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Where QuickBooks or Xero lead with the general ledger, Neat leads with the receipt: photograph it or forward the emailed invoice, and the software handles categorisation, expense tracking and tax-ready records. That suits service businesses and freelancers better than \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fsoftware\u002Fquickbooks\">QuickBooks\u003C\u002Fa> or \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fsoftware\u002Fxero\">Xero\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Neat handles bookkeeping basics (income, expenses, reconciliation, P&L reporting) but leans heavily on its receipt-management strengths. For US sole proprietors filing Schedule C, single-member LLCs and consultancies under ~$500k revenue, Neat is materially easier to use than QuickBooks Online. The trade-off is fewer integrations (less of the QBO app ecosystem) and weaker multi-state sales tax handling, so it suits service-only businesses better than product-based ones. Product sellers are handled through our \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\u002Fecommerce\">e-commerce accounting service\u003C\u002Fa> instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;\">We work in Neat for US clients who already use it. Pricing reflects scale, from $500\u002Fmonth for solo service-business scope including annual tax return preparation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>","grid","blocks.section-head",{"id":359,"eyebrow":360,"heading":361,"body":362,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14684,"What we do in Neat","A complete small-business scope.","Professional accounting on top of Neat's receipt-first workflow.",{"id":364,"heading":49,"intro":49,"items":365,"__component":374},3017,[366,367,368,369,370,371,372,373],"Receipt review & categorisationYour captured receipts reviewed weekly. Mis-categorisations corrected. 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The first employee, because Neat's payroll story is an integration rather than a product. The first pallet of stock, because there is no inventory module to hold it. And the first state where you cross an economic nexus threshold, because tracking that inside Neat is manual work that gets forgotten in a busy quarter. None of these is a criticism of the software; they are simply outside what it set out to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Until then the receipt-first model has a genuine advantage that ledger-first software does not: the evidence arrives before the entry. On an \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.irs.gov\u002Fbusinesses\u002Fsmall-businesses-self-employed\u002Fself-employed-individuals-tax-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IRS examination of a self-employed return\u003C\u002Fa>, the question is almost never whether an expense was posted to the right account. It is whether you can produce the document behind it. A business that photographs receipts as it goes has already answered that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">Worked example, illustrative rather than a real client. A solo consultant bills $180,000, claims $26,000 of expenses and files a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.irs.gov\u002Fforms-pubs\u002Fabout-schedule-c-form-1040\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Schedule C\u003C\u002Fa> alongside Form 1040. Of that, $9,400 is meals, travel and home office, the three categories with the highest documentation burden. Missing receipts on a third of it puts roughly $3,100 of deductions at risk, which at a combined marginal and self-employment rate near 40 per cent is about $1,240 of tax. That is the whole argument for the workflow in one number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp style=\"color:var(--muted);font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:18px;\">We also handle the parts Neat does not touch: quarterly federal estimates on \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.irs.gov\u002Fforms-pubs\u002Fabout-form-1040-es\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Form 1040-ES\u003C\u002Fa>, year-end \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.irs.gov\u002Fforms-pubs\u002Fabout-form-1099-nec\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Form 1099-NEC\u003C\u002Fa> filings for contractors paid above the $600 threshold, and the structure conversation about whether an S corporation election is worth the payroll it forces. The wider US scope is on \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fmarkets\u002Fus\">accountants for US small businesses\u003C\u002Fa>, the monthly work on \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\u002Fcloud-bookkeeping\">cloud bookkeeping services\u003C\u002Fa>, and the nexus question in our guide to \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fblog\u002Fus-sales-tax-nexus\">US sales tax nexus for online sellers\u003C\u002Fa>. Contractors weighing up structure should also read \u003Ca href=\"\u002Findustries\u002Ffreelancers\">accountants for freelancers and contractors\u003C\u002Fa>. Everything we deliver alongside