Goods accounting has become simple! SKB Kontur begins selling a new web solution for business - the service “MoySklad Moysklad kontur accounting.

Contour Accounting is a cloud-based online CRM service for commercial organizations. With its help, you can perform all accounting operations, including generating and sending reports, as well as checking the debts of counterparties on transactions and calculating payments to employees. The service integrates with banks and allows you to issue invoices, acts and invoices. Thanks to the support of multi-user mode, the accountant can work with documents together with the manager and director. The platform allows you to run several companies and earn money through an affiliate program. Access to the cloud can be obtained through a web service or mobile application.

The tool is suitable for companies using a simplified taxation system, as well as UTII, simplified tax system + UTII and OSNO. In addition to accountants, the product will be useful to directors who will be able to control the work of accounting departments or outsourced specialists, or conduct reporting themselves. Accounting firms serving up to 100 organizations can also work with Kontur.

The web service is designed for maintaining accounting and tax records, preparing and sending reports, as well as calculating salaries and taxes. Basic features include collaboration on documents, a dedicated technical support line, client-accountant chat, and automatic updates. Extended tariff plans include financial analysis, verification of counterparties, reference and legal services and expert consultations. The director and managers can create draft documents, which the program recognizes from scans and photographs. The counterparty verification function allows you to identify unreliable companies.

Key Features

• Sending reports directly from the service
• Integration with multiple banks
• Mobile applications for Android and iOS
• Working with taxation systems: simplified tax system, UTII, simplified tax system + UTII and OSNO
• Ability to manage up to 100 companies
• Automatic recognition of incoming documents from scans
• Affiliate program

A very convenient implementation of displaying product items, fast operation of the service, indeed a lot of unnecessary documentary problems were removed, easy to manage, clear interface, relatively quick implementation.

Minuses

And here is all the fun.

Synchronization.

This service is implemented in the most inconvenient way for working with (normal) online stores, even those based on Bitrix. There is no synchronization between the service and the site, or rather it exists but in semi-manual mode, this service does not have any ability to upload photos to the site in any form, you will do this manually on the site, and everything would be fine if you constantly trade 5-10 permanent items and you have the opportunity to do this, but what if the store has 10K unique items and it is only growing every day? In general, this is an unrealistic minus, your managers will only have to add these pictures to the site manually...

True, they have been promising to fix this at every conference for three years now, but somehow they still haven’t done it...

Images.

In MS it is not possible to add several images to a product card, this is not normal, more precisely, there is one opportunity to attach files to the card, but in the form of separate files in additional fields that are not clickable and each time to view you will need to download them again to your computer, this makes it very difficult operation of online stores.

Tariffs are not flexible. If you don’t have enough memory, then you will have to buy the most expensive tariff, which will include many useless options in the form of an unlimited number of users, etc., for example, at first I paid 500 rubles per month and ended up with 7400 months/88000/year ( this is a lot considering that a 1C license costs about 40K)

Printing labels and price tags.

Since this project is implemented in the cloud, there is no possibility of printing directly from the MS, you will have to download these files every time and print from your computer, this greatly affects efficiency.

Support service.

Yes, they work all the time, but extremely rarely they turn out to be useful, usually they say work is underway and wait, no one knows how long to wait, and no one will end up recalculating the cost of those days when the service gave an error and the application did not work correctly, most likely they will answer you that management does not consider this or that error critical for work... it’s strange, of course, when the criticality of your work is assessed by someone from the outside. Specifically, I had a case (repeatedly), when creating new product items after pressing the save button, the service gave an error and the procedure had to be repeated again, so within 5-6 days the managers did double work, accordingly the amount of work performed decreased, and accordingly they sold less and they earned less... so you can judge whether this is critical or not...

I have observed this extremely rarely, but it does happen. MS sometimes makes mistakes in reports, either a glitch or some kind of error, but sometimes it doesn’t calculate correctly, confuses sales prices with purchase prices, which ultimately affects the report, I repeat, this rarely happens, I had it 3-4 times, but it happened.

Finalization

Nothing can be changed in any form, under any circumstances, on an individual basis, at any cost, you can’t bring in outside specialists either, since there’s simply no such possibility, and no one will even talk to you about this topic.

Application.

