thecomputerguy
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Small CPA firm ... less than 10 users. Everything was gravy for me for years and all of their stuff ran perfectly fine onsite (Lacerte, DMS, Quickbooks, TimeSlips, Files etc.) until they were purchased by younger two man CPA firm who wants to be fully cloud based. They decided to keep me on as their provider but I have been tasked with *GASP* actual work.
Anyways, we have plans for everything except Lacerte.
- DMS moves to Canopy Accounting (requiring a manual one-by-one document export tasked to an employee). This is not my Job
- Quickbooks is abandoned (somehow?) and moves to NetSuite with a possibility of migration?
- TimeSlips is abandoned and moved to Canopy. This is not my Job
- Files are moved to Teams.
I know of only two options for Lacerte, and I prefer the option that Lacerte offers which is a hosted option through Right Networks. Mainly for two reasons...
1.) I don't know a damn thing about creating, managing, updating, backing up, licensing, or paying for an Azure hosted option (I know people have randomly gotten crazy Azure bills).
2.) Lacerte's Right Networks hosted option makes it simple. They create the environment, update it, maintain it, back it up, if something goes wrong it's their fault, and the costs are fixed at $104 per month.
Cost is a large factor in just about all of our conversations... he is choosing to disrupt workflow to save money. Example being, get out of Quickbooks opting rather to move to NetSuite which I have no familiarity with because it is cheaper at a fixed cost of $15k per year vs. QB being $100 per data file per month (20+ data files). He mentioned things like moving Quickbooks to a shared OneDrive folder and just accessing it one person at a time and I was like ... just no.
While I don't think that $1300 a month (Right Networks) is a lot for the meat and potatoes of the 10-User Accounting Business, he kept mentioning Azure as if he had done his own research and found it to be a cheaper solution for the same exact thing. I explained that I always prefer what the software vendor perfers but I'd look into it.
Any thoughts?
Anyways, we have plans for everything except Lacerte.
- DMS moves to Canopy Accounting (requiring a manual one-by-one document export tasked to an employee). This is not my Job
- Quickbooks is abandoned (somehow?) and moves to NetSuite with a possibility of migration?
- TimeSlips is abandoned and moved to Canopy. This is not my Job
- Files are moved to Teams.
I know of only two options for Lacerte, and I prefer the option that Lacerte offers which is a hosted option through Right Networks. Mainly for two reasons...
1.) I don't know a damn thing about creating, managing, updating, backing up, licensing, or paying for an Azure hosted option (I know people have randomly gotten crazy Azure bills).
2.) Lacerte's Right Networks hosted option makes it simple. They create the environment, update it, maintain it, back it up, if something goes wrong it's their fault, and the costs are fixed at $104 per month.
Cost is a large factor in just about all of our conversations... he is choosing to disrupt workflow to save money. Example being, get out of Quickbooks opting rather to move to NetSuite which I have no familiarity with because it is cheaper at a fixed cost of $15k per year vs. QB being $100 per data file per month (20+ data files). He mentioned things like moving Quickbooks to a shared OneDrive folder and just accessing it one person at a time and I was like ... just no.
While I don't think that $1300 a month (Right Networks) is a lot for the meat and potatoes of the 10-User Accounting Business, he kept mentioning Azure as if he had done his own research and found it to be a cheaper solution for the same exact thing. I explained that I always prefer what the software vendor perfers but I'd look into it.
Any thoughts?
