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Best Accounting Software for Freelancers

Compare the Top Accounting Software for Freelancers as of October 2025

What is Accounting Software for Freelancers?

Accounting software is designed to help businesses manage their finances, maintain accurate financial records, and make informed decisions. This type of software enables users to track cash flow, generate financial reports, and create invoices or billing statements for customers. Additionally, accounting software can be used to generate budgets and forecasts based on past trends or current market conditions. Accounting software can also be customized with features such as inventory tracking, payroll management, tax preparation services, and other specialized tools for specific businesses. Finally, it provides a secure environment for storage of all financial information so that they are protected from potential fraud or data breaches. Compare and read user reviews of the best Accounting software for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    FreshBooks

    FreshBooks

    FreshBooks

    Want to grow without feeling overwhelmed? FreshBooks empowers you to make smarter spending decisions. Get custom, real-time reports that pinpoint risks and opportunities, all while squeezing out every tax break. Try it Free or save 70% on FreshBooks Now.
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    Starting Price: $6.30/month
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    Xero

    Xero

    Xero

    Xero is a powerful online accounting software for small businesses. Xero users can manage cash flow, track expenses, accept payments online, and much more – all without leaving Xero.
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    Starting Price: $20/month
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    SuiteMaster

    SuiteMaster

    Rithom Consulting LLC

    SuiteMaster – A Flexible ERP & CRM Platform by Rithom SuiteMaster is a modular, cloud-based ERP platform for small to mid-sized businesses seeking to unify sales, operations, marketing, and finance in one system. Choose from hundreds of integrated modules—CRM, Marketing Automation, HR, Accounting, E-Commerce, Inventory, Project Management, Manufacturing, and more—that “snap” into place. Avoid costly integrations, scale at your own pace, and customize workflows to match your business processes. SuiteMaster is also fully white-label ready, enabling partners and consultants to deliver a branded ERP solution with their own value-added services. Affordable, flexible, and built for growth, it serves industries from manufacturing and distribution to professional services, retail, non-profits, and more. Get enterprise ERP power without enterprise cost—discover why businesses choose SuiteMaster for flexibility, scalability, and rapid ROI.
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    Odoo

    Odoo

    Odoo

    Odoo is a fully integrated, customizable, open-source software packed with hundreds of expertly designed business applications. Odoo’s intuitive database is able to meet a majority of business needs, such as: CRM, Sales, Project, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Accounting, just to name a few. Odoo is an all-in-one software solution designed to meet the needs of companies, regardless of their size (or budget). The unbeatable, seamless nature of Odoo helps businesses become more efficient by reducing redundant manual processes, which helps companies save countless hours of labor. Every module is interconnected to provide a fully-integrated experience from app to app, and users can automate many processes that would’ve otherwise required manual inputs into multiple applications. Odoo keeps all business functions in one place, allowing teams to collaborate with other departments from one unified platform in the most efficient way possible.
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    Starting Price: $25.00/month/user
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    Invoice Home

    Invoice Home

    Invoice Home Inc.

    Choose from hundreds of beautiful invoice templates to create and send custom invoices. Add a professional touch to your invoices by uploading your business logo. Add a personal touch with your own signature. Keep track of invoices on both desktop and mobile devices. Get paid instantly when using one of the supported payment gateways. Go green and avoid printing invoices on paper by emailing them directly to your customers. Creating an account is free and there is no cost for invoicing a combined total of $1000 worth of invoices every 30 days. Sign up today and start invoicing easier with Invoice Home.
    Starting Price: $9.00/month
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    Epicor Kinetic

    Epicor Kinetic

    Epicor Software

    Epicor Kinetic is a global, cloud-focused cognitive ERP solution built for manufacturers, driving profitability through real-time insights, people-centric AI, and seamless collaboration. Positioned at the core of your business applications, Kinetic leverages artificial intelligence to extract maximum value from your enterprise data, processes, and decision-making information. Purposely designed with deep industry expertise, it offers end-to-end capabilities for discrete, make-to-order, and mixed-mode manufacturers in the small and mid-market space. Kinetic supports the needs of leading manufacturers across multiple industries, including Industrial Machinery, Fabricated Metals, Electronics and High Tech, Plastics and Rubber, Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Medical Device, Consumer Products, Furniture and Fixtures, Measuring and Controlling Devices, and more. Embrace future-ready business, digital transformation, and flexible deployment with this singular, AI-powered ERP solution.
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    Canopy

