Aero Workflow Alternative

Financial Cents is an easy-to-use solution with more features at half the price of Aero Workflow

Rated 5 stars on Capterra, Software Advice, and GettApp

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Why choose Financial Cents over Aero Workflow?

An accounting practice management tool should be simple and intuitive for all users. Financial Cents makes it easy for your entire team to collaborate on work and hit their deadlines!


Pricing	$23/ month	$39/ month
Task Dashboard
Progress Bars
Recurring Projects
Duplicate Projects
Document Storage
Workflow Templates
Time Tracking
Time Tracking Reports
Team Communication
QBO Integration
Emails Become Tasks
Invoicing with QBO
Custom User Permissions
Password Management
Capacity Management
Calendar View
Email Integration
Kanban View
Automated Client Requests
Auto-Reminders for Clients
Client Messaging
Effective Hourly Rate

Financial Cents is the #1 app for Accountants & Bookkeepers

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Biggest pain point resolution for us was the collaboration abilities: chat style with the ability to "call out" particular staff members and keep the notes. I will no longer hear "the client emailed me the info" or "the client texted me the info". Indispensable with remote workers, no more broken email threads!

Working with Financial Cents is helping us bring our firm to the next level! It helps us track all work being done in the office from annual tax returns, monthly bookkeeping and payroll to just returning a call to a client. All of that translates into the excellent customer service with strive for every day with our clients.

Ease of use. It is very simple but powerful. We were considering another software until we saw Financial Cents. With it's beautiful and simplistic design, it's helped to organize our firm and keep us updated with our clients on a more regular basis than ever before.

The software is so easy to use. There are instructional videos on many of the pages to guide you as you go, but even without the videos, it's pretty easy to navigate and figure out!

The business problem we are solving with Financial Cents is two fold. First, we are improving our internal communications. Second, we are ensuring that no project falls through the cracks.

Financial Cents has one of the easiest UIs I've ever encountered. It's quick to learn, reasonably priced, and new features are constantly being released.

Why Financial Cents Outperforms Aero Workflow

We have more automation and time saving features to help you scale your firm. Check out a few of the features below!

You can't automate client data collection in Aero Workflow?

In Financial Cents you automatically send clients recurring data request lists and FC will follow follow up with them until they complete the request. So you never have to waste time chasing down client info again.

You can't turn client emails into tasks in Aero Workflow?

Managing client requests in your inbox can be tough with so many emails coming in everyday. Make it easy by seamlessly turning emails into tasks and tracking them in your workflow dashboard.

You can't manage your team's workload in Aero Workflow

Get a quick overview of your team’s workload capacity, so you can manage resources more effectively, quickly reassign tasks, and ensure you deliver client work on time and on budget.

You need something that is more easy to use

Your firm works inside your practice management tool every day. If it’s complicated your team won’t learn or use it, which makes it useless. Most firms can set up Financial Cents within in a few hours – no training required!

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What Is Aero?

Aero has been around since 2013. It was started by Laura Redmond, an accountant who was frustrated when she couldn’t find a workflow platform that worked for her team.

Since 2013 Aero has been serving small to midsized firms with tools that help take a firm’s knowledge capital and put it to work.

Key Differences Between Aero and Financial Cents

You may ask – how does Aero differ from FC?

Both are great programs! But here are a few ways they are different:

You cannot automate client data collection in Aero

Isn’t it annoying when you are forced to hound clients for data? Not only does it take up valuable time and energy, it makes you feel like a real bully to keep nagging clients for bank statements or other info.

Fortunately, FC offers a feature that automatically requests data from clients and then follows up with them until they fulfill the request. That means you’ll never have to go be a bully again!

This is one super cool feature that Aero does not include.

FC automatically turns client email requests into tasks

We have all experienced a messy inbox from time to time. 🙂 The unfortunate thing is that it can be really hard to keep track of client requests in the form of emails, and sometimes things can get missed.

With FC, you can set it up so emails with client requests get turned into tasks, which you won’t lose track of so easily. Aero includes a lot of great features, but it doesn’t have anything like this.

FC helps you manage your team’s workload

Aero offers an excellent reporting system with multiple types of reports. However, one feature it lacks is a place to get an overview of how the work is spread out among your team members.

FC offers a feature where you can get a quick bird’s eye view of how much each of your team members is taking on, so you can see who might be burning out and who is under-contributing. You can also quickly reassign tasks here so you ensure all the work gets done efficiently and nobody is snowed under.

Aero is more outdated than some workflow programs

One of Aero’s largest drawbacks is that it has a fairly outdated user interface. It’s not terribly attractive or easy to use. However, Aero does offer several onboarding services ranging from $1,000-$2,000. They include a custom success manager, client import, template creation, and job creation.

FC offers live training, client import, and a dedicated success manager, all free of charge with the program.