Intuit’s QuickBooks Pro software offers an online backup service for your company files. As a long time QuickBooks Pro user, I can tell you that I have NEVER used this service simply because it’s not worth the price they are asking.

As a business owner and QuickBooks Pro user, I figured that if I’m going to actually pay for an online backup service for my accounting data, I should be able to backup my other important business documents as well.

With SecureBackup, you aren’t tied down to backing up only your company file. You can backup anything else you need such as your tax files, your legal documents, your email correspondence, your Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint documents, and anything else that is critical to your business.

With SecureBackup, your QuickBooks backup is automatically encrypted so you don’t have to password protect your company file within the QuickBooks software if you don’t want to. Of course, if you have more than one person in your office, it might be a good idea to do this anyway. But what I’m getting at is that if you are worried about your QuickBooks backup file falling into the wrong hands, you don’t have to worry about this with SecureBackup.

There’s one thing to keep in mind about backing up your QuickBooks company files with SecureBackup. If you want to ensure that you can easily restore a company file, make sure that you create a backup within the QuickBooks software first, and then use the SecureBackup software to backup that file. In other words, I wouldn’t recommend backing up the company file directly. You may be wondering why I’m saying this, but the reason is because QuickBooks appears to have a hard time using company files that are not restored from a backup made within the QuickBooks software. I have run into this problem on a few occasions. Now I’m not saying it can’t be done but it is better to stick with QuickBooks backup proceedures.

Probably the easiest way to do this is to have QuickBooks backup to a local folder on your hard drive. Then all you would need to do is have SecureBackup backup data from that folder. You should also include the “Company Letters” templates if you want to back up that data as well. As a matter of fact, I would recommend backing up your entire QuickBooks directory in addition to the local QuickBooks backup folder.

In summary, I don’t think there is any reason why you should have to pay Intuit so much money just to backup your QuickBooks company file. With SecureBackup, you can backup QuickBooks and anything else you desire.

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