Elba Electronic Accountant

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Elba electronic accountant is a web service for small businesses (IP for USN and UVD, as well as LLC), which allows you to conduct business, streamline document management, and facilitate management accounting.

2020

Availability for Yukassa users

Yukassa (formerly Yandex.Kassa) provides free Elba customers - online accounting of SKB Contour, as the latter announced on December 1, 2020. More details here.

Integration of Elba.Mini with Bank Vanguard

Vanguard bank completed integration Internet Bank for business with Elba.Mini service from. Special design bureau of the Contour All clients of the bank - individual entrepreneurs working without an employee on a simplified tax system (USN) - gained access to online accounting capabilities. This was announced on April 2020 by SKB Kontor. More. here

Integration with ChatBank

Sovcombank integrated Internet-bank for business ChatBank"" with online accounting Elba.Mini from. Contour Reporting opportunities opened 150 thousand customers of the bank. This was announced on March 12, 2020 by SKB Kontur. More. here

2019

Integration with Contour.CRF

On December 25, 2019, SKB Kontur announced that Elba had integrated with Kontur.OFD.

Even more Elbe customers will be able to take into account cash revenue automatically. Now the service is integrated not only with online cash registers, but also with the service of the fiscal data operator - OFD.

Elba is an online accounting for entrepreneurs. Like any accounting service, Elbe needs data on the income and expenses of an entrepreneur in order to count taxes and generate reports.

With cashless operations, the issue has been resolved for a long time - Elba has integrated with most well-known banks and users do not have to manually record operations. It remained to decide how to automatically record cash revenue.

Elba began with the box office itself and integrated with Lifepay, Litebox and Modulkassa. And now I decided to reach a wider audience by making a connection with the CRF. An OFD is a fiscal data operator that can be set to any cash register. Now it doesn't matter what the cash desk user has - if he works with Kontur.OFD, information about his cash revenue will appear automatically in Elbe.

Integration with "Modular Cash"

On October 9, 2019, SKB Konta announced the integration of online accounting for Kontur.Elba entrepreneurs with Modular Cash. Integration is designed to simplify income accounting and tax calculation.

How it works: the cashier closes the shift, after that the online cash desk transfers the total amount to Kontur.Elba, it is calculated there. tax Integration takes place online - this means that the result of the shift appears in Kontur.Elbe immediately after closing the shift at the cash desk.

Integration is available at any paid tariff of Kontur.Elbe and for the trial period, including the promotion "‎god as a gift to new individual entrepreneurs." The "Standard" or "Advanced" tariff shall be connected from the Modular Cash Desk side.

As of October 9, Elba is already integrated with online cash desks/ MTS, LiteBox LIFE PAY, as well as with:, banks,, Alfa Bank, and Point. Modulbank Tinkoff Bank Sberbank Vanguard

2014

Elba learned to work with foreign exchange accounts

SKB Konta Company presented in the fall of 2014 the update of the web service "Kontur.Elba." According to CNews in SKB Kontor, now its users can conduct settlements in currency. Giving users the opportunity to work with foreign partners and conduct foreign exchange operations has become a priority task of the Elba service development team this fall. Sharp fluctuations in the ruble exchange rate, which provoked another increase in the number of operations with currency, contributed to the quick solution of the problem to some extent, the company noted. Now, customers of the service can set up a currency and transit account number in details and conduct settlements in the currency in which they are comfortable without leaving the service site.

Elba is able to recognize 34 types of currency and work with them. To calculate tax, the service independently transfers income in currency to rubles at the rate valid on the day of receipt and takes into account the exchange rate difference. This is also convenient in that such a calculation has its own subtleties, indicated in SKB Contour.

As Olga Avvakumova, an analyst at the Kontur.Elba project, explained, "you only need to take into account the difference that arises when selling foreign currency at a rate higher than the rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on the same day, or when buying currency at a rate lower than the rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on the same day. When working in Elbe, this happens automatically. It is only necessary to indicate the rate of sale or purchase of currency, and if it turns out to be more profitable than the rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, a positive difference will be taken into account in income when calculating tax. "

As with ruble transactions, the results of currency settlements are taken into account on the home page and in the "Money" section, in turnover and, accordingly, in the statements. Foreign currency statements are easily imported into Elba from an online bank. The tax takes into account only the receipt of money to the transit account, and the transfer from the transit account to the current currency account and the subsequent sale of currency with crediting to the ruble account will no longer be taken into account.

In general, the cloud service "Kontur.Elba" is designed to conduct business and send reports over the Internet and is designed to facilitate the life of entrepreneurs conducting accounting independently.

Split "Accounting. Contour" into "Contour. Accounting" and "Contour. Elbe"

On July 10, 2014, SKB Contour announced the termination of the joint project "Accountancy. Contour" in the mode of unified online accounting for individual entrepreneurs and companies.

The creators divided the Accountancy service into two original components: Contour.Accountancy for large companies and Contour.Elbe for entrepreneurs, USN users and UVD payers.

