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Sage UBS Accounting Software Integration With Dropbox
Hi Guys,
I would like to check if anyone out there within the Dropbox Community has ever tried integrating Sage UBS Accounting Software with Dropbox, without involving another 3rd party software?
I am an accounts manager overseeing multiple accounts within a Group of Companies.
The Sage UBS Accounting Software that my company uses is: UBS Accounting & Billing (Version: 2023.3)
I have both a fixed workstation at the office & a laptop for work travel. The workstation is considered the host where it contains all of the original accounts data located within the workstation's C:Drive.
My current practice at the moment, should there be a need for me to work travel is that, I would have to manually perform backup for each of the company account under my portfolio and thereafter manually restore each one respectively into my work travel laptop, and vice versa upon returning back to office, at which point the whole process can be tedious & time consuming.
Simplified Illustration of My Current Practice:
1) Workstation > Sage UBS Backup > Laptop > Sage UBS Restore
2) Laptop > Sage UBS Backup > Workstation > Sage UBS Restore
Hence I was wondering if anyone within this community has ever used Sage UBS Accounting Software and attempted to auto-sync the accounts data located within one computer's C:Drive of the one part, and auto-sync it via Dropbox into another computer's C:Drive of the other part, in order to achieve a seamless data sync between two computers without having the need to manually perform backup & restore.
Seamless Auto Sync:
3) Workstation (C:Drive) > Dropbox> Laptop (C:Drive)
Hope to hear from someone within the community on this, in terms of how to achieve the above, problems encountered & related matters.
Thank you. 🙏
alfredloo90 wrote:
... ever used Sage UBS Accounting Software and attempted to auto-sync the accounts data located within one computer's C:Drive of the one part, and auto-sync it via Dropbox into another computer's C:Drive of the other part ...
Dropbox will only sync the files located in the Dropbox folder. As long as you can store the data for the software in your Dropbox folder and work on it directly there, it will sync between the workstation and laptop. Just make sure you never open the software on both systems at the same time or you'll get conflicted copies of your data.
If you can't move the data into the Dropbox and work on it live there, you'll need to find a third-party utility to do what you want, assuming that Sage hasn't created some integration using the Dropbox API.
- Rich
Super User II
alfredloo90 wrote:
... ever used Sage UBS Accounting Software and attempted to auto-sync the accounts data located within one computer's C:Drive of the one part, and auto-sync it via Dropbox into another computer's C:Drive of the other part ...
Dropbox will only sync the files located in the Dropbox folder. As long as you can store the data for the software in your Dropbox folder and work on it directly there, it will sync between the workstation and laptop. Just make sure you never open the software on both systems at the same time or you'll get conflicted copies of your data.
If you can't move the data into the Dropbox and work on it live there, you'll need to find a third-party utility to do what you want, assuming that Sage hasn't created some integration using the Dropbox API.
