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If anyone wants a recommendation for an alternative, I can happily suggest Xero. What a mess, though. Worst part of a business to be crippled is its core - fin
by trollied 7y ago
If anyone wants a recommendation for an alternative, I can happily suggest Xero.
What a mess, though. Worst part of a business to be crippled is its core - financials. A part often overlooked by techies. If you can’t invoice, you can’t pay the wages.
- pavanagrawal123 7y agoIt's not Intuit that's down... Just a 3rd party hosting provider.
- PKop 7y agoWhat are they hosting? Backups of the desktop version of Quickbooks?
- pavanagrawal123 7y agoAFAIK, there are legacy versions of a "networked" quickbooks that can be hosted by third parties. Not really sure though. Some are doing app streaming of desktop quickbooks
- npo9 7y agoI wouldn’t call the networked versions of quickbooks legacy. (Quickbooks Desktop and it’s ancillary products) That’s like saying Excel is legacy because Office 365 will let you edit spreadsheets in the cloud. Sometimes local operations are just better, or cloud versions don’t fully match features.
- pavanagrawal123 7y agoYep a more appropriate term would be "older".
- wrycoder 7y agoI think these are multi-user versions of QB Desktop, normally restricted to a LAN, that are being hosted to allow access from the internet. The hosting entity also provides backup.
- kryogen1c 7y agoUneducated guess: they host an RDS farm and give people RDCs\remoteApps to log on and use their local QB installs
- Keverw 7y agoYeah from reading the headline at first I was thinking iNSYNQ was the company Intuit was contracting with for their hosting and not a third party at first too. So I could see people getting that confusion.
- unreal37 7y agoXero is not a Quickbooks hosting provider, so not really equivalent. Like suggesting DotNetNuke when WPEngine goes down.