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Banana Accounting 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Banana Accounting
Banana Accounting
4.3
(11)

Pricing

Starting at €84.00 per year

About Banana Accounting

Traditional columnar accounting in a modern, Excel-like form. Entering transactions is quick and easy. As in Excel, you move freely in the table and you can select, copy and paste. If you make mistakes, you'll be notified and you can always change, so it's easy to have perfect accounting.
Based on double-entry bookkeeping, it is ideal for any small business, association, private person and for teaching bookkeeping. Balance sheets and all other financial statements are customizable.
It is a global product with multi-currency, multi-country and multi language accounting. Over 1000 ready-to-use templates.

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Banana Accounting Pricing and Plans

Starting price: €84.00 per year
Free Trial
Free Version

Professional

84.00

flat rate, per year

No plan information available

    Advanced

    169.00

    per year

    No plan information available

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      Banana Accounting Features

      • Popular features found in Nonprofit
        Accounting
        Campaign Management
        CRM
        Customizable Forms
        Donor Management
        Electronic Payments
        Event Management
        Fundraising Management
        Grant Management
        Membership Management
        Registration Management
        Volunteer Management
      • More features of Banana Accounting
        Accounts Payable
        Accounts Receivable
        Billing & Invoicing
        Budgeting/Forecasting
        Budget Tracking
        Cash Flow Management
        Cash Management
        Charting
        Chart of Accounts
        Contact Management
        Customizable Reports
        Customizable Templates
        Data Import/Export
        Document Management
        Donation Tracking
        Expense Tracking
        Financial Analysis
        Financial Management
        Financial Reporting
        Fixed Asset Management
        For Nonprofits
        For Schools
        Full Text Search
        General Ledger
        Income & Balance Sheet
        Invoice Processing
        Journal Entry Processing
        Member Database
        Mobile Access
        Multi-Currency
        Multi-Language
        Multi-Location
        Profit/Loss Statement
        Project Accounting
        Purchasing & Receiving
        Receipt Management
        Search/Filter
        Templates
        Transaction Management

      Banana Accounting User Reviews

      Overall Rating

      4.3

      Ratings Breakdown

      5

      36%

      4

      55%

      3

      9%

      2

      0%

      1

      0%

      Secondary Ratings

      Ease of Use

      4.3

      Value for money

      4.5

      Customer support

      4.0

      Functionality

      4.3

      Have you used Banana Accounting and would like to share your experience with others?

      CM

      Carlos M.

      Verified reviewer

      Information Technology and Services

      11-50 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed March 2019

      Almost 20 years using Banana Accounting

      5

      very happy !

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      Easy to use for our accounting people. Best software for small companies
      Cons:
      Some translation to spanish issues, missing documentation

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      LG

      Leigh G.

      Verified reviewer

      Civic & Social Organization

      11-50 employees

      Used daily for free trial

      Review source

      Reviewed January 2025

      You'de be bananas not to try Banana Accounting

      4

      Banana Accounting is great for assisting with reporting. I can manually add data easily. The template's are user friendly and I navigated them quickly.

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      3
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      What I like most about Banana Accounting is the Inventory management feature. Inventory can be managed for several locations.
      Cons:
      It's hard to find something I liked least about Banana Accounting. I don't have an answer at this time.

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      LS

      LUCIANO S.

      Verified reviewer

      Executive Office

      2-10 employees

      Used weekly for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed March 2019

      Review

      3

      I constantly use it with satisfaction but I would like to implement invoicing and inventory

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      3
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      Very simple to use for accounting and creating the dossier
      Cons:
      not so intuitive for creating account structure

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      BR

      Bro. Paolo R.

      Verified reviewer

      Hospital & Health Care

      51-200 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed March 2019

      Bro. Paolo Rizzetto MCCJ's review of Banana Accounting System

      5

      I am running the accounts for a private not for profit hospital, relying mostly on external donors to whom project proposals are submitted. They avail a budget which enters into a sytem of liabilites. The Banana Accounting system helps to maintain day to day, monthly, quarterly and annual balance sheets for the whole hospitlal and for the different Donors. The double entry accounting system with mutliple currencies helps our administration to reconcile donations given in hard currency and how the inflation in the local currency affect the disbursement of cash. This gives us an instrument to analyze critically wages, loss or gain in the purchasing power of staff salaries versus the cost of living/supplies, during specific periods of the year

      Ratings Breakdown

      3
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      Once a bit of training is done it is very versatile, in managing accounts, especially when it comes to double entry accounting system. The intial coding takes time but it is very effective for entring transactions The colours of writings and backgrounds help to distinguish different ledgers in the same administration. The graphs help to visualize trends along the year. The automatism of closing of the year is very useful.
      Cons:
      I cannot compare sheets from different files (for example the accounting systems of different years / subsequent years): I cannot have two Banana files open at the same time.

