Open-source alternative  ·  Accounting

Replace Xero with Akaunting.

Modern double-entry accounting with invoicing and bank reconciliation.

You'd keep~R3 240 to ~R13 200/year

Current licence  ·  Accounting

Xero

~R3 240 – ~R13 200/yr

10-user estimate

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Akaunting

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R13 200/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Xero's prices.

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

Starter

R3 240/yr

R270/month

Flat rate, limited transactions

With Akaunting

Keep R3 240/yr

Growing

R8 280/yr

R690/month

Flat rate

With Akaunting

Keep R8 280/yr

Established

R13 200/yr

R1 100/month

Flat rate, full features

With Akaunting

Keep R13 200/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.

Xero grows around 10% per year on average. Akaunting hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR6kR12kR17kR23kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R21kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.03M

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

How this migration runs

XeroAkaunting, 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.

Same category

Other accounting migrations.

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

Check the project

Migrate Xero.
Keep the money.

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