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Picked cloud accounting over in-house servers and it's been a mixed bag
I run a small landscaping company in Austin with 8 guys on payroll. Last year I had to choose between keeping our books on a local server with QuickBooks Desktop or moving to something like Xero or QBO. I went with the cloud option because I got tired of the server crashing every time it got humid. First 3 months were rough honestly. My bookkeeper kept complaining about the internet speed and we had to upgrade our whole router setup. But now a year later I can check invoices from my phone while I'm at a job site. The monthly cost is $220 which is more than I wanted but I'm not losing data to a power surge anymore. Has anyone else switched from local to cloud and regretted it or was it worth the hassle?
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the_daniel1mo ago
Buddy of mine runs a BBQ joint in Nashville and made the same swap. His AC unit died mid-summer and fried his server, lost two months of invoices.
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william_miller1mo ago
My router upgrade was the exact same pain point. I run a hardware store in Ohio and switched to QBO two years ago. The first month our internet kept dropping during payroll and my bookkeeper nearly quit. I had to shell out for a $400 mesh system and a backup 4G modem. But now I can run inventory reports from my phone while I'm at a supplier meeting. That peace of mind from not worrying about hard drive crashes is worth the monthly fee for me. Did you notice your employees stopped losing receipts once you went cloud-based?
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