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Small Business Solution Needed

Mar 1, 2010 5:58AM PST

I have a friend who is currently using Quickbooks Pro 2008 (multi-user) on her Windows PC (which she is going to stop using), as the only user so far. She wanted her employees to be able to share Quickbooks with her so she bought 3 Macs (2 of them are minis) instead of buying more PCs because she was afraid of getting viruses. She cannot use this version of Quickbooks on her Macs because it will not convert over smoothly and Quickbooks for Macs are single-users only. To solve this problem, I installed Parallels Desktop 5 to run Windows virtually - however, this also opens up viruses (which she wanted to avoid but was the only logical way to use Quickbooks).

I'm thinking, in order for her and her employees to simultaneously use Quickbooks, I will need to install it on a file server, correct? If so, how do I go about doing that - would I she need to buy a server or can we use the PC that it is currently installed on as the server? If I am to use the current PC, would I need to buy a Windows server OS?

Also, the Macs are not networked together (other than being wirelessly connected on a router for Internet access) along with other computers that belong to her sister. Any suggestions on this, too?

Thank You.

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QuickBooks online
Mar 12, 2010 2:08AM PST

Have you tried QuickBooks on-line version?

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QuickBooks Online
Mar 14, 2010 11:52PM PDT

No, I have not tried QuickBooks Online. Please tell me more about it.

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Re: Quickbooks online
Mar 15, 2010 6:25AM PDT
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Make use of Cloud
Aug 17, 2015 12:39AM PDT

Post was last edited on August 17, 2015 12:59 AM PDT