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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This was once a good app and software. Relatively easy to use. Then came price increase which I didnt mind. But recently I made a payment £74 for their services and it didnt give me any receipt. It al... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bokio is free if you only tie one account to it, very modestly priced to tie more accounts. It encourages good practice for small business, if you use your business account for everything it's easy to... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Holding my information hostage as I don’t want to pay their ridiculous fees. There emails all went into my junk folder so did not know I was gonna loose access to my information. I now have no way of... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Free service for small accounts. Then without warning, remove all access to your data (Remove the free version) and hold you to ransom. Pay £74 a quarter or you don't get access to your data, and can'... See more

Company details

  1. Accounting Software Company
  2. Bookkeeping Service
  3. Business Administration Service
  4. Business to Business Service

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Straight from Sweden, Bokio brings simple accounting to the UK. 💙


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2.3

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TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

72 reviews

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

bokio is a great free online accounting…

bokio is a great free online accounting software, i use it daily in my business , great professional; look and very easy to use, connects to your bank account and the mobile app is great for uploading receipts as you get them, it takes minutes.
would recommend any small buisness to use this

March 24, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent app!

Bokio is free if you only tie one account to it, very modestly priced to tie more accounts. It encourages good practice for small business, if you use your business account for everything it's easy to flag each purchase or spend correctly, then one click and you have filed! VAT gets done automatically, one click file too! And you can delete any transactions not business matters. Very easy, saves accountants fees.

December 12, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Greedy subscription options

Good job bokio, you've turned a £20 a year customer into a zero per year. I'll pay this last £75 then I'll find somewhere else, that'll let me pay by the month.

Greedy

November 28, 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I was just amazed by the costumers…

I was just amazed by the costumers service ! There was a glitch for a couple of hours.. I contacted them without even expecting a reply! Not only I got two replies but I also felt they were greatly concerned by making sure everything was ok at my end .

November 20, 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Such an easy software package to use…

Such an easy software package to use for a beginner or more advanced book-keeper and easy to navigate your way around. Can make it as simple as you want it to be, but also gives you the flexibility to be creative with your invoicing, quotes etc. If you are new to book-keeping I would certainly recommend this software package.

October 10, 2022
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Pleased with Bokio

Bokio covers all of the bases that I need. I moved to Bokio when Wave accounting (Waveapps) pulled its services in the UK. The Bokio service is almost like for like and it covers every need that I have as a sole trader. I highly recommend.

July 11, 2022
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Tool is good, ruined by the basics

Tool was great, but the billing structure has kind of ruined it and limited everything. I'm more than happy to pay, but with multiple businesses it gets expensive quickly.

The key issue is that when your Open Banking connection expires and needs reconnection, Bokio does no notify you at all so you can go days or weeks before realising, then a ton of transactions will need review. Really really annoying and could be solved so simply.

Additionally, to change between Making Tax Digital accounts you have to contact support to disconnected one business to reconnect another. Really weird design on that and should be able to support multiple MTD connections especially as they are entirely different gov gateways, so just seems like bad engineering design on that connection system.

May 10, 2022
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Reply from Bokio UK

Hi Reece,

Thank you for your review. We are sorry to hear that you are not fully pleased with some of the features and services.

The purpose with our price plan packages is that we can now speed up development of upcoming features and create even better services in the near future. We want to develop and maintain our position as the most user friendly bookkeeping and business administration software on the market. However we are trying to keep the prices as low as possible, in terms of the features we offer.

When you have a bank feed set up with us, this is set up via an integration with our banking partner Plaid. The consent expires after 90 days and will need to go through the re-consent flow (via Link's update mode) to re-authorize the consent. This simply means that you need to confirm with your bank that you agree to have the bank feed set up via Plaid. You should receive information about this within your banking app or such. There is nothing you need to confirm within Bokio.

Regarding the VAT return submissions, we are currently working on a solution for this. We understand that this is not ideal, however like mentioned it is in our long term plan to enable multiple companies connected to HMRC for one user."

If you have any further questions please contact us at support@bokio.co.uk

/ Best regards Bokio

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It was OK at first, free plan is pointless

It was OK at first, now changed so pretty awful without a paid plan. Once I send off this year's accounts I am going to switch provider.

I only do extremely basic bookkeeping (single bank feed, limited number of transactions), and they have managed to make even that difficult with their free plan. You can't even categorise stuff without manually typing it in every time. The current free plan is less powerful than an excel spreadsheet in my opinion.

Was promised and given far more when I signed up about a year ago.

February 10, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Now only useful if you pay for it

I'm hopeless with my accounts and Bokio was great, but then they decided to start charging… Now, the basic free plan is now completely and utterly useless unless you have an intimate knowledge of how tax and every part of the whole system works, because Bokio will not give you any useful help unless you're paying for a plan. I am actively looking for another system I can use, and I will happily pay for a different one because I am disgusted by Bokio's money-grabbing behaviour and sudden decision to charge for plans with very little time to react, and no real explanation of how bad the free system would now be, which is completely useless.

February 7, 2022
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