I'm experiencing a bit of buyer's remorse over my choice of accountant - I didn't really do my research properly to be honest. I knew they had a web app for submitting transaction details, or accepted spreadsheets, so when the web app turned out to be pretty limited, I thought, fine, I'll roll-my-own and export to a csv or whatever... but they have a prescribed file format which is a nightmare of VBA macros and protected sheets so I can't do that. There are a couple of other bits and pieces that have upset me along the way - although they've always been courteous and polite.
Anyway, having looked around and discovered inniaccounts and FreeAgent, I'm now very keen on using a service like this. I'm trialling both of these and I'm especially impressed by FreeAgent's API - although it's a bit dearer than inni, it's still *much* less than I'm paying now. However, Inni have an option for monthly-fixed-fee accountancy at the £75 level which seems to be normal (and still a lot less than I'm paying), whereas FreeAgent don't.
I'm not looking for a great deal of accountancy advice but I'd feel a lot happier having some professional involvement especially at year ends - especially with iXBRL coming (see my other post today). It seems to me that my options are:
* Go with Inni at £75 a month - pretty good web app, presumably reasonable on-hand accountancy support
* Go with FreeAgent at £25 a month + another monthly fixed fee accountant, perhaps another £75 for that?
* Go with FreeAgent and pay traditional accountant for year-end stuff - no idea what that would cost
* something else...
I'm interested to hear of any other SaaS options, or any other advice from the community here.
TIA
Matt
Anyway, having looked around and discovered inniaccounts and FreeAgent, I'm now very keen on using a service like this. I'm trialling both of these and I'm especially impressed by FreeAgent's API - although it's a bit dearer than inni, it's still *much* less than I'm paying now. However, Inni have an option for monthly-fixed-fee accountancy at the £75 level which seems to be normal (and still a lot less than I'm paying), whereas FreeAgent don't.
I'm not looking for a great deal of accountancy advice but I'd feel a lot happier having some professional involvement especially at year ends - especially with iXBRL coming (see my other post today). It seems to me that my options are:
* Go with Inni at £75 a month - pretty good web app, presumably reasonable on-hand accountancy support
* Go with FreeAgent at £25 a month + another monthly fixed fee accountant, perhaps another £75 for that?
* Go with FreeAgent and pay traditional accountant for year-end stuff - no idea what that would cost
* something else...
I'm interested to hear of any other SaaS options, or any other advice from the community here.
TIA
Matt
Comment