    Canopy

    Canopy

    Canopy is an all-in-one accounting practice management platform built for tax, bookkeeping, advisory, and CPA firms. It centralizes everything your firm needs—workflow, documents, billing, and client communication—so you can stop toggling between tools and start working smarter. Key features include customizable task templates, time tracking, client CRM, secure document sharing, eSignature, and integrated payments. Canopy’s Smart Intake and Engagements tools help streamline client onboarding with AI-driven questionnaires and branded proposals. The built-in client portal keeps your team and clients aligned in one secure place. With automation, AI, and real-time collaboration, Canopy helps firms reduce admin work, eliminate scope creep, and deliver an exceptional client experience. Whether you're a solo practitioner or a growing team, Canopy scales with your firm—helping you run a more efficient, connected, and modern practice.
    Starting Price: $50.00/month
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    LedgerLite

    LedgerLite

    Responsive Software

    LedgerLite is an award-winning shareware accounting system for any organization that needs a general ledger or cashbook. Because it's incredibly easy to download and use, it's ideal for students of double-entry bookkeeping. If you're familiar with double-entry bookkeeping you'll find LedgerLite is the perfect tool to maintain the books of a business, club or trust, or your personal finances, especially if reliability and privacy are important to you.
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    Starting Price: $149 one-time fee
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    Adaptive ERP
    Adaptive provides an all-in-one, user-friendly, cloud-based, customizable ERP with multiple fraud risk controls. * Enhanced Security: Your own database & encryption key; in-built access controls & permissions & close to hack-free 2-FA login * Streamline your business. * We handle all setup. * Efficient Document Management: Unlimited Folders/Tags; Assign files/folders to teams, depts., stakeholders or 3rd parties. Find files in seconds with search by filter/tag * Project Management: Create teams, assign roles, rates, tasks, milestones & track with Gantt Charts * Time & Billing * Scheduling * E-Commerce, CMS & Intranet * Dashboards for teams, clients & suppliers * Accounting (GL/AR/AP/Trial Balance/Ageing) * Automated Invoicing * Online Payments * Purchase Orders * Inventory Management * MRP * Manufacturing * Maintenance & Work Orders * Job Costing, Estimates & Quotes * Messaging * CRM & Lead Management * Detailed Reporting with multiple filters (payments/orders/inventory) * LMS
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    Starting Price: £400/month
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    YetiForce CRM

    YetiForce CRM

    YetiForce Sp. z o.o.

    Are you looking for a system to boost your sales? Do you want to improve your relationships with customers? Do you want to contribute to the fastest growing open source project on GitHub? You can use YetiForce completely free of charge. With YetiForce’s help you will manage 12 business processes in your company, no matter the size. YetiForce’s open source code was released under a very flexible and liberal license, which gathers a large and active community around the project. You too can contribute to it no matter if you are a professional programmer or software development is just your hobby. Download YetiForce for free and find out why you should become one of more than 250,000 people who already use it.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    NolaPro

    NolaPro

    Noguska

    NolaPro is a robust, Linux-based ERP for Accounting, Order Tracking, Inventory Management & Payroll, designed to rival much more expensive choices. It is fully customizable and scalable for any size business, unlike any accounting program available today. The Cloud version allows a "hands-off" approach, but can be downloaded on Linux or Windows platforms for those who prefer to have local control and security. Features include: Credit Card Processing, Fulfillment & Service Order, AP, AR, Inventory, CRM, General Ledger, Payroll, Timeclock, Client Payment Portal and integration with many 3rd party apps -- or request your own! NolaPro is multi-lingual, supports multi-currency, offers tons of options & add-ons, and comes fully loaded with over 150 standard reports. A+ reviews from TechRepublic, The Linux Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine and CNet agree that NolaPro provides flexibility, features and pricing which provide you unparalleled value in managing your business.
    Starting Price: $0
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    LionO360 ERP
    LionO360 is a comprehensive SaaS based CRM/ERP solution that enables you to manage your entire business from one unified platform. This drives operational efficiency and enables business growth. Our next-gen platform empowers SMBs to transform their business process. There is no need to maintain multiple systems to run your business, and constantly deal with data reconciliation issues and manual workarounds. With the LionO360 platform, you get one single and unified CRM/ERP system to manage all your core business functions, which includes sales, customer relationships and pipeline/quota management to back-office inventory, purchases, warehouse, field service, logistics, financial management and e-commerce integrations. Our out-of-box solution is highly configurable and provides flexibility to start immediately, and then scale as the business expands.
    Starting Price: $19 per month
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    Stansoft

