Online Bookkeeping ideas?

[smele]

Hello Chaps,

Looking at getting some bookkeeping going and I would to use an online service. Quickbooks has what looks like a good service, but it is US based, all $$$ and different tax's

Any ideas on UK services? Not finding too much out there with a quick search.

Cheers,
Smele.

[PetrolTed]

In true forum style of not answering your question why are you looking at doing it online? Quickbooks on a laptop would do the trick wouldn't it?

[smele]

Yes, I know that would work well on a laptop, but ideally I want multiple users to use the software in multiple locations at the same time. The online solution fits my requirments perfectly.

[PetrolTed]

Understood. Good idea.

[smele]

Think I will probably just host quickbooks on a server and allow remote access to it. Touch more work and probably not as cheap, but at least it will be flexible.

[Uriel]

Sage have some dealers currently trialling a hosted version of Line 50 and are hearing good things back about it. Everything, I beleive, is hosted in Atlanta, you just dial in from anywhere and once connected AFAIK it's just like being sat in front of a regular Line 50 install. That will handle multiple users. Though I'm not sure when exactly it's rolling out.

Another option, depending on the size of your operation, could be to have your own server running away in the office or somewhere and just use terminal server or some other remote access software to connect to it?

[miniman]

We used to use Quickbooks online and whilst OK, it's much more cumbersome than the offline version - keep in mind that it's hard to completely replicate a Windows application within a browser interface (although AJAX is making it easier) and there will be some functions which take more clicks than the offline version and some that take longer to process.