QuickBooks accounting software is undoubtedly one of the best software. It provides its users with numerous features and important facilities due to which the popularity of this software is increasing day by day. QuickBooks Desktop is one of the leading accounting software between small and medium industries. It is available in three editions QuickBooks Desktop Pro, QuickBooks Desktop Premier and QuickBooks Enterprise. You can open different versions in QuickBooks at the same time but opening all versions at one time gives a lot of ease and help to the user. The interesting feature in QuickBooks Desktop is that it allows its users to run multiple versions and editions of QuickBooks on one computer. So today in this segment we are going to tell you about how to install multiple QuickBooks desktop versions on a single computer.
Some terms you need to know
Versions- In QuickBooks versions terms is the numeric notation of updated software release. Like QuickBooks desktop 2018, QuickBooks desktop enterprise 18.0.
Editions- In QuickBooks software edition terms refers to the set of features included in software. Like QuickBooks desktop pro, premier and Enterprise.
Regions- In QuickBooks software regions terms is used for a specific location such as US, UK and Canada.
Things to be consider before installing multiple version of QuickBooks desktop.
- You should installed same versions of QuickBooks Enterprise, Premier and pro on one computer.
- You must ensure that all the install files for QuickBooks Desktop Pro and Premier are identical. You cannot install the same version of QuickBooks Pro and Premier on the same system. Here version means year i.e. if you are installing 2020 version of QuickBooks Pro then install 2021 version of Premier.
- After you install multiple versions of QuickBooks Desktop, you cannot exchange data between different versions (years) of QuickBooks.
- You cannot easily transfer data or corporate files between QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise and QuickBooks Desktop Pro or Premier.
- Only one industry-specific version can be installed in each version of QuickBooks Desktop. You can used only one of from QuickBooks desktop premier 2018 retail or premier 2018 contractor on same system.
- You can use different version of QuickBooks Desktop at same time. If you are working in Premier 2019, then you can also use Premier 2018. If you use the Accountant edition, you can only open Premier and Enterprise editions of the same year.
- Regional versions and editions of QuickBooks cannot be mixed and matched. If you need multiple regions on the same computer, a web hosting service or a virtual machine can be used to set up an environment for each region.
