QuickBooks Online Back-up Alternatives

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Vendor Corner

As a result of the changes to ChronoBooks Intuit has announced you may wonder what your alternatives are when it comes to a backup solution for QuickBooks Online if you are a Simple Start, Basic or Plus Subscriber, Murph outlines them for you here. So even though one of the features and 'sales points' of QuickBooks Online is that you never have to worry about backing-up your data because Intuit is continually backing-up QBO within their overall server-redundancy environment, the reality is that these safeguards are intended for Intuit's use, users have no control over those backups. There is no way for a user to restore their data from some past date to start moving forward using the data that Intuit maintains internally. Intuit's backup system is aimed at 'disaster recovery' not selective recovery.

But the following cloud based Apps are designed to provide back-up/data-security (redundancy) for QuickBooks Online in addition to providing mechanisms to restore data on a user-controlled and selective basis. These applications are listed in 'alphabetical order' without regard to any personal assessment of their performance. As a matter of convenience we have provided you with the 'current' ranking from the Intuit App Center Website for each of the Apps, along with the link to each site.

BackupCircle

BackupCircle provides a reliable and affordable backup-as-a-service solution that lets you, the QBO Users backup and restore your QuickBooks Online Company. With BackupCircle you can schedule your backup so that you can automate your accounting data protection. To maximize reliability, rather than produce incremental backups of only what's changed with your data, BackupCircle makes a full backup of your data every single time. Routinely it produces a full backup of your data on a weekly basis, of course you can set-up manual full backups to run whenever you want.

BackupCircle also gives you, the QBO User the ability to restore your data at your convenience. If something goes wrong, BackupCircle can restore your QuickBooks Online company to the selected date you choose from your stored backup versions.

And with BackupCircle you control who on your team has the ability to restore backup data. Your subscription offers unlimited backup storage for each company, unlimited users for each subscription, no backup or data-set size restrictions, email alerts, seamless QBO integration, and more.

BackupCircle is an initiative by Caravel Advisory GmbH, CH, an International focused Advisory company of Baar, Switzerland. BackupCircle offers a 15-day free trial period. For more information see the BackupCircle landing page at the Intuit QuickBooks Apps Center. At the time of this article the following review information was reported in the Intuit QuickBooks Apps Center for Backup Circle:

Rewind

Rewind offer easy QBO User managed automatic backup and recovery for QuickBooks Online. Users can link one or all of their QuickBooks Online accounts to Rewind.

Using Rewind, a full backup will automatically begin for each of your accounts as soon as they are connected, then another full backup is performed nightly. Each QBO account gets backed-up automatically within 5 minutes of any/all future changes, or users can initiate an on-demand backup. Users have full access to all their backups inside the secure Rewind Vault.

With Rewind Users have control over their accounting data because they have the ability to undo mistakes or unwanted changes, recover deleted items, or rewind their entire account to any earlier date and time. Rewind makes it possible for QBO Users to restore as little data (such as specific items) or as much data (entire sets of data) of their QuickBooks Online account as needed. (Some restore features may require the help of Rewind support.)

Rewind is a service of Third Blink Software, Inc. which is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and provides telephone, email and in-app chat support. All Rewind backup plans provide a 7-day free trial. For more information see the Rewind landing page at the Intuit QuickBooks Apps Center. At the time of publication of this article the following reviews were posted in the Intuit QuickBooks Apps Center for Rewind:

SafetyNet

SafetyNet was originally developed by Jobber and won Intuit's QuickBooks Connect Hackathon in 2014 but Jobber phased out the product in 2016 due to a lack of interest. In 2017 Jungle Disk purchased the rights to SafetyNet and began updating it to the most current QuickBooks Online API.

Today, SafetyNet allows QBO Users to fetch all the data in each of their QuickBooks Online Account(s) and create backup(s) of them. Each time Users create a new SafetyNet Archive the App polls QuickBooks Online for all data objects accessible under the API and records them as an Archive. At any point in the future Users can restore their QuickBooks Online company to exactly as it did when any SafetyNet Archive was created.

With the Professional version of SafetyNet Users can keep as many Archives as they wish, allowing them to keep a complete history from any point in time. SafetyNet can be deployed for an unlimited number of QBO companies tied to an individual account which makes it ideal for accountants, ProAdvisors or businesses with multiple QBO firms.

SafetyNet is designed to provide safe, secure, reliable backups for accountants, small businesses and bookkeepers using QuickBooks Online, it is supported by Jungle Disk which is based in San Antonio, Texas. SafetyNet is currently available for free during their introductory 'early access' trial (what some people would refer to as 'Beta' access) period. For more information see the SafetyNet landing page at the Intuit QuickBooks Apps Center. At the time of publication of this article the following reviews were available within the Intuit QuickBooks Apps Center:

Insightful Accountant's contributing 'QuickBooks Basics Series' author, Alicia Katz Pollock, was commissioned by Intuit to produce a comparative chart of ChronoBooks, Rewind and Backup Circle; with Intuit's permission she has graciously made a hosted version of that comparative chart available to you, our readers, here.

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