      Vendor Response

      Hello brother Paolo, it is very nice to read your review and we are very happy to know that you are satisfied with our product, but let us show you how Banana Accounting also does the few things you are still looking for. You can indeed have reports over several years ¿ please visit this page to find out how: https://www.banana.ch/doc9/en/node/9474 You can also have several files at the same time; actually there are two ways to do it: https://www.banana.ch/doc9/en/node/9470 You can contact us if you need anything else!

      Replied March 2019

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      RG

      Roge G.

      Verified reviewer

      Government Administration

      2-10 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed March 2019

      Parish Council Accounting

      4

      When I first joined the Parish Council I was producing double entry accounts manually. Unfortunately this led to errors in the accounts. After spending some time trawling the internet I came across Banana Accounting which was a flexible double entry system rather that related to a specific industry. It took some time to set the software up for the Council but once the Chart of Accounts etc was set up, it became just a matter of entering transactions in order to be able to print either the Balance Sheet or Profit/Loss Accounts

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      the ease of being able to enter transactions . The Parish Council uses the double entry system of accounting and it is very easy to enter the transactions be they Current Account Transaction, Deposit Account Transactions or Petty Cash. It is easy to print out on a monthly basis the Balance Sheet of the Council which provides an up to date financial positron of the Council
      Cons:
      Because the software was not written with a Parish Council in mind it requires some thought to use the processes of the software to achieve the result you want.

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      XF

      Xavier F.

      Verified reviewer

      Non-Profit Organization Management

      2-10 employees

      Used weekly for less than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed March 2019

      A rewarding experience

      5

      I have been using the last updated version of Banan9 (Mac Version) with double-entry accounting for a small animal protection association. I have found the product easy to use and the ability to copy and paste to and from Excel useful and time saving. I have been able to solve all my doubts up to now, using the Help provided with the software that I did found well organised and clearly written. I have also found all the flexibility I needed when defining groups of accounts and have found particularly helpful the ability to define Segments in order to obtain Profit & Loss Statements per different units. All these features allowed us to define with great ease an account structure well suited to our accounting needs.

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      4
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      Well written user manual and documentation Ease of use Easy transfer of data to and from Excel Build-in capability to define different units, getting P&L statements for different units. No software problem was found when working with Banana 9 last update.
      Cons:
      I missed a larger set of pre-defined reports that did make use of the user-defined Segment structure.

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      VR

      Verified
      Reviewer

      Non-Profit Organization Management

      11-50 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed March 2019

      2 different currencies, same banana

      4

      I am able to work with 2 currencies at the same time. The ability to easily generate financial reports at any point in time

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      The ability to use two different currencies which best suites an NGO which relies on grants from Europe, especially in writing report to donors.
      Cons:
      The banana 9 was a bit difficult to start with, especially in generating external reports

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      SO

      Sharon O.

      Verified reviewer

      Accounting

      2-10 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed March 2019

      From Cyprus

      5

      Using Banana for three different clients with three different sets of needs and find it flexible enough to deal with all.

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      Just love how flexible it is. Why wont you accept this ?
      Cons:
      The "help" can be a bit difficult to use - but I get there eventually The name - its quirky OK, but when as a professional you say "I use Banana" people do look a bit askance!

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      VR

      Verified
      Reviewer

      Renewables & Environment

      2-10 employees

      Used weekly for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed March 2019

      Multi platform accounting software

      4

      It can easily to produce various financial report; balance sheet, income statement etc

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      3
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      Banana is multi platform accounting software; Linux, Mc OS and Windows. It is very suitable for a business environment where the PC users utilizing various operating system
      Cons:
      The user interface is very simple. No pop up form for entering the data

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      SE

      Sjoerd E.

      Verified reviewer

      Investment Management

      Self-Employed

      Used monthly for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed March 2019

      Easy to use accounting software

      4

      After trying and disliking a number of online tools with overly expensive monthly plans I ran into Speedbalance, Banana Accounting’s predecessor. Simple and easy to use with a generous sample of free functionality, we hit it off and have had a great time ever since.

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      4
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      Banana accounting is the pefect option for simple accounting for small business use. Only limited knowledge of accounting will enable you to all the basic functions needed
      Cons:
      Getting to that limit of maximum free ledger entries where you need to pay for banana accounting to keep using it. Oh well you can’t have it all

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