Quickbooks Cloud
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Does anyone have any good experiences running QuickBooks on any cloud platform? I have an accountant moving to a new office and I'm questioning the need for a server for what I understand is a one man shop. I'm thinking of going Office 365 and putting his QuickBooks databases in a folder that gets backed up with OneDrive.
The problem is if he wants to access Quickbooks from outside the office, OneDrive won't work for that. So then I was thinking about some sort of hosted option. Does anyone have any experience with hosted QuickBooks? (good or bad) From what I have read, QuickBooks online is out because it doesn't work like the full version he is used to.
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Why would OneDrive not work when out of the office? Is he working from a Desktop and not a Laptop?
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@gjacobse It would work if he remembered to close his file at the office and no one else was using it. If he doesn't close the file at home or at the office, he's stuck. Also if he brings in any seasonal help and tried to access the file from home while someone at the office had it open, that would be bad.
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I've always setup Remote Desktop Services and bought RDS licenses when I had a client that needed that in the past.
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@Mike-Davis said in Quickbooks Cloud:
Does anyone have any good experiences running QuickBooks on any platform?
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@scottalanmiller I'm trying to move my company off of quickbooks.
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If you want to host QB, basically you need a TS or VDI setup to do it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Quickbooks Cloud:
@Mike-Davis said in Quickbooks Cloud:
Does anyone have any good experiences running QuickBooks on any platform?
NoSadly, I do. Business office uses it, and that's a battle I'm not fighting. Intuit looks even worse from the inside.
Basically, don't let anything touch the quickbooks files outside of quickbooks. When the program closes it will ask if they want to make a backup every 2-3 days. Just have them put the backup somewhere accessible, and put VNC or something on the computer that they normally run it from.