After the separation of projects "Contour. Elba" , 600 thousand users will be served, "Contour.Accountancy" more than 240 thousand.

Based on this information, we can conclude that the user base has been growing since September 2012, when the projects were merged. By that time, the number of registered users of the Elba service exceeded 250 thousand, of which about 7.5 thousand used paid tariffs. For Eureka, similar indicators were 70 thousand and 2.5 thousand, respectively.

As of July 10, 2014, neither the amount of project revenues during the joint activity, nor their separate revenues are known. According to 2011 data, Eureka and Elba accounted for about 2% of the total revenue of SKB Kontur, which amounted to 3.1 billion rubles. (82% of the company's revenues were brought by an online service for reporting to Kontur Extern). In 2013, the revenue of SKB Kontur amounted to 4.47 billion.

According to SKB Kontor employees, the merger is unsuccessful and rash - the development costs have increased slightly, and the new product concept has not met with user understanding.

The separation of products, after their joint two-year existence, was preceded by the cleaning of the subscriber base. In June 2013, the light version of "Accountancy. Contour" completely refused free tariffs, after which part of the "free" users were removed from the subscriber base, but the audience of "those who are ready to pay" was strengthened.

Elbe believes that the temporary association of products brought some advantages: an employee section has been created in accounting, where it is possible to record advances, sick leave and choose employee citizenship.

2012: Merger with Eureka to Contour.Accounting

SKB Konta, a Yekaterinburg software developer, announced in the fall of 2012 the launch of a new service for the accountancy business. Konta, combining the functionality of two accounting SaaS services of the company - Elba (for an entrepreneur) and Eureka (for an accountant), which thus ceased to exist independently.

SKB Contour, Accountancy Contour is a natural stage in the development of the Elba and Eureka web services, which attracted over 350 thousand users in the fall of 2012. Already in 2013, the company expected to increase this figure to 500 thousand.

"According to our estimates, today in Russia there are more than 2 million organizations. Microbusinesses, whose headaches are decided by our service - about 500 thousand. Most entrepreneurs are used to doing business' on the knee 'in' Exel '. At the same time, this is a rather non-trivial task. Just imagine: an ordinary entrepreneur (without employees) needs to prepare at least 24 "pieces of paper" per year, and 119 with employees. How do you keep it in your head? 370 thousand reports have already been sent through our services, we have more than 10 thousand real users. And this is only the beginning, "said Ilya Bublik, head of the Accountancy project

2011: Online Contract Editor Added

Since the fall of 2011, an online contract editor has appeared in the Elba Electronic Accountant web service. The multifunctional designer allows you to create a finished document within 2-3 minutes.

"To understand how the editor works, just remember how Microsoft Word works. In order to make changes to the document, you need to make only a couple of clicks. So in the "Elbe": there is a set of templates, and there are tools for working with them. Plus, all this is online, "comments Yevgeny Kobzev, head of the Elba Electronic Accountant project.

The contract designer is divided into several blocks. On the left side are the details that are loaded automatically, on the right - the form for editing the document. In order to transfer data from one block to another, it is enough to make only a couple of clicks.

The online editor allows you to insert into the main part of the document any text you want, and also offers standard templates. If necessary, you can make changes to the text not only regarding the content, but also the appearance (basic formatting functions are available).

After the document is ready, you can print it, send it by e-mail or save it in the desired format (Word, Excel, pdf).

The electronic accountant helps to form also and other primary documents (acts, accounts, consignment notes, invoices). More recently, it has become possible to work with payment orders.

2010: Service Launch

In 2010, the IT market increased the trend related to the development of software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. In turn, SKB Konta, being an expert in accounting software, created a product for Russian entrepreneurs - Elba Electronic Accountant. Elba is intended for individual entrepreneurs at the USN and UTII, as well as LLC and helps to maintain all accounting for a person without special knowledge in this area. In addition, the web service makes it possible for individual entrepreneurs to submit electronic reporting to tax for absolutely free. During the year, the customer base of the product exceeded 25,000 users.

Accountants serving individual entrepreneurs and organizations were able to restore order in current affairs with the help of the "Personal Office." The new business tool allows you to automate most processes related to the preparation and submission of reports, and as a result - to increase the productivity of a specialist by two to three times.

According to experts, one accountant is able to qualitatively conduct no more than three or four organizations. We are talking about full accounting services taking into account tax and financial planning. With an increase in the number of customers, the accountant will need the help of specialists who can take part of the tasks. And this, in turn, entails additional costs and significant time costs for finding employees.

The Elba electronic accountant allows you to speed up the customer service procedure using the Personal Account. The new functionality of the web service includes the ability to maintain several enterprises under the same account at once. A separate card is created for each customer, so it is convenient for an accountant to track the number of active and completed tasks for all organizations.

Out-of-the-box templates, tooltips, automatic tax and contribution calculations, and other web-based service capabilities make accounting much easier and more profitable.