    Stansoft

    Standard Software

    Stansoft is a Linux financial accounting software system for business. It is designed to be efficient for data entry with a text-based terminal interface based on ncurses. It is powered by Aubit 4GL or Informix 4GL using a PostgreSQL or Informix database engine. It is HMRC-recognised to process UK PAYE RTI Payroll and MTD VAT Returns. Included are the following modules: Payroll (U.S. and UK), Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Tax Control, Sales, and Inventory. There are also fully integrated modules for petroleum marketers, wholesalers, and retail gas/petrol stations operators. These include Fuel Retail Sales, Fuel Management, and Fuel Dispatch. Demonstration videos can be found on the YouTube channel @standardsoftware.
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    Dolibarr

    Dolibarr

    Dolibarr

    Open Source ERP & CRM for business. One web suite to manage your business. • Enable only the feature you expect : Whatever your needs (customer relationship, sales, human resources, logistic, stock, invoicing, accounting, manufacturing, marketing, foundation management, surveys, ...), you can setup the application to match your need, and only your need... See features • No more double entry in your Information System : Integration between the features / modules is ready "in-the-box". Users are immediately ready to work, even without customization. • Upgrade at any time : The upgrades of new versions are integrated by design into the development process. So you can upgrade at any time to the latest version, whatever is your current version, without losing any data. Users always benefits the latest features and innovations. • A customizable and extensible application: The market place is open to everybody to centralize several hundreds of external add-ons done to enhance the app.
    Starting Price: $0
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    LedgerPlus

    LedgerPlus

    Responsive Software

    LedgerPlus is the same as our general ledger and cashbook product LedgerLite. In addition it includes invoicing, stock control, accounts receivable, point-of-sale (POS) and enhanced user-access levels.
    Starting Price: $179 one-time fee
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    Adminsoft Accounts
    Adminsoft Accounts is a Windows based accounts system designed specifically for small businesses. It is an accrual based double entry, multi-currency, and multi-user system. It handles customer and supplier accounts, all related transactions, plus general ledger, stock control, payroll (depends on country), and human resources. First published in 2007, it has thousands of users across the world.
    Starting Price: $199.00/one-time/user
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    SwilERP

    SwilERP

    Softworld India Pvt. Ltd.

    SwilERP is a comprehensive software solution for retail, distribution and chain store businesses, automating operations and improving productivity. With multi-store management capabilities, it streamlines inventory, pricing, and employee management. Built on Microsoft.NET, it ensures secure performance, and its popularity in India demonstrates its effectiveness. The user-friendly interface allows offline and online access, while reports provide actionable insights. It offers quick sales reports, barcode scanning, and finance tracking features. Inventory management is simplified with centralized data, unique lot numbers, and expiry tracking. Advanced online support and cloud backups ensure smooth operations and data security. Experience the power of SwilERP for efficient distribution and retail chain management.
    Starting Price: $50
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    Weltraum PMS

    Weltraum PMS

    Weltraum Software Private Limited

    Weltraum PMS is a comprehensive and lightweight application designed to help you to easily manage and organize your hotel reservations, customers and rooms. The application comes with an intuitive interface that helps you generate reports of the availability of rooms and payments. Also, you have the possibility to perform online reservations and monitor your clients.
    Starting Price: $500.00/one-time
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    Plus & Minus

