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Remote access for Quickbooks Desktop

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August 10, 2021
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Need the most convenient and economical way to access our quickbooks premier contractors edition 2021 desktop remotely.

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Best answer by Ethel_A

Hi there, @SL13.

I'll make sure you'll be able to access the QuickBooks Desktop account remotely. Let me share with you some insights about hosting the company files.

As you can see, Fiat Lux - ASIA shared a way to access QuickBooks Desktop remotely by utilizing Chrome Remote Desktop plug-in for free.

I'd like to add another option, which is QuickBooks Desktop hosting.

Make sure to have a hosting service to access your QuickBooks data file stored at a different location. Store all your QuickBooks company file on a service provider's servers to allow users to access QuickBooks securely, and remotely. You need to have access to the internet for the remote desktop connection.

I'm providing you articles to refer to in hosting the QuickBooks company files:

Just a piece of additional information, I'll share with you an article to learn more about setting up your software at home, check out this article: How to set up QuickBooks Desktop to work from home.

If you need additional assistance, just click on the Reply button below. I'll be here to help.

Fiat Lux - ASIA

Level 14

Utilize Chrome Remote Desktop plug-in for free. If you need more feature, explore this paid remote desktop app.

https://my.splashtop.com/splashtop_referral/AAHHq6GG344maw

If you need to access in multiuser mode at the same time, you will need another solution.

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Ethel_A

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QuickBooks Team

Hi there, @SL13.

I'll make sure you'll be able to access the QuickBooks Desktop account remotely. Let me share with you some insights about hosting the company files.

As you can see, Fiat Lux - ASIA shared a way to access QuickBooks Desktop remotely by utilizing Chrome Remote Desktop plug-in for free.

I'd like to add another option, which is QuickBooks Desktop hosting.

Make sure to have a hosting service to access your QuickBooks data file stored at a different location. Store all your QuickBooks company file on a service provider's servers to allow users to access QuickBooks securely, and remotely. You need to have access to the internet for the remote desktop connection.

I'm providing you articles to refer to in hosting the QuickBooks company files:

Just a piece of additional information, I'll share with you an article to learn more about setting up your software at home, check out this article: How to set up QuickBooks Desktop to work from home.

If you need additional assistance, just click on the Reply button below. I'll be here to help.

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dletowing

Posted this down further and was probably not in the right place.

Was a little confused while reading through the comments. I have never tried this before so please excuse anything that I should maybe already know. I will be leaving on vacation for a week and would like to access my desktop with my laptop while gone. Exactly how do I go about that? Something was mentioned through Chrome? I would just like to do invoices and maybe run payroll for the one week. What is the cost for this? Thanks for your help.

Fiat Lux - ASIA

Level 14

@dletowing

You will need to have a Gmail account on each machine to use Chrome Remote Desktop for free. You also need someone on your computer to hit a button every 15 minutes to maintain the connection. Otherwise your connection from laptop will be ended automatically.

https://remotedesktop.google.com/

For less than a month, you may consider to setup a simple private cloud solution. It costs $25/month for 1 user access.

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LeeBert

They use to have a little app, i cant remember what it was called, but it let me connect with my phone and i could do invoices, quotes and see my customer and item lists. It was perfect for what I needed but they ditched that about the time QB online came out. Offsite hosting is out for me because if your internet goes out you might as well go home. I know it sounds silly but it happens quite a bit here. I use a Multiuser environment so that complicates things. Really GotomyPC or whatever seemed to be the best solution when i was using it, granted that was awhile ago now. I will probably tinker with windows RDP. It would be quite nice if i could just put my QB file on a usb drive and plug it into my router, but nope....

Fiat Lux - ASIA

Level 14

@LeeBert

Another option, you can setup a simple private solution to run QBD in multiuser mode over the internet which is similar to RDP but doesn't require any IT background to implement. It costs $25 per month per access. You can use the same login in turns between your team to lower your expenses.

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