For many entrepreneurs and small companies, bookkeeping is a sore point. Especially at the start, when there are no extra funds. Keeping an accountant in the state is expensive in terms of salary, not to mention social package and workplace equipment (necessary software, stationery, folders, paper, etc.). Moreover, in very small companies there is not much work and it is mostly seasonal. The peak comes before reporting. And this is several times a year.

Outsourcing, of course, is more profitable. However, there are other difficulties here. Employees of third-party firms are not interested in reducing the entrepreneur's expenses for tax and other deductions, they simply do their job - prepare documents, certificates, notify about the deadlines for submitting reports. And no more. In fact, outsourcing companies are not responsible for late reporting or other misunderstandings with tax and funds. The maximum they can claim a penalty according to the contract. But the amount of fines and penalties accrued to the entrepreneur will still be on the conscience of the businessman. And in any case, you need to pay for the provision of services.

There is a third option - to use specialized online bookkeeping services. They have one huge advantage - they will cost much less than an in-house accountant or outsourcing. But there is also a significant disadvantage, but it applies to all cloud services in principle - the data is located in a remote storage. And you need to choose reliable companies that care about the security of information, support and develop their product.

One of these services is Elba Circuit. A product of the SKB Kontur company, which has been operating since 1988. She develops software that simplifies the workflow for enterprises. One of the main competitors of the online service is the cloud platform "". In fact, there are many analogues. But not everyone can be trusted.

Individual entrepreneurs, directors of companies, as well as accountants can use Kontur.Accounting. Developers in their software tried to take into account the needs of small businesses and create a multilateral service. It is understandable to a beginner in accounting, and convenient for specialists with experience.

The main advantages of working with the service for all categories of users:

• preparation of documents according to templates;
• reminders of the need to submit reports;
• any forms of taxation (OSNO, USN, UTII, patent);
• access from anywhere in the world.

Tariffs are quite flexible and you can choose the one that is ideal for the company. main criteria: the number of employees, mandatory reports, consultations, the possibility of generating other documents.

How to start using?

Only registered and authorized users can use the service. The connection is made via the Internet. You can try a free trial period. It lasts 30 days from the date of registration. However, in order to access all the features and continue bookkeeping for a longer period, you need to pay a fee. If there is a promo code, then the cost will be lower. The activation code is sent by mail.

To get 3 months of free service, enter the promo code during registration:

32774642

Initial registration will require only an email address and a password. But then you will need to enter data about the company / individual entrepreneur into the system, as well as customize it for yourself. Create counterparties, products, etc. The system is logged in through the official website. Nothing additional needs to be installed.

The product of the company "Kontur" for the director or individual entrepreneur

The program allows you to both keep records and control the work of an accountant. Everything is done through authorization in the company profile, and the data is available from anywhere in the world where there is Internet. After authorization, you can see all the information (status of accounts, contractors, etc.).

For director small firm and IP, the following advantages can be distinguished:

• no one-time payment of a large amount is required as when installing stationary accounting programs (for example, 1C);
• maximum convenience for the user in the reporting system;
• all data for analytics is at hand;
• saving time for routine operations.

When using stationary programs that require installation on the user's computer, you may experience different difficulties. And it's not just about the price of the product. For example, there are certain system requirements for specific software, and it may be necessary to upgrade the computer before installing hardware on it, which will significantly increase the cost of integration. This is one moment.

The second - according to the requirements, everything can fit, and the occurrence of errors during downloading, installation and unpacking is also possible. Again, the cost of elimination.

Third - you need to configure the program correctly so that it performs its functions.

And this can result in:

• a lot of wasted time when trying to figure out the software on your own;
• the absence of the necessary modules in the purchased version, the need to pay for them separately;
• services of a programmer for editing and tuning;
• mistakes in work that also cost money.

Moreover, you can work in the program only from the computer on which it is installed. In some cases, this is extremely inconvenient. For example, if you need to constantly be in the know and see everything online. Or the entrepreneur is constantly on the road (such a sphere), and the order in documents and accounting must be constantly maintained. A cloud service will allow you to work remotely. In the "My Page" section, you need to enter user data (phone, mail, etc.).

The personal account "Kontour Elba" reflects a minimum of settings. There are only the options you need. This is both a plus and a minus. The disadvantage is that there is no way to customize the system for yourself. As everything is organized inside, so it will work. And the advantage - and many do not need to flexibly configure everything! The main thing is that it works in principle. Cloud services have a minimum of settings, but they are much more convenient to use for beginners in accounting. You can fully understand it and organize the work in a few hours. And all independently, without the involvement of narrow specialists. The maximum should be used information materials, view instructional videos, contact support. But all this is free and in an easy-to-understand form.

