Not every entrepreneur can afford to have an accountant on staff, nor can they afford to pay for expensive accounting software. Thanks to the development of cloud technologies, business owners have the opportunity to conduct accounting independently using special remote online services. Let's list the main online accounting services currently available to Russian users, compare them and find out which online accounting is better.
I. Sky
This service is designed primarily for small businesses and startups. The system is simple, and even a beginner in accounting can easily understand it. The user is offered two main tariffs - Tandem, costing 500 rubles per month, and Team, costing 3,500 rubles per month. Plus an additional payment in each case for submitting reports to the tax authorities and funds, amounting to 100 rubles for each report.
Users, depending on the chosen tariff, are given different options regarding the number of accounting entries - for Tandem 100 thousand and for Team 1 million annually. At the same time, the same user can maintain accounting for an unlimited number of legal entities.
Reporting is possible in the simplified tax system, OSN and UTII. The function of downloading data from the 1C office program is available. It is possible to download information and generate reports in EXCEL format, as well as in the form of an xml file. It is possible to submit financial statements to the tax office without a personal digital signature through a company that supports the service.
Perhaps the only visible drawback of the service is its lack of promotion, which causes natural mistrust. Among the advantages, we should highlight the availability of SMS notifications about the submission of reports. The state of affairs can be monitored using a special mobile application.
II. My business
This service has been operating for several years and has earned credibility among users. It is designed for businesses of all sizes and provides services for each accounting and reporting system, including submitting reports to the tax office and funds.
There is a database of regulations available, users are provided with all the news regarding the updating of legislation. You can also get advice from tax and accounting specialists through the service.
Among the main advantages of the service, a high level of security should be highlighted: DATA centers are located in Europe, the likelihood of unauthorized access is minimal. Information is backed up four times per hour. Access to accounts is differentiated by level (director, chief accountant). Notifications about submission of reports are carried out via email.
There are 4 types of tariffs available, the monthly payment amount is given in brackets:
- Individual entrepreneur without employees (612 rubles);
- LLC without employees (676 rubles);
- Individual entrepreneur or LLC with employees (1230 rubles);
- Turnkey accounting (from 1000 rubles, depending on the types of additional services).
III. Contour (Elbe)
The system is aimed primarily at small businesses. There are a number of subprograms that provide accounting of varying degrees of complexity. The function of importing data from 1C is available. A characteristic feature is the presence of specialized modules that simplify the accounting of goods, control their movement and generate shipping documentation.
Among the disadvantages of the program is the lack of support for some specialized tasks, such as, for example, accounting for producers of agricultural goods. Among the advantages, it is worth highlighting the low cost of services, as well as free training webinars.
There is a detailed tariff schedule; delivery of reports is included in the price. We list them, indicating the cost per quarter in brackets:
- Luxury (4000 rubles);
- Comfort (3000 rubles);
- Standard (2000 rubles);
- Salary+ (2500 rubles);
- Accounting+ (2000 rubles);
- Salary (1500 rubles);
- Accounting (1000 rubles).
IV. Assistant
The service is aimed at small businesses, a wide range of services is provided, and the presence of hints simplifies working with the system for users who do not have special accounting skills.
It is possible to maintain simple warehouse and financial accounting, control mutual settlements with suppliers and clients, quickly fill out all the necessary forms, automatically compile declarations and accounting books based on previously entered information, and maintain employee records. There are many other features too. For electronic declaration, integration has been carried out with “Workstation Payer”, and to speed up the export-import of documents and payment information - with the “client-bank” systems of leading banks. There is a system of reminders about deadlines for submitting reports, as well as all the necessary information on legislation, and the opportunity to receive advice from specialists is provided.
There are three tariff plans, each of them is aimed at a specific category of service consumers.
The Kontur.Reporting module is an external processing for 1C, which allows you to send reports and registers of benefits to 4-FSS, reports to the Pension Fund of Russia, Rosstat, Federal Tax Service, transmit and receive letters from the Federal Tax Service, receive requests from the Federal Tax Service and send receipts for them.
Compatibility
The module works with the 1C 8 platform with the following configurations:
- 1C: ERP Enterprise Management 2
- 1C: Integrated automation 2
- Salary and Personnel Management, edition 3.1
- Enterprise Accounting, edition 3.0
- Salaries and personnel of a government agency, edition 3.1
- Manufacturing Enterprise Management, Revision 1.3
- Integrated automation, edition 1.1
- Salary and Personnel Management, edition 2.5
- Enterprise Accounting, edition 2.0
- Salaries and personnel of a budgetary institution, edition 1.0
Module connection
To connect the module you need:
- Add a module as additional processing in 1C. You can download the module from the installation page by clicking the “Download” button.
