Botkeeper vs. Integra Global Solutions
When choosing an automated bookkeeping solution, it is important to evaluate the qualities of different systems. Botkeeper and Integra Global Solutions are two very different solutions to consider for your firm. We've highlighted the key differences between these solutions for informed decision-making. Ready to see the power of Botkeeper? Click below to book a live presentation.
Overview
Achieve unmatched accuracy in your bookkeeping
A true automation-based bookkeeping platform will help you operate your end-to-end bookkeeping programs with accuracy. While there are many bookkeeping solutions available today that can help streamline bookkeeping tasks, not all solutions are built the same. This page will help you understand the differences between Botkeeper and Integra Global Solutions so you can decide which is the right bookkeeping solution for your business or firm.
Bookkeeping Services
Firms today face massive challenges. Not only are they struggling to create profitable bookkeeping processes and services, but they're also looking to deliver accurate, efficient, secure, and ultimately scalable services to their clients. With turnover being a challenge, this often triggers a search for a long-term solution.
To truly transform your bookkeeping, you need an integrated set of tools that help you drive accuracy, efficiency, security, and ultimately tie all your bookkeeping efforts back to positive ROI for your firm.
With Integra Global Solutions, you get bots that can work on multiple platforms for a number of accounting needs, including bookkeeping. Their bookkeeping bot can perform general bookkeeping, bank reconciliation, invoice preparation, daily records updates, VAT returns, records data entry, and general ledger maintenance. If your firm is looking for additional accounting services, that will require additional bots.
The good news is with Botkepeer you get a solution packed with advanced automation technology that can help your firm. Your firm receives a comprehensive solution and partnership that leverages a combination of technology and people, the best of both worlds. Using machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotic process automation in conjunction with the expertise of senior accountants who step in as needed, we augment the manual and time-consuming tasks, creating lightning-fast and hyper-efficient bookkeeping (data entry, reconciliations, classifications, etc.). This results in allowing us to achieve 99.7% accuracy and provide you a team of support, so human error or turnover never affects you or your clients.
Botkeeper is able to fully automate your bookkeeping department with human-assisted AI. You can benefit from avoiding increases in headcount and overhead costs, seeing and trusting the health of company results due to noticeably less manual human error, and getting superior reporting and real-time, 24/7 data entry.
Technology & Features
Finding the right automated accounting solution for all your bookkeeping needs can seem overwhelming. With so many different options and features to weigh against each other, pulling the trigger on one can be difficult.
Your solution affects every part of your firm and the way your team works. Selecting the right solution can make or break your practice’s future, so it’s important to weigh the cost and benefit of each. It can be hard to know where to start when comparing accounting technology providers because there are so many factors involved — machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation (RPA), security, and ease of use — but we’re here to help.
Integra Global Solutions uses bot software programs that mimic the work that humans do in addition to trained staff. Their bots can be programmed to do a variety of tasks to fulfill processes in an accounting or bookkeeping firm. As they host their robots in the cloud, they take care of all its maintenance, version control, upgrades, and everything else associated with its day-to-day management.
Botkeeper takes it a step further by using a combination of machines and trained (human) accountants working together in perfect harmony. You will have a trained accounting staff dedicated to reviewing the machine’s suggestions when/if it is unsure. This allows for fewer errors and higher accuracy.
With Botkeeper's Partner Platform, you have the ability to onboard and manage all of your clients through a custom white-labeled portal. Stay up to date on what is happening in all of your clients' Financial Hubs with your clickable activity feed, communicate directly with the Botkeeper accountants on what they need from you, and receive direct access to any open conversations you’re having within the tool.
The Botkeeper Client Portal is where the business owner would find financials, download statements, build custom reports, and chat with your Botkeeper team as desired. Your clients receive a central platform to connect their financial and non-financial accounts, ensuring that their data is automated, compiled, and organized. Your clients get fast, accurate, seamless bookkeeping each month while getting the personal touch, and top-notch advisory services only you can provide.
The best part is that the platforms tie together into a comprehensive ecosystem so CPAs, their business owner clients, and Botkeeper operate in a centralized hub.
Support and Success
Having exceptional customer service is imperative for success. The right support and success can be the key differentiator between a challenging or frustrating experience with a new automated accounting solution and a smooth, streamlined one that your entire firm can adopt.