They have an application, which means that the network is already good, but it is not able to display even additional ones. fields, for example, you created “warehouse location” but you can’t see it through the application...

If you suddenly decide to switch from this base to a new one, it will not be painless, I would say it will be extremely difficult. MS has done everything for this, the maximum you can upload is an Excel file without additional fields and images. In order to switch, you will have to contact third-party specialists, of whom there are very few in this matter, they will write special parsers for you... in general, the price of the issue is from 100K and about a month of work.

Everything starts out very tempting and easy for them, but as the company grows, this service becomes a burden. This service is definitely not suitable for online stores with a large number of unique positions and for automatic operation of the site... just without options. Weigh the pros and cons 1000 times, this service will end up being very expensive despite the initially tempting tariffs. And it’s better not to think about moving from this base, the problem is very big. By working on this service, you will get another company that is milking you, of which there are probably quite a few on your list, plus another company on which you will depend and which will not listen to you.

This service, in my opinion, is suitable for very small online stores, manicurists, hairdressers, or small newsstands that are not going to expand or develop and also have a very small number of items...

P.S. 3 years of work with this service, auto parts store. All the described problems and difficulties from practice, two months ago we moved to 1C, all the work, including rebuilding the site, cost 250 rubles. and 3 months of work.

“The publication of the MySklad service on our site is the first step towards portal-type sales, when we will be able to offer entrepreneurs a universal catalog of web solutions necessary for their work,” said Anton Sabitov, head of the strategic direction “Web Solutions Portal” at SKB Kontur . – That is why we pay great attention to finding new partners - developers of simple, convenient and relatively inexpensive services for business. The launch of a product developed by Lognex is our first experience of such cooperation, and we hope that it will be successful.”

The service is intended for small and medium-sized trading companies, as well as organizations providing services to individuals and legal entities - from computer repair to construction. The innovation of the product lies in the fact that it allows you to automate the accounting of trade and warehouse operations online. This significantly increases the mobility of entrepreneurs, making it possible to trade and manage a warehouse from any computer with Internet access - in the office, at home or on a business trip.

The service is provided to clients as a SaaS solution: SKB Kontur takes care of all system administration issues. No additional components are installed on the user’s computer - after making a payment and using the digital signature certificate, the user logs into the system and can immediately begin working. The service is updated automatically and unnoticed by subscribers: new features become available simultaneously to all subscribers and without any participation from implementation specialists.

“The distribution of the MySklad service by SKB Kontur is a new stage in the development of our product,” notes General Director of Lognex Askar Rakhimberdiev. – This is not only an entry into a new large-scale market of subscribers of the Kontur-Extern system, but also the trust of users. The operation of the service on the site of SKB Kontur - one of the largest IT companies in Russia - leaves no doubt about the reliability of the technologies used, the safety and timely transfer of data "

The advantages of the new solution will be appreciated by managers of enterprises with a geographically distributed network of departments and warehouses: the system supports multi-user mode and allows you to work with a branch network. The service provides a convenient opportunity for entrepreneurs to work with one warehouse from several branches or control several warehouses from one division, even if they are located in different regions.

At the moment, the service hosted on the SKB Kontur site is available only to subscribers of this company who have a means of cryptographic information protection and an electronic digital signature certificate to enter the Kontur portal. In the near future, everyone will also have access to the solution through the Kontur portal.

About SKB Kontur

SKB Kontur company is one of the largest software developers in Russia. The company was founded in 1988 in Yekaterinburg and, in fact, is the same age as the IT industry in the country. SKB Kontur is a recognized market leader in the development of circulation computer systems, technologies for automating accounting and management of enterprises of all types, and web services. More detailed information is available on the website www.skbkontur.ru.

About Lognex company

Founded in 2007, Lognex is one of the first Russian developers of business automation software distributed under the SaaS (software as a service) model. Lognex's activities include the development of the MySklad service, its promotion on the Russian market, training and provision of technical support services to service users.

Additional Information

Collage by Evgeny Makhanko, news agency “Clerk.Ru”

Online accounting services, built on the principle of modern “cloud” Internet services that provide a paid set of tools for temporary use, with the help of which it is possible to generate primary documentation, prepare reports electronically and send them via the Internet to the tax authority and extra-budgetary funds, continue to gain popularity. New services appear on the market with enviable regularity, and existing ones increase their potential and offer their clients more and more advanced and improved solutions.

