I'm trying to find something that will manage customer and inventory data for my small business. I have about 10 inventory items.
I have a basic understanding of Quickbooks = aka, I use it at work and love it! But that costs $5 a month and I don't feel my income is regular enough to splurge for that just yet.
The bank recommended something called Wave
https://www.waveapps.com/
Does anyone use this?
The big scary thing right away is that it stores the data in a cloud. It also connects directly to my bank account.
If I'm storing data about payments, people, and things, then I want to keep this data safe. I'm actually thinking about storing this data on a computer that doesn't access the internet. But... when I talk to the bank, they don't have any concerns about online data - they feel that clouds are very safe. I guess they don't have friends who are hired by the government to hack clouds - for research purposes so they can make government clouds more secure. I don't understand it all, but what I get from those conversations is that clouds are not safe places for data yet.
Is wave something that is right for me?