Synchronize QuickBooks between two computers

Hi,
My friend owns his own heating and air conditioning repair company. When he goes out on calls and completes the job he updates his QuickBooks Program to reflect the new charge so the customer can be billed later. He is gone most of the day answering trouble calls and after each job he updates his quick books to reflect the changes.

Now in the meantime, his wife is at their office working on the same Quick Books program, printing out bills, making changes, etc.

When he returns home he has made changes to the Quick Books Document and wants to update his wife's computer to bring her up to speed with what changes he made but when he does this through backup procedures, he loses the changes his wife made during the day.

The question is, what is the best way for both of them to sync the Quick Books document so they don't lose any information. We are not sure even if this is possible.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Jean

 

We'll, yes and no. See the excert from QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions (QBES) ....

The above solution could be possible. When husband does customer billing in real time on the road, he would remote link into wife's QBES network. This would be a challenging exercise when remote is requiring a link from husband's truck. Without combing through QBES's options, I would suggest contacting Intuit for possible solutions ..., example pre-billing / open-orders created on husband's route which could be merge into QBES at end of day when husband is back at shop (eliminates remote linking). Myself, all of the above has to much risk / effort in moving customer critical information. Just from a cost view, I would simply handwrite route business in serialized triplicate service orders. One copy to customer, one copy to wife for QB's billing and third copy stays in husbands route book as master backup/running route journal.

 

Hi Dennis,

Thank you for being so prompt in answering my question. I will pass the information on to my friend and let you know what he decides. Personally, I'm with you on your suggestion on hand writing the information and letting his wife update the records. Sounds much easier to me.

I'll let you know what he decides.

Jean

 

Hi Dennis,

Sorry I haven't written sooner. Had to go in the hospital for Gall Bladder surgery. Got out a few days ago and very, very sore.

I did pass the information on to my friend and he said he would take your suggestion to just write the information down and passing the data on to his wife for updating.

Thanks for your help.

Jean

 

Sorry to hear of your surgery. The best of luck for a speedy recovery.
Given the options your friend had to work with, he made a good business decision.