Top 5 Finance and Accounting Apps

Keep on top of invoicing, expenses, transfers and more with these must-have business solutions. 

Wouldn’t it be nice to have powerful, yet easy-to-use, app that helped you with invoicing, accounting, and your general business finances? Of course it would! So we’ve complied our Top 5 Finance and Accounting Apps, to help you with exactly these tasks.
Enjoy complete visibility on spending and money owed; create, review and approve expense reports; view quotes, invoicing, online and automatic payments, and so much more.
Featured apps are: Concur; KashFlow; Tipalti AP Automation; Xero; Zoho Invoice.
As ever, if there’s an app you use and love that’s not in our list, we’d love to know. Just leave a comment below.

Concur

Concur’s mission statement is simple: run your business better. Automate your expenses, invoice and travel management, whether you run a SME/SMB, or larger, enterprise-level operation. If you run a smaller business, as your company grows, expenses and hassles grow too. Keeping track of cash flow can become increasingly difficult. More than 13,000 small to medium sized businesses depend on Concur every day. With the app you get complete visibility into spending as it’s happening, can process expenses and invoices 30% faster, and of course help keep your business on track and on budget. Plus, with Concur’s mobile application, you can create, review and approve expense reports and book and change your travel itinerary – hotels, airfare, taxis, rail and rental cars – all from your smartphone. Run a larger business? The seamless flow of data brings a new level of control over and visibility into business expenses, while integrated company expense policies and custom auditing software improve compliance and visibility. Boom!

KashFlow

KashFlow is arguably the ultimate small business accounting software, designed to be used without needing any accounting or bookkeeping knowledge. The software’s easy-to-read dashboard provides you with both at-a-glance and updated views of how your company’s finances are doing. The sidebar tabs lets you navigate quickly among your accounts and view your quotes, invoicing, automatic bank feeds, and online and automatic payments. Invoices can be customized and edited, and recurring invoices can even sent automatically. You can also set up push notifications to let you know when they’re paid or overdue. It’s even optimized for mobile use, so you’re not chained to your desk to get your accounting tasks done. With Automatic Bank Feeds, you can setup your accounts to receive payment immediately upon client fulfilment. Customers can pay with credit or debit cards and your accounts are automatically updated with the payment information. KashFlow uses an Open-source, subscription pricing model, with a free 14-day trial available. Packages start from £5 per month for the Starter plan.

Tipalti AP Automation

If your business involves international transactions and transfers, this is the program for you. Tipalti works by gathering various international money transfer details and automating the processes associated with customer, vendor, and affiliate payments: freeing up your business to focus its resources on other areas. It provides a fast and secure world payment system that can be utilized by businesses of various sizes and types. With features such as international money transfer fraud protection, and global tax and regulatory compliance management tools, it’s no wonder that Tipalti is a first-class solution chosen by companies including Amazon, Twitter and GoPro. A great feature is the ability to select which international currency payments are made in. This is a huge time saver, as businesses no longer have to convert payments to the local currency and incur unnecessary bank fees. The service’s payment processor also lets partners choose the payment method which they want to use, based on their geographical location. Tipalti supports various payment methods including ACH, International ACH, Cash:via Western Union, eCheck, PayPal, Paper Check, Prepaid Card and Wire Transfer.

Xero

We’re big fans of Xero. It’s a versatile cloud-based platform geared towards business of all sizes. It’s a particularly ideal solution for smaller business owners, as it gives them the ability to manage their accounts independently, alongside their accountants. A really great feature of Xero is its comprehensive, yet user-friendly dashboard, which can change the way managers view time-consuming tasks like invoicing, transaction monitoring and expense management. The intuitive graphs give users a visual understanding of key data, which helps them easily compare account information at-a-glance. Xero also lets users generate and customize professional branded invoices. There are loads of customization options including adding a company’s logo, foreign currency conversion tools, and the ability to save different templates for separate clients. Its invoicing system is also a great feature, as it can issue invoices for payments from PayPal accounts, bank transfers or credit cards, with no country-related exceptions. One of the neat invoicing tools is the notification that alerts users when invoices have been opened by the recipient. Clever.

Zoho Invoice

Zoho Invoice offers a stack of features for a reasonable price and has great integration with other Zoho solutions, including Zoho Books and Zoho CRM, which provides a level of scalability that’s not found in other solutions on the market. As you might expect, a key feature of Zoho Invoice is the ability to create, manage, and track invoices. These can be sent directly to the payee or hard copies can be made for posting. All invoices are automatically stored and can be retrieved at any time for further use or duplication. With this app you can also issue cost estimates, which can later be converted to invoices. The client portal is another neat feature that allows customers to login, view pending transactions, and even make payments. It integrates with online payment gateways such as Stripe, PayPal, PayPal Payflow Pro, Braintree, Authorize.Net, and 2Checkout; it also supports multiple languages and various currencies. Zoho Invoice uses a freemium/subscription pricing model with a free trial available.