Canadian small business owners, do you use accounting software that is Canadian made?

[britt@mstdn.games]

Canadian small business owners, do you use accounting software that is Canadian made? I need a level up from spreadsheets for my moderately successful online business.

Does this exist? Is Wave the only option?

Thanks!!

Boosts appreciated.
#Canada #Canadian #Software

[jerome@jasette.facil.services]

@britt Canadian made you’re likely looking at Wave

The issue is when you grow enough is that accountants / bookkeepers only accept to work with certain tools. Which locks you in with shitty tools (aka QBO)

[scott@sfba.social]

@jerome @britt I didn’t realize Wave is Canadian made. Thanks! (This makes me feel better about using it.)

[scott@sfba.social]

@jerome @britt I’m glad you asked this. Wave just started charging for features that used to be free (primarily bank transaction auto-import), so it’s been on my list to look for alternatives. (Funny how Wave, originally the alternative to QBO, now calls for its own alternative! 🤪)

Sometimes I find good tools through @openalternative

Here are some that might be in the ballpark (though I can’t speak to where they are made):

https://openalternative.co/akaunting

https://openalternative.co/frappe-books

I’ll let you know if I find others!

[britt@mstdn.games]

@scott Thank you so much for helping!!

[jerome@jasette.facil.services]

@scott @britt

Didnt know Wave had started charging but honestly I prefer that. It’s normal for a business to pay an accounting tool and i remember few years ago when I was using Wave i felt afraid of the long term viability of a company that wasn’t charging anything. Either they sell my data or they go bankrupt.

Id rather have them charge a fair price!

[britt@mstdn.games]

@jerome @scott I don’t mind the charge for the same reasons, either. What does put me off as a small business is their lack of a free trial period of paid features before paying $25/month.

[scott@sfba.social]

@jerome @britt Yes, I agree! I would rather pay a moderate amount to cover their legitimate costs of running the service.

But I was already annoyed with Wave for other reasons… mostly deleting the super helpful user forums, which were an amazing resource, and moving all “support” to an AI chat bot.

[britt@mstdn.games]

@scott yikes! I have read their CS is lacking, too… so I’ll likely try another option.

[jerome@jasette.facil.services]

@scott @britt ouch.

[scott@sfba.social]

@britt FWIW, I have narrowed my search and am testing two options:

Frappe Books — Free, runs locally, no cloud (from what I can tell). Also no paid option, so I am not sure how/why they are producing it. Maybe they have plans for freemium/paid plans in the future https://frappe.io/books

Manager — Free, runs locally. Paid option to use their cloud, if you need multiple users, etc. https://www.manager.io

[britt@mstdn.games]

@scott Heyya! I actually think I’m going to give Xero a go for a bit… it seems to have the best price for what I personally need, overall. It’ll really help offload a lot of the cognitive work and that matters the most to me.