FreeAgent

[willendure]

Definitely cloud hosted.

I am using GnuCash - honestly its clunky but still better than most of these fancy ones.

I encrypt my sensitive data, then put it onto an encrypted disk partition that is only mounted when working with the data.

[jamesbrown]

No, your data is on their servers. You can minimize data feeds, like bank connections, to make your life more painful and choose to upload from files, but there is no amount of pain that they are willing to offer that results in no data being present on their servers. It is not a piece of software you install locally, which is what you are after. The good news is that, if you like pain and hassle, there are locally installed apps available!

Not trying to convert you or anything but, the chances are, if you do your accounts on a machine that is connected to the internet, your machine is - most likely - far more vulnerable than FreeAgent's servers (but, either way, the risk is not zero and pretty much never will be). Bear in mind, a lot of your info is on Gov't servers too and, er, they have a less auspicious history of protecting your important data

[sadkingbilly]

Hello all, anyone know if freeagent is cloud based or can it be local M/C only??
I have an innate aversion to putting sensitive data on Someone Else's Server.