Financial Cents vs Keeper
Financial Cents is an easy-to-use practice management software for accounting, tax and bookkeeping firms that provides you with all you need to gain visibility into your firm, automate your workflows, track and manage tasks, communicate and collaborate with your team, manage clients and hit your deadlines with ease.
Nancy Wilson
Managing Director, JNW Group
Financial Cents vs Keeper features compared
Financial Cents
Keeper
Features
| Workflow Automation |  | Limited |
| Document Management | | |
| Client Portal | | |
| Firm-branded client portal | | |
| E-signature | |  |
| Manage uncategorized transactions | | |
| Zapier integration | | |
| Automated client reminders | | |
| Integrated email | | |
| QuickBooks integration | | |
| SmartVault Integration | | |
| Capacity Planning | | |
| Open API | | |
| Workflow Templates | | |
| Team Chats | | |
| Comments and @mentions on tasks and projects | | |
| CRM | | |
| Secure file storage | | |
| Time Tracking | | |
Why users love us ❤️
Comprehensive workflow & automation
Financial Cents offers a top of the class workflow management and automation system for all firms. Our powerful and easy to use solution provides you with visibility to track work in your firm using the workflow dashboard; project management to help you get clients work done on time and accurately; workflow automation to help you automate repetitive and manual tasks to free up your time for more billable tasks; e-signature feature to help you receive signed documents from clients faster; automated client requests to help you get information from clients quickly, saving you time and effort and more.
Keeper’s workflow management and automation features are limited
“Can’t say enough good things about it!
We are thrilled with the streamlined workflow Financial Cents brings to our firm! After much trial and error, with other products/companies over-promising and under-delivering, the cloud-based accessibility, affordability, intuitive interface, and INCREDIBLE customer support have made this an easy decision for us. Financial Cents is my top choice for efficient and effective financial management – 10/10 highly recommended!”
Michelle A.
Predictable pricing for unpredictable growth
As a firm owner, one of your major business goals is to grow your practice. To achieve this, you need a practice management software that offers stable and predictable pricing as your firm expands, without hidden surprises.
Financial Cents plans start at $19/month solo users paid annually, $49 per user paid annually for the team plan and $69/month per user paid annually for the Scale plan. All plans grant you access to serve unlimited clients. This means that as your practice continues to grow and you add more clients, the price remains the same.
Keeper bills per client, with their most popular plan starting at $10/month per client.
“Overall, I can’t praise it [Financial Cents] enough. And I’m very picky about software. I’ve tried about 5 different client management software and this one is the best. It is pricier than others. However, if you take into account the 25 hours a month it saves me. Overall, it’s saving me money. IMO .. the features don’t compare with other CRMs for accountants.”
Stephanie W
Built for accounting, bookkeeping & tax firms
Keeper is primarily built for firms whose focus is performing bookkeeping for clients. It is a useful tool if you want to run a better month-end close for your clients. Firms who plan to use Keeper for tax related work will have to pay an additional fee starting from $200/month for the tax suite.
Financial Cents on the other hand is a comprehensive practice management designed specifically for the diverse needs of accounting, bookkeeping, and tax firms. Regardless of your firm’s specialty or needs, you can streamline workflows on Financial Cents to manage all your client’s tasks.
Additionally, Financial Cents offers the scalability and flexibility to adapt and grow with your firm, eliminating the need to switch software as your service offerings expand.
“The business problem we are solving with Financial Cents is twofold. First, we are improving our internal communications. Second, we are ensuring that no project falls through the cracks.”
Michael McMullin | Managing Partner, Jack Trent & Co
Use the power of AI
Our ChatGPT powered AI integration helps you create workflow templates in seconds for any task or project you may have, even if they seem out of scope, making work easier for you. You can modify and save the workflow templates for future use within your firm.
You don’t have to spend minutes or hours when you want to send emails to clients or respond to their emails. Using AI inside Financial Cents, you can create client emails on the go.
The best part? You can save the email generated as a template inside Financial Cents, so you don’t have to generate them each time. Your team members can also have access to them and use them for client emails whenever they need to.
“I love that it took little to no effort to understand, all of the intro videos were so helpful. They got me started on the right path. I love that it is like taking my brain and putting it into order. It helps me get/stay organized.”