The state itself contributes to no small extent. In particular, recently the Government of the Russian Federation. New, which should reduce the time of interaction between taxpayers and tax authorities. Presumably, the planned measures should reduce the time for preparing tax reporting and paying taxes, as well as speed up the transition of taxpayers and tax authorities to electronic document management.

Despite this, there is no equal competition between SaaS services (software as a service) and conventional installation versions of accounting products in general. Even the representatives of the “clouds” themselves agree that today it is still too early to talk about a full replacement of traditional accounting with remote electronic services. Moreover, you should not evaluate online accounting from the standpoint of their universality, since the work of an accountant is multifaceted and it will not be possible to adjust a computer program for such work even in the near future.

In particular, Deputy General Director of the Bukhsoft company Andrey Makarov notes that a traditional accountant can be fully replaced exclusively by another traditional accountant, although sometimes there are managers and entrepreneurs who believe that a program can replace a person. “ Our opinion is that no system can replace a professional accountant, but, being a full-fledged automation system for all areas of enterprise accounting, it can be the same normal working tool as traditional programs, ours - Bukhsoft, or the same 1C”, - believes Makarov.

Ilya Bublik, head of the "Accounting.Kontur" web service of the SKB Kontur company also believes that no program can replace a good accountant. This is due to the fact that an accountant in an organization often performs the functions of a secretary, a personnel officer, a business assistant, and takes on auditing functions. “ These tasks are very difficult to solve automatically. But if you need to submit a declaration once a quarter or quickly calculate the salaries of employees, then Accounting.Kontour will greatly make your life easier if you are an entrepreneur, and will simplify your work if you are an accountant”, explains Bagel.

Moreover, not all services existing on the market that bear the proud name of “online accounting” are such. The fact is that now cloud accounting is commonly understood to mean literally anything. Most often, these are services for performing individual operations, from invoicing and generating payments to preparing reporting forms. Meanwhile, we should not forget that the combination of several services that help accountants in their daily work does not in itself make network software products “cloud” accounting departments, which can actually be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Be that as it may, according to experts, over time, “cloud” accounting departments will gradually progress, learn to exchange data with each other according to the agreed upon format, and then it will be possible to talk about the possibility of a complete transition of a number of companies from offline versions of accounting programs to their online ones versions. However, even now this prospect does not seem so vague.

1C

According to the developers, all basic calculations in online accounting are implemented in a 1C:Enterprise server cluster, which provides scalability, fault tolerance, dynamic load redistribution and interaction with DBMSs storing application solution data. At the same time, the server cluster can be strengthened by the service infrastructure, which allows you to provide clients with services for using software as a service, keep records of the consumption of these services, and carry out general administration of the service.

In general, the online service is aimed at enterprises for which standard functionality and parametric settings of application solutions in user mode are sufficient, without making changes to the algorithms for working in the built-in 1C language. Over the year, online accounting has added additional features and tools. Moreover, work on the service continues, taking into account the opinions of the users themselves.

“We use all the opportunities that the Internet gives us. For example, users of our cloud service have a new mechanism. When someone asks a question, it is immediately visible to everyone, and the question can be joined in, thus increasing its importance and relevance. Any simple accountant has this opportunity....Not so long ago, for example, the desire of clients to see a beautiful and understandable accountant’s calendar in the interface surfaced against the general background. And it appeared in the latest release. We made it very visible, “protruding”, and not hidden. The calendar is very extensive, but at the same time it provides only the information that a specific user needs”, - Head of the department of development of accounting programs “1C” Oleg Fogel.

Today, the 1C cloud service includes the ability to work with 1C:Enterprise 8 application solutions, automatic updating of Internet applications, access to the ITS information system on the website its.1c.ru, the ability to submit regulated reporting via the Internet, the ability to contact customer support line for advice on technical and methodological issues.

It also provides the opportunity to independently save data to your computer, exchange data between Internet applications, access to the user support site users.v8.1c.ru in the context of available local application solutions, access to a forum for communication between service users and access to individual demos. versions to evaluate the actual operation of Internet applications.

Currently, the service offers such an Internet application as 1C: Accounting 8 PROF (rev. 3.0), which maintains accounting and tax records for organizations using the general and simplified taxation system, as well as accounting for individual entrepreneurs using the simplified taxation system.

