Open-source alternative  ·  Accounting

Replace QuickBooks Online with GnuCash / Akaunting.

Double-entry accounting, invoicing, and financial reporting.

You'd keep~R5 904 to ~R16 728/year

Current licence  ·  Accounting

QuickBooks Online

~R5 904 – ~R16 728/yr

10-user estimate

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GnuCash / Akaunting

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R16 728/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. QuickBooks Online's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Simple Start

R5 904/yr

R492/month

Flat rate, 1 user

With GnuCash / Akaunting

Keep R5 904/yr

Essentials

R10 824/yr

R902/month

Flat rate, 3 users

With GnuCash / Akaunting

Keep R10 824/yr

Plus

R16 728/yr

R1 394/month

Flat rate, 5 users

With GnuCash / Akaunting

Keep R16 728/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

QuickBooks Online grows around 10% per year on average. GnuCash / Akaunting hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR8kR15kR23kR30kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R27kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.06M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

QuickBooks OnlineGnuCash / Akaunting, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Other accounting migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.