It is important to understand that you can work in the cloud service and in a stationary program in parallel. As a rule, it is possible to exchange data in popular file formats (for example, .csv). You can download information from 1C to "Kontur Elba".

The product allows you to analyze data, collect charts, compare periods and get other important and useful information for business. And do it all quickly and manage it from your personal account. You do not need to export tables to collect information on them into visual graphs. The service is easy to use and will do everything by itself. Of course, there are some templates for analytics.

By the way, about templates. They are very useful in that they can significantly reduce the time for some operations. For example, drawing up contracts, issuing powers of attorney, sending acts and invoices. Everything is ready, you just need to correct some points for specific companies. In addition, you can arrange everything in a corporate style. The prop will allow it.

Additionally, you can activate the “Checking counterparties” service, which will allow you to identify unreliable companies and immediately see all the details of a potential partner. The purpose of the verification function allows you to reduce the risks of the entrepreneur being thrown.

"Kontur.Accounting" for an accountant

If the accountant in the company is in a single person, then a cloud service will also be useful to him. But on more or less large enterprises where there is an accounting department, it is unlikely to find application. At least for an ordinary accountant leading one section, for sure. However, if there is only one employee involved in accounting, then the service will come in handy for him. It has a notification feature, as well as many useful information. It is unrealistic to miss the deadline for submitting an important report. And so that the documents were accepted immediately, templates for filling them out were created.

The service allows:

• keep accounts;
• to pay salary;
• submit reports.

By the way, the company constantly uploads educational materials, detailed articles on accounting and conducts seminars for accountants. Everything changes in the legislation, forms are updated, new reports appear, existing ones are abolished. And it is important to be aware of all the changes.

findings

The service is useful for those who do not want to drown in a routine and make bookkeeping as convenient as possible. It is aimed at sole proprietorships and LLCs. And these are mostly small companies. He has his "chips" for both the director and the accountant. Judging by the user reviews, it is worth at least a try, many recommend it.

is an online bookkeeping service that was created to help small businesses do bookkeeping from the comfort of their homes. Using convenient software, tips and ready-made formulas, you can save a lot of time and money. The service allows multi-user mode, work with primary documents, work with invoices. Suitable for individual entrepreneurs and LLCs on the simplified tax system and UTII.

Our readers will be able to fully appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of the service. To do this, we divided the characteristics of the service into twelve points. We not only considered the pros and cons of the service, but also compared it with competitors. In our article you will not find water. Only interesting and useful information.

Interface

It can be seen that creative and professional people worked on the design of the Kontur website. Nice graphics, convenient arrangement of elements. The site looks very good.

The control panel is designed so as not to confuse the user with a large fragmented menu. The idea was implemented perfectly. Elba's interface is one of the most user-friendly we've seen.

Step-by-step instruction

Registration in Elba begins with entering your email on the main page. Additionally, you need to enter a password. Entering a TIN is not required.

Then you need to specify the form of ownership of your enterprise.

This is how the Elba platform interface looks like.

Right from the main one, you can create the document you need: contract, invoice, bill, act, invoice, power of attorney. Other documents are also available. From the main you can mark the movement Money.

What immediately catches the eye is minimalism. The minimum number of sections, but at the same time everything is divided so that there are no questions in which section the desired action is “hidden”.

Let's try to create an invoice. To do this, left-click Invoice.

Fill in the rest of the information.

To add an employee, you need to select in the menu - Employees. Check the box there - I am registered as an employer. Then click the Add Employee button.

Everything is quite simple in the online accounting department of Kontur. Fill in the information (all or part) and click the green Save button.

What can "do with an employee" in Elba? You can print a 2-NDFL certificate, delete an employee, mark a dismissal, calculate wages, record deductions, mark vacation, mark sick leave/vacation.

Other sections available for filling: money, goods, contractors, reporting, details.

Functional evaluation

Kontur.Elba is focused primarily on individual entrepreneurs and allows you to fully work in the system without special knowledge in the field accounting. The program can keep records of primary documents (invoice, act, contract, invoice, waybill), receipts and debits of funds and payments by customers. Reporting to the tax office can be sent via the Internet without electronic signature(by proxy).