the software sits in our \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fservices\">accounting services index\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>",{"id":460,"quote":461,"name":462,"role":463,"company":49,"avatar":49,"__component":464},2591,"I tried QuickBooks twice and abandoned it both times. Neat\\'s receipt-first approach fits how I actually work. Accountaire handles the monthly close and annual tax. I just snap and forward receipts.","Freelance consultant","Pacific Northwest, USA","blocks.testimonial",{"id":466,"heading":467,"items":468,"__component":501},1943,"Neat-specific questions.",[469,473,477,481,485,489,493,497],{"id":470,"question":471,"answer":472},12288,"How does Neat compare to QuickBooks Online?","The decision usually turns on who else reads the numbers. Neat produces what a Schedule C needs. A lender or an investor asking for a balance sheet with comparatives gets something thin. Expense-heavy consultancies with no stock and nobody on payroll do better in Neat. Anything else belongs in QuickBooks, and no one-click path runs between them, so budget for re-keying opening balances when you move.",{"id":474,"question":475,"answer":476},12289,"Can Neat handle multi-state sales tax?","Neat's sales-tax functionality is limited. For service-only businesses (rarely sales-tax exposed) this isn't an issue. For product businesses crossing economic nexus thresholds, we typically recommend QuickBooks + Avalara\u002FTaxJar instead.",{"id":478,"question":479,"answer":480},12290,"When should I move from Neat to QuickBooks?","Generally when you hire your first employee (Neat's payroll integration is weak), when revenue exceeds ~$500k, when you start selling products with inventory, or when you need investor-grade reporting. We handle the migration cleanly.",{"id":482,"question":483,"answer":484},12291,"Does Neat work outside the US?","Neat is US-focused. For Canadian solopreneurs we typically recommend Wave; for UK we recommend FreeAgent. Neat's tax-category mapping is built around US Schedule C and 1120 categories.",{"id":486,"question":487,"answer":488},12292,"Which receipts actually need keeping?","All of them for business expenses, and the IRS expects records to be kept generally for three years from the filing date, longer where losses or substantial understatements are involved. The categories that get challenged most are meals, travel, vehicle use and the home office deduction, because each needs a business purpose recorded alongside the amount. Neat holds the document; we add the purpose.",{"id":490,"question":491,"answer":492},12293,"Do you file 1099-NEC forms for my contractors?","Yes. We collect Form W-9 from every contractor at the point of first payment rather than in January, track cumulative payments against the $600 threshold through the year, then prepare and file the 1099-NEC forms and distribute recipient copies. The common failure we take over is a business that paid contractors by card or through a payment platform and assumed no filing was needed.",{"id":494,"question":495,"answer":496},12294,"Should I elect S corporation status?","Only once profit is high enough that the self-employment tax saving exceeds the cost of running payroll, filing Form 1120-S and paying yourself reasonable compensation. Below roughly $60,000 of net profit the arithmetic rarely works. We model it with your actual numbers before the election rather than treating it as a default.",{"id":498,"question":499,"answer":500},12295,"How much do you charge for Neat-based service?","The variables are how many states you file in, whether an S corporation election has put you on payroll, and how many contractors need a Form 1099-NEC. An election made for tax reasons adds a payroll filing calendar underneath it, and that is a service cost rather than a software one. Prior-year clean-up is quoted separately, before any monthly fee begins.","blocks.faq",{"id":503,"eyebrow":504,"heading":505,"body":49,"gridBody":49,"layout":49,"__component":357},14688,"Alternatives we support","Other platforms.",{"id":507,"heading":49,"dark":79,"variant":382,"note":49,"cells":508,"__component":405},7020,[509,513,517],{"id":510,"num":511,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":207,"avatar":49,"body":512,"span":389,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":131,"href":208},27962,"UPGRADE","Common upgrade target when you outgrow Neat.",{"id":514,"num":515,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":228,"avatar":49,"body":516,"span":389,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":229},27963,"ALT","Free alternative for the smallest US\u002FCA businesses.",{"id":518,"num":515,"numUsd":49,"eyebrow":49,"headline":232,"avatar":49,"body":519,"span":389,"rowSpan":79,"accent":79,"dark":79,"href":233},27964,"Invoice-first alternative for service businesses.",{"id":521,"cta":522,"__component":527},2242,{"id":521,"eyebrow":523,"heading":524,"body":525,"primaryLabel":526,"primaryHref":323,"secondaryLabel":49,"secondaryHref":49,"dark":79},"Run on Neat","Want Neat-native accounting?","Thirty minutes to assess your Neat setup and scope a service plan.","Book a Neat bookkeeping call","blocks.cta-banner"]