Quickbooks and Virtual Assistants

[Matt Schelberg]

I am hiring a virtual assistant to help manage my books. I would like to collaborate with my VA on a single Quickbooks file. What version of Quickbooks should I use? Desktop or Online?

For the Desktop version I assume we'd have to save the QB file in the cloud, which could be a pain.  But I have heard bad things about QB Online.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

[Justin R.]

Quickbooks Online all the way. I get there's features that Desktop has that Online doesn't, but I simply can't express how convenient the mobile app and realtime collaboration is with Quickbooks Online... Especially with a VA involved.

No interest in ever going back to Quickbooks Desktop files. The power of doing everything on my phone when I'm in the field whenever I need it - send an invoice, send a receipt, setup a new tenant, accept credit card payments, see which tenants have paid and which haven't, take pictures of receipts, add delayed charges - so, so, so efficient to use Quickbooks Online.