Zeni employs SOC 2 Type II compliance, encrypts customer data using 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for storage and 256-bit SSL/TLS protocols for network transmissions. Each customer operates within a unique, isolated data partition to prevent unauthorized access.
Botkeeper vs. Zeni
We've compiled a few key differences between two automated accounting solutions: Botkeeper and Zeni. Choosing the right automated bookkeeping solution starts with ensuring your choice supports the structure and goals of an accounting or bookkeeping firm. Ready to see the power of Botkeeper? Click below to book a live presentation.
Overview
Don’t settle for a kludge solution.
A firm's automation-based bookkeeping platform should solve real problems: namely, executing those time-consuming data entry tasks, handling low-level decision-making, and providing easy access to information across a full roster of clients. Let's take a look at how Botkeeper better serves accounting and bookkeeping firms over Zeni—a solution built primarily for businesses.
Technology & 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.
Zeni uses artificial intelligence and a dedicated team of certified finance experts, to offer startups and established businesses a full-service finance concierge which includes daily bookkeeping and management of all other financial needs of its customers. Customers get real-time access to key financial insights via the Zeni Dashboard — including burn rate, operating expenses, cash/card balance, revenue by product, month-end reports, and more.
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.
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.
Zeni offers a Finance Concierge available 24x7. The Zeni Finance Concierge is fully staffed Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm PST. They claim to complete requests within two hours, or will otherwise respond with an anticipated timeline for completion.
MEASURE ROI
Measure the performance of your bookkeeping when you integrate an automated solution, and see what your firm is able to achieve.
Zeni offers an ROI proposition built on individual business needs, not firm needs. It can save a business up to 70 hours monthly in bookkeeping and related finance activities, but because it isn't built to scale to multiple clients, it's not immediately clear how it could compete with a solution built specifically for firms.
Botkeeper allows you to automate bookkeeping and pre-accounting procedures across an entire client roster of as few as one, or as many as thousands of clients. 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 an automated accounting solution to your firm. While the cost of the package is certainly a key component to keep in mind, it's not the only cost that you should take into account.
Zeni offers three tiers of plans — Bookkeeping, Full Service, and CFO — for a flat monthly subscription fee. Fees are determined by the company's monthly expenses, and pricing automatically scales up or down based on the average of your past two months' expenses. Their prices start from $494/per month for a basic package. Additional services are available at additional cost.
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.
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.
We've built the Botkeeper Platform to be easy for Accounting Professionals and their clients to use. That's why we're happy to share reviews of everyday professionals using Botkeeper to grow better, just like you. Click below to request a demo.
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