Comments on: KashFlow review

By: Andy Agar

Andy Agar — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:39:04 +0000

Kashflow has no user permitions without Kashguard which is clunky and you have to subscribe for more then one user. Kashguard leaves the screen looking very poor.

By: Brock Donald

Brock Donald — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:06:28 +0000

Firstly, great review.
Kashflow is a great product for the SMB market. Xero is also a fantastic product. The two have their advantages and disadvantages which some you have listed above.
We integrate with both Xero and Kashflow seamlessly, and see an even mix of our customer using both. We look forward to seeing them both grow, and rid the world of Quick Books .
I believe a mention to Saasu.com.au should be considered a worthy opponent as well.
BD

By: Chris M

Chris M — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:18:38 +0000

It would be great to see a review of Xero alongside these, which is being touted as the new saviour of online accounting. I must admit, superficially it appears very lush, in line with other modern web applications like Highrise.

By: Jon Silver

Jon Silver — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:57:53 +0000

Completely agree about Kashflow… at first we were captivated and excited at the prospect of perhaps having found something that would do it all for us. However reality soon set in.
If we import online banking data it works beautifully, but with so much manual processing of individual transactions (to match them up with whatever accounting transaction they represent) as to make it almost refreshing to return to rapid individual entry of everything in Quickbooks.
Deleting the banking transactions in order to start importing again seemed to work, but left the bank account balances in an inconsistent state, indicating underlying data integrity issues in the database. This is a disturbing thing to see… the very least we should be able to expect from an accounting solution is that it does its sums correctly.
The lack of invoicing layout options is also a big issue. We trade under different trading names, and need a single corpus of invoices for all names but with each invoice able to take on one of several different layouts with different logos etc. Pretty much everything we’ve tried is incapable of this apart from Quickbooks, and Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 which crashes every time we use a custom layout.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:39:47 +0000

We have a Kashflow account and tried to get the WorldPay card processing function working.

Unfortunately, for it to work, you need to get WorldPay to disable 3D secure.

They will do that for you, but it means you cannot take Maestro cards through your website anymore (or through Kashflow either of course).

You can still do Visa and Mastercard.

That was a shame – but apparently it works just fine with Iridium.