{"id":1474,"date":"2019-11-01T18:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T09:32:15","slug":"basic-invoicing-in-aus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/basic-invoicing-in-aus\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic invoicing in Aus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Invoicing is a very boring job to do, at least for me. I want to have it as simple as posible and certainly do not want to use Word or Excel spreadsheet for it. Coming from Czech Republic, I was used to an excellent service called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fakturoid.cz\/cenik\">Fakturoid<\/a>. Unfortunately, I have not found a similar product in Australia. Even today, eight years later, the products are still behind the Fakturiod&#8217;s capabilities and its price\/value ratio in my opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>So what&#8217;s there on offer?<\/h2>\n<p>Here is the list of the major players in Australia (not considering desktop-only applications):\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zero &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xero.com\/pricing\/\">https:\/\/www.xero.com\/pricing\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Myob &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myob.com\/au\/accounting-software\/compare\">https:\/\/www.myob.com\/au\/accounting-software\/compare<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>QuickBooks<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/quickbooks.intuit.com\/au\/pricing\/\">https:\/\/quickbooks.intuit.com\/au\/pricing\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reckon &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reckon.com\/au\/accounting-software\/\">https:\/\/www.reckon.com\/au\/accounting-software\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sage &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-au\/sage-business-cloud\/accounting\/pricing\/\">https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-au\/sage-business-cloud\/accounting\/pricing\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>SimpleInvoices*<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; https:\/\/simpleinvoices.com.au\/pricing\/<\/li>\n<li>CashFlow Manager &#8211; https:\/\/www.cashflow-manager.com.au\/products\/<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rounded<\/strong> &#8211; https:\/\/rounded.com.au\/pricing\/<br \/><br \/><\/li>\n<li>FreshBooks &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freshbooks.com\/pricing\">https:\/\/www.freshbooks.com\/pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>WaveApps**<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waveapps.com\/pricing\">https:\/\/www.waveapps.com\/pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Saasu &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saasu.com\/pricing\/\">https:\/\/www.saasu.com\/pricing\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bas OFF &#8211; https:\/\/www.basoff.com.au\/pricing<\/li>\n<li>Free Accounting Software (cloud) &#8211; http:\/\/www2.freeaccountingsoftware.com.au\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Outsourced accounting service:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>https:\/\/ncscorp.com.au\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*SimpleInvoices &#8211; easy, online payments, but do not support bank feeds yet, no free plan but cheap<\/p>\n<p>**WaveApps = best app I found for free, but they recently went through acquisition process and pulled out from Aus market (meaning they remove support for bank feeds).\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>My personal experience:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Freshbook<\/strong> was great, but if you deal with more than 5 different clients it becomes relatively pricey ($25\/month).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>WaveApps<\/strong> is great package, with Stripe integration, but the recent pull off from the market brings uncertainty. However, it&#8217;s <strong>FREE<\/strong>. Bank feeds are gone!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fakturoid\u00a0<\/strong>is awesome tool but not for AUS market, unfortunately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>QuickBooks<\/strong> is relatively price competitive ($10\/month), provide wide range of features. Worth a try.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rounded<\/strong> seems like a good product with nice features, but already double the price of QucikBooks ($20\/month).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>SimpleInvoices<\/strong> might be too simple for the cost of $7.5\/month. If they would include bank feeds, then it might be worth the $.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>For occasional invoicing, I would still recommend WaveApps being it free. If you want bank feeds, look into QuickBooks \/ Rounded. For more advanced stuff, probably Xero would be my preference over MYOB, Sage and Reckon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I still think there is a small gap in the market for a product like Fakturoid. Let&#8217;s see who is going to join the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are using other software you want to share, please feel free to send me message via <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/pach\">my LinkedIn profile<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/contact\/\">contact form<\/a>. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pavelchmelar.cz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}