The name of the base system (platform): | Kontur.Elba Electronic Accountant |
Developers: | SKB Kontur |
Date of the premiere of the system: | October 2012 |
Last Release Date: | 2023/04/12 |
Technology: | SaaS - Software as a Service, Accounting Systems |
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2024: Integration with "Kontur.Extern "
In the ecosystem, the Contour passed integration the Accounting service into the reporting system. Ex-sloe Now entrepreneurs and accountants can solve all tasks of accounting, accrual salaries and reporting "in one window," choosing the necessary set of tools for work. This was SKB Kontur announced on October 1, 2024. More. here
2023: Adding documents to reflect trading transactions on marketplaces
In Kontur. Buhgalteria appeared documents to reflect operations when trading on marketplaces. Now sellers can easily issue the transfer of goods, sales, returns, accept agency fees and payment for electronic platform services for accounting. SKB Kontur announced this on April 12, 2023.
Previously, users of the Accounting Department, who sell goods through Wildberries, Yandex.Market, Ozon and other sites, registered operations using accounting certificates. This was inconvenient and time-consuming, and the risk of errors remained high.
Now you can interact with the electronic platform and keep records of trade in semi-automatic mode:
- send outgoing invoices and APPs to the marketplace through electronic document flow, if it is configured on the side of the marketplace;
- Upload information from the Commission Report file to the service.
- issue returns from buyers (so far available only on OSNO);
- accept for accounting agency fees and payment for site services;
- reflect the goods transferred to the marketplace warehouse without transferring ownership of the correct account.
The seller draws up trading transactions in Accounting using documents, and the service determines revenues and expenses, offers correct postings, generates invoices and postings for users on OSNO. VAT All transactions are recorded in the QACR or Sales and Purchase Ledger, depending on the tax regime.
The popularity of marketplaces continues to grow, more entrepreneurs and companies are selling their goods here. For the convenience of work, we have automated the registration of trading operations on electronic platforms. Now our users will be able to record sales through marketplaces faster and easier, said Pavel Orlovsky, head of Kontur.Accountation.
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2021
Availability of more forms for sending to the Federal Tax Service
On September 27, 2021, SKB Kontur announced that Kontur Bukhgalteria had more forms for sending to the Federal Tax Service. Now users of the accounting service will be able to send more information to the Federal Tax Service. This was made possible by the partial integration of the products of the "Contour" ecosystem: "Accounting" and "External."
Previously, it was possible to send a set of basic reports with which small and medium-sized enterprises work from the accounting web service "Kontur. Gallery." Among them are financial statements, returns on income tax, VAT, USN and property tax, 6-NDFL, RSV. The service automatically fills these forms with data from the accounting system. Until now, most of them were not available for editing, but were filled out only after the end of the tax period.
Now "Kontur. Gallery" still automatically generates basic reports based on credentials, but users have new features. As a result of the integration of Kontur. Buhgalteria and Kontur. Extern, a system for submitting reports to regulatory authorities, you can, if necessary, edit any sections of these documents, and also form them at any time, including before the end of the reporting period.
Additional forms for sending to the Federal Tax Service have also become available to users. Among them are a statement of cash flows, a statement of changes in capital, a declaration on water tax, excise taxes; notifications, statements, information, and requests. New editable sections have appeared in the VAT declaration. These forms can now be filled out in the service on their own and sent to the Federal Tax Service via the Internet.
VAT Calculation Tool Appears
A tool for preliminary VAT calculation has appeared in the Buhgalteria Kontur. SKB Kontur announced this on February 9, 2021.
The service has learned to make a preliminary calculation of VAT: to show how the tax is calculated and what it consists of, to give hints on the legal reduction of the amount and the entry of missing documents into the accounting system. The user receives information in the form of a convenient report.
This VAT Calculation tool will show:
- preliminary amount and composition of VAT at any time including sales, advances and amount of tax to be reimbursed.
- Missing primary to be requested or transferred to counterparties.
- Ways to avoid overpayments and fines, as well as the cash gap in spending planning.
- Tips for correcting errors in the accounting of transactions that affect the VAT amount.
