Remote users on Accounting Software

[SilverNodashi]

Something like Teamviewer and Remote Desktop does allow one to access your PC remotely, but really this would be totally impractical in a branch situation.

Why would it be impracticle in a branch solution?

How many people do you need to connect from a remote branch in anycase?
We use Remote Desktop to access QuickBooks on a central server in the office and it works quite well.

If your accounting package is on a Windows XP Pro / Windows 7 Pro machines then you can easily allow upto 5 or 10 (I can't remember limit) concecutive remote logins with Remote Desktop and give them access to the accounting package.



Generally if your company has a few branches spread-out over the country you would inter-connect them for various reasons like email, printing (invoices / waybills / salary slips / etc) over diginet line / other last-mile solution which should already provide you with a VPN solution.

Otherwise if you're a smaller company (staff / financial wise) then look at getting (at least) 4MB ADSL lines and use a VPN solution to connect the branches together. This would create an internet network where all the computers can communicate with each other and you can easily share the account database between different branches.

[D.Jaslanek]

I'm a permanent travelerHowever I have to work remotely and remote desktop saves me a lot in that situation.Like you can be confident that you will access to all the files and apps that you hold on your personal computer and you can get everything fixed remotely.I use Techinline after many other experiments.The reason why I would recommend using this software is just because its less expensive when it's compared to its competitors. Another plus is easy interface.Anyway, its worth giving a try.
Hope this might be helpful!

[Howie3]

Two sugestions. Sales reps would be best suited to a CRM solution than an acounting package. A well suited CRM will give you the daily figures you are asking for. The other is a workflow automation tool that monitors your database and can send you an email with information on certain criteria been reached i.e.when orders over a cetain value are entered, a report at the end of each day on sales per day per rep per branch etc.