QuickBooks Desktop, Accessible from Anywhere
Your books live in a company file on an office PC — reachable only at the desk, or through a hosted-desktop service that streams a remote screen for £50+/user/month. A small agent beside QuickBooks publishes a live, read-only web dashboard instead: the numbers, in a browser, on any device.
Pro, Premier & Enterprise — UK, US, Canada & Australia editions
The QuickBooks Desktop Trapped-Data Problem
The office-PC bottleneck
Every question about cash flow, an invoice, or a customer account means waiting until someone is at the machine running QuickBooks.
Hosted desktops are heavy
Hosting providers solve remote access with a full remote desktop — £50–100 per user per month, clunky on mobile, and still someone else's computer you have to log into.
Migration isn't neutral
Moving to QuickBooks Online changes workflows, loses Desktop-only features, and hands your history to a subscription you may not want.
Accountants & directors locked out
External accountants, bookkeepers and owners need read access — but the options are screen-share, emailed reports, or another seat licence.
How It Works
Agent on your server
A lightweight agent installs beside your existing system — reads the data store directly, makes outbound connections only. No open ports, no VPN, no firewall changes.
Continuous replica
Your records flow to an encrypted, read-only cloud copy via a private tunnel — change-tracking, not dumps. The production system never takes the load.
Web dashboard
Your team searches, reports and browses from any browser or phone — scoped and audited. Answers from the data, not access to the server.
What Your Team Can Finally Do
Read-only, audited, yours
The agent reads via the official QuickBooks Desktop SDK and publishes an encrypted replica — the dashboard can never write back. Per-user access, full audit logs, and the data export travels with you if you cancel.
Common QuickBooks Desktop Scenarios
The owner checking cash from home
Bank balances, this week's receivables, today's invoices — on a phone, without remoting into the office PC or asking accounts to run a report.
Accountants across client files
Your accountant gets scoped read access to the dashboard instead of quarterly backups over email — adjustments get discussed with live numbers.
Directors without a QuickBooks seat
Board-level visibility — P&L, cash, debtor days — without buying licences or interrupting the finance team.
QuickBooks Desktop Data Access Pricing
Every plan includes the agent, the replica and the dashboard. Setup is scoped to your systems — most installs are live within two weeks.
Single Company
£99/mo
1 week setup
- ✓1 company file
- ✓Live replica + web dashboard
- ✓Core financial reports
- ✓Encrypted backup
- ✓5 named users
- ✓Email support
Multi-Company
£249/mo
1–2 week setup
- ✓Up to 5 company files
- ✓Consolidated dashboard view
- ✓Per-entity and group reports
- ✓Accountant/auditor access
- ✓25 named users
- ✓Priority support
Accountant / Enterprise
Custom
Scoped project
- ✓Unlimited company files
- ✓Client-portal branding
- ✓Fleet health dashboard
- ✓SSO + audit feed
- ✓SLA + dedicated support
- ✓Dedicated engineer
Billed monthly or annually (2 months free). Compare with hosted QuickBooks desktops at £50+/user/month — one subscription covers the whole team, and it's a dashboard, not a remote screen.
QuickBooks Desktop Data Access FAQ
Does this replace QuickBooks?+
No — it replaces the ways people reach QuickBooks. Your team keeps entering data in Desktop exactly as before; the dashboard adds read access for everyone who shouldn't be driving the books.
How is this different from hosted QuickBooks?+
Hosting puts a remote Windows session in the cloud — you still open QuickBooks inside someone else's desktop, at per-user pricing. Our agent reads the company file on your existing server and publishes a read-only dashboard — no RDP, no per-seat fee, works on any device.
Does it work with multi-user mode and Enterprise?+
Yes — the agent reads via the QuickBooks Desktop SDK alongside normal multi-user use. Enterprise, Advanced Inventory and Payroll editions are all covered, as are UK, US, Canadian and Australian versions.
What happens to our data if we cancel?+
Everything we store is a copy — the source of truth is your company file, which never leaves your control. On cancel you get a full export of the replica and we delete our copy.
Your QuickBooks Desktop Data, Reachable
If the answers your team needs live in a system nobody can reach, that's fixable — without migration, without VPN, without new infrastructure.