Volk Accountant vs Accountly

Both cover the Cyprus obligations – the VAT return, VIES and reverse charge are documented by each. The difference is how much work a plan allows and what comes after that. Volk Accountant sets no volume ceiling: invoices and quotes are unlimited on every plan and receipt capture carries no monthly allowance. At Accountly it is 15, 40 or 80 invoices a month depending on the plan. Two further things sit with us that Accountly publishes nothing about: invoices in your customer’s language with line items translated automatically, and an accountant portal laid out like Tax For All. Accountly is the better choice if you issue few invoices but manage many contacts, work in several currencies or file OSS returns – none of which we can do. One thing to note: Accountly describes the product as beta in its own FAQ.

Both start at €29 a month and both give you 14 days to try them. Accountly has three software plans: Starter at €29, Growth at €49 and Business at €89, plus an Enterprise plan priced on request. Paid yearly Accountly takes 17% off; we give two months. The headline price decides little here, because the plans allow different amounts of work: Accountly caps invoices per month and we do not.

15 a month on the Starter plan at €29, 40 on Growth at €49 and 80 on Business at €89. It becomes unlimited only on the Enterprise plan, which is priced on request. There are limits on receipt scans too, which Accountly calls Smart-Uploads: 30, 50 or 100 a month. At Volk Accountant invoices and quotes are unlimited on every plan, including Starter at €29, and OCR receipt capture carries no monthly allowance.

Yes, both document the VAT return, the VIES statement and reverse charge. At Volk Accountant, VAT-4 and VIES have been part of the Starter plan at €29 since September 2026. Accountly names VIES and OSS reporting in every plan but does not assign the VAT return to a particular plan. On the individual VAT rates Accountly publishes nothing: 19% appears only in a product screenshot and there is no list of the Cyprus rates. Whether the 3% rate can be handled there is therefore not verifiable (checked 19 September 2026).

In Germany. Accountly names Hetzner Online GmbH as the operator of its servers and database, in ISO 27001 certified data centres. Its privacy policy lists ten sub-processors with role, country and safeguard, among them Mistral AI in France for receipt recognition, Revolut in Lithuania for bank connections and Stripe in Ireland and the USA for billing. That is an unusually complete disclosure. Volk Accountant names Frankfurt as its server location.

Two things we do not cover. First, OSS and MOSS returns: anyone selling to private customers in other EU countries has to charge the customer's country rate above €10,000 a year EU-wide, and OSS collects that into one quarterly return. Second, running it on your own infrastructure on the Enterprise plan. On contacts it is split: Accountly gives an unlimited number on every plan, while our Starter allows up to 15 clients and goes unlimited from Business.