Why QBO?

As a long time advanced QuickBooks Desktop ProAdvisor, much of my business was helping clients who contacted me off of the Find a ProAdvisor site to troubleshoot issues on QBD or reconcile there accounts either at there offices or from a portable file sent through a secure portal. While business was good, it was definitely taxing.  In late 2014 I looked at the JCL Accounting Services business structure and started to wonder......How can QuickBooks Online simplify my business and allow me to offer my clients a great accounting platform?  I decided to investigate and compare, and here are three of the major advantages that became apparent.

QuickBooks Desktop is a great product and is very appropriate for many business structures.  Like any other desktop applications, links break.  Running a verify data is important to maintain the health of your desktop file.  It verifies that the data links aren't broken.  Wonder how?  File - utilities - verify data.  With QBO, you don't have to verify because it is a virtual program.

Data loss due to file corruption was always a troubling issue.  The first question I asked was "Did you back up your file?" It's amazing how many perspective clients had never backed up there data, or there computers broke and they had backed up to there desk top, so there files were wiped out.  QBO eliminates the need for remembering to back up. Cloud accounting definitely has many advantages, but this one was huge.

And finally third party applications allow my clients to have a more personalized accounting package.  Instead of the one size fits all of QuickBooks desktop, third party applications make QuickBooks Online advantageous for a wider array of users.

All in all, QuickBooks online has become the preferred accounting platform at JCL Accounting.  Virtual accounting is the wave of the future.  If you are looking for help getting set up with QBO, give us a call.