Invoicing & Accounting
Invoices, books and tax.
Your accountant picks this one, whether they realise it or not. QuickBooks and Xero win on a boring merit — any bookkeeper can open the file, and local filing rules are already wired in. Wave, Zoho Books, Akaunting and Manager start making sense when you do the books yourself, or want the ledger on hardware you control.
Editor's pick
Ask whoever handles your year-end whether they work in QuickBooks or Xero, then buy that one. Moving a live ledger mid-year is the pain worth avoiding.