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I have used Sage for 20 years or so.  I recently set up as a self employed bookkeeper, and luckily all my clients have been on Sage where I work from their premises, until now!  My new client is using QuickBooks Pro 2008, but we want to operate where I do the bookkeeping from my premises and he can also access the data from his workplace plus process his sales invoices. 
 
Ive looked at cloud based product QuickBooks Online but this seems a bit expensive and £19 per month. Sage One is £10 per month but it seems a bit limited in what it can do from what Ive seen so far.
 
Another option is that we both buy a copy of a more recent version of QuickBooks and transport the data backups to each other, but of course this is with the risks of overwriting any data changes in between.  And a steep learning curve for me, not being familiar with QuickBooks at present.
 
Has anyone got similar circumstances and what might be the best solution?


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Cloud is the obvious solution, but you could also use remote access such as VNC or GoToMyPC, depending upon how often you need to check and whether they can leave the PC for you to use.

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I use remote access to access my client's Quickbooks (have no idea how it works).



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Have a look at Clearbooks - 100% online and quite impressive. Prices are per company starting at £5 per month - good luck!

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I use VT Transaction+. I have the working files within a truecrypt container and use sugar sync to keep the file in sync between 2 or more pc's. Works well for me and it's military level encryption. In addition it helps with my disaster recovery plan.

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Thanks all for the replies. I'm looking into Kashflow at present and I'm quite impressed so far. The accountant side - Orbit - which is free seems, pretty handy too. Anyone got any experiences? It's about £16 per month but if you refer a client you can earn £2 a month and they get it for £15 a month instead.

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I use KashFlow and as an orbit partner as you say you can sell the software on to your clients and earn money. you can also brand it to your company so it matches your logo colours etc.

It is a great system, very user friendly and as it is cloud based you can and your client can access 24/7 from anywhere in the world!
Kashflow also intergrates with many other programs and add ons such as, paypal, mypaye (payroll), mail chimp and drop box for scanning and attaching files to invoices customers etc.



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