Chapter 2
Embracing QuickBooks Online
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding QuickBooks Online subscriptions and their costs
Examining ways to meet payroll needs
Switching from QuickBooks Desktop
Taking a tour of the App Center
QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Online Accountant are cloud-based accounting software programs. Actually, it’s more apt to call them accounting ecospheres, because as you’ll see throughout the book, you can layer on functionality with add-ons from Intuit and third-party developers. In this chapter, I help you determine which version of QuickBooks fits your needs best from both functionality and cost standpoints.
I’ll Subscribe to That
QuickBooks Online isn’t your father’s accounting software. Back in the day, you’d pay once for a software license and use it as far into the future as you chose. Such perpetual licenses have mostly fallen by the wayside in favor of subscriptions, often referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS). The good news for accounting professionals is that QuickBooks Online Accountant is free and includes one free QuickBooks Online Advanced ...
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