QuickBooks Online alternative
Bridge Finance or QuickBooks Online?
Bridge Finance is a QuickBooks Online alternative for agencies and consultancies. It is a complete double-entry ledger — invoices, bills, expense claims, bank reconciliation, budgets, consolidation and every financial report, with an audit trail — and it invoices the hours tracked in Bridge Time against the same client. It imports a company’s books from QuickBooks Online at a cutover date, checked to the penny.
Bridge Finance and QuickBooks Online, side by side
QuickBooks Online is accounting software for small businesses from Intuit. This comparison describes it in general terms, from what it says about itself, as of . Check QuickBooks Online’s own site for its current features and prices.
| Capability | Bridge Finance | QuickBooks Online |
|---|---|---|
| Ledger | Double-entry ledger, chart of accounts, journals and fiscal periods | Double-entry accounting |
| Sales and purchases | Invoices, estimates, credit notes, bills, expense claims and payment runs | Invoices, bills and expenses |
| Bank | Bank feeds, statement imports, rules and reconciliation | Bank feeds and reconciliation |
| Group companies | Each company keeps its own books in its own currency; consolidation built in | One company file per business |
| Billable hours | Invoices the hours tracked in Bridge Time, on the same client | Time tracking through a separate product |
| Moving your books | Imports from QuickBooks Online at a cutover date, undoable for 30 days | Exports reports and data |
Choose Bridge Finance if
- You bill time and want hours, clients and the ledger on one record
- You run a group of companies and consolidate them
- You want accounting, CRM, projects and time under one sign-in
QuickBooks Online may suit you better if
- Your accountant works in QuickBooks and you want to stay there
- You rely on QuickBooks payroll or its app ecosystem
Moving from QuickBooks Online
Can I move my books from QuickBooks Online?
Yes. Bridge Finance imports a company’s books from QuickBooks Online as balances at a cutover date, with open invoices and bills, checked to the penny before anything is written. An import can be undone within 30 days.
Can I keep QuickBooks and still use BridgeME?
Yes. Where Bridge Finance does not keep the ledger, Bridge Time can send an issued invoice to QuickBooks once the app is connected.
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