QuickBooks Online vs. QuickBooks Hosting – Which one is right for your business?
Because of some similarity between QuickBooks Hosting and QuickBooks online, businesses are left with a difficult choice between QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Hosting. It is important to analyze your business needs so that you could be able to choose a platform that will be most beneficial to your unique business model.
Major advantages of QuickBooks Hosting:
QuickBooks Hosting lives in the cloud. It functions as software-as-a-service (SaaS), which means you must have an Internet connection to connect to the QuickBooks Hosted server. But you do not need to install the program on your local computer or any computer from where you want to access the QuickBooks application on the cloud and can access your data from any device, including most smartphones and tablets. You get the same features which is available in the desktop version of QuickBooks on the cloud whereas the QuickBooks Online doesn't have all those features included in it.
Where QuickBooks Hosting is Better than QuickBooks Online
There are a few features that QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise have that QuickBooks Online does not.
- Sales Orders
- Inventory Assemblies
- Progress Invoicing
- Receiving Partial Purchase Orders,
- Item Receipts
- Balance Sheet by Class
- QuickBooks Statement Writer
- Budget v Actuals for Jobs
- Serial Number/Lot Number Tracking
- Multiple Warehouse Locations