- Launch the 1C configuration in user mode.
For different configurations, connecting the module is done differently.
To connect the module for Manufacturing Enterprise Management 1.3, Salary and Personnel Management 2.5, Enterprise Accounting 2.0, Integrated Automation 1.1 and Salary and Personnel of a Budgetary Institution 1.0 you need:
To connect the module for ERP Enterprise Management 2, Salary and Personnel Management 3.1, Enterprise Accounting 3. Integrated Automation 2 and Salary and Personnel of a Government Institution, edition 3.1 you need:
First start
Open the module Contour.Reporting from additional processing in 1C.
Setting up an organization
To set up an organization you need to:
Module update
When a new version of a module is released, the message “A software update is available” appears. To install the new version, click “Install”.
The new version of the module will automatically be installed in additional external processing. Then you need to restart the module.
Kontur.Accounting is an online service for maintaining accounting, calculating salaries and sending reports to the Federal Tax Service, Pension Fund and Social Insurance Fund. The service is suitable for comfortable collaboration between an accountant and a director. He can:
- create primary documents (invoices, acts, invoices and others);
- maintain account cards, journal entries, books of purchases and sales, journal of invoices;
- automatically calculate salaries, sick leave, vacation pay, deductions;
- generate, check and send reports to regulatory authorities and funds;
- conduct a financial analysis of the company's condition;
- give hints and reminders about paying taxes;
- check with regulatory authorities and show a table of arrears of taxes and contributions.
Additional features:
- verification of counterparties (based on data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and the Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs);
- mobile application for iOS and Android;
- sick leave, maternity and vacation pay calculators;
- expert assistance in accounting matters;
- reference and legal base;
- tools for accounting services;
- service for registering new LLCs;
- integration with Alfa Bank, Tochka, UBRiR, Neiva, Tinkoff, VUZ Bank;
- invoice recognition;
- electronic document management;
- affiliate program for individuals and legal entities.
Who is suitable for Kontur.Accounting:
- Commercial organizations with up to 100 employees;
- LLC on the simplified tax system, UTII, simplified tax system + UTII, OSNO;
- IP on the simplified tax system, UTII, simplified tax system + UTII;
- Firms without harsh and harmful working conditions.
The service is updated without user participation, and the reporting forms are always correct and comply with legal requirements. If users have questions, they are helped by free 24/7 technical support.
The 1C:Enterprise 8 over the Internet service was developed by 1C. It consists of a number of programs for automating management and accounting at enterprises in various industries and types of activities. The system is primarily used by small and medium-sized companies that need to connect several workstations. Now the service operates online with applications for accounting and management accounting, payroll, accounting in government agencies and submitting reports via the Internet.
What does the 1C:Enterprise 8 online service include?
- 1C: Accounting 8 for accounting in accounting and taxes, prompt submission of reports under any taxation system (OSNO, UTII, simplified tax system).
- 1C:Entrepreneur 2015- a more understandable module for entrepreneurs with the same services, reports, document preparation tools and even risk calculation services.
- 1C: Managing our company- accounting, plans and management. The module includes sales, warehouse, supply, purchasing, production, mutual settlements, salaries and property.
- 1C: Salaries and personnel management 8- personnel records, calculation of salaries and other accruals, payment of salaries and subsequent generation and submission of reports.
- 1S-KAMIN:Salary- for HR specialists. The service offers all the tools for calculating all kinds of payments.
- 1C: Accounting of a government agency- the module is suitable for work in government, budget or autonomous institutions.
- 1C: Entrepreneur reporting- preparation and submission of reports to the Federal Tax Service, Pension Fund and Social Insurance Fund.
The topic of 1C does not let us go: especially when, when asked what Ukrainian accountants should do, the company tells us . We decided to analyze how other accounting programs fare. And are there any working alternatives to the monopolist now? What if they want to ban it here too... We will be ready, at least.
We invite you to tell us in the comments what problems you encountered when using the listed programs and why you want to switch to another (or have already switched).
Recently in the Klerk.ru group on Facebook, Red corner accountant ah, we invited our readers to take part in survey regarding the program in which the records are kept.
