Accounting Software Compatible With WHMCS

[wdele]

Hello,

 

As you can see in the title, I am looking for accounting software that is compatible with WHMCS. Compatible as in: automatically syncing orders, adding expenditure automatically (which is the main reason I need accounting software) and it should comply with the NL VAT laws.

 

The main reason I am looking for accounting software is because I need the expenditure to be set automatically. This is a feature the WHMCS developers haven't added, while it's one of the features that are really needed in order to manage a business with WHMCS.

I could probably hire somebody to make a module that automatically adds the expenditure, but I think purchasing accounting software is a better choice anyway.

 

As for my budget, I'd rather pay for software one-time, rather than paying monthly. But after researching this a bit, the only good accounting software out there charges monthly I believe.

I want cheap software that complies with the NL VAT laws and is fully compatible with WHMCS, so I basically only have to submit the VAT declaration and not pay too much attention to the administration aside from that.

I am willing to spend no more than $5/$10 per month.

 

Does anybody have advice?

 

Thanks!

 

From spigotmc.org/threads/accounting-software-compatible-with-whmcs.56944/

[durangod]

What are you using now? There is nothing that i know of which is integrated into WHMCS other than some expense modules and many of those are still manual input.

 

For now i use GnuCash, its easy once you get the hang of it, there is not a huge learning curve as with some others, you just have to know how to close at the end of the year and also basically how to set up the accounts and then its easy peasy. But not integrated and its windows based as well. For these things youtube is wonderful, lots of info on how to do accounting.

 

Im sure one day someone will come out with something and i wish i had better news, as what your talking about would be great. But understand that with the complexity of accounting and the upkeep of the software to always meet current rules, we are probably never going to find anything available for $5 or $10 bucks a month. It would be more like $50 to $100 a month. But if it does everything it is suppose to do it would be worth it for $1200 a year.

 

I would consider doing a module if i had any good feelings about accounting, but i hated it in college and just use it because i have to.

 

I too hope something comes along.

[wdele]

What are you using now? There is nothing that i know of which is integrated into WHMCS other than some expense modules and many of those are still manual input.

 

For now i use GnuCash, its easy once you get the hang of it, there is not a huge learning curve as with some others, you just have to know how to close at the end of the year and also basically how to set up the accounts and then its easy peasy. But not integrated and its windows based as well. For these things youtube is wonderful, lots of info on how to do accounting.

 

Im sure one day someone will come out with something and i wish i had better news, as what your talking about would be great. But understand that with the complexity of accounting and the upkeep of the software to always meet current rules, we are probably never going to find anything available for $5 or $10 bucks a month. It would be more like $50 to $100 a month. But if it does everything it is suppose to do it would be worth it for $1200 a year.

 

I would consider doing a module if i had any good feelings about accounting, but i hated it in college and just use it because i have to.

 

I too hope something comes along.

 

Thanks for your reply

 

GnuCash seems nice, but the problem is that I have a lot of customers... well, I think it's going to be even more work to transfer all the transactions manually

[blakeh]

We're using Xero with Edgehosting's addon and it's working great for us.

[durangod]

We're using Xero with Edgehosting's addon and it's working great for us.

 

Looks nice, the only issue i have with cloud based or non local based accounting data storage is data security. With all of the data sites being hacked now days and companies including banks, department stores, and private data storage companies having issues with data protection, i am very leary of having my bank info, personal info, and my entire business data stored someplace other than my secured PC.

 

I am not saying that they dont do a great job, im sure they do. Im just saying that i feel its opening up yourself to unneeded exposure to store such personal data any other place other than a local PC. I dont use any service that needs to store my bank info, and if i do then i dont ever use that banking feature. I dont even use the bank feature with GnuCash. All of the banking transactions i do manually and i use petty cash to do it. However i am small, so if you have a ton of transactions yes it could be time consuming.

[blakeh]

I can appreciate your view and I agree with many of the points, but think about this:

 

There is nothing in our xero account any more sensitive than what's in our whmcs install. If anything, whmcs has cc numbers (protected by a hash also stored in the hosting account) and xero doesn't have that. Bank connectivity, if you choose to use it, goes through yodlee which is used by mint.com (intuit) and other companies. The data in xero is just transactions, much like whmcs.

 

These days the big firms have more resources to spend on security than the small places. The big data breaches lately were at companies that had no incentive to keep the data secure and had internal bad practices. (and in the case of Target and Home Depot weren't cloud breaches, but their internal systems.)

 

Just my thoughts.

[durangod]

Thanks for the extra information, thats good stuff.

[SavandBros]

Have you tried using KashFlow ?