Accounting Seed vs ZipBooks: Which is a better fit?

Emmett H.: Hi. My name is Emmett. I'm the Chief Financial Officer of a mid-sized consulting company. I give Accounting Seed a five rating, and for more reviews, click on the link below. So we use Accounting Seed for all of our client billing and for all of our payments. We also use Accounting Seed to generate our periodic financial reporting on performance of the company, income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statements. We may also drill in on a particular account to see what's going on, to see the nature of charges. So we can look at our income statement and drill down to see what has resulted in a particular expense, what the accounting record was. That's what we do. That's what we use Accounting Seed for. Accounting Seed is built on the Salesforce platform, so that means it's got all of the tools and capabilities that are there available for developers to create business process automation. So they have, for example, approval flows already easy to configure and set up. They have a very good regime for controlling access to different application functionality or to read, write, edit, delete capabilities on specific fields. So it's built on the Salesforce platform. It's very, very robust platform. No downtime that we've ever experienced, and that's the first thing. Second thing is that it's just basically easy to do all the things that we need to do. Nothing significant, but a couple reporting things that it's possible to do outside of Accounting Seed with an export to Excel with a pivot table, but producing reports, I don't like the fact that you can't produce a report with divisions across the top or as columns and the general ledger codes as rows. You can do a lot with reporting, but you can't do that structure, and that's a very useful structure.

Cory: Hi, I'm Cory. I'm an owner. I would give Zipbooks five out of five stars, and click for more reviews below. I had lots of different accounting software before Zipbooks, and they were really complicated. And I'm not that knowledgeable on everything accounting, so having Zipbooks, it really solved that problem. It's a lot less complicated and it solves the problems that I was having with those other software. I chose Zipbooks because it was simple to use. It had exactly the reports that I needed to file my taxes. I can also take payments, send invoices, and everything you would need to do with an invoicing and bookkeeping software without all of the additional hassle of going through traditional accounting terminology and trying to figure out where this is and what this is called. Everything's really simple and easy to follow, and they had a great price point. Zipbooks was really easy to begin with and it only took a couple of minutes to get set up. There was a lot of customization I could do later, but to send my first invoice, it was a couple of minutes. For someone thinking about getting Zipbooks, definitely check it out. It's easy to set up and it's very inexpensive for a small business owner or anyone like that. I would recommend Zipbooks for anyone using any other type of payment processor, like Square or Stripe, because it integrates really well. And I would just say check it out, see if it works for you, and just have fun with it.