
Botkeeper VS. TOA GLOBAL
Your search and evaluation for the right bookkeeping partner should consist of multiple dimensions. If your firm is ready to explore a solution, here's what you need to know about how Botkeeper and TOA Global compare. Ready to see the power of Botkeeper? Click below to book a live presentation.
Overview
Don't settle for incomplete bookkeeping services.
While there are many options that can help manage bookkeeping tasks, not all solutions and talent are equal. In fact, some options are better when they create a powerful, unique partnership over simply providing labor. This page will help you understand the differences between bringing on Botkeeper versus bringing on TOA Global, so you can decide which is the right option for your firm.
Here’s an Overview of Botkeeper and TOA Global.
Botkeeper
Botkeeper offers firms the ability to choose the right approach for each of their clients: tech-only gives firms total control over the Botkeeper platform (automated transaction categorization, exception surfacing, task and project management, and much more), while tech plus add-on services provides your firm with dedicated, professional accountants who can both run your Botkeeper platform and offer much more according to the service plan chosen. In short, Botkeeper delivers a full-suite bookkeeping and pre-accounting solution to accounting firms and their clients.
The powerful combination of our proprietary AI and machine learning with skilled accountants makes for a complete, end-to-end solution.
TOA Global
TOA Global is a people-driven company that solely focuses on the accounting sector. The company supplies trained outsourced accountants, bookkeepers, and professionals in other financial services and administrative staff to accounting firms to expand, grow, and provide customer service.
Bookkeeping Services
Automating the time-consuming and laborious aspects of bookkeeping is where Botkeeper shines. While Keeper helps find coding errors by reviewing the books, Botkeeper actually categorizes transactions automatically. It continuously monitors what's coming into your clients' QBO or Xero instances, surfacing exceptions automatically. So unlike with Keeper, you aren't waiting until month's end.
With TOA Global, you get outsourced bookkeeping powered by human capital. Your firm decides which roles, skills, or tasks you want to delegate to their offshore bookkeepers and team so TOA can then conduct all facets of recruitment, onboarding, training, and retention for that role. You’re then paired with full-time staff members that are offshore in the Philippines. No technologies such as machine learning or artificial intelligence are being leveraged as they are offering manual outsourced bookkeeping service services. Their services include providing your firm with record-keeping, trial balance, posting process checks, data entry and reporting as well as accounts payable, receivable and payroll.
But of course, your firm might have additional needs that can't be automated—which is why Botkeeper offers four add-on services packages to enhance our automated bookkeeping platform.
Technology and Features
Finding the right automated accounting solution for all your bookkeeping needs can become the foundation of your practice and the differentiator you need to grow. As a result, it’s important to seek out technology and features that fit your firm, staff, AND client base. This is why we’ve made Botkeeper with our accounting partner firms in mind — we can grow and adapt our platform to your organization’s wants and needs, offering unsurpassed value for your clients.
TOA Global is people-based, and doesn't offer machine learning, artificial intelligence, or other tech features. However, they do consult on technology for their clients.
Botkeeper leverages proprietary machine learning technology to handle labor-intensive bookkeeping tasks by processing and categorizing transactions at an incredibly high accuracy level. This goes FAR beyond static rules—our global models are continuously refining, while your client's specific model improves with each transaction successfully coded or updated. This is smart tech that adapts.
As an end-to-end bookkeeping solution, Botkeeper integrates with QBO and Xero, auto-categorizing and matching transactions, surfacing exceptions, automatically reconciling bank and credit card accounts and recording of principal/interest loan splits. It also offers centralized communication, task and project management, secure password management, and a close tracker that helps you see at a glance how closing is proceeding.
Interacting with your team and even your clients is made simple with Activity Hub, a central space for all comments made anywhere across the platform, while Client & User Management helps you control access and permissions, customize your portal with your logo and favicon, and more. Botkeeper's Documents feature incorporates a secure portal for document storage, exchange, and review—it even includes version tracking and a customizable folder structure. And all of it is super-secure, with 256-bit encryption that's SOC 2 Type 2 accredited.
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Average accuracy on transaction categorized by Botkeeper
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Number of new clients you can bring on daily with Botkeeper
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Average time saved by clients with Botkeeper
Training & Support
When your firm streamlines its bookkeeping with Botkeeper, your support and training needs will be unique.
To accommodate all needs cases, Botkeeper offers different service tiers. While everyone gets in-app step-by-step guides, access to our comprehensive Knowledge Base, live chat, monthly group training webinars and access to Botkeeper University (our vibrant user community), we also offer additional options:
Our Enhanced Onboarding & Support tier adds our four-week Essentials training course, a quarterly strategy consultation, and an assigned client success associate. This plan is included when adding 11-50 entities, but it available for a one-time fee if you are adding fewer than 11.
