Redstor Backup for QuickBooks Online and Desktop Service

Redstor Ltd. announced the availability of Backup for QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop, a service to protect and recover application data vital to SMBs.

Intuit, Inc.’s QuickBooks is an accounting software, supporting more than 8 million users WW. With its performance and low cost, Redstor Backup for QuickBooks fills data protection gaps in the software, enabling MSPs to provide SMBs with a safety net and open a new revenue stream with healthy margins.

“QuickBooks is the heart of SMBs but none of the product tiers include backup and recovery except the most expensive option,” said Rob Glass, Computer Systems Plus, a participant in Redstor’s Backup for QuickBooks beta program. “If a hacker gets in or a disgruntled employee releases malicious code, an SMB could lose months of financial data, tax and compliance details, employee records and more. Redstor eliminates this risk at a nominal cost, giving MSPs like us access to a huge market with a service that offers tremendous margins.”

The options cover all QuickBooks pricing plans, including native recovery. MSPs can recover directly back to QuickBooks production and sandbox/developer environments. The company’s InstantData technology streams information in the most compatible form possible, so customers can recover and begin using this critical data in seconds versus hours or days, all while less vital files restore behind the scenes.

Additional highlights of Redstor Backup for QuickBooks include:

• Compliance: Enables businesses to meet standards such as IRS 4557 and SOC2. In highly regulated industries, an independent BR platform provides the easiest, cost effective way to meet compliance.

• Single interface: One interface protects and manages all data sources, from native infrastructure (Azure and AWS) to major SaaS offerings like Microsoft 365 and Salesforce. It even covers legacy backup such as on premise servers and company laptops.

• Fast fixes: With multiple people using QuickBooks Online, data can be changed simultaneously, introducing errors. Redstor not only gives admins a safety net, it provides instant, granular item restore to rapidly fix any issue.

• Time and money savings: A common source of data loss are finance team changes to the production environment in QuickBooks. With Redstor, admins can use backup data in their sandbox to verify and validate any changes before pushing them into production.

• Automated processes: QuickBooks operates on a shared responsibility model that protects users from incidents such as platform outages, but not ransomware, malicious or accidental data deletion/loss. Automatic and on-demand backup processes make sure all bases are covered.

• Simplicity and low cost of ownership: QuickBooks’ backup and data restoration requires users to provide and manage external storage. The all-in-one solution eliminates that operational and cost burden, with experts overseeing every step of the journey.

“This solves a major SMB issue while creating new revenue for MSPs at a price point that assures maximum profitability,” said Dan Boddington, product manager, Redstor “Downtime means lost revenue. Slow recovery means missed opportunity. Missing data ruins reputations. With Redstor Backup for QuickBooks, this vital business data is safe and quickly recoverable, and the profits stay with our MSPs.”