QuickBooks remote login is a fantastic way of using QuickBooks
without any limitations of physical location, resources and other
aspects as well. It gives you a platform to use same application from
any part of the world using QuickBooks remote login technique. It also
gives the opportunity to use single company file by multiple users
simultaneously which has made the usage of QuickBooks more flexible as,
in the same file, a customer and their CPA can work from different
locations. QuickBooks remote login has been wonderful for professionals
who use to travel frequently and they want to get access to their data
wherever they are.
The
growing trend of Cloud Computing has made
QuickBooks remote login more
convenient and cost-effective. You can get access to QuickBooks remotely
with different ways like terminal server, RDP and many more. Lots of
CPA and accounting firms are implementing QuickBooks Hosting environment
in their office to reduce hardware resources and huge upfront IT
management costs. There are some popular technologies those are
implemented to set up QuickBooks remote login those I am explaining
below:
1- Windows Terminal Server: Windows terminal services is
the most popular, efficient and simplest way of setting up QuickBooks
Remote login. You will get a seamless connection to your windows server
2003 or windows server 2008 with converting the server as a terminal
server. All of your data and applications (QuickBooks and others) are
installed on this server and you don't have to keep your local
QuickBooks application installed. You can get access to the server with
remote desktop connection from any operating system like Windows, mac
and iPhone, iPad, Android and other popular smart phone devices.
2-
Citrix Server: Citrix server is a third-party tool to make your
terminal server accessible from all client machines regardless to their
local operating system. Citrix server is one of the trusted technologies
available in the market. But due to expensive cost and need of
experienced guy to handle its administration, it is not considered a
very suitable solution for small and medium firms. Moreover, you need to
install client softwares to make QuickBooks remote login successful
with all aspects like seamless access and printing, etc.
3-
Propalms Application Server: Propalms formerly known as Tarantella is
used as an alternative of Citrix Server but it's quite cheaper than
Citrix. This is a light program comparing to Citrix and requires less
technical resource and administration skills to manage. You can access
your QuickBooks and other applications through Propalms web portals,
which requires a tiny Propalms client installation first on client
computers' side.
If we take a hawk eye view on the above tools, we find that the windows terminal services is the simplest way to set up
QuickBooks remote
login. If you do a search in top search engines like yahoo, Google or
bing, you can get a list of QuickBooks remote solution providers to
choose which you like to be your QuickBooks Hosting provider. But before
you decide please check some important things:
1. Server location should be in US or Canada
2. Data Backup policy
3. SAS70 certified Data center
4. 24x7 technical support service
5. Service Level Agreement
