Migrating 10 years of ledger data from desktop accounting software to the cloud – is it risky?
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Migrating 10 years of ledger data from desktop accounting software to the cloud – is it risky? 21 hours, 12 minutes agoI transition small businesses to cloud software frequently. The key is to export your legacy data into standard CSV files first, rather than relying on direct API integrations. It acts as a hard backup. I did this for a local hardware store last month and it preserved historical invoices perfectly.
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Our desktop software had customized employee deductions that didn’t align with the default fields online. During the final transition weekend, the database file threw an encryption error while uploading historical tax tables. I had to look up an Intuit phone number to check if our specific legacy license still permitted raw data exports.…[Read more]