Over the years I have spoken to hundreds of contractors about backing up their QuickBooks
Some contractors have acted on the idea, and others, not so much. There are two kinds of contractors who use computers:
This particular contractor is one of the nicest, gentlest and friendliest people you will ever meet; typical of all good contractors!
In addition he is a large and powerful man having worked in construction for over 30 years. Let just say he knows how to communicate in a gentle but firm way to get his point across to his employees and trade contractors.
He was not particularly interested in the fact that we have remote servers and that our clients QuickBooks files are backed up every night.
Fully functioning Quickbooks desktop version
Exporting to Excel and/or Word is part of the service
Print anything directly from QuickBooks, Word or Excel on your own printer
QuickBooks Desktop Version can be accessed from any Internet connection
QuickBooks Runs On High-Speed Servers
In A Building With Armed Guards
And Highly Trained Technicians
QuickBooks file backed up every night on a secured server
English speaking, U.S. Based tech support for server support
We maintain and support your QuickBooks data file and reports
QuickBooks software maintenance updates are automatically applied
Being a gentleman he listened politely while I told him all about the benefits of having his QuickBooks backed nightly and the fact that he could get to his QuickBooks from anywhere there was internet connection. Once I shut up he let me know he decided to hire our services because we could get his bookkeeping on track and help him build his construction business. The rest was nice but not very important since he did not plan on having any fire, flood, theft, bad bookkeeper or hard drive crashes.
The following is from an email sent to Randal:
"On July 27, 2008, Sunday evening around 6:30 pm my girlfriend and I just got home from an overnight hiking trip.
When we arrived home we had discovered that we had been robbed. We immediately called 911.
As we walked through the house we discovered that our computer was gone along with many other valuables. The computer had all the company business on it.
QuickBooks, invoices, all the subcontractors’ info, and everything to keep the company books.
We were at a loss for what to do. But as luck would have it, we had Randal DeHart as our accountant. He had all our info on a back-up system somewhere in a huge server.
So we called Randal to let him know that we would get a new computer as soon as the insurance company paid us.
Randal called us the next day, July 28th, 2008 and told us to come to his office. To our surprise he had gone to Office Depot and purchased a new computer and loaded it with QuickBooks and restored all our business information.
We are so appreciative that Randal had our backs, so to speak. We had told him that we would pay him for the computer as so as possible. But you know what he said……….
“No thanks are necessary and that if we just Pay-It-Forward, that’s all he asked.”
How’s that for a Good Accountant?"
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About The Author:
Our Co-Founder Randal DeHart - Is a Certified PMP (Project Management Professional) with several years of construction project management experience. His expertise is construction accounting systems engineering and process development. His exhaustive study of several leading experts including the work of Dr. W. Edward Deming, Michael Gerber, Walter A. Shewhart, James Lewis and dozens of others was the foundation upon which our Construction Bookkeeping System is based and continues to evolve and improve. Check out our Contractor Success Map Podcast on iTunes and Follow Randal on Google+