Kashoo

Kashoo is a simplified cloud accounting application for small business owners without an accounting background, covering double-entry bookkeeping, automatic categorisation from bank feeds, invoicing, and expense tracking.

How accounting firms use it

Firms recommend it to sole proprietors and micro-businesses where the objective is that the client maintains reasonably accurate records with minimal effort. The automatic categorisation does most of the coding, so a client who would otherwise present a shoebox of receipts arrives with books that need review rather than reconstruction.

Accountant access lets the firm adjust directly. Because there is no multi-client dashboard, practices carrying more than a handful of clients on it face a login-per-client overhead that becomes the practical limit on how widely they recommend it.

Key features

Bank feeds import transactions with automatic categorisation that learns from prior coding. Double-entry bookkeeping runs underneath a deliberately simplified interface, so the records are structurally sound even though the client is not seeing debits and credits.

Invoicing covers standard billing with payment acceptance through Stripe and Square. Reporting produces profit and loss, balance sheet, and basic tax summaries.

Who it’s best for

Sole proprietors and micro-businesses with straightforward income and expenses, no stock, no employees, and no project tracking — clients for whom a fuller platform would be more system than the business warrants.

Wave is the usual alternative and is free at the core, though generally weaker on automatic categorisation. Clients needing inventory, job costing, payroll, or an app ecosystem should be on QuickBooks or Xero, and ZipBooks competes at a similar entry level.