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QuickBooks offers the option to not only access your QuickBooks files remotely, but also the other files on your computer. This access requires the QuickBooks Remote Access tool, available for a monthly subscription fee. You can access your QuickBooks files securely from any computer through the remote access Web interface. The remote access tool has the same system requirements as the most current QuickBooks editions except QuickBooks: Pro for Mac, which does not support remote access.

Setting up Remote Access for QuickBooks

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Sign up for QuickBooks Remote Access on the Intuit website (full link in Resources.)

2.

Launch a Web browser on the computer from which you need to access QuickBooks remotely and log into your account on the QuickBooks Remote Access website.

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Click 'Set up computer,' to download the remote access tool installation file. Navigate to the downloaded file and double-click it.

4.

Enter a computer nickname in the 'Nickname' field, and then click 'Next.'

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Place a check mark next to the options to initiate each time you log into a remote session. The options include: 'Automatically reduce screen resolution to match;' 'Use full-screen view by default;' 'Disable this computer’s keyboard and mouse' and 'Make this computer’s screen blank.'

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Place a check mark next to the applications to access remotely on this computer. For a minimal monthly fee, access only your QuickBooks accounts. For a slightly higher fee each month, access all of your files and applications remotely. Click the 'Next' button.

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Check the box for the authentication option to use. Either enter a passcode, or use a phone number. The passcode option allows you to enter the passcode in the login page when you access QuickBooks remotely. The phone number option requires that the tool call you, and then prompt you for the access code each time. Click the 'Finish' button.

Remote Accessing QuickBooks

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Launch a Web browser on your remote computer and log in to your account on the QuickBooks Remote Access website.

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Check the box next to the computer nickname you defined, and then click 'Connect' in the Action column.

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Authorize your computer, using either passcode or phone authentication. If you are using the phone number authentication, enter the passcode on the phone when the remote tool calls you and prompts you for it.

4.

Click the Remote Access drop-down menu and click 'End QuickBooks Remote Access Session' when you finish your session.

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Marissa Robert graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English language and literature. She has extensive experience writing marketing campaigns and business handbooks and manuals, as well as doing freelance writing, proofreading and editing. While living in France she translated manuscripts into English. She has published articles on various websites and also periodically maintains two blogs.

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