The report is seen by the director and accountant.
It is important for the director to understand the amount of VAT and know which closing or outgoing documents are not enough to apply deductions. To know this, just go to the report and see the list.
The report will help the accountant to conduct an "internal audit" of accounting: to check the correctness of the accounting of transactions important for the formation of the tax amount and VAT declaration. Will show missing documents for each counterparty, incorrectly posted transactions, advance payments or not added to the invoice accounting system.
This tool "VAT calculation" in the Contour service. Accounting not only clearly presents information important for preparing for VAT payment and return. It simplifies the communication of accounting with the management of the company: for managers to get a complete understanding of the situation with the tax, it is enough to transfer the report data to them. The accountant will no longer have to manually make preliminary calculations and make a list of transaction documents that need to be added to the accounting system. said Tatyana Evdokimova, expert of Kontur.Accounting
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2020: Integration with Post Bank Business
Accounting service Kontur. Bukhgalteria and Post Bank have simplified the accounting process for small businesses. Now the transfer of information between the accounting service and the bank takes place automatically under the control of the user. This was announced on May 13, 2020 by SKB Kontur. Read more here.
2019: Integration with "Kontur.Market"
On July 30, 2019, SKB Kontur announced that Konturs Bukhgalteria and Kontur Market are continuing integration. Now users of these services will automatically take into account incoming invoices from counterparties. This feature is useful for companies that sell goods and use an online cashier or payment terminal. Integration will help them save time and get rid of mistakes.
Loading invoices from the Market to the Accounting Department is one of the stages of integration between services, which is carried out at the wishes of users. Prior to that, the accountant could receive from the Market reports on the closure of the shift in the form of receipt cash orders. Electronic invoices are now sent from Market to Accounting.
How the opportunity is useful
- The entrepreneur no longer has to hand over paper invoices to the accountant;
- the accountant immediately sees primary documents in his service;
- There are fewer errors in accounting that used to happen when you transferred data manually.
To whom the opportunity is available
- Loading invoices, as well as reports on the closing of a shift, is available to customers of two services at the same time:
- Contour. Market - at Premium or Optimal tariffs;
- Contour. Accounting - on the tariffs "Comfort," "Optimal" or "Maximum."
2018: Integration with "Modulbank Accounting"
On November 9, 2018, Modulbank announced the integration of the Accounting Department product with the Contour small business service. Read more here.
2016
"Kontur. Buhgalteria" for iOS
On June 20, 2016, the company SKB Kontur"" announced the launch of a mobile application of the online service Kontur. Buhgalteria "for operating system iOS [1]
The app is available for free download on the App Store for iOS versions 8.0 and higher on iPhone and iPad devices.
The program provides access to data on the status of the account and debts, helps to control the status of reports (accepted/not accepted/requires the attention of the accountant), provides information on tasks and the timing of their execution, access to viewing the list of counterparties, viewing accounts, acts and invoices, provides the possibility of joint work of the accountant and director.
Within three months, the iOS app will catch up with the Android app in functionality. That is, the creation and editing of counterparties and their search by TIN, search by counterparties, as well as the creation, editing and sending by e-mail of invoices, invoices and acts will appear. Alexey Kolesov, application developer |
The Contour. Accounting mobile application for Android was released in 2014.
Kontur. Bukhgalteria has integrated with UBRD and Neiva Bank
The online service Kontur. Bukhgalteria "continues to integrate with banks. This time the project was implemented with Neiva Bank and UBRR (Internet bank Light). Corporate clients of these banks can automatically import bank statements into Kontur. Cash Gallery and send payments directly from the service to the Internet bank for further payment.
Thanks to the integration of the service with the banks "Neiva" and UBR, customers no longer need to spend time manually loading documents - "Contour. Accounting" updates information every two hours. At the same time, paper savings are achieved: outgoing payments are sent immediately to the bank. To send them to the client, it is enough to sign them at the bank, the company explained.