    Plus & Minus

    Plus & Minus Software

    Built around a single-file system, Plus & Minus is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) financial platform. Plus & Minus has collaborative tools for accounting, purchasing, managing sales, and reporting operations. With Plus & Minus, users are able to manage core finance operations, track sales operations, generate custom business reports, and monitor business documents. Plus & Minus enables users to deploy on-premise or in the cloud.
    Starting Price: $1000.00/one-time/user
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    Divvy

    Divvy

    Divvy

    Divvy has combined seamless expense management software with business cards so you never have to process another expense report. With Divvy, you can leverage faster expense reporting, enforceable budgets, and a single platform to offer real-time visibility into all spend. Ready to gain more control and streamline your spend management—in a one-stop, easy-to-use platform? Get Divvy today to empower your team and save everyone time (including yourself). Divvy provides their customers with a strong credit line and makes going over budget literally impossible. Put a stop to painful expense resorts and simplify the AP process with Divvy—all for free.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Vyapar

    Vyapar

    Simply Vyapar Apps Pvt Ltd

    Vyapar is a simple & easy GST Billing Software for small businesses. With Vyapar App, you can create & share Invoices on WhatsApp, manage stocks/Inventory, make estimate bills, generate GSTR reports, track unpaid invoices, send payment reminders, collect payments directly online using UPI payments and much more. Even a person with no accounting or technical background can easily use this App. For free trial please visit our website. Vyapar App has other features like business expense tracking, daily sale purchase record, shows profit and loss report, etc. It’s the Perfect Billing Software for Retail shop & small businesses. Vyapar App has both a mobile/desktop version which can be operated in either online or offline mode. With Vyapar App, you can have control to your business on your finger tips.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Expensya

    Expensya

    Expensya

    Expensya is a solution that transforms spend management. Expensya users can manage and process any type of expense: online purchases, general costs, expense reports, remote work, Per Diems, mileage expenses, and more. Thanks to its across-the-board features and expertise, Expensya currently supports more than 5000 companies and provides a comprehensive solution to its users, for flawless end-to-end management of all business spends. Expensya also integrates with your bank cards, your HR system, your ERP, your accounting system, and your Travel manager. Expensya automates every step of the process, saving time and increasing your team's productivity Our vision is to give the most complete, intuitive, and scalable solution.
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    Starting Price: $5.91/month/user (annually)
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    NetSuite

    NetSuite

    Oracle

    Oracle NetSuite is the world’s leading AI-powered cloud ERP, trusted by more than 42,000 customers worldwide. The platform unifies ERP, financials, CRM, ecommerce, and analytics into one suite, creating a single source of truth for organizations. Its built-in AI doesn’t just predict—it learns from your business data to deliver accurate insights, recommendations, and automation. With NetSuite, companies can streamline accounting, manage global operations, improve customer relationships, and optimize HR processes all from a centralized cloud platform. Its omnichannel commerce tools also help businesses scale by connecting online, offline, and B2B sales seamlessly. By combining scalability, real-time visibility, and AI-driven intelligence, NetSuite empowers organizations to operate smarter and grow faster.
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    QuickBooks Online
    QuickBooks Online is the most popular accounting software in the world. QuickBooks Online makes accounting easy. Make tracking receipts, income, bank transactions, and more feel simple with the #1 small business accounting software. Snap photos of your receipts and link them to expenses right from your phone. Our agents are ready and available to answer all your QuickBooks questions. Use the apps you know and love to keep your business running smoothly. QuickBooks Online works on your PC, Mac, tablets, and phones. Click the link above to get a 30 day free trial and 50% off your first 3 months. More than accounting software. QuickBooks helps you track income, expenses, and stay ready for taxes. Customers find on average $3,534 in tax savings per year. Need more help? QuickBooks Live helps you stay organized and be ready for tax time. QuickBooks comes with a mobile app that help you run your business on the go—anytime, anywhere.
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    Starting Price: $9/month (normally $15/month)
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    Avaza

