Monthly Archive · July 2026 (Full Month)

Pain

We're a mid-size supplier in the EU, not big enough to be in NIS2 scope ourselves, but our largest customer is, and after the npm supply-chain mess a while back they sent us a 40-question security assessment with a contract clause attached, we answer it or we're not a supplier anymore. Answering it means I have to turn around and demand the same evidence from our own suppliers, because half the questions are about how we manage our sub-processors. So I'm getting audited from above and having to audit downward at the same time.

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I have a small business, very small, just me. For the last 14 years I have used Quickbooks Desktop. The price for the desktop version was about $1000 for the year. This is just too much for me now. I am now in read-only mode. So I need to figure out what is an affordable alternative. QuickBooks online quoted a 75% discount or $81.35 per month/$976.20 for a year. I was hoping I could use their stripped down online version “Simple Start” but I was getting the hard sell for “Advanced”. I have no employees, I make stuff, sell via my website, and send stuff to customers. I file sales tax quarterly. I am not very tech savvy but I have to figure this out.

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Ops manager at a nonprofit, ~40 staff. Airtable is our everything: donor records, program participants, volunteer scheduling, grants. It grew organically over 4 years and now we have problems. Last month someone on the volunteer team was "cleaning up" a view and deleted a filter, which exposed donors giving history to everyone with base access. Which is... everyone. Nobody did anything, but our ED had to have an awkward board conversation about why any staffer could see major donor data in the first place. Airtable's answer is Interface Designer plus per-seat pricing that our budget genuinely can't do for 40 people, since half our staff just need to log a visit or check a schedule.

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Says it all on the title. I put a SaaS wrapper around a tool I built a couple years ago, and started to expand it over the last 2 months. I have now had talks with 3 separate investors, all who have said basically the same thing. Investors are looking for proof of life, not a proof of concept. Get 3-4 big clients, and they will have a call with me. I reached out to other friends in tech, old CTOs, and neighbors with connections. Almost every place I have actually demoed the app, has absolutely loved it. They immediately offered up insight into how they would use it. But, they have magically all asked for SOC2 compliance. It's uncanny actually, how many times this has come up so far.

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my client runs a few locations and uses toast as their pos system, quickbooks online for accounting, and shoGo to push the daily sales journal entry. the problem is toast sometimes posts activity after shoGo already did the daily entry - like when they issue a refund a couple days later or some orders get adjusted. it creates these annoying discrepancies in qbo that eat up a ton of time during month-end close. so, what’s your current process for catching this pos activity that comes in late? do you go back and manually adjust the journal entries every time? or did you find some better workflow or tool that actually handles the timing issues?