Explorations on a theme: "What is a transaction? "

7.  Approaches to Web Accounting

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Internet accounting solutions fall into two broad categories:

The key question is where is the database and transaction processing logic?   If they are BOTH on a managed host or ASP on the internet, there are scenarios which could actually eliminate some classes of redundant data stores.   There are innumerable software products which reduce reconciliation costs but let's focus on a quantum leap, to eliminate the root of the problem: these always require a server someplace 24 hours x 7 days visible to both parties to a transaction: