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Capterra
★
5.0
“Well designed – it is consistent throughout. Easy to use – the document-centric approach is easy to understand. Plenty of useful features, especially the user-defined attributes to analyse your accounting data. The people on the support hotline are helpful and knowledgeable. The pay-per-user monthly subscription model is great value for money.”
Mike Evans
Consultant
Capterra
★
5.0
“The software is easy to use anywhere and at any time. I like the option that you can upload documents, it makes preparing for an audit easier. The system is easier to train new users.”
Bankole Jones
Finance Director, The Bridge Renewal Trust
Capterra
★
3.0
“Aqilla is very customisable and it allows for a lot of dimensions in terms of coding for transactions and allows us to produce a range of reports.”
Eric Siu
Finance Officer
G2
★
4.0
“It’s a good product for financial reporting and analysis. This Cloud based accounting is a good solution.”
Anonymous
Small Business Owner
G2
★
4.5
“Aqilla is an adaptable cloud based software which provides the adaptability of some of the large and expensive ERP platforms at a price which is not far above some of the well known small business off-the-shelf products. Its interface is intuitive and it is well suited to not for profit and other accounting systems requiring fund accounting.”
Nick Baker
Finance Manager, Navigators
Capterra
★
3.0
“I liked the ease of use and the customisations that we were able to do, to improve the reporting within our business. The excel uploads were amongst the best I have used.”
Jack S.
Management Accountant
Capterra
★
4.0
“I like the ability to add receipts to expenses and the fact that my request goes straight to the necessary authoriser.”
Lee-Anne Heusden
Legal Counsel
G2
★
4.0
“What I like best about Aqilla is the ease of use. Once it’s configured, it has a user-friendly interface.”
Gladys Kpakiwa
Accountant, Fareshare
★
5.0
“Companies are judged on customer service and this is the reason why I’m giving Aqilla 5 stars. Their personal service is one of the (not the only) reasons why it’s a great product. The product itself is excellent too – easy to navigate and use. Recommended for medium to larger companies.”
Matt Lloyd
G2
★
4.5
“The team behind the product is small and responsive with an excellent customer support team. The product requires consultant support for implementation, but we found the process smooth and not too long or expensive.”
Nick Baker
Finance Manager, Navigators
Capterra
★
5.0
“Extremely quick responses. I love that I can login from any device basically anywhere in the world, and the system is customised to my preferences.”
Maria S.
Relationship Manager
Capterra
★
5.0
“I’ve had a very good experience with Aqilla and am happy with the result. I’ve never felt disappointed with the service and product.”
Matthew Gamble
Management Accountant
G2
★
3.5
“Aqilla is easy to use, and has really impacted my life.”
Abdul Rahman
Manager, Amazon Business Advisory
Customer voices
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“Using our old bespoke system, we were exposed to ‘key man’ risk, and it wasn’t a sustainable solution. Other software packages we looked at would have been too expensive to tailor and implement. Aqilla comes with all the benefits of the Cloud. It also gives us the unique functionality we need at a price we can afford.”
Jenny Tunbridge
Finance Director, The Thalidomide Trust
Switched from a bespoke system
“We hold high volumes of client funds in multiple currencies and the FX differences can be substantial. Aqilla has revaluation functionality which means that we can easily calculate and post unrealised currency exchange gains and losses.”
Hannah James
Head of Finance, Payen
“Saving fifty percent of month-end reporting time with Aqilla means we can focus more on providing deeper analysis and insights to guide decisions, rather than just crunching numbers.”
Rami Hassouna
Director of Finance and Operations, Resource Justice Network
“Aqilla worked with us to design the process and also with our SalesForce agent to create the integrated system which now meets everyone’s needs.”
Jenny Tunbridge
Finance Director, The Thalidomide Trust
Switched from a bespoke system
“We’ve seen the real benefit of choosing Aqilla as our business has grown. We are now paperless and I am able to process a much higher quantity of accounting information without increasing my department headcount. Using Aqilla, a small number of us can carry out an extraordinary volume of work.”
Christopher Lee
Finance Director, We Are Sunday
“I just press a button and Aqilla imports all the sales journals at month end via the API. By 11 o’clock the next day, the month end tasks are complete, saving us around three days of manual administration that we had to endure with Sage.”
