Thread: QuickBooks Hosting:Hosted Quickbooks For CPAs and small business

QuickBooks Hosting on terminal servers makes sense for CPAs or not?Are QuickBooks Terminal Services secure?Do QuickBooks Hosting really increaes my productivity or reduce my IT infrastructure costs?

These are some typical questions asked in relation to QuickBooks Hosting by an Aplication service provider.I will be analysing this question in detail, so that your curiousity regarding Hosted quickBooks give way to an informed choice regarding selection of QuickBooks Hosted service provider.

First of all Quickbooks hosting allow you to have access to oour Quickbooks files from any where anytime from any online connection.But still you are not bogged down by the slow connectivity you encounter while accessing any online application.How? Quickbooks hosted on any terminal server means that, your application is installed and run on the terminal servers and you access your QuickBooks application as a local desktop interface.Also your application is run on the fast terminal servers which ensures that you access the quickBooks file at a very high speed just like you access any application on your local desktop.

Further,Quickbooks Hosting allow you mobility and flexibility to access your file from anywhere as well as collaborate with others such as your client .This means that for exchanging files you do not have to meet your client personall and this can be done online.This surely saves your transportation cost thus ensuring that you can add more clients to your accounting firm.

QuickBooks Hosting has perceptible benefits for Small and medium business as well.They are absolved of the necessity of maintaining complete IT infrastructures for supporting QuickBooks, such as servers,backup facilities and Technical maintinenance personnel.Sice all your QuickBooks is installed and run on the QuickBooks terminal servers,you do not have to invest in the IT infrastrure. On the other side Application Service Provider provides more security of your data by providing regular multiple backupand enhanced data protection tools.


And not only that they support all your Add -ons which makes your data generated for QuickBooks to be useful in other situations as well .

To know more about QuickBooks Hosting you can visit Real Time Data Services which is a market leader in Hosted QuickBooks.

QuickBooks hosting services are very useful for accountants, business owners, etc. who want to have access to their QuickBooks applications and data from a variety of locations. Further, the hosting service provides for comprehensive management and administration of the system on an ongoing basis, eliminating IT management concerns for the subscriber.

However, any organization seeking to have their accounting and finance solutions hosted should verify that their service provider is actually authorized to provide the service.

InsynQ (www.cpaasp.com), Right Networks (www.rightnetworks.com), and UniData are the only commercial hosting companies with the permission and the proven capability to deliver these services broadly to the market.

From what Intuit says, these two companies are involved in a Beta Program with Intuit and they do not intend to create monoplolistic service providers.

I find that the companies such as cpa-asp and righnetworks have insane pricing and they do not have 24x7 technical support. Companies such as these do not have the ability to host the QuickBooks add-ons etc or tax software hosting, except for a limited set of add-ons.f If they do provide dedicated servers for such capabilities, be sure to run a huge bill and live with limited tech support.

I would not recommend a company just because they are in a Beta with Intuit. There are a quite a few companies hosting quickbooks and Intuit does not seem to have any problem with that.

Therefore, I do not see any problem in hosting with Real Time Data Services or any other service provider

Hi there,
I'm with Uni-Data & Communications, the third company mentioned above. The program mentioned is no longer in Beta, and we're actively hosting financials for hundreds of small businesses. We are looking for referral business from the accounting community. Our pricing is extremely competitive, and we provide 24 x 7 support. We do not charge for set-up. All data is hosted in a SAS70 Type II data center.
Give me a call if you're interested in exploring Uni-Data's solution for QuickBooks hosting.

Regards,
Bob Babcock
Director of Sales & Marketing
Uni-Data & Communications, Inc
(718)445-5600 x3180
bbabcock@unidatait.com