"Integration with banks is one of the most common wishes of users of'Contour. Accounting', and today we managed to please those who have current accounts with UBRIR or 'Neiva' bank. For them, now the document flow with "Contour. Accounting" is automated and almost does not require user participation, - said Anna Satdarova, system analyst at "Contour. Accounting." "It was nice to solve this problem with the specialists of both banks, who enthusiastically accepted the idea of integration, actively participated in the process and promptly answered questions."
"We are constantly improving the functionality of remote services. Excluding file exchange between the Internet bank and the accounting service saves the entrepreneur's time - after all, the client does not need to export and download files for data transfer now. Now it has become much easier to manage a settlement account and maintain accounting, "said Elena Sorvina, head of the corporate business development directorate of UBRD.
Earlier, Kontur. Bukhgalteria integrated with Alfa-Bank and Point. Integration is available on all "Accounting" tariffs, except "Salary," including during a free 30-day period.
2014
Bill of Sale Recognition
On September 24, 2014, SKB Kontur announced the ability to recognize a scanned consignment note realized in Kontur Bukhgalteria.
Recognition saves an employee's time processing documents. Kontur.Bukhgalteria, "according to the developers, strives for a type of service when you do not need to enter primary documents manually. They are loaded automatically using a bank statement or an invoice recognition with the ability to correct it. The invoice is created using a single check mark.
"Our users often complained that they have to spend a lot of time on mechanical work: the establishment of multi-page invoices, the daily establishment of payment orders from the bank. According to our research, some accountants spend up to 40% of their working time on tasks related to the commissioning of the primary. Monotonous actions lead to the fact that attention is scattered and the number of errors associated with the human factor is growing. The ability to load a bank statement appeared in our service for a long time, but the problem with invoices remained. Recognition solved this problem, "said Zhanna Shebarshova, development manager of Kontur.Accountancy at SKB Kontur.
"The use of cloud technologies helps us to solve those tasks of customers that seemed impossible to approach 3-4 years ago. The development of solutions that allow you to recognize documents requires unique competencies and, as a result, turns out to be quite expensive. This translates into a high product cost for end users. In the case of the "cloud," the cost of a solution for a particular user is relatively low due to the large number of users of the product. Thus, using online accounting, our clients get access to opportunities that were previously available only in the corporate segment, "said Ilya Bublik, head of business automation at SKB Kontur enterprises.
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.
2013
Kontur "refused free users
SKB Kontur announced in June 2013 that from July 1, the Light Version of Accountancy. Kontur will become paid for all users of the online service. The minimum cost of maintenance will be 500 rubles. per quarter.
Previously, individual entrepreneurs could submit returns to the tax office via the Internet for free. However, now this opportunity will remain only for those who pass zero reporting, that is, reports: on the USN with the object of taxation "Income" - in the absence of taxable income; according to the STS with the object of taxation "Income," reduced by the amount of expenses - in the absence of taxable income and expenses; according to UTII - with zero physical indicators for the entire tax period; according to the average number of employees - with a zero indicator of the number of employees.
As the project manager Ilya Bublik emphasized, Accountancy. Kontur continues to be free for the smallest individual entrepreneurs: zero reporting, as before, can be passed through the service completely free of charge.
Kontur Accounts department Budget 5.12
In March 2013, SKB Kontur announced the release of a new version of the Kontur Accounts department Budget program, which reflects new aspects of legislation in the accounting of state and municipal institutions.
The creation of version 5.12 was due to a number of orders of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, which entered into force on January 1, 2013 and regulate the procedure for accounting and reporting for 2013, including: federal law of 06.12.2011 No. 402-FZ "On Accounting"; amendments to the Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation dated 06.12.2010 No. 162n "On Approval of the Budget Accounting Chart of Accounts and Instructions for Its Application"; Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation No. 191n of 28.12.2010 "On Approval of Instructions on the Procedure for Compiling and Submitting Annual, Quarterly and Monthly Reports on Budget Execution of the Budget System of the Russian Federation" (as amended and supplemented with the reporting for 2013); Order of the Ministry of Finance of Russia dated 25.03.2011 No. 33n "On approval of instructions on the procedure for compiling, submitting annual, quarterly accounting reports of state (municipal) budgetary and autonomous institutions" (with amendments and additions coming into force with 02.04.2013).
