Electronic accountant "Elba"

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Electronic accountant "Elba" is a web service for small businesses (individual entrepreneurs at the USN and UTII, as well as LLC), which allows you to conduct business, streamline document management, and facilitate management accounting.

2025

Adding a smart piggy bank to pay taxes

A smart piggy bank from Kontur. Bank and Kontur. It will help you pay taxes. SKB Kontur announced this on March 31, 2025. Read more here.

The ability to pay salaries for just a couple of clicks

Now users of Kontur.Bank and Kontur. Elbs can pay salaries to all employees in just a couple of clicks - without creating a salary project, downloading the register and paying fees. SKB Kontur announced this on March 20, 2025. Read more here.

2020

Availability to UKassa users

YuKassa (formerly Yandex.Kassa) provides customers of Elba, the online accounting department of SKB Kontur, for free, as announced by the latter on December 1, 2020. Read more here.

Integration of Elba.Mini with Vanguard Bank

Bank Avangard completed integration Internet bank for business with the service Elba.Mini from. SKB Kontur All clients of the bank - individual entrepreneurs working without employees on a simplified taxation system (STS) - gained access to the capabilities of online accounting. This was announced in April 2020 by SKB Kontur. More. here

Integration with ChatBank

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

2019

Integration with Kontur.OFD

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

Even more Elbe customers will be able to account for 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 online accounting for entrepreneurs. Like any accounting service, Elba needs data on the income and expenses of the entrepreneur in order to count taxes and form reports.

The issue was resolved with non-cash transactions a long time ago - Elba integrated with most well-known banks and users do not have to enter operations manually. It remained to decide how to automatically enter cash revenue.

Elba started with the checkouts themselves and integrated with Lifepay, Litebox and Modulkassa. And now I decided to reach a wider audience by making a connection with the OFD. OFD is a fiscal data operator that can be installed at any cash desk. Now it does not matter which user has a cash register - if he works with the Kontur.OFD, information about his cash will appear automatically in the Elbe.

Integration with "Cash Desk Module"

On October 9, 2019, SKB Kontur announced the integration of online accounting for entrepreneurs Kontur.Elba with ModuleKassa. The integration is designed to simplify revenue accounting and tax calculation.

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

Integration is available on any paid tariff. Kontur and on the trial period, including the promotion "year as a gift to new individual entrepreneurs." The "Standard" or "Advanced" tariff must be connected from the Cash Desk Module side.

As of October 9, Elba is already integrated with online cash registers/ 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

The company "SKB Kontur" presented in the fall of 2014 an update to the web service Kontur.Elba. " As CNews was told in SKB Kontur, now its users can calculate in currency. Giving users the opportunity to work with foreign partners and conduct foreign exchange transactions has become a priority task of the Elba service development team this fall. The rapid solution of the problem was facilitated to some extent by sharp changes in the ruble exchange rate, which provoked another increase in the number of transactions with currency, the company noted. Now customers of the service can create a number of currency and transit accounts in the details and conduct settlements in the currency in which it is convenient for them 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 foreign currency to rubles at the exchange rate effective 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 Kontur."

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 an exchange rate higher than the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on the same day, or when buying foreign currency at an exchange rate lower than 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, the positive difference will be taken into account in income when calculating tax. "

As with ruble transactions, the results of currency settlements are recorded on the main page and in the "Money" section, in revolutions and, accordingly, in the statements. Currency account statements are easily imported into Elba from the Internet 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 and the subsequent sale of currency credited 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 reporting via the Internet and is designed to make life easier for entrepreneurs who conduct accounting on their own.

Division of Kontur "into" Kontur. Buhgalteria "and" Kontur. Elba "

On July 10, 2014, SKB Kontur announced the termination of the joint project Kontur "in the mode of a single online accounting for individual entrepreneurs and companies.

The creators divided the "Accountancy. Kontur" service into two initial components: "Contour. Accounting" for large companies and "Contour. Elbu" - for entrepreneurs, users of USN and UTII payers.

After the separation of the projects, "Kontur. Elba" will have to serve 600 thousand users, "Kontur. Bukhgalteria" more than 240 thousand.

Based on this information, we can conclude that the user base has grown 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 revenue from projects during the period of joint activity, nor their separate revenue are unknown. 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 the online reporting service Kontur Extreme). In 2013, SKB Kontur's revenue amounted to 4.47 billion.

According to the employees of SKB Kontur, the merger was unsuccessful and rash - the development costs increased somewhat, and the new product concept did not meet the understanding of users.

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. Kontur completely abandoned free tariffs, after which some of the "free" users were eliminated from the subscriber base, but the audience of "those who are ready to pay" strengthened.

Elba believes that the temporary association of products has brought some advantages: the accounting department has created a section "Employees," where it is possible to take into account advances, sick leave and the choice of employee citizenship.

2012: Merger with Eureka service into Kontur. Buhgalteria product

SKB Kontur, a Yekaterinburg software developer, announced in the fall of 2012 the launch of a new business service, Accountancy. Kontur, 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 Kontur, Accountation.Kontur 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 hoped to increase this figure to 500 thousand.

"According to our estimates, today there are more than 2 million organizations in Russia. Microbusiness, the headaches of which are solved 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 all in your head? 370 thousand reports have already been sent through our services, we have more than 10 thousand actually working users. And this is just the beginning, "said Ilya Bublik, head of the Kontur project .

2011: Online contract editor added

In the web service "Electronic Accountant" Elba "since the fall of 2011, an online editor of contracts has appeared. The multifunctional designer allows you to form 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 "Elbe": there is a set of templates, and there are tools for working with them. Plus, all this is online, "comments Evgeny Kobzev, head of the Elba Electronic Accountant project.

The contract designer is divided into several blocks. In the left part there are details that are loaded automatically, on the right - a form for editing a 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 any text that the user needs into the main part of the document, and also offers standard templates. If necessary, you can make changes to the text, not only regarding the content, but also the design (basic formatting functions are available).

After the document is ready, it can be printed, sent by e-mail or saved in the desired format (Word, Excel, pdf).

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

2010: Service Launch

In 2010, the trend in the IT market increased due to the development of software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. In turn, the company "SKB Kontur," being an expert in accounting software, created a product for Russian entrepreneurs - "Electronic Accountant" Elba. " Elba is intended for individual entrepreneurs at the USN and UTII, as well as LLC and helps to conduct all accounting for a person without special knowledge in this area. In addition, the web service allows individual entrepreneurs to submit electronic reports to the tax office absolutely free of charge. 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 using the "Personal Account." 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 conduct no more than three or four organizations with high quality. We are talking about full accounting services, taking into account tax and financial planning. With an increase in the number of clients, the accountant will need the help of specialists who can take on part of the tasks. And this, in turn, is fraught with additional costs and significant time costs for finding employees.

Electronic accountant "Elba" 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 one account at once. A separate card is opened for each client, so it is convenient for the accountant to track the number of active and completed tasks for all organizations.

Ready-to-use document templates, tooltips, automatic tax and contribution calculations, and other Web service features make accounting much easier and increase revenue.