Accounting software
Full bookkeeping for tax, invoicing and your accountant. nouz is the daily layer on top.
nouz vs QuickBooks
Built for bookkeeping, invoicing and tax — last month, after the reconcile. nouz shows today, before you lock up.
Read the comparison Accountingnouz vs Xero
A full accounting ledger for your bookkeeper, weeks behind the day you’re trading. nouz is today’s EBIT, settled tonight.
Read the comparison Accountingnouz vs FreshBooks
Invoicing-first accounting, genuinely good if you bill clients. If you close a till instead, that’s a different workflow.
Read the comparison Free accountingnouz vs Wave
Excellent free books built around invoicing. Its profit view is monthly; nouz’s is same-day, for shops that don’t invoice.
Read the comparison Accountingnouz vs Sage
Mature accounting and payroll across small business to enterprise. nouz answers the daily operating question it isn’t built for.
Read the comparison Accountingnouz vs ZipBooks
Simple, low-cost books that made their name as a free QuickBooks alternative. nouz sits beside them as the daily number.
Read the comparisonPOS & till reports
Great at revenue and payments. They stop at the top line — nouz nets out the real costs.
nouz vs Square
The dashboard is great at revenue; it stops there. nouz subtracts real costs to show what you actually kept.
Read the comparison POS reportsnouz vs Lightspeed
Reports show what rang through the till, not food cost, wages and rent. nouz turns that gross into tonight’s profit.
Read the comparisonE-commerce & profit analytics
Built for online stores and ad spend. nouz is for physical shops (and simple daily online profit).
nouz vs Shopify reports
Orders, sessions and gross sales — not fees, refunds and shipping reconciled into true profit. nouz does one honest daily figure.
Read the comparison Shopify profit appnouz vs TrueProfit
The closest rival — per-order true profit, but Shopify-only. If you run a physical shop, nouz is built for you and TrueProfit isn’t.
Read the comparison E-com analyticsnouz vs Triple Whale
Real-time ROAS and ad attribution for DTC brands. nouz’s “real-time” is tonight’s till, not tomorrow’s ad budget.
Read the comparison E-com analyticsnouz vs Klar
SKU-level contribution margin for online brands. Its CM ladder maps onto nouz’s EBIT — for a shop counter, not a webshop.
Read the comparisonTemplates & spreadsheets
The right place to start. nouz is the same maths, maintained for you.
nouz vs Excel / Google Sheets
A spreadsheet does anything — until the Tuesday you stop updating it. nouz is the furnished, self-computing version.
Read the comparison Template librarynouz vs Smartsheet templates
Good, free P&L templates — but monthly, generic, and a snapshot. nouz keeps the same daily maths running and current.
Read the comparisonExpense, cash flow & planning
Each covers one slice — costs, liquidity, or forecasting. nouz nets the whole day into profit.
nouz vs Expensify
Best-in-class receipt scanning and expense reports — the cost side only. Expenses tracked ≠ profit known. nouz shows both.
Read the comparison Liquidity / forecastingnouz vs Cash-flow tools
Agicap, Commitly, Trezy forecast your bank balance. Cash flow isn’t profit — nouz tells you if today actually made money.
Read the comparison FP&Anouz vs Cube
Powerful financial planning for finance teams. If you’re the owner and the finance team both, it’s three sizes too big.
Read the comparisonSpecialist & category tools
Deep in one vertical or job. nouz is the simple daily profit number underneath.
nouz vs Restaurant365
Enterprise back-office for multi-location groups. It’s right that daily beats monthly — nouz delivers that without the ERP.
Read the comparison Clientflow / CRMnouz vs HoneyBook
Proposals-to-payments for service pros — strong at booking clients, silent on daily profit. nouz fills that gap.
Read the comparison Trading journalnouz vs PnL Ledger
A P&L calendar for day traders — same four words, different planet. If you run a shop, this disambiguates the search.
Read the comparison Category overviewnouz vs Accounting, in general
Every accounting tool is built for compliance and year-end. Here’s where a daily P&L fits next to whatever yours is.
Read the comparisonAlready leaving a specific tool
The comparisons above weigh nouz against each tool when you’re still deciding. These pages are for owners who’ve already decided to move on, and want the honest replacement for their specific kind of shop.
QuickBooks alternative for café owners
For café owners who’ve decided QuickBooks is more than they need — what to use for tonight’s profit instead.
Read the guide Switching guideWave alternative for store owners
For shop owners moving off Wave’s invoice-first model to a daily P&L built around a till.
Read the guideChoose nouz when…
- You want today’s profit today — not last month’s, next month.
- You’re the owner-operator, not a bookkeeper, and you want one number a day.
- You want a 60-second close-out, not a chart of accounts.
- You already have an accountant and just need to see the day clearly.
Reach for the other tool when…
- You need to file VAT or your year-end return — that’s your accountant + Xero/QuickBooks.
- You need full double-entry bookkeeping or invoicing.
- You need inventory, payments, ad attribution or staff rostering — that’s your POS or analytics tool.
- You want nouz to replace any of the above — it won’t. It runs alongside them.
One job, done well — from €19/mo.
Monthly billing. No setup fee. Cancel anytime. Your first daily P&L lands tonight.
Start tracking today’s profitCommon questions
Does nouz replace my accountant?
No — and it's not trying to. Your accountant files your books and your tax. nouz fills the six-week silence between their reports, so you know today whether today paid. They'll thank you for the cleaner monthly data.
Does nouz replace QuickBooks, Xero or Sage?
Not for compliance. If you need a ledger, invoicing and a VAT return, keep your accounting software. nouz sits alongside it as the daily decision layer — today's profit, not last month's filing.
What’s the difference between a comparison page and an alternative page?
A comparison (nouz vs X) weighs both tools fairly when you're deciding between them. An alternative page (X alternative for cafés) is for owners who've already decided to leave X and want the honest replacement for their specific shop. Different question, different page.
Do I need to connect my POS?
No. At close-out you type tonight's gross from your Z-report or POS dashboard — ten seconds. No connector to set up, nothing to break when your POS updates. Works with any till.
Is nouz cheaper than the alternatives?
nouz starts at €19/mo, billed monthly, cancel anytime — it does one job (today's profit) and does it well. Accounting suites, POS platforms and analytics tools do bigger jobs at bigger prices. Most owners run nouz next to one of them, not instead of it.