Also available is the application 1C: Managing a small company 8, 1C-Kamin: Salary (version 5.0) - automation of calculation and payroll for employees, as well as maintaining personnel records in organizations, 1C: Entrepreneur's reporting (rev. 1.0) - submission of reports by an individual entrepreneur via the Internet and 1C: Accounting of a government institution 8.

As we said earlier, the 1C cloud system is the leader in the market, and all other online accounting systems compete with each other only for second place. In this table we will look at some of them.

Bukhsoft Online

In particular, it presents a reporting module that is used by everyone, from entrepreneurs to state monopolies and corporations. Other popular modules include testing and reporting, accounting itself, as well as payroll and personnel records. Using the “accounting” module, users maintain the bank, cash register, purchases, sales, automatically generate transactions, and fill out a ledger of income and expenses. Based on the entered credentials, it is possible to automatically generate all reporting required by law.

The online module for automation of personnel accounting and payroll calculation for any organizations and individual entrepreneurs allows you to automatically calculate taxes from any accruals, generate orders, statements and pay sheets, tax cards and income certificates, etc. Based on the entered credentials, it is possible to automatically generate all salary reporting required by law.

Online accounting allows users to exchange documents within the system in such a way that the accountant does not need to enter incoming documents from the counterparty. In other words, the user simply, with one click, approves the transaction and all incoming documents, including the product range for them, which were entered into the accounting program. To start working with the system, users must go through the registration procedure, after which clients receive a password to access the system. The duration of full-function work in the unregistered version of the program is three months.

Let us remind you that the last time the editors of Klerk.Ru took it back in 2012. Since then, programs and online services have come some way in their development and improvement, and many new features have been added to the product. For example, the online service now has a guest mode for its use, in which almost any Internet user without registration can take advantage of all the useful features for free.

The service allows you to generate and test reporting, draw up accounting policies, calculate salaries, vacation pay, sick leave, personnel documents, fill out a book of income and expenses, generate cash documents or payment orders. Login to guest mode is available directly from the BukhSoft website. By the way, this proposal is of great interest among accountants and entrepreneurs, and in January 2014 there were times when up to 15 thousand users were simultaneously working in the online service in guest mode.

By the way, regarding the popularity of the program among Russian users. As the developers themselves note, now the growth of cloud users and installation versions is approximately the same, with some advantage for the installation versions.

“If we count in relative terms, taking 0 or one and a half users as the starting point of departure, then we can, of course, talk about an increase of tens (hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands) times, as the developers of the so-called do. cloud “accounting” (quotes are strictly required). They are heating up the market by popularizing cloud services for the only and simple reason - the lack of traditional solutions. There are no preferences on our part. The company is growing, in 13 years about 13,000 users appeared, both online and traditional programs”, explains Andrey Makarov.

As for prices for online accounting services, the same Makarov considers them absolutely acceptable and satisfactory for the majority of users: “ Definitely yes. With the technology of remote direct work of the developer with each user, which has been proven over the years, we significantly reduce costs compared to competitors, who spend 80-90% of their resources on “feeding” intermediaries. Of course, users pay for it, that’s how it’s supposed to be. The user saves this 80-90% by cooperating with us, so sometimes the prices seem unrealistically low”.

Today, the company’s main competitor, as previously mentioned, is considered to be “1C”, and in the field of sending reports and electronic document flow – “Kontur” and “Tensor”. By the way, in the near future the company plans to create a free service for registering individual entrepreneurs and LLCs, providing accounting services using Bukhsoft programs, and also integrating cloud accounting with various online store platforms.

Sky

“Sky” contains documents on the main sections of accounting. In particular, cash: cash desk, bank; goods and materials: receipt, sale, capitalization, write-off; mutual settlements; all standard personnel orders. The system allows you to calculate salaries according to the salary-bonus system and travel allowances. Payroll calculation and accounting are carried out in a “one window” mode. The results of salary accruals are automatically reflected in accounting. Related taxes are calculated automatically.

It is also possible to create, fill out and save all the necessary reporting on taxes and contributions. Filling out takes place in a form that is as similar as possible to the report form. This allows you to immediately see the finished result of automatic filling. In addition, depending on the region, the system provides various reporting options. And after registering in the “Submission of reports” section, the user can independently familiarize himself with the reporting options available in a particular region with a detailed description of the pros and cons.