It is possible for an LLC to form financial statements at the end of the year based on the data entered into the system on financial activities enterprises (only reporting, there is no possibility of conducting full-fledged daily accounting in Elba).

Work with employees: establishment of salaries, bonuses, district coefficient, northern allowance, reporting on employees. The system allows you to generate payment documents for paying taxes and contributions. The system coordinates the user on the deadlines for submitting reports to regulatory authorities, including via SMS and e-mail. There are acts of reconciliation with the Federal Tax Service and suppliers.

In Elba, accounting is as automated as possible. In the system, you will not see standard postings or many registers. The system independently takes into account your transactions when creating documents and specifying the types of transactions, and then at the end of the year, based on all the data, it builds financial statements, having previously shown the data in the balance sheet and offering to take a number of actions that complete economic activity in a year. Score: 5

Tariff comparison

In total, the service provides three tariffs

Tariff characteristics

There are three tariff plans: electronic reporting, online accounting and bookkeeping. Functions increase in proportion to the cost of the tariff.

Comparison with other tariffs

The first tariff is suitable individual entrepreneurs who want to automate reporting to the Federal Tax Service.

The second tariff provides for the accounting of documents and finances.

The Premium tariff adds the ability to keep track of salaries and taxes, submit reports to the Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund, and receive expert advice.

Service payment

You can pay for the Kontur.Elba service in various ways.

1.By bank transfer (payment will arrive within 2-5 banking days):

• p / p for the bank;
• Sberbank receipt (only for individual entrepreneurs);
• Internet banking file.

To receive a payment order or a receipt, you must click Settings and payment - Tariffs and payment, select the tariff and period of service and, in the next step, follow the link Bank transfer.

2. Instant payment methods (through the Robokassa system, they enter the system up to 3 hours):

• Plastic card (VISA, MasterCard, DCL, Maestro);
• WebMoney;
• Yandex money;
• SMS (up to 10,000 rubles for MTS and Tele2 (Rostelecom) subscribers);
• Cash through the QIWI terminal (instruction in the attachment to knowledge 5025).
• Alpha click.

To proceed to payment, you need to click Settings and payment - Tariffs and payment, select a tariff and service period, and in the next step follow the link of the most suitable payment method.

Discounts

When registering, specifying a promotional code, the subscriber, when paying for any tariff plan for a quarter/year, gets + 3 months as a gift.

In Elba, invoicing takes less than a minute and only a few fields need to be filled out. The documents that you generate in Elba fully comply with the law and contain all the necessary details.

Created invoices, acts and invoices you can save in PDF or Excel format.

How to create a new contract

Things are alright

Don't remember if the invoice was prepaid? Has the client signed the act? How much money does the client have to pay extra for the services provided?

In Elba, there are no such issues - all documents and receipts are in full view.

Signature and seal - already in the documents

No need to waste time sending documents by fax - send documents with your signature and stamp to your clients by e-mail directly from Elba.

Income and expenses

All your income and expenses are saved in Elba. At any time, you can see who and when you paid, as well as who and for what paid you.

Connection with internet bank

Do you work for free? Fine! This means that you do not need to manually enter information about receipts to the account into Elba.

Just upload a file with an extract from your Internet bank in Elba - the list of income and expenses will be filled in automatically. If you do not have a current account, you can apply for an account directly from Elba.

Clients and Suppliers

All transactions in Elba, in which the client or supplier is involved, are automatically collected on his page. Thus, by going to the counterparty page, you see the entire history of interaction with him.

Find out everything about the counterparty in 15 minutes

Not sure whether to work with a new supplier? Request an extract from the state register legal entities and individual entrepreneurs (EGRLE and EGRIP).

Elba will provide an extract in 15 minutes from which you will learn: the founders, authorized capital, date of registration, address and much more.

Open a current account? There is nothing easier!

How to open a checking account

Learn more by watching a short video.

Reporting calendar

The reporting calendar contains only those tasks that need to be completed during the year of the organization on the tax system of your choice.

Elba herself monitors changes in legislation and keeps the calendar up to date.

How to pay and submit UTII

Learn more by watching a short video.

Bookkeeping has never been so easy!

Elba is specially designed for people who do not understand accounting. All reporting and tax calculation operations are divided into simple steps, each with instructions and hints. In addition, videos are always available to you that explain everything in detail.

Submit reports online!

You don't have to leave your home or office to send a report. Reporting can be sent online to any tax office Russia. You can also send reports to Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund.