1C
1C won with a crushing score. The company needs no introduction. Everything there is large-scale: 1C works with users through a partner network that includes more than 10,000 regular partners in 600 cities from 25 countries. It was just clients from another country who recently had to get nervous. Over the past week, the company has become the subject of several important news. In Ukraine, at first commercial companies supposedly then used 1C.I think readers will forgive us if we do not dwell in detail on the functions and features of working in 1C. It’s better to talk in detail about other accounting programs mentioned in our survey.
Turbo 9
The silver of our survey is with the accounting program Turbo 9, which was developed by the DRC (Dolgoprudny Research Center). To be honest, the program’s website looks like a relic from the days of dial-up internet. But there are online assistants, a forum, and a hotline.However, developers offer a full range of software solutions: for automating accounting and tax accounting, for personnel management, and for warehouse or industrial accounting. There is a mini-program Accountant. It is designed for bookkeeping "from posting", without the use of operational documents.
Sail
Alive in the memory of accountants and Parus. However, in our survey only one respondent chose it. In the comments, users noted that state and municipal institutions are now using it.We asked: there are also offers for businesses. But again - only for large companies: from the mechanical engineering, chemical sector, energy, food industry.
Who else?
Of course, we haven’t talked about all accounting programs. Maybe you have favorite services or software - even if they are not so popular, they provide the options that your business needs? Tell us.04.10.2012, Thu, 18:10, Moscow time, Text: Alexander Levashov
Ekaterinburg developer SKB Kontur is preparing to launch an Internet service that will combine the functionality of the company’s existing SaaS applications for outsourced accountants, entrepreneurs and small firms. As the service develops, it will increasingly meet the needs of customers who currently prefer 1C, according to Kontur.
As CNews learned, by the end of October 2012 the SKB Kontur company will launch a new online service “Accounting.Kontur”. It will be located at b-kontur.ru and will combine the functionality of the developer’s existing services – “Eureka” (employee accounting, payroll calculation, etc.) and “Elba” (online accounting under a simplified tax system).
Head of Accounting.Kontur Ilya Bublik told CNews that the decision to combine two accounting SaaS services was a response to requests from clients and partners - “the popularity of the services is growing, and their audiences are increasingly intersecting.”
The transition period will last from the launch of the unified service until the end of the 1st quarter of 2013, after which the Eureka and Elba projects will cease to exist, and all existing users will be transferred to Accounting.
The new service will offer clients a choice of two options for use - Easy (for those who report under the “simplified tax” or UTII) and Professional (for reporting under the general taxation system). In addition, the service will provide the ability to submit reports via the Internet, exchange electronic invoices and a number of other functions.
Ilya Bublik sees individual entrepreneurs, existing micro and small businesses, newly created companies, as well as accountants providing services under the outsourcing model as a potential audience for the unified accounting service.
“The accounting outsourcing market is growing rapidly,” says Bublik. - Of the 2.5 million taxpayers in Russia, about 500 thousand use the services of freelancers. Another 300 thousand clients turn to official outsourcing companies, of which there are about 9,000.”
By the time of launch, Accounting.Kontur will be able to functionally satisfy the needs of about 25% of organizations reporting under the general taxation system, the developers believe. In a few months, with the addition of the ability to calculate property taxes, this figure will increase to 40%.
However, in the next 1.5-2 years, the audience of Accounting.Kontur is unlikely to have much overlap with 1C users, believes Ilya Bublik. But then, as it develops, Kontur will be able to claim both clients using the “broken” 1C and legal clients of the company, he adds.
Currently, the number of registered users of the Elba service exceeds 250 thousand, of which about 7.5 thousand use paid tariffs. For Evirika, similar figures are 70 thousand and 2.5 thousand, respectively. Such data were presented at the partner conference “ SKB Kontur”, held in September 2012.
SKB Kontur's revenue in 2011 amounted to 3.1 billion rubles. About 82% of the company’s revenue came from the online reporting service “Kontur Extern”. “Eureka” and “Elbe” accounted for about 2% of total revenue.
1C's revenue in 2011, according to CNews, amounted to almost 23.9 billion rubles, and the sales volume of the 1C ERP system, based on IDC data, exceeded $290 million (about 8.8 billion rubles). The company does not disclose sales volumes for individual products.
“1C” works according to a partner model, reminds CNews Alexey Kharitonov, head of the department for promoting economic programs at 1C. - Our “Software Rental” project (formerly), according to the partners participating in it, should bring them a total of 83 million rubles this year. (excluding revenue from our own, launched in May 2012 - CNews note), its growth in January-September 2012 compared to the same period in 2011 was 90%. As of the 3rd quarter of 2012, our partners rent out almost 12 thousand licenses for 1C:Enterprise 8 system programs.