In the accounting department, upon request of users, the so-called “Account of an Authorized Representative” is available. This tool was created specifically for companies providing accounting and reporting services. The account of the authorized representative allows you to control the availability and relevance of accompanying documents, as well as track the status of reports sent to the authorities.

Despite the fact that the security system and the degree of sophistication of online accounting tools meet all modern requirements and the law on personal data, failures and errors, as with any other electronic system, are not excluded. And it is far from the fault of the developers.

“Firstly, there is always someone who thinks that they know how to build our interface better than us and always recommends playing with fonts. Secondly, there were also serious punctures as a result of the human factor on our part. Once, due to our fault, an entrepreneur even received fines. In the end, we completed the job to the end, compensated his fines with real money, and gave him some goodies as compensation. I'm sure he was pleased. I’ll probably say a platitude - those who do nothing make no mistakes. It’s important how you get out of the current situation and what conclusions you draw,” says the director of Nebo LLC." Artem Turovets.

Today, online accounting allows you to keep records according to the general taxation system, the simplified tax system with the taxable object “Income,” the simplified tax system with the taxable object “income minus expenses” and UTII. At the same time, the system will soon be able to be used by companies under mixed taxation regimes, such as simplified taxation system + UTII, OSN + UTII, as well as simplified taxation system based on a patent.

According to the developers themselves, the reporting system implemented in Nebe, firstly, minimizes the entrepreneur’s costs for this very reporting, and, secondly, ensures 100% completion of reporting, even in situations that seem hopeless. In addition, unlike many other “clouds”, the online accounting system in question offers the opportunity to maintain an unlimited number of organizations within one account, that is, without additional payment for each organization.

“Among the “small features” are several desktops inside the accounting department, which allows you to switch between tasks without losing the thread of previous work. For example, you are posting a statement of 100 lines, and then you urgently need to issue an invoice. Without closing the half-posted statement, you switch to another desktop, write out the invoice there, and return to the statement where you left off.”, notes Turovets.

Since 2012, Nebe has introduced a super reporting calendar with built-in SMS notifications, as well as flexible rights settings that allow accounting service companies to safely distribute work among their employees. At the same time, the system, like all online accounting systems, still lacks proper standardization and simplification of the procedure for interaction with various government bodies.

“To simply start a business, I, as a young entrepreneur, must visit a bunch of authorities, register in several places, and receive up to a dozen identification codes. And this is just the beginning... what can we say about quarterly reporting, the standards for the preparation and delivery of which each government agency has its own. Such complexity, of course, provides an additional piece of bread for accounting automation systems like us. But it’s much more pleasant to automate a beautiful, harmonious and logical reality than the zoo of reporting that we have now", - speaks Artem Turovets.

My business

Along with the above online accounting services, “My Business” also offers its users the most complete range of services necessary for accounting. This includes payroll calculation, integration with banks, sending electronic reports, a reference and legal system, expert consultations, and training programs.

The service includes automated preparation of invoices, acts, invoices and contracts, sending electronic reports to the Federal Tax Service, Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, Social Insurance Fund, Rosstat, automatic generation of reports based on bank statements or data on income and expenses, automatic exchange of electronic documents with banks.

There is also a tool for automated registration of invoices, including VAT, the ability to copy a previously issued invoice and search for documents using an advanced filter. Moreover, almost any document available in the database can be sent to the client by email in xls or pdf format. There is also a tax calendar with a personal schedule for paying taxes and submitting reports, which is generated automatically based on the registration data of an individual entrepreneur or organization.

A distinctive feature of “My Business” is that all tariffs presented by the company include all the capabilities of the service. In other words, the company does not sell its online accounting, like a designer, and the client buys the entire range of services at once without having to pay anything extra later.

From the moment given to the editors of Klerk.Ru by the general director of the company Maxim Yaremko, the developers have significantly improved the salary block, added more than 2,000 forms and the entire regulatory framework to the version for entrepreneurs, and made full integration with the largest banks - Alfa-Bank and Promsvyazbank. In addition, a beta version of the tariff with warehouse accounting was launched in the accounting department. In the near future, this tariff will be open to everyone.

