Did one purchase an addtional seat to the exisiting license or else? In our experience, the license should be have the same product code and installation code to run the multi-user mode. Setup a private cloud. One of the computers will be assigned as the host and the other one will connect the host by internet.
Put your license and data files on an authorized QB cloud hosting. Enter a search word. Turn off suggestions. Enter a user name or rank. Turn on suggestions. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Connect with and learn from others in the QuickBooks Community.
Join now. Level 1. Sharing quickbooks on multiple computers Hi Community, I hope everyone is safe during these crazy Covid days. Thank you ever so much!
Labels: QuickBooks Desktop. Reply Join the conversation. QuickBooks Team. Sharing quickbooks on multiple computers Thank you for providing details about your concern, cheri Select your Country , Product, and the Version. Click Search. Hit the Download button. When finished, click the. Follow the on-screen instructions and you're done. Please check these article link for more information about the multi-user: Set up a multi-user network for QuickBooks Desktop. Open a company file located on a remote computer.
Level If you've used QuickBooks for a while, or you're an accountant with lots of QuickBooks clients, use newer and older versions of QuickBooks Desktop. You can have multiple versions years and editions Pro, Premier, Enterprise on the same computer.
Use these specific steps to install each version or edition one at a time. Repeat these steps for each version and edition of QuickBooks you want to install. Make sure you install them in their own unique folder. You can also schedule automatic updates so you don't have to do them manually. Note: If you have multiple editions Pro, Premier, Enterprise for the same version year , QuickBooks may not run updates automatically.
To get the most recent updates, update each version manually. You can also download updates for your specific edition. Enter a search word. Turn off suggestions. Enter a user name or rank.
Turn on suggestions. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Created with Sketch. Need help updating to Desktop ? Visit our updates page to get started. Before you start Here are some important things to consider: You can work in multiple versions of QuickBooks Desktop at the same time. If you're working in Premier , you can also open Premier To learn more about this feature, please check out this article: Set up multi-user network. I'm confident you'll have the software installed in no time.
If I can be of further assistance, please let me know by clicking the Reply button below. All the best! Hi there, stylin19 ,. Thanks for joining in this conversation. The licenses they are talking about in this thread is the seat license. As mentioned by my peer Anonymous , you'll need to purchase another license so you can run the program in a multi-user system.
Also, ensure that you're using the same license number and product number for each workstation. Then, follow the steps above to install QuickBooks on the second computer. Should you and your peers want to access and work on the same QuickBooks company anytime and anywhere, consider hosting your company data in a multi-user mode in QuickBooks Desktop. Feel free to visit and write again if you have more questions. We're always delighted to help.
Have a pleasant day ahead. I have quickbooks accountant copy with 5 users. I need to install quickbooks on this desk top. Before we install, you might want to create a backup copy of your company file first. Let me walk you through how. Once done, open the program and restore your back up copy. Please see these handy articles for details:. Download QuickBooks Desktop. That should do it.
Feel free to also check our page about QuickBooks Accountant Desktop for your reference. If there's anything else you need help with, please reach out to me. I'd be sure to jump in as soon as I can. Thanks for posting and have a great day. Hi - I have QB desktop pro - 1 user. I have been using QB on my desktop at the office only. Due to Covid, now need to use on the laptop I am using at home.
So I downloaded a copy to my laptop. But now I am asked to "activate" it. So I just want to be certain of one thing I am the only user. I can see how this pandemic is affecting your business, Kope.
That's correct. It won't deactivate your office copy. If you wish to go back, you'll need to backup and restore your company file to get the updated information. You can contact our support team to get a validation code to have this version registered on a new system. I may be taking over QB QB desktop pro for my office and need to learn how it's been set up and what's been done - so I downloaded QB to my laptop and made a backup copy of the data from the office computer onto an external hard drive.
The idea is to "restore" that static data onto my laptop - so I may "play" with it in order to learn how to use QB specifically to our needs - tailored to how we've been doing it.
SO I want to make certain I do this correctly without messing things up in the office As I've now downloaded QB to my laptop and activated it as I was told that activating it does not "deactivate" my office copy As I tried to learn from the sample that was on QB, but for efficiency sake, I'm far better off just learning from how it was set up in my office originally.
So the question is And if not, why not. Also, in this case, why would I need a "validation code" which you referred to in your original response.
Thank you for your anticipated answer, in advance. Thank you for sharing additional information, Kope. You can use the backup data that you restore in your laptop as your medium for learning, and it will not affect the QuickBooks data in your office.
Every time after installing QuickBooks on your desktop computer or laptop, it is mandatory to register or activate the software. This is to ensure that the license will be included in all updates and to certify that your license is not refurbished and activated under some other information.
This is also important for Plus Subscriptions to flag the start of the billing cycle. Help articles. It's my pleasure to have you here. I can see that you want to set up QuickBooks Desktop by yourself to the other computer. Let me share some information on how to do it accurately on your part. Here are the things to follow:. For the complete steps and more tips about it, you can check it here. Aside from that, we also have other options on how to set up QBDT to another computer.
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