Is there any way to host your own web version?

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Thanks but that requires a dedicated computer for each simultaneous outside user. I was looking more for something comparable to how QB hosted version works. You connect to their web server using only a browser and it interacts with the database which has your data. I would like to keep my data locally and access it via my web server.

LMI does not require a dedicated computer for each simultaneous outside user. You set up single user access with multiple computers being able to access the QB file-1 at a time. Your users will need to coordinate who will be in the QB file but e-mail messages to the group can easily solve that problem. Setup 1 LMI account and let everyone know what the account password & access code are and you are all set.

LMI has a trial and freebie versions. As long as your users don't need to print or transfer files then a freebie account will work fine.

Thanks for the reply but if there are two simultaneous users then you need two computers running to service the two users. If you coordinate use then it isn't simultaneous. Trying to coordinate this would be a little messy. If the application is running on a web server (exactly how QB hosted works) then there is no requirement to dedicate a computer to each user.

We do the very same thing with another database we use. It runs on a computer here and it is accessed via a web browser. Anyone who can get to the web server can login. I am trying to do the same with QB or if not change to something else.

Then move up the food chain to QB Enterprise and Terminal Services. There is no web based version of QB other than the ASP model hosted by Intuit.

Thanks, I am familiar with both the enterprise version and terminal services. It takes some tinkering and a bunch of software to do that. Web based is really a nice way to go. Thats why I was wondering if I missed anything along those lines.

I noticed the closest thing to what I am looking for is a third party product QODBC. The main flaw of it is that you need to have QB installed on the remote machine.

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Just running on a webserver doesn't make the application multiuser or web aware.

Your database server apparently (obviously) is; QB w/o enterprise isn't and nothing can be done externally to change that.

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Maybe QuickBooks Remote Access will do it for you???

Do you have a multi user copy of QB? QB can only be "hosted" on a single computer so your idea of multiple users using multiple computers is not going to work.

There is always QB online. It runs through a web browser and I think it allows multiple simultaneous users.

This is basically Intuit's version of LogMeIn or GoToMyPC. Still single user access.

Thanks, but I am not interested in someone else having my data no matter how secure it is claimed to be. Traditional QB is old school fat client and the functionality of QB online is essentially what I would like except I want to retain my data.

The only way you will ever get your hands on a web enabled version of QuickBooks is if Intuit writes one.

Look into setting up a Citrix server. You control it, it's very secure.

It's a great environment to do what you want to do. The caveats are:

1. Cost - Citrix is very good but not cheap
2. Cost - you need to pay for a QB license for every different user that you intend to host data for. The fact that multiple users may be using a single installation of QB doesn't mean that you can run QB a dozen times for different users but only pay for a single license, you'd need a dozen licenses.

This sugestion has already (Terminal Services and QB Enterprize) been made and dismissed by the OP.