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Product: Right Networks
Firm: AFSG Consulting
On record: Owner Lauryn Charles
Start date: 2014
Users: Six (using four user profiles)
Price: $65 per user per month
Objective: Having started her career in small-business banking, Lauryn Charles learned early on that, "If your accounting systems are in place correctly, your whole business will run smoothly." When she subsequently started her own accounting firm, she knew there had to be a better way for her clients to interact with her services.
As a firm that provides personalized Quick-Books consulting - Charles is a self-taught QuickBooks guru - AFSG selected Right Networks to create a cloud-hosted environment for its clients, because the company has a strong focus on bringing QuickBooks Desktop into the cloud. "Having the ability to have QuickBooks Desktop version in the cloud has made my, and my clients,' life so much easier," Charles said.
Implementation: Charles said that Right Networks has been responsive and "wonderful to work with." Right Networks provides AFSG with a standard, one-page form for onboarding clients. Charles sends the completed form to the cloud-hosting company, and the client is set up within 24 hours. If Charles is not available, Right Networks walks her client through the process in her absence.
"I've never spoken to an employee [at Right Networks] that wasn't a joy to speak with and wasn't totally helpful," Charles said.
Advantages: "One of the advantages of Right Networks is it gives me another option to offer my clients," Charles said. "What accounting solutions exist? I now have an option [QuickBooks Desktop in the cloud], that's so much more efficient and cost-effective. I can say, 'Here's something that might fit your specific needs that QuickBooks Online or a remote-access program won't do.'"
She also added that Right Networks saves her firm time and money.
Challenges: According to Charles, the challenges of working with Right Networks include some minor functionality issues, such...