Damon Waddington
Chief Operating Officer, Premier Gateway International
Switched from Sage
“Switching from Syspro to Aqilla has reduced the total cost of ownership by an estimated 84% per annum, amounting to savings well in excess of £50,000 a year.”
Julie Davis
Director of Finance, Ryedale Group
Switched from Syspro
“Aqilla is very user-friendly compared to other systems I’ve used in the past. I’ve trained people to use it and they pick it up straight away.”
Damon Waddington
Chief Operating Officer, Premier Gateway International
Switched from Sage
“With Aqilla we can build project dashboards, bringing in information from external systems, so that management have the tools they need to deliver projects and meet the KPIs. Having all of this in one place is going to save us time and ultimately improve control which is key for us.”
Lee Rayner
Management Accountant, Sembmarine SLP
“Our accounting needs were pretty simple although when it came to multi-currency transactions we needed the software to handle and store these in quite a sophisticated way. Aqilla’s multicurrency capability far surpasses that of its competitors in the same price bracket.”
Toby Raincock
CFO, Shard Capital
“QuickBooks was never going to do it and the bigger packages are out of my range, but Aqilla is in that middle space where you can get lots of functionality from quite a light product and a low cost of ownership.”
Robert McCluskey
Financial Controller, The Spa Hotel
Switched from Sage 200
“I have worked with bigger systems like SAP and, while they serve a wider business purpose, if all you need is a finance system, Aqilla is very impressive in its functionality. It is quick to implement, has a low cost of maintenance and it’s more versatile than you might expect from a mid-range system.”
Andrew Bryant
Finance Business Analyst
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Support
“Companies are judged on customer service and this is the reason why I’m giving Aqilla 5 stars. Their personal service is one of the (not the only) reasons why it’s a great product. The product itself is excellent too – easy to navigate and use.”
Matt Lloyd
“The team behind the product is small and responsive with an excellent customer support team. The product requires consultant support for implementation, but we found the process smooth and not too long or expensive.”
Nick B.
“With Aqilla, I feel like I have a voice and that people are listening. If we have an issue, we contact support and talk to people we already have a relationship with. Aqilla goes that extra mile – willing to listen, and wanting to improve.”
Johnny Evans
Group CFO, AEI Group
Switched from Sage 50
“One of the biggest benefits in working with Aqilla is the fact that you get a real person at the end of the line who can talk you through your problem. Secondly, it’s about how easy Aqilla is to use.”
Jonathon Powell
Finance Manager, Parnall Group
Switched from Sage 50
Reporting
“Without the delivery of high-speed, high-quality reports, we could find ourselves in a position where we lose funding. I’ve been able to keep all stakeholders happy with the speed and quality of the reports I produce at the touch of a button.”
Ray Ayivor
Director of Finance and Operations, Young Citizens
“Aqilla has given us the flexibility to analyse and report costs in ways we couldn’t before. It has transformed our reporting to funders, budget holders, the board and the Charity Commission.”
Rami Hassouna
Director of Finance and Operations, Resource Justice Network
Switched from Sage 50
“Aqilla meets all of our reporting needs. I particularly find the ability to drill into accounting categories very useful, avoiding the need to manipulate data outside of the system. I can see the detail I need through simple navigation.”
Hannah James
Head of Finance, Payen
“For the first time, I’m able to share drill-down management reports in Aqilla with my leadership team. I can do this because the technology makes it easy but also because I’m 100% confident in my data.”
Julie Davis
Director of Finance, Ryedale Group
Switched from Syspro
Ease of Use
“We briefly considered Sage and Xero, but we knew that neither of these products could be adapted to fit our business needs. As a configurable, agile and powerful system, Aqilla falls somewhere in between, ticking all the boxes for a business our size while keeping our total cost of ownership low.”
Julie Davis
Director of Finance, Ryedale Group
“Aqilla is very user-friendly compared to other systems I’ve used in the past. I’ve trained people to use it and they pick it up straight away.”
Damon Waddington
Chief Operating Officer, Premier Gateway International
Switched from Sage
“The best thing about Aqilla is its flexibility. The system is flexible enough that I can quickly adapt the reports to my current needs and generate the data I need. The turnaround is very quick. And if I do run into difficulties, Aqilla’s support is very good and quick to respond.”
Genny Wu
Finance Manager, Octopus Energy
“Mainly, I want to get large volumes of data in and out of the system, fast. I’ve got big system analytics from a fast and light mid-range system. It doesn’t matter if it’s 10 or 100 lines, I push a button on the toolbar, and the data is in.”
Robert McCluskey
Financial Controller, The Spa Hotel
Switched from Sage 200
Implementation
“I’ve installed many systems over the years and this was one of the easiest to set up, verify the data, and we were off and running. The advice we got up front was excellent and Aqilla’s Excel add-in made it very straightforward. It’s a very powerful tool.”
Johnny Evans
Group CFO, AEI Group
Switched from Sage 50
“Migrating to Sage 50cloud was looking very expensive. Sage Line 50 and Xero were too small. Aqilla fell into this mid-market which was perfect for us and it ticked all the boxes of multi-company, multi-currency, and multi-user.”
Johnny Evans
Group CFO, AEI Group
Switched from Sage 50
“I wanted big system-style functionality without the expense of implementation and ongoing running costs. Once we’d ruled out other providers, we had Aqilla up and running in less than a month. It also seemed to have a much stronger Excel interface.”
Gemma Hutton
CFO, Argonaut Capital
“Having got the Aqilla implementation right, we no longer have discussions about frustrating processes or lack of insight. Aqilla has scaled very easily as we have added new entities and we have suffered no service failures at all.”
Toby Raincock
CFO, Shard Capital
Switched from a bespoke system
Automation
“The Sharperlight and Aqilla integration speeds up the process of getting our results out and over to our parent company. With a narrow two day window, we have to be confident that we can produce accurate and consistent management reports easily, every time.”
Damon Waddington
Chief Operating Officer, Premier Gateway International
Switched from Sage
“We are now paperless and I am able to process a much higher quantity of accounting information without increasing my department headcount. Using Aqilla, a small number of us can carry out an extraordinary volume of work.”
Christopher Lee
Finance Director, We Are Sunday
“The daily banking process used to take two and a half hours with Sage. With Aqilla, it takes less than an hour. The bank reconciliation process at month end that used to take three or four days now takes me less than half a day.”
Robert McCluskey
Financial Controller, The Spa Hotel
Switched from Sage 200
“Using our old bespoke system, we were exposed to ‘key man’ risk, and it wasn’t a sustainable solution. Aqilla comes with all the benefits of the Cloud. It also gives us the unique functionality we need at a price we can afford.”
Jenny Tunbridge
Finance Director, The Thalidomide Trust
Switched from a bespoke system
Multi-Entity
“Aqilla is a good solution for groups of companies with overseas subsidiaries. Each entity is set up to mimic the others so that consolidation is consistent with a simple currency adjustment at the end. This also makes it highly scalable.”
Andrew Bryant
Finance Business Analyst
“We have a number of cost centres — the hotel, the apartments and staff housing — as well as 12 departments. Our new accounting system needed to be able to handle this kind of multidimensional analysis.”
Lynda Redman
Financial Director, Dart Marina
Switched from Sage 200
“QuickBooks was never going to do it and the bigger packages are out of my range, but Aqilla is in that middle space where you can get lots of functionality from quite a light product and a low cost of ownership.”
Robert McCluskey
Financial Controller, The Spa Hotel
Switched from Sage 200
“We wanted the benefits of a cloud solution but needed to be confident that it wouldn’t risk a breach of conduct. With Aqilla, there is no chance of running into statutory or regulatory issues.”
Gemma Hutton
CFO, Argonaut Capital
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50%
less time spent on month-end reporting
Resource Justice Network
Doubled capacity to manage funds
Reporting to funders and the board transformed
Switched from Sage 50
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3–4 days → ½ day
month-end bank reconciliation
The Spa Hotel
Daily banking now takes under an hour
Big-system analytics from a light mid-range system
Switched from Sage 200
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service failures while scaling entities
Shard Capital
Multi-currency client funds handled with ease
Scaled easily as new entities were added
Rich functionality at a low price point
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