botkeeper vs. Pilot.com

Pilot.com

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
botkeeper	Score 9.6 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	Boston based Botkeeper is the world's first and original robotic bookkeeper. The Botkeeper solution uses a combination of skilled accountants, machine learning, and AI to provide the best bookkeeping at the lowest possible cost. Instead of replacing your existing accounting software, we'll hook right up to it! Botkeeper can easily and quickly integrate with Quickbooks Online or Xero. Getting up and running is simple- 1. Data is extracted from both financial and non-financial sources.…	N/A
Pilot	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	Pilot is a startup-focused accounting firm headquartered in the US with a team of 350+ US-based employees including accountants, fractional CFOs, and tax specialists who focus on building a strong finance foundation for clients' businesses. Pilot offers Bookkeeping, CFO, tax services, and more for startups and small businesses, ranging from two founders in a garage to hundred-person teams.	$349 per month (billed annually)

Pricing

botkeeper

Pilot.com

Editions & Modules

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Starter: $349
per month (billed annually)
Core: $499
per month (billed annually)
Plus: Custom pricing
per month billed annually

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
botkeeper	Pilot
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Required

Additional Details

Our goal is to offer bookkeeping solutions that are not only best in class, but available to all companies at all stages of growth. We have our Free Package, all the way up through Custom Packages, and everything in between!

Pilot Starter - For pre-revenue companies and companies with streamlined needs. Includes: - Dedicated finance expert - Accrual basis bookkeeping - P&L, balance sheet and cash flow statements - Support and advice Pilot Core - For revenue generating companies that are growing. Includes: - Dedicated finance expert - Controller support, including guidance on revenue recognition policies, COGS and CapEx - Accrual basis bookkeeping - P&L, balance sheet and cash flow statements - Support and advice Pilot Plus - A tailored a plan to meet the unique needs of any business. For businesses dealing with multiple entities, multiple locations, or special revenue recognition. Includes everything in Core, plus: - Support for class tracking, multiple entities, and consolidated reporting - Billable expenses

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Community Pulse
	botkeeper	Pilot.com
Considered Both Products	botkeeper Vaibhav Sharma Senior Engineer Chose botkeeper Botkeeper is quite new to accounting solutions. The tech base is quite new and cutting edge. Service support is quite fast and good. Integration support is open to another third party to enhance in all possible ways. Eliminates overhead of hiring permanent resident … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher J. Ferretti Operations Manager Chose botkeeper Botkeeper has the automation aspect nailed down. Other companies do not have this process taken care of yet. On top of that, we trust in botkeeper and believe they will be around for the long run. Incentivized Helpful? Hanson Grant CEO and Founder Chose botkeeper Botkeeper offers a similar service to that of pilot, however, for the price that we pay, we get a lot more services like accounts payable and accounts receivable, as well as bill payment through bill.com. I'm also pretty sure that scalefactor is no longer running and operating. … Incentivized Helpful?	Pilot Daniel Viliam Mazáč COO Chose Pilot We have not used other products. Incentivized Helpful? GM Greg Mischio Founder and CEO Chose Pilot I liked the people they had working for them, and their communication was exceptional. This is their focus, not the overall software package with bookkeeping services added in. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pilot Nobody else seemed to have the same capabilities and fit with our company culture as well. QuickBooks or Xero alone don't offer the same level of service and would require too much effort on our part. We used Indinero with my prior company and they just missed a lot of things … Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Braver COO Chose Pilot We talked to two other firms, one very small and one more corporate-like. We liked the startup feel of Pilot.com better than the other two. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pilot Pilot.com is reliable and trustworthy. You don't have to worry that your bookkeeper is going to retire (which has happened to us before) and that you'll need to start all over with someone new. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	botkeeper	Pilot.com
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User Ratings
	botkeeper	Pilot.com
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	botkeeper	Pilot.com
Likelihood to Recommend	if you run a small business that has gotten large enough for accounting to become a headache on a weekly or monthly basis, I would consider botkeeper as a solution. they have packages that scale up as your business continues to grow. Also, if you are collecting sales tax and managing that yourself, along with your year-end reporting for taxes, botkeeper is a lifesaver. Incentivized Hanson Grant CEO and Founder Read full review	Pilot is great for early-stage startups in any vertical. They handle the entire financial stack and will save you a lot of time on that front. Their CFO services are also great regardless of the vertical you are in. As a founder, this is something you shouldn't waste your time on, and with Pilot you can feel secure. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	on-boarding team adjust their roadmap in accordance to customer needs their support team is second to none Incentivized Christopher J. Ferretti Operations Manager Read full review	Quick responses to questions submitted to support Integration with various banking systems and software, including HR systems and cap table system, which saves time when filing taxes Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Potential and capabilities for revenue recognition are not up to a high standard, which is a basic ask. The exhaustive analysis is not possible with just Botkeeper, one needs to integrate with some other third-party service provider, and that's something that is not considered good. Analytical outputs in terms of charts and graphs need to be more adaptive as only a few configurations are provided and the rest seems to be pulled from the provided one, which imparts an overhead. Botkeeper claims best probability and statistics calculations but sometimes standard deviation shows it way away from acceptance criteria. Incentivized Vaibhav Sharma Senior Engineer Read full review	I would say that only room for improvement would be to offer more educational opportunities that explain what the numbers mean. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Botkeeper is quite new to accounting solutions. The tech base is quite new and cutting edge. Service support is quite fast and good. Integration support is open to another third party to enhance in all possible ways. Eliminates overhead of hiring permanent resident accountants. Great user experience and well-optimized tools. Incentivized Vaibhav Sharma Senior Engineer Read full review	I liked the people they had working for them, and their communication was exceptional. This is their focus, not the overall software package with bookkeeping services added in. GM Greg Mischio Founder and CEO Read full review
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