ways, but has a much better inventory module and is 100 times better with "work in progress" if you assemble goods or need to add labor charges to complete assemblies.
Sage offers a number of products, they've bought out most everyone else. If they are still offering Peachtree, and have a UK version, that is the next step up from the QB level and is quite good. I don;t know if it's available for the UK, but worth a check if MYOB won't do.
My suggestion would be to download a MYOB trial and shake it out some. It's as easy to use as QB, does all of the same things, and is much better at inventory and payroll.
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Linear Mode
November 2008
