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I’m currently reviewing a few invoicing, expenses and account management tools for dealing with company accounts. I’ve started work as an IT freelancer so I need to be able to manage all my expenses and invoicing. There are plenty of tools out there but the majority are US based apps and have fairly limited support for the UK. You can change the currency on all of them but as yet i’ve only found that Xero supports everything including UK vat returns and general tax goodness.

It’s a tricky subject for a startup. I have an accountant so I don’t really want to duplicate work which he will do, so i’m not sure that xero ticks the right boxes. It will allow me to do everything BUT will it allow me to do too much? One of the main issues I have is that xero doesn’t allow importing of expense claims. I use an app called iXpenseIt for recording all of my expenses which could be 3-4 a day. Over a month this can be a lot of data input.

Maybe I should just use speadsheets and a dedicated invoicing solution such as Harvest. Only time will tell but i’ll keep you updated since I know this can be a confusing area. Especially knowing what your accountant needs and how to keep on top of it.