Who is the QuickBooks administrator?

Who is the QuickBooks Administrator?

The QuickBooks administrator is the person who sets up the company file and assigns passwords and access privileges to other users. user permissions, administrator (definition), QuickBooks, administrator, . The QuickBooks administrator has unlimited access to all areas of QuickBooks.

If you have an administrator set up, it appears in the User List as either Admin or User Name (admin). user permissions, administrator (definition), QuickBooks, administrator, . To view the User List, go to the Company menu, click UsersSet up Users and Passwords, and then click Set Up Users and RolesSet up Users.

Here are some of the tasks that only the administrator can do:

Disable the Login window in a company file
Note: You can't remove the administrator password from company files that have Customer Credit Card Protection enabled because they require an administrator password.
To avoid having to enter a password each time you open a company file, you can disable the Login window for that file.
If you're the administrator, know the administrator password, and prefer not to log in to the file each time you open it, you can remove users and passwords so that the Login window doesn't appear.
Disabling the Login window allows full, unprotected access to your company data.
1. Log in to the company file as the administrator.
2. Go to the Company menu, click UsersSet up Users and Passwords, and then click Set Up Users and RolesSet up Users.
3. Select a user in the list that doesn't have (Admin) next to their name, click Delete User, and then click Yes to confirm. user permissions, administrator (definition), QuickBooks, administrator, .
4. Repeat for each remaining non-administrator user.
5. After all non-administrator users have been deleted, select the administrator and click Edit User. user permissions, administrator (definition), QuickBooks, administrator, .
6. Delete the entries for the Password and Confirm Password fields and click Next. user permissions, administrator (definition), QuickBooks, administrator, .
7. In the message that appears, click No (that you do NOT want to set up a password) and then click Finish. user permissions, administrator (definition), QuickBooks, administrator, .
From now on, any time you open this company file, QuickBooks recognizes that there is only an administrator set up without a password and will no longer display the Login window. user permissions, administrator (definition), QuickBooks, administrator, .
Change a user's access permissions
Import and export data
Apply for the QuickBooks Merchant Service
Change company-related information such as the company name, address, or fiscal year

If you need to do one of these tasks, have your QuickBooks Administrator do it for you.

There are some external limitations to the QuickBooks Administrator's ability to work with QuickBooks data. user permissions, administrator (definition), QuickBooks, administrator, . If you are backing up a data file to an external CD drive in Windows XP or Windows Vista, the Windows Administrator permissions supercede those of the QuickBooks Administrator. user permissions, administrator (definition), QuickBooks, administrator, . For more information, read about about backing up to a CD using Windows XP or Windows Vista.