Companies that provide great customer service enable fluid, real-time conversations to help troubleshoot issues or answer questions as they arise. They offer you multiple means of contacting them including email, chat, and direct message. The phrase “Customer is King” has been around for ages and should never be forgotten when evaluating any technology you may be considering purchasing for your firm.
When working with Integra Global Solutions you receive live chat support services, email, and help desk support.
All Botkeeper packages include a talented and experienced Account Manager. Their role is intended to help empower accounting firms and assist them through periods of change.
Account Managers are unique to Botkeeper, adding another valuable element to the human-assisted automation we’re so proud to deliver to accounting firms. This team of experienced accounting professionals (even CPAs!) manages the relationships with accounting firms of all sizes, including some of the largest and most innovative firms out there. They offer a broad technical and product knowledge to help accounting firms scale. Their whole end game is to ensure impeccable service and insightful guidance on how to get the most out of Botkeeper’s products and services.
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MEASURE ROI
Measure the performance of your bookkeeping when you integrate an automated solution, and see what your firm is able to achieve.
Integra Global Solutions’ ROI for the AI implementation depends on the scale of the project. For the majority of projects that they’re hired for, the payback starts from 3 months. For larger projects, the payback can take up to 12 months.
Botkeeper goes a bit farther. Our solution allows you to automate bookkeeping and pre-accounting procedures so you can dedicate more time and resources to your client base. Leverage the newly available insights Botkeeper provides and increase the value you can offer your clients. You can also differentiate your brand, help expand your firm, and diversify your service offering. Botkeeper oversees the automation so you can focus on complex accounting, data integrity, and interpretation. We’ll be hard at work extracting data from receipts, processing payroll, paying bills, sending invoices, reconciling accounts, and generating beautiful reports — so you have more time to achieve your firm's goal and focus on what matters most.
Cost of Ownership
Many of the suggestions, tips, and tricks that are recommended to firms to create efficiency are aimed at reducing costs. As you evaluate automated solutions, you should be considering how long it will take to recoup the cost of onboarding and maintenance costs, understanding will scope creep impact monthly costs, seeing whether the solutions rates are fixed or dependent on hours works, etc. With this in mind, it makes sense to look at the cost of ownership of a solution as a whole rather than just the initial cost.
In respect of costs, Integra Global Solutions offers a pay-as-you-use robots service. Clients pay for its usage time. Therefore, if a firm’s clients fall outside of the scope of the bookkeeping bot, you’ll need to add more support, resulting in the price of their service increasing. The more processes a firm outsources to Integra Global Solutions and their bots, the larger the savings they receive.
While Botkeeper's pricing packages are customizable and flexible allowing your firm to leverage economies of scale as it grows. Our pricing model is not based on an hourly charge but is rather meant for accounting firms to choose what their needs are based on a combination of their client's gross expenses, how often they need services, and the services they need from Botkeeper— but we offer the same white-glove service regardless of your package. Pricing starts at $155 per entity per month, and scales based on cadence and average entity expenses.
We know that businesses change over time, and we want to make sure we provide pricing to reflect that. We have a toolset that allows you to estimate your costs with Botkeeper, and we also have a Botkeeper specialist to walk through your needs with you and help determine the best-fit bookkeeping services. The Botkeeper pricing structure is built to grow with your firm, offering a fully customizable option, and supporting you for the same cost during ebbs and flows.
Botkeeper is much more than just software.
Choosing a bookkeeping automation provider is a crucial decision, so it's important to consider not only the software but the support and resources you'll receive, as well. We at Botkeeper are invested in your success.
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Free Training & Education — Botkeeper resources are available to help you and your entire team learn best practices and successfully execute tactics that grow your business. Take a look at the dozens of resources available, and get started today.
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Support Is Available For Your Entire Team — Anytime you have a question, reach out and we'll answer. Our support team is happy to help, whether it's a question about our software or advice on how to best tackle bookkeeping tasks.
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Deployment — When you start using Botkeeper, you'll have a dedicated team to help you get started with the software, technical setup tasks, and execute your first successful dive into the tool. Learn more about Botkeeper Deployment here.
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