QuickBooks Cloud is a service offered by application hosting providers to the CPAs, accounting and bookkeeping professionals.
Hosted QuickBooks servers have many benefits over traditional QuickBooks usage.
Not only it offers all the features of desktop versions but also adds many other advantages.
You can save your time and curtail your headache by hosting your QuickBooks application over cloud.
You can have an opportunity to have a consolidated platform for all your other tools along with other tax applications over hosted server.
So, all your associated data, software, tools are always available to you, whenever you need or wherever you are.
Various advantages of using QuickBooks Cloud:

• Supports many browsers, among them are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome
• Implied in the above feature is platform independence; in other words the on-line versions work on either the PC or the MAC platforms.
  
• A secure, confidential connection is available.
  You entry work is protected against unwanted intrusion.
  
• Availability freedom: Your QuickBooks company data can be accessed anywhere an Internet portal is available! You are not limited to your desktop.
  
• Auto upgrades: You are always assured that the release of your program is the current one.
  You are relieved of the concern that you may not be operating under the latest and greatest patches.
  
• Your data is secure! QuickBooks Cloud is responsible for backing-up your data on a timely basis so that you don't have to get in stress.
  
• The key to using QuickBooks is to find a hosting service that grants cloud technology that includes remote access to the financial software.
  
• The cost of using a cloud hosting service rather than maintain QuickBooks on your own can be substantially less.
  
• The most significant advantage of using cloud technology for QuickBooks is that it makes the application completely mobile.
  
• Another major advantage in using QuickBooks in the cloud is that it allows for greater collaboration among workers.
  

With QuickBooks in the cloud, all changes made are updated in real-time.
This eliminates the necessity of file sharing with co-workers and clients while providing your business with unlimited flexibility.
When you edit the file, any other person logged into the hosted QuickBooks cloud environment will see these edits done as they happen.
Over the years, the QuickBooks accounting software suite has grown more and more popular and many software developers have thus created solutions to extend the application or integrate their software with QuickBooks.
Hosting QuickBooks in the cloud saves businesses of all sizes a great deal of money.
When adopting the cloud through a hosting provider, you are gaining the benefits of managed IT services.
This means that no longer must you spend the money needed to purchase and maintain expensive servers and in-house hardware.