Characteristics that are important to consider while choosing Quickbooks Hosting Provider

Below given characteristics should be given second priority while choosing Quickbooks Hosting Provider.

Cost Efficiency

A better Hosting Service helps in reducing your office expenditure. Hosted Server are better options as it saves your cost of setting and maintaining the servers. Use of physical server requires various security measures implementations in order to prevent theft of data which includes installation of CCTV cameras, Biometric Access, a quality proof and latest antivirus software and many others. You will also require having an intrusion detection system. Installing these all needs a good amount of money to invest. Hosted Server gives you facility to save all these expenses. Once you have purchased a hosted server, you can make yourself worry free from various maintenance factors which you were using for your server earlier.

Scalability

At the end of each financial year, accounting workload rises due to execution of various accounting activities. It may be possible that any hosting service provider has leased license for a specific time of period, could be end up while you have more work load as many users may work on the same file simultaneously. So it may create problem for you in the high time of work. QB hosting Service provider Companies offering multi license management are the best solutions in this case. These companies allow managing multi license as per user’s desire. Also, depending on an organization or business requirement, they can provide you large number of hosted accounts any time.

Accessibility

Saving QB data over remote server allows you access to data files any times from any location from any device. You will be provided independent access to your files as per your desire at any point of time. These remote servers can easily be accessed from any part of the world with any device which supports internet connectivity like mobile, TV, Tablets, PC, Laptop etc. The only thing you need to be a thing about in this case is server speed and compatibility of server for mobile devices like iPhone, iPad etc.

24x7 Support Services

Another most important characteristic a company should have is 24*7 Customer support facility. In case of cloud hosting this service plays a vital role. Since you are allowed to work from any part of the world so it may be possible that you will be in need of hosting company support at the time when company office is closed so in this case you will suffer a lot and have one option remain to wait for the next day when the hosting company office will reopen. This will not only kill your time, but also can put wrong impression of your work towards your clients. So it’s much essential that the hosting service provider, company should offer 24*7 Hours of support so that it will not create any difficulty due to different time zones.

Amenda Ray is an accountant with SageNext Infotech. She is having expertise in project management, accounting operations. With SageNext, she consults the client accountants about the benefits of Sage act hosted and hosted QuickBooks.