Among the new opportunities in the Kontur Accounts department Budget program in version 5.12, the company noted updated mechanisms for working with subsidies and a plan of financial and economic activities, which make it possible to more clearly see the information and, accordingly, work more quickly with documents.
In the updated program, the mechanisms for working with invoices and registration logs have become more convenient. Also, one of the innovations is the system of working with loans, loans and loans.
Version 5.12 of the Kontur Accounts department Budget solution also implements the ability to maintain accounting for any type of institution within one version of the program, including when switching from one type to another from any date within the year. The program automatically offers accounting technology in accordance with the selected status of the institution and monitors the correctness of the formation of accounting postings and balances, reported in "SKB Kontur."
2012: Service Launch Kontur "
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 cease to exist independently.
SKB Kontur, Accountation.Kontur is a natural stage in the development of Elba and Eureka web services, which today have attracted over 350 thousand users. Next year, the company expects 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 .
According to the developers, the new service differs from competitors in a fundamentally new approach, offering representatives of small businesses several scenarios of work:
- an independent entrepreneur working without an accountant - a light version of Kontur, "created on the basis of" Elba ";
- an accountant who runs one or more companies - a professional version;
- the mode for joint work of an accountant and an entrepreneur - when an entrepreneur can enter accounting documents into his service window, and the accountant will immediately (online) see them in his window.
The new service will offer customers a choice of two options for use - Easy (for those who report on the "simplified" or UTII) and Professional (for reporting on the general taxation system). In addition, the service will provide the ability to submit reports via the Internet, exchange electronic invoices and a number of other functions.
Ilya Bublik sees a potential audience of a single accounting service as individual entrepreneurs, existing micro and small businesses, newly created companies, as well as accountants who provide services under the outsourcing model.
"The accounting outsourcing market is growing rapidly," says Bublik. - Out of 2.5 million taxpayers in Russia, about 500 thousand use the services of freelancers. Another 300 thousand customers turn to official outsourcing companies, of which there are about 9,000. "
By the time of launch, Kontur "will be able to functionally meet the needs of about 25% of organizations reporting on the general taxation system, the developers say. In a few months, with the addition of the ability to calculate property tax, this figure will increase to 40%.
Nevertheless, in the next 1.5-2 years, the audience of Accountancy. Kontur is unlikely to greatly intersect with users, 1C"" Ilya Bublik believes. But then, as it develops, Kontur will be able to claim both customers using the "broken" 1C and legal customers of the company, he adds.
The number of registered users of the Elba service exceeds 250 thousand (October 2012), of which about 7.5 thousand use paid tariffs. For Evirika, similar indicators are 70 thousand and 2.5 thousand, respectively. Such data were presented at the partner conference "SKB Kontur," held in September 2012.
The revenue of SKB Kontur in 2011 amounted to 3.1 billion rubles. About 82% of the company's revenues were brought by the online reporting service Contour Extreme. Eureka and Elba accounted for about 2% of total revenue. 1C revenue in 2011, according to CNews, amounted to almost 23.9 billion rubles, and the sales volume of the 1C ERP system, based on IDC data, exceeded $290 million (about 8.8 billion rubles). The company does not disclose the volume of sales of individual products.
Since December 5, 2012, SKB Kontur has provided users of the Light Version of the Accounting SaaS service for Business. Kontur with the opportunity to submit reports from anywhere in the world using a cloud EDS (electronic digital signature). At the same time, at the request of the client, it is possible to deliver EDS to home or work.
According to SKB Kontur, at this time a pilot project for express design of a cloud EDS for submitting reports via the Internet in any place convenient for the client was launched in eight regions of the Russian Federation (Yekaterinburg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Perm, Stavropol, Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don).
"Thedocuments necessary for the design of a cloud EDS can be brought home, to work, to a freelance cafe - where it will be convenient for the entrepreneur. From the client's point of view, this is a valuable service, since a personal visit to a service center is required to design both a cloud and a familiar EDS. "