Accounting software for startups
The best accounting software for startups is the one a founder does not have to babysit. Adopt keeps the books and monthly close current from your bank and card activity, and you approve every entry.
How startups handle this today.
No finance hire yet. The founder does the books at night, or they wait.
Investors want numbers. Burn, runway and a clean balance sheet are asked for with little notice.
Outside books are slow. A statement from an outsourced accountant can take days to arrive.
Card spend is everywhere. Subscriptions and team cards produce hundreds of small lines.
Startup accounting, without a finance hire
Adopt prepares the work in the background. Your team reviews and approves it, and every approval stays on the record.
Connect your accounts
Link bank and card accounts, or upload statements. Adopt starts from your opening balances.
Spend coded, with reasons
Software, contractors, cloud costs and payroll each get a suggested account and the reason behind it.
Review and approve
Approve in bulk or one at a time. Nothing posts until you do.
Close and report
Reconciliations and month-end statements are prepared for you to sign off.
What changes for startups
Free to start
Connect your first accounts without a sales call or a credit card.
Books an investor can check
Every number links back to the transaction or document behind it.
Grows with the company
Add entities and reviewers as you add people. Adopt is not priced per seat.
FAQs
Look for software that keeps the books current without a finance hire, shows where every number came from and does not charge per seat. Adopt prepares the books and you approve each entry.
That is your call. Many founders start by running Adopt alongside their current accountant and decide later how the work is split.
Not today. Adopt keeps the books your tax return is built from, categorized and reconciled, so tax time starts from clean numbers.
No. Adopt works on its own. A business without any accounting system can start on Adopt and keep its books there.
More software for startups
Startup books, current before the board asks.
You approve every entry.
Start free and connect your first account. Adopt works on its own, so you do not need another accounting system to begin.
