The office PC stops being a single point of failure
Records live on the server. A dead hard drive is an inconvenience, not a disaster.
Cloud-based, so your shop is not tied to one machine
What actually changes when your shop software stops living on a desktop in the back office.
The five things that change
Backups stop being your job
A copy of your records is taken every day, automatically, and kept going back months.
Everyone sees the same thing
No exporting, emailing or wondering which copy is current.
You can work from anywhere
Within the permissions you have been given, from any device.
Why this is safer than the office PC
The computer in the back office sits in a room everyone walks through, under a desk nobody locks. Here is what changes when your records live on professionally managed servers instead:
- The machine is stolen, dropped or flooded and your records do not go with it
- Ransomware on the shop PC cannot reach your work orders and invoices
- Copies are taken every day automatically — nobody has to remember, or plug anything in
- You decide who can see what, and you cut off a leaver's access the same minute
- Sessions expire on their own, so a machine left logged in is not an open door
- Buy a new computer and there is nothing to install — sign in and it is all there
Installed on one PC, versus cloud
| — | Traditional single-computer shop software | Autovena |
|---|---|---|
| Access | One installed PC | Web, tablet, Android and iPhone |
| Hardware failure | Data lives on that machine | Records live on managed servers |
| Backups | Your responsibility | A copy taken automatically, every day |
| Updates | Installed per machine | Everyone is on the current version |
| Mobile | Usually none | Included in the same plan |
This describes the architecture of locally installed shop software in general, not a specific product.
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