Choose Premium Onboarding & Support to add your own outreach concierge and everything in the Enhanced plan. This plan is included when adding 51 or more entities, but it available for a one-time fee if you are adding fewer than 51.
TOA Global offers dedicated client support and a knowledge base.
SECURITY
As a firm, you want to ensure that your clients' personal and financial information is held in the strictest confidence. Before choosing a solution, ask about the level of security employed and whether the vendor's security standards are in line with those of your industry.
Botkeeper’s automated bookkeeping solution takes security seriously, with industry-standard SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation, two-factor authentication, and 256-bit encryption for data at rest and data in transit.
SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation means:
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Botkeeper has the required data security controls in place to protect customer data against unauthorized access.
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Botkeeper can detect anomalies and security incidents across its entire ecosystem.
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In addition to preventing risk situations, Botkeeper can quickly repair damage and restore functionality in the event of infrastructure or system failures.
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Botkeeper’s security controls are both correctly designed AND function as intended.
Botkeeper’s SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation is granted by an industry best, reputable independent third party, and Botkeeper renews the report annually with continuous testings. That means any information shared with Botkeeper is protected to the highest current standards, and you can rest easy knowing your data is in good hands.
Botkeeper does not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us, and it does not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties without your consent. Your personal information is secured from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, using the following methods for this purpose: SSL Protocol; Two Factor Authentication; and Database Encryption.
Botkeeper is also a member of the Financial Data Exchange (FDX), a nonprofit dedicated to unifying the financial industry around a common, interoperable, royalty-free standard for secure and convenient consumer and business access to their financial data.
TOA Global employs bank-level security and high-end infrastructure including power and internet redundancy for safety and business continuity. Their staff undergo a mandatory security and compliance training course and receive a briefing and review of the Internet and physical security protocols. Their employees also must keep their mobile phones, flash drives, and any other portable storage device stored in their locker while they’re working on-site.
MEASURE ROI
Measure the performance of your bookkeeping when you integrate an automated solution, and see what your firm is able to achieve.
TOA Global claims to significantly reduce expenses paid on salaries, in addition to increased capacity, enhanced productivity, and the ability to focus on higher-value services, further amplifying profitability and growth potential.
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. Built-in collaboration via task and project management as well as centralized communication cuts down on emails, texts, or prolonged water cooler conversations. And while our investigations have shown time savings for firms at or in excess of 50% for bookkeeping activities, we've even included a module called Transaction Insights that allows you to see the savings for yourself.
COST OF OWNERSHIP
The cost of ownership is a way for you to assess the long-term value of a solution to your firm. While the cost of the solution is certainly a key component to keep in mind, it's not the only cost that you should take into account.
TOA Global website offers no information on their pricing or package models.
Botkeeper’s pricing for our Infinite (tech-only) package is $69/entity/month, and that includes everything the platform can do. Looking for even more? Add services to bring professional accountants into the fold for those clients with even more complex needs.
SCALABILITY
As the bookkeeping decision-maker, you probably think about your business every day (probably multiple times a day). Finding a bookkeeping solution that works for you today is as important as finding a solution that continues to work for you in the future. Will the solution you pick today be able to grow as you and your clients grow?
TOA Global will connect you with skilled and experienced bookkeepers so you can concentrate on growing and managing your firm and clients. TOA doesn’t share information on the typical margins saved on bookkeeping services that have been outsourced to them.
Botkeeper supports small, medium, or large accounting firms — we’re talking to all of you! By both managing AND reviewing the books, Botkeeper saves enormous amounts of time allowing firms of all sizes to scale endlessly. Need to add more clients? We can take it. You'll save precious time all along the process.
Botkeeper is much more than just software.
Choosing a bookkeeping automation provider is a crucial decision. Considerations such as ease of use, security, features, and more are top of mind, Botkeeper isn't only thinking in terms of selling software.
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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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Firm-first mentality — Botkeeper doesn't compete with firms. Our platform isn't available to businesses directly, because we support the accounting profession and understand the expertise required to do the job right.
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Deployment — When you start using Botkeeper, you'll have a dedicated team to help you get started with the software, and technical setup tasks, and execute your first successful dive into the tool.
Learn more about Botkeeper Deployment here.
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The beauty of Botkeeper is its ability to scale and adapt to our growing business. After using Botkeeper for only 6 months, we’ve been able to save 30 hours per week on transaction categorizing, 5 hours per week of reconciling deposits, and 10 hours per month on reconciling revenue for just one of our clients! With bookkeeping running seamlessly with Botkeeper, I’m able to focus my time on reviewing output and making recommendations to my clients.

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