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by jakegottlieb 5253 days ago
As far as technology goes, we are using the industry standards. Jason will be on later to describe it from a technical standpoint. We have several very large companies using it which to me is unusual. They were the first takers to tryout our software. You would think they would be the most protective over their data.

After speaking with the newer signals they see, to be tending towards the small business side. Any suggestions?
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tylerwl 5253 days ago
Congrats on the early traction. If any of the larger companies are comfortable with the idea, consider using a testimonial, profile or logo from them.

Also, since you mentioned it in the above discussion, I think it's worth adding the iPad accessibility to your homepage copy (and iPhone if that's also applicable).

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jasonjei 5253 days ago
Tyler, thanks for the kind words! The original reason we built this software was to increase the security of the Quickbooks file at my last job. We had one guy creating an invoice for $3000, then giving the customer that copy, and then changing it $2000 thereby hiding the fact that he had skimmed $1000. Levion keeps a full audit trail and doesn't allow you to delete.

We hope to increase the security and reliability of Quickbooks data too. We had one customer who would Dropbox their Quickbooks file every week to the accountant. One time, they were working on the wrong Quickbooks file. They lost about a week's worth of data that had to be reentered. And we have plans to allow businesses to open only parts of their data instead of exposing all of it as they would with passing their Quickbooks file back and forth. All of this done securely through SSL. As with any system such as Github, Dropbox, Mint, or Xero trusted with sensitive data, our sysadmins are screened for their personal ethic. We do maintain strong security auditing, including bash histories of commands accessed on our production servers.

We have plans for an iPhone and iPad app--stay posted!

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tylerwl 5252 days ago
Very cool story. You'll have to share it when you inevitably start getting hounded by tech blogs for interviews ;)

Based on all the great information you shared, I would suggest adding a section like the following to your homepage:

Security and Peace of Mind

Levion uses SSL technology to keep your online Quickbooks data fully secure. Our audit trail ensures your entries are always 100% accurate, while our regular backups prevent you from ever losing the data you enter.

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