As the company's CEO notes: Maxim Yaremko, at the moment, online accounting has huge potential for further business development and the only thing missing is legislative changes to simplify the existing legal system: “ Two years ago, one could complain about low Internet penetration or mistrust of the cloud. Now everything has changed. Almost everyone has the Internet, and even large corporations store their data in the clouds. Therefore, now everything depends only on ourselves. Many are accustomed to perceiving our legislation as a complex and constantly changing system. It would be nice to simplify things a little and make more informed decisions when you need to change something. Cloud services are the present and the future, into which an increasing number of users are moving. With people's mobility increasing and their ability to work almost anywhere and at any time, the cloud is in demand. The future lies in the clouds”.

In fact, according to the developers of “My Business”, the number of their users is constantly growing and last year they already crossed the mark of 700 thousand registered users. “ People trust the cloud because they see that behind the cloud service there is a team of professionals who care about their clients. You can easily get expert advice from us, as well as a quick response from a technical support specialist if necessary. Perhaps it is the availability of live communication that strengthens trust. In addition, more and more services are online. Why is it possible to work with a bank via the Internet, but not with accounting? Our security is at the level of large banks, so there is simply no reason for mistrust”, explains Maxim Yaremko.

MyWarehouse

The service implements the functions of sales and purchasing management, order processing, warehouse accounting and control of financial settlements. The service offers its clients the following tools: trade management, warehouse accounting, production and finance; work with clients and suppliers (CRM); automation of retail outlets; printing of all necessary primary documents.

The program allows you to track customer orders, process them, assign statuses, reserve goods, manage prices, make purchases and sales in different currencies. Of course, with the issuance of appropriate invoices, printing of invoices and certificates of work performed and sales statistics. There is easy-to-set up integration with popular online store engines.

Thanks to a special interface for the seller’s workplace, to which you can connect a scanner and a fiscal recorder, MoySklad is perfect for automating small retail outlets and networks. In this case, through the seller’s interface, sales are registered, change is calculated, returns are accounted for, shifts are closed, sales and cash receipts are printed, and through the main interface of the service, goods are accepted, moved, inventoried, written off and capitalized, cost calculations, warehouse status planning and automatic orders are carried out. suppliers, as well as revenue control through a consolidated report on retail outlets. Users are given the opportunity to print all the necessary documents and unified forms: invoices, sales receipts, invoices, TORG-12, TTN, acts, invoices, cash orders and others. The advantage of preparing documents in MySklad are the following features: automatic numbering, mass printing, and archive of documents, sending documents by e-mail. Users can create and customize their own templates for printing documents.

The program keeps records of clients and contracts; you can add custom fields to the directory of contractors and contact persons. There is integration with e-mail and SMS mailing services. At the same time, users have access to all data about their clients - the history of transactions and operations, an archive of issued documents, current debt and statistics on total sales. Clients can also track turnover, warehouse balances, sales statistics and profitability of goods, track cash flows, debts and mutual settlements.

“MySklad” was officially launched in 2008, and in 2011 the company “1C” became an investor and co-owner of the service. At the end of last year, the company was recognized as the best Russian cloud service, receiving the Grand Prix of the Clouds 2013 award. Today, this tool is one of the leaders in the Russian SaaS application market, and the number of users exceeds 120,000 companies.

“In 2013, our company's revenue grew 2.5 times, and we repeated this growth rate for the second year in a row. I think that such dynamics are now only possible in the clouds. We have several thousand clients. Of course there are those who are dissatisfied. Basically, they lack the ability to deeply customize and personalize the service. This is true, we have a simple service, and simplicity is achieved, among other things, through standardization - all clients work with the same version of the product. At the same time, we have well-balanced tariffs. For those companies where the business actually works, subscription costs are invisible. We receive more or less regular requests for discounts only from CIS countries”, - clarifies Askar Rakhimberdiev.

Accounting.Contour

There is access to information from the state register: searching for contacts and details, checking counterparties, generating and printing PKO and RKO, generating and printing payment documents. The cost of all tariff plans, except for the quarterly “Economy”, includes a cloud electronic signature, which will allow you to report to the tax office via the Internet without issuing a notarized power of attorney. On “Premium”, the cloud electronic signature is also used to send reports to the Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund.