    Avaza

    Avaza Software

    Avaza is a cloud-based professional services automation tool that streamlines project collaboration, resource scheduling, time and expense tracking, retainer management, and invoicing. Trusted by teams across industries, it combines essential business functions into a single, efficient platform. Avaza’s all-in-one approach removes the need for multiple subscriptions and duplicate workflows. By integrating project management, financials, and retainer functionality, it provides businesses with real-time insights into project profitability, employee utilization, and retainer usage, all in one unified system. The retainer feature simplifies ongoing client engagements by automating payments and applying credits for completed work. This ensures seamless billing, efficient resource allocation, and greater transparency. Available across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices, Avaza ensures true on-the-go operational management for companies seeking flexibility and efficiency.
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    Starting Price: $11.95/month
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    Synder

    Synder

    Synder

    One of the best accounting software for small businesses, Synder is the right solution for those who seek high-quality service, 24/7 support, and advanced automated features. After you connect all of your sales channels and payment platforms, you will be provided with automatic bookkeeping, which guarantees precise and error-free synchronization of your transaction data, categorization, and live data reconciliation within a single interface. Synder makes accurate records of your payment data without duplicates. Detailed and 100% correct Profit and Loss Reports contain additional helpful information to analyze your business’ cash flow and budget planning. The software runs smoothly and automatically, and there is no need to log in to get it done. Synder lets you apply sales taxes, taxes based on location, shipping address, product name, etc. Recurring invoices remind customers of regular payments. Synder offers a free trial and a demo to learn more about this breakthrough software.
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    Starting Price: $39.99 per month
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    Accointing by Glassnode
    Accointing by Glassnode has a suite of different tools that solve: 1. Tax Reports-Custom Tax Reports, Tax Software Integration and Forms (Eg. Form 8949, TurboTax, WisoSteuer) and Optimization (Trading Tax Optimizer-Tax Loss Harvesting) 2. PortfolioTracking-Market Overview, Market Lists, Alerts, Sentiment 3. Management- Portfolio Historical Performance & Asset Allocation It offers the fastest, simplest onboarding experience in the market: 1. All major exchanges, NFTs, and wallets supported (300+) 2. Available for import via both desktop, iOS, and Android 3. Input manual transactions both through desktop, iOS, and Android The desktop platform provides an insightful dashboard with beautiful UI available on mobile and desktop to keep track of your performance and DeFi, CeFi, and NFT transactions in real-time with an amazing UX. It considers your user journey, so you classify your trades/transactions seamlessly while tracking and managing your performance easily.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Veryfi

    Veryfi

    Veryfi

    Veryfi is software that takes the work, error and frustration out of construction bookkeeping while enabling real-time field intelligence. Starting with automation of time & materials to digitize and end 90% of the time wasted doing it by hand and chasing records. Traditionally, bookkeeping is a monthly ritual. At Veryfi we have seen exceptional businesses reach financial prosperity when they steer in real-time, not at the end of the month. Hence, Veryfi as a mobile-first bookkeeper built for teams. This makes it easy, fast and reliable for teams to get information from the field (physical world) and into a system of record (digital world) with minimal user intervention. Veryfi is building the next generation of construction bookkeeping automation software with pure tech, and without the restrictions of legacy technology or methods.
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    Accounting Seed

    Accounting Seed

    Accounting Seed

    At Accounting Seed, we empower our customers with access to accurate and timely financial data to make better business decisions resulting in greater profitability. As the #1 accounting software built on Salesforce, Accounting Seed connects your entire business from sales to operations to finance within a single platform.
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    Starting Price: $750/company/month
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    QuickBooks Accountants
    Track your clients’ income and expenses in one place, so you can easily produce the necessary documents at tax time. Easily import your clients’ bank and credit card transactions, and QuickBooks Online will categorize them for you. Because your client can snap a photo of a receipt and easily attach it to any transaction, you can see an up-to-date view of their expenses. Your clients can give you access to their books, so you can easily answer questions and help them resolve issues. Analyze your clients’ financial health with more than 65 built-in reports, including accountant-specific data. Get more done with Intuit-approved third-party apps tha integrate with QuickBooks Online and expand its functionality. You’re always using the latest version with automatic updates. Security system on par with internet banking ensures your data is safe with us. Your data is backed up, so if your computer crashes, your work doesn’t.
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    Starting Price: $8 per month
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