How Allwis compares

Most business software asks you to pick a side

The accounting system owns your ledger but knows nothing about your pipeline. The CRM knows every conversation but cannot raise an invoice. So you buy connectors, and the connectors become the system nobody owns.

Allwis is one database. Your sales pipeline, your general ledger, your payroll, your jobs, your support queue and your marketing read and write the same records, under one permission model. A deal that closes raises the invoice. The invoice that gets paid calculates the commission. The time logged against a job bills the client and pays the contractor.

And you do not have to take all of it. Replace one thing — the ledger, or the CRM, or the helpdesk — and keep the rest of your stack.

How Allwis compares

Four systems. Not one of them can consolidate a group.

Xero has no native consolidation, and its published position on years of requests for it is that it is not currently planned. Every QuickBooks Online subscription is a separate island. Zoho Books has no native mechanism for group financial statements. Odoo is a full ERP and still sends you elsewhere for this.

All four answer a group with two companies the same way: another subscription, another login, another export that is out of date by the time anyone reads it.

In Allwis the second company is a setting. Inter-company elimination, FX translation and non-controlling interests sit in the ledger you already have.

The four we get asked about

Xero

A very good ledger. It ends at the ledger.

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QuickBooks

Built for the United States first. You are not in the United States.

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Zoho

Forty applications that integrate. One that does not have to.

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Odoo

The same idea, without the implementation project.

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Each page includes a section on where that product is the better choice. Those are not throat-clearing — if one of them fits you better, we would rather you knew now.

Your model, your infrastructureThe assistant is table stakes. Where it runs is not.

Every system here has an AI assistant now. None of them will tell you which model just read your payroll file.

Allwis is model-agnostic by design. Point it at OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, Mistral, GLM or Meta — your key, your account, your bill. Route different jobs to different models: a cheap one for categorising bank lines, a strong one for auditing a bill. Or do not send it out at all.

Run the model on your own hardware — Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, anything speaking OpenAI's chat-completions format. A small connector beside your model dials out to us over HTTPS. No inbound port, no firewall change, works behind NAT. Your model never becomes something on the internet.

Then switch on self-hosted-only mode, and turn off the shared fallback so a request fails rather than leaves your network. Benchmark your own model against the cloud providers on the same tasks first, so it is a measured decision rather than a leap.

And govern it: a monthly AI budget with a hard stop, individual AI tasks switched off, PII masking forced per task, token caps, and a log of every call with the model that made it, its reasoning and what it cost.

Excel & Google SheetsAccountants live in Excel. We stopped fighting it.

Allwis for Excel puts your live statements in your own workbook — profit & loss, balance sheet, trial balance, cash flow, aged receivables, aged payables and any custom report you have built, with comparison periods, multiple entities and your budget as a column beside actuals. Press refresh and the figures are current. Build your own schedules around them; they survive the refresh.

Install it from the Microsoft 365 admin centre for the whole firm, or sideload it yourself in a minute. On every plan — not the top tier.

And spreadsheets inside Allwis too — depreciation schedules, workpapers, the calculations behind a journal — attached to the record they support, versioned, and frozen once attached, so the workpaper behind a posted entry cannot quietly change.

Allwis for Google Sheets is built and in Google's Workspace Marketplace review. Until that clears, we install it for your Google accounts on request.

Compliance is not optional any more

Since 1 July 2026, Australian accountants providing designated services are reporting entities under the AML/CTF Act. None of the four systems on this page ship AUSTRAC or DIA reporting. Allwis includes customer due diligence, risk rating, PEP and sanctions screening, ongoing monitoring, and SMR and TTR reporting — in the product, not as another subscription.

This is general information about our software, not legal or tax advice.

You do not have to switch everything

Take the ledger and keep your CRM. Take the CRM and keep your accountant's system. Take the helpdesk on its own. The rest is there when — and if — you want it.

Sources

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  1. Tranche 2 AML/CTF obligations commenced 1 July 2026 for accountants providing designated services — https://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/public-practice/inpractice/practice-management/austrac-opens-enrolments-are-tranche-2-entities-ready (checked 2026-08-23)

Last reviewed 2026-08-23.