Kantivo Cloud: Managed Hosting for Your Accounting

Run for You, Not Rewritten for the Web

Kantivo Cloud is not a separate, trimmed-down online edition. It is the Kantivo application itself, operated on our infrastructure, so the ledger, reports and screens you rely on behave exactly as they would on your own computer.

• A private address for your company — for example northwind.cloud.kantivo.app — reachable from any modern browser.
• Isolation by design: every business has a dedicated database and a dedicated application process, so one customer can never see another’s records.
• Protection you don’t manage: nightly encrypted backups, hourly copies of attachments, and recovery to any moment in the past week. Restores are rehearsed and checked against the original trial balance.
• Hands-off updates: new versions are applied overnight in your own time zone. When you report an issue, the correction reaches your books as soon as it is released, typically inside an hour.
• Freedom to leave: the built-in move tool carries a desktop installation into the cloud — verifying every trial balance first — and carries it back again if you ever prefer local.

Cost

Every plan's cloud price includes hosting for everyone the plan includes: $144 a year for the first user, then $12 a year for each additional user. Professional in the cloud, for example, is $684 a year: your $540 Professional plan (1 user) plus $144 of hosting. Enterprise, with 30 users, is $2,172 a year in the cloud: the $1,680 plan plus $492 of hosting. On your own machine, each plan costs its plan price alone. Every plan, both ways · Which should I choose?

How Cloud Billing Works

• Two receipts, one date. Each year you are charged twice on the same renewal date: once for your Kantivo plan and once for cloud hosting. Together they equal the cloud price.
• Joining mid-year. Your first hosting charge covers only the time remaining until your plan renews, so the two always renew together.
• Users. Hosting follows the users your plan includes, plus any extra people you buy, not who happens to be signed in: $144 a year for the first user, then $12 a year for each additional user. Each extra person you add is $120 a year in either edition, plus $12 a year of hosting in the cloud, $132 a year in total.
• Moving back to your own machine. Hosting is not refunded if you leave the cloud during the year, and coming back before that paid year ends costs nothing extra.
• The 12-year price lock applies to your Kantivo plan. Cloud hosting is priced on its own and is not covered by the lock.
• Your bookkeeper or fractional CFO connects through Accountant Access and is not counted as one of your users.

Rather keep everything on your own hardware? Kantivo for desktop is unaffected. Our balanced look at hosted versus self-hosted accounting lays out both sides, and Kantivo Desktop vs Cloud helps you choose between our two editions, or switch for a while.

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