# Fiken alternatives — Accounting As of 27 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Papierkram (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/papierkram), [sevDesk (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/sevdesk) and [BuchhaltungsButler (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/buchhaltungsbutler) highest among the other 27 Accounting products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Papierkram](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/papierkram) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). - Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/fiken/alternatives - Fiken: https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/fiken.md - Data as of: 2026-10-27 **AI-generated.** Ratings and verdicts are the opinion of a panel of AI judges, formed from public evidence against a published rubric — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Listed by panel rating (products the panel could not rate follow alphabetically); no placement is for sale. How lists are ordered: https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering ## European alternatives to Fiken - [Papierkram](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/papierkram) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-15 Papierkram is a German, browser-based accounting product for freelancers and small agencies, developed, hosted and operated in Germany on named datacentres in Frankfurt and Falkenstein; captured pages give different figures for the operating company. - [sevDesk](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/sevdesk) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-15 sevDesk is German bookkeeping software from sevDesk GmbH, with persona-weighted totals from 6.3 to 6.9. - [BuchhaltungsButler](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/buchhaltungsbutler) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany BuchhaltungsButler is cloud accounting from BuchhaltungsButler GmbH, Berlin, with membership of the Visma Group stated on its own pages; persona-weighted totals run 5.2 to 6.2 across the bench. - [FastBill](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/fastbill) · EU-Made · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany FastBill is strongest at documents and banking, where scores cluster at 7-8: connections to more than 4000 banks plus PayPal and credit cards, suggested or fully automated matching, and ZUGFeRD and XRechnung in both directions. - [Lexware Office](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/lexoffice) · EU-Made · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages Lexware Office is cloud accounting software from Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. - [DATEV Unternehmen online](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/datev-unternehmen-online) · EU-Made · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages DATEV Unternehmen online, from DATEV eG of Nuremberg, is built as the hub for exchanging receipts, data and documents between a company and its tax adviser, and it is strongest there: adviser handoff scores run 7-9, its highest, crediting document release via MyDATEV Kanzlei and remote maintenance by the adviser's firm. - [SumUp Rechnungen](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/debitoor-sumup) · EU-Made · panel rating 1.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages SumUp Rechnungen is e-invoicing bundled with a free business account and Mastercard: it creates, receives and tracks e-invoices in XRechnung and ZUGFeRD, matches invoice payments automatically when customers pay into the SumUp account, and writes expense entries automatically from card spending. - [Agenda](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/agenda-buchhaltung) · EU-Made · panel rating 1/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages Agenda Informationssysteme GmbH & Co. ## Other alternatives - [bexio](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/bexio) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2.5/5 bexio is cloud accounting for Swiss SMEs from bexio AG of Rapperswil. - [Banana Accounting](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/banana-accounting) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-20 Banana Accounting, from Banana.ch SA of Switzerland, is a spreadsheet-style double-entry bookkeeping program you download and run locally without registration. - [e-Boekhouden.nl](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/e-boekhoudennl) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2.5/5 e-Boekhouden.nl is a Dutch accounting package aimed at entrepreneurs and accountants — the vendor counts ruim 500.000 ondernemers — and the bench's persona-weighted verdicts land between 4.0 and 4.9. - [Jortt](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/jortt) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-13 Jortt, from the Dutch vendor Jortt B.V., scores highest on documents and banking at 6-7: bank feeds run on the vendor's own PSD2 licence to virtually all Dutch banks plus Revolut and the Mollie business account, matching uses 1,243 standard rules plus 10, 25 or 250 own rules by tier, Peppol e-invoices travel both directions, and AI scan and recognition arrives with the Plus tier. - [Holded](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/holded) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2/5 Holded, from Holded Technologies S.L., is a Spanish accounting product whose strength is a genuine double-entry ledger: bookkeeping core scored a flat 6 for a chart built on the Spanish PGC in nine groups with eight-digit accounts, automatic year-end closing, and period locking behind role-based permissions. - [Fatture in Cloud](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/fatture-in-cloud) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5 Fatture in Cloud is an Italian invoicing and bookkeeping service from TeamSystem S.p.A. - [Fortnox](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/fortnox) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5 The judges read Fortnox, a Swedish cloud accounting product, in close agreement: strongest at getting money in and booked, weakest at what a German auditor would ask for. - [FreeAgent](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/freeagent) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5 FreeAgent is accounting software from FreeAgent Central Ltd, a NatWest Group company. - [Pennylane](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/pennylane) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-27 Pennylane is strongest on documents and banking, scored 5 to 7: an ACPR licence backs the bank connection, OCR read 2.6 million invoices in December, and incoming payments are matched to open invoices automatically. - [Xero](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/xero) · Rest of world · panel rating 1.5/5 Judged against German filing requirements, Xero scores highest on documents and banking at 6-7, and lowest on GoBD compliance at 0-1, with tax and filings at 1. - [e-conomic](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/e-conomic) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5 e-conomic, from Visma e-conomic A/S, earns its best marks where the money already flows: documents and banking scores range from 4 to 7, built on Aiia bank feeds several times a day, automatic reconciliation matching by date and amount, machine-learning posting suggestions and rules posting recurring entries to a counter account. - [Fenerum](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/fenerum) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-13 Fenerum A/S presents as a Danish company selling subscription billing with an accounting integration. - [Yuki](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/yuki) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1/5 Yuki is an accounting product from Belgian vendor Yuki bvba; persona-weighted totals range from 1.8 to 2.9. - [Tripletex](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/tripletex) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1/5 Tripletex AS is a Norwegian cloud accounting vendor presenting cloud-based services since 2004, whose public pages evidence one strong capability. - [Webling](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/webling) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-29 Webling is club software from uSystems GmbH in Winterthur. - [Exact Online](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/exact-online) · provenance unknown · panel rating 0.5/5 Exact Online, from Exact B.V., positions finance software as the core of an ERP suite for small and medium-sized businesses — and the bench judged it on thin published evidence. - [Visma eEkonomi](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/visma-eekonomi) · provenance unknown · panel rating 0/5 Visma eEkonomi lands at the bottom of this bench. - [Zervant](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/zervant) · provenance unknown · panel rating 0/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-13 Zervant, by Zervant Oy, describes itself as online estimates and invoicing software for sole traders and small businesses, and the bench scored just that. - [QuickBooks](https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/quickbooks) · Rest of world · panel rating not rated (too little public evidence) QuickBooks is Intuit's accounting product, but the captured public pages are a privacy statement, so the bench verified almost nothing about the books. Ratings are out of 5 (the panel's mean, half steps). --- Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Fiken alternatives — Accounting", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-27. https://whats-best.ai/software/accounting/fiken/alternatives