The system uses official sources of information from the Federal Tax Service of Russia and Rosstat: Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs, Statregister. Using them, users can calculate the addresses of mass registration, mass founders and managers. Financial information is available based on open financial statements of organizations (for 30% of legal entities). An additional feature of the service is a daily updated reference and legal module, which contains over 300,000 current legal documents. The module also contains analytical materials, judicial and arbitration practice.

Now online accounting has two main types of clients. The first type is individual entrepreneurs without employees who have an occasional need for accounting, most often during reporting. The second is professional accountants, for whom speed of work and the ability to conduct accounting from anywhere in the city and the world are important. Moreover, accounting is often a business for them, since they themselves serve several organizations. The service concentrates on a narrow audience, namely small companies specializing in trade and services.

Speaking about dissatisfied clients, the head of the web service "Accounting.Kontur" Ilya Bublik does not deny that there are such: “ I'll tell you a story. We have a client, the director of an online store, who works in the Pro version. When he started cooperating with us, he had problems due to the huge number of contractors, directories, documents: his needs were higher than our capabilities due to the size of his company. The client was unhappy, wrote and called, but stayed with us. We did everything possible for this: we listened to him, found an individual approach and solved some of the problems for him manually. He still gives us valuable feedback on our work in the service: thanks to him, we also improve our service”.

In the time since the last interview, the so-called “Light version” of accounting has turned from a service for sending reports into a full-fledged working tool. Here came a warehouse, client lists, questions for a lawyer and work with contractors. Many changes have occurred in the Pro version. Independent accounting, a reference and legal system, financial analysis based on financial statements, and verification of counterparties have appeared.

A multi-user mode has appeared. Now the service allows a client or counterparty to connect to it and download a primary document, which will be processed by an accountant, and the service will generate accounting records based on it. This is safe for the company that keeps records in Accounting.contour, and reliable for the client. It is worth noting the fact that the “Light version” is no longer paid.

“I’ll be honest: when we abandoned the free version of the Light version, clients reacted very negatively: in their opinion, 500 rubles per quarter to send reports was expensive. But you need to take into account that such feedback came from people who are used to using free services. Clients who are willing to pay find our prices reasonable. Be that as it may, the client base has grown several times since 2012 - everything is fine with us. The world is changing, so is technology, and, obviously, more and more people are choosing cloud services” - explains Ilya Bublik.

ImBoss

The ImBoss online service is positioned by the founders as a special solution for small businesses, in particular for organizations where the entrepreneur prefers to keep everything in his own hands and conduct many business processes himself. The service is billed as a full-fledged accounting department that is capable of completing all the accounting tasks that small businesses face, and the manager can easily work without an accountant.

General Director of ImBoss service Denis Yablokov notes that the service’s clients are most often small companies, individual entrepreneurs, bold startups and people looking for their niche in business. Often, clients first transfer one area of ​​their business to online accounting, and then begin to transfer all areas.

The program allows you to keep track of all monetary transactions manually or by importing statements from the client bank, accounting for contracts, creating templates and tracking the status of contracts, creating invoices for clients, monitoring payments and issuing invoices on a schedule.

It implements a mechanism for creating acts, invoices, invoices, monitoring status and sending by e-mail, accounting for goods and materials in the warehouse with sales analysis. In addition, it is possible to register and calculate all payments and taxes on wages and vacations and record events for clients and suppliers, reconciliation reports and analysis of mutual obligations.

“We at “ImBoss” adhere to the approach that everything necessary from the beginning of the enterprise and its opening, accounting, warehouse formation, employee work accounting and until its liquidation is in one universal simple product. We havea wide range of opportunities for analytics and management accounting is presented, for example, convenient charts on the directions of company development for a selected period, analytical calculations and proposals for them, and much more. This, I believe, is the key difference between the “ImBoss” service and all others.”, explains Denis Yablokov.

Speaking about plans for the future, the project manager especially emphasized that now the potential of the “clouds” is truly enormous. “ They are a new stage in the development of information technology. Automation has become an integral part of the life of a modern person. The ability to conduct your projects anywhere in the world, no need to store important information on your computer - all these are the main advantages of cloud technologies.We are currently preparing a major update, which we are developing together with our client partners. I won’t reveal all the secrets now, but there will be something to see. I will only note that now our focus is on supporting and developing micro-businesses and in the near future we will open a free tariff for this category.”.