Uku → Merit
Invoices
Your team's tracked time and contracts become invoices in Uku. Review, approve, and they land inside Merit Aktiva — header, line items, VAT, due date, the lot.
Syncs on every invoice export · Re-sync your client list any time.
Merit Aktiva + Uku integration for Accounting Firms
Practice management for Estonian firms already on Merit Aktiva.
- Bill every minute your team actually worked — automatically
- Your team stops chasing clients. Uku does it on a schedule.
- Track every job, see who's behind, fix it before Friday
Uku finds the 15–30% of revenue your Merit Aktiva invoice can't see.
Your team tracks the work. Uku turns it into invoices Merit Aktiva gets the same day. No spreadsheets, no missed minutes, no end-of-month panic.
What syncs between Uku and Merit Aktiva.
Merit Aktiva holds the books. Uku runs the practice. Here's exactly what moves between them — and which way. No black boxes.
Merit → Uku
Clients
Every Merit customer lands in Uku, ready for work. API-driven, no spreadsheet exports.
Merit → Uku
Products & services
Your Merit product list becomes Uku billing templates so contracts use your real catalogue