Pay your taxes

Elba will not only help you calculate all the necessary taxes, but also generate payment orders for their payment. You only need to upload a file with a payment order to your Internet bank, or print a payment order and pay at a bank branch.

How to pay taxes via Internet banking

Learn more by watching a short video.

All reporting

Elba will generate the necessary reports: a USN declaration, UTII, a book of income and expenses, a report on average headcount employees, individual entrepreneur reporting to the Pension Fund, as well as employer reporting. In Elba, there are always up-to-date reporting forms, as we follow changes in legislation.

Employee reporting

All reporting that the employer must submit is generated in Elba without additional effort. You simply indicate the monthly payments to employees - based on them, Elba generates reports. Here is a list of forms: 2-NDFL, SZV-6-1, SZV-6-2, RSV-1, RSV-2 and 4-FSS.

payroll taxes

You probably already know that you need to pay 6 taxes and contributions from an employee's salary! Doing this manually is extremely difficult. In Elba, you just need to indicate your salary - taxes and contributions from it will be calculated automatically. All that remains is to pay the payment orders, which Elba will also generate herself.

Payouts

All information about payments to an employee is stored in a personal card. At any time, you can view the employee's salary for past periods.

Treaties and declarations

In Elba you will find contract and application forms required for hiring or firing employees.

Kontur-Elba is an online accounting service for individual entrepreneurs and LLC entrepreneurs who keep records according to the simplified tax system, patent or UNVD. All actions related to working with the service are performed through the personal account of Kontur-Elba, which a registered client can enter around the clock from any access point.

The service is ideal for companies with up to 50 employees who do not have an accountant on staff or outsourcing.

Possibilities of a personal account

Each user registered in the system has the right to use the personal account of Kontur-Elba in a free test mode for a month. The company also gives entrepreneurs who opened an IP less than three months ago, whole year free premium service.

What do you get by subscribing to the online accounting service package from Kontur-Elba:

• Always updated according to the current legislation system.
• Formation and sending of reports online.
• 24/7 technical support.
• Obtaining advice on accounting and legal issues.
• Tax calendar with automatic email and sms reminders.
• Integration with four Internet banks for quick execution of orders and statements.
• Access to documents via mobile app.
• Reconciliation of information on existing debts with tax data.
• Informing about upcoming inspections.
• Use of an electronic signature.
• Convenient accounting of the movement of goods and simple inventory.
• Special prices for reporting of several organizations.
• Checking counterparties by requesting an extract from the state register.
• Automatic reporting for employees.
• Special offers from partners of the system.

Registration and login to your personal account

Having entered the official website of Kontur-Elba, in its upper part you can see a link to the form for accessing the system. New and registered users also get access to personal account Elba contour via mobile application (limited functionality). For new users, a simple registration is carried out - by clicking on the "Login" link from the site menu and clicking on the "Register" option in the authorization form, you need to choose a password and enter:

• E-mail address
• tax system

In addition, it is possible to indicate the maintenance of several individual entrepreneurs and LLCs and use the available promotional code. After reading the license agreement, complete the registration by clicking on the “Start using” button.

How to send reports online for free?

The Elba circuit provides free of charge to all individual entrepreneurs on the simplified tax system and UTII, registered with the tax office no more than three months ago.

All features of the Kontur Elba service are provided free of charge for 1 year from the date of commencement of its use.

Features of the Elba web service:

• Submission of reports via the Internet to the Federal Tax Service
• calculation of taxes and contributions, formation of payment documents for them
• Formation and maintenance of primary document flow (contracts, invoices, acts, invoices, etc.)
• keeping records of income and expenses
• keeping records of employees, calculating salaries, sending reports via the Internet to the Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund
• warehouse accounting
• expert advice on tax accounting and work in the system

Instructions for connecting to the web service Contour Elba

Elba from the Circuit does not require installation, because. is a web service. Works in all browsers (Chrome, FireFox, Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc.) and on all devices with Internet access.

After registration, the entrance to the program is carried out by login and password.

1. Go to the site www.elba-online.ru and click the "Start using" button.

2. Fill in the fields "E-mail", "Password" and be sure to specify - 1852 in the registration form. Click the "Get Started" button. After that, you will automatically be taken to the web service.

3. In the web service, go to the Details tab. Fill in all fields with your data.

4. Be sure to indicate your TIN and the date of registration as an individual entrepreneur.

5. After the automatic verification of the specified data, you will be provided with a free web service with all the features for the year of use.