Less Accounting Review (Payroll)

Pros 

LessAccounting reduces the tediousness of routine accounting tasks and is ideal for those who operate more than one business. This accounting service does not limit the number of invoices you can send out or the number of businesses you can track through one dashboard.

Cons 
This cloud-accounting service does not have tools for tracking time, tasks or projects. LessAccounting does not provide mobile apps. You have to use your mobile phone browser to access your account.

The Verdict:

 7.82/10

 

LessEverything has created an online accounting product that eliminates what most people abhor about accounting software, such as data entry, complicated billing and features they never use. LessAccounting is light and can reduce your accounting time to just a few hours per month.

LessAccounting's tag line is, "All small business accounting software sucks, we just suck the least." Most small-business owners and freelancers are not accountants, and they don't want to be. Nevertheless, they are burdened with the necessary chore of keeping their books. LessAccounting is designed to manage all traditional accounting software tasks in a simplified manner to help relieve your frustration and time spent on tedious tasks.

This online service tracks invoices, payments, mileage, proposals and expenses. It also provides all reports that your accountant needs to configure your business's taxes. LessAccounting can save you countless hours spent importing data by directly connecting to your bank accounts.

This service is ideal for those who provide hourly-billed or other services and not inventory. Although it can add items to invoices, it is not equipped to track volumes of inventory. LessAccounting will speed up your invoicing by auto-filling customer information and managing recurring invoices. It will also allow you to switch templates and currency at the invoice entry point rather than in the settings area. However, you have to add items in a second screen, which we found a tad annoying. To help you find and sort invoices later, you can add tags to them.

LessAccounting is an apt choice if you need to track mileage and track expenses by client. Keeping track of business mileage can help immensely at tax time and at 56.5 cents per mile for the 2013 tax year, mileage adds up quickly and should be tracked accurately. You can also track expenses with mobile phones and assign billable expenses to specific clients. However, keep in mind that though it can track more than one business through one account, you have to pay for each business separately. For the most part, LessAccounting is marketed to photographers, designers, developers, marketers and SEO consultants.

 Though eCommerce sites and retailers can use the software, it does not track complex inventory scenarios.
This online accounting solution is optimized to run smoothly with popular browsers on Macs and PCs, as well as via a mobile web browser. LessAccounting no longer provides an app for mobile devices, so to access your account by mobile you will need a capable smartphone with a web browser and data plan. Popular, compatible third-party integrations include ZenCash, Highrise, Basecamp, PayPal, Shopify and LessTimeSheet.