Jill B
Financial Cents vs Keeper Pricing
Financial Cents has four plans – Solo plan, Team plan, Scale plan and the Enterprise plan.
The Solo Plan is perfect for solo accountants and bookkeepers who want a simple way to stay organized, manage client work, and never miss a deadline. It includes features like workflow management, time tracking, invoicing & billing, client portal & client tasks. It costs $19/month – billed annually.
The Team Plan includes all you need to hit your client deadlines with more visibility, collaboration and organization. It costs $49/month per user – billed annually and $69/month per user month – billed monthly.
The Scale Plan has more advanced features such as the branded client portal, auto-follow ups for client tasks and more. It costs $69/month per user – billed annually and $89/month per user month – billed monthly.
The Enterprise Plan provides advanced support, security, and customization for large firms. It includes everything in the Scale Plan, plus enhanced security, custom permissions, webhooks, priority support, premium training, and a dedicated success manager. Contact sales for custom pricing.
Learn more about our pricing plans
Keeper has three (3) pricing plans.
Standard plan – $8/month per client.
Premium Plan – $10/month per client.
Enterprise plan (more than 50 clients) – custom pricing
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Financial Cents vs Keeper FAQs
Keeper charges per client, starting at $8–$10 per client per month, which means your costs increase as your client base grows. In contrast, Financial Cents offers predictable pricing per user, starting at $19/month (Solo) or $49/month per user (Team), with unlimited clients included in every plan. This makes Financial Cents more scalable and cost-effective as your firm grows.
Yes. Keeper is primarily built for bookkeeping firms to streamline the month-end close process. If you want to handle tax-related work, you’ll need to purchase the Keeper Tax Suite separately, which starts at $200/month. Financial Cents, however, is built for accounting, bookkeeping, and tax firms, so you can manage all your client work in one platform without additional costs.
Financial Cents provides robust workflow management features and automation, including recurring projects, auto-reminders, capacity planning, and workflow templates. Keeper’s workflow functionality is limited, focusing mainly on bookkeeping task management.
Keeper offers AI for bank feeds and research. Financial Cents integrates ChatGPT-powered AI to help you instantly generate workflow templates, draft client emails, and save them for future use. This saves your firm significant time and improves consistency.
Yes. Keeper charges at least $200/month extra for firms that want to manage tax-related work. Financial Cents includes tax, bookkeeping, and accounting workflows at no extra cost.
Both platforms provide a client portal, but Financial Cents takes it further with automated client requests, secure file storage, integrated email, and reminders. These tools reduce follow-ups and make communication seamless, without additional software.
No, Keeper doesn’t provide capacity management features. Financial Cents includes capacity planning tools that let you track your team’s workload, spot bottlenecks, and balance assignments so no project falls through the cracks.
Keeper offers time tracking, but only in their Premium plan ($10/month per client), which can become costly as your client base grows. Financial Cents includes built-in time tracking across all plans, allowing you to measure billable hours, track productivity, and generate reports without paying extra per client.
Keeper provides limited collaboration features. Financial Cents includes team chat, task comments, and @mentions, making it easier for your team to communicate and collaborate without switching tools.
Firms often outgrow Keeper once they start managing more than just bookkeeping and their clients size continues to increase. Keeper’s per-client pricing and limited features for tax and accounting work make it less scalable. Financial Cents provides a comprehensive, affordable solution with unlimited clients, robust workflow automation, e-signatures, and AI tools, helping firms save time and reduce costs.
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Many of the other tools are poor at managing updates and bugs. Some use subcontracted developers, providing real client data samples. Others have suffered breaches without proper notifications.
Of the pre-built systems out there, I do think Financial Cents has a solid offering.
One of my top goals is to make the process easier for clients. Glad I made the switch!
Many of the other tools are poor at managing updates and bugs. Some use subcontracted developers, providing real client data samples. Others have suffered breaches without proper notifications.
Of the pre-built systems out there, I do think Financial Cents has a solid offering.
One of my top goals is to make the process easier for clients. Glad I made the switch!
If you’re not using this feature, I highly recommend it! Remembering to follow up with clients can be a serious bottleneck and I love how this solved that problem!
If you’re not using this feature, I highly recommend it! Remembering to follow up with clients can be a serious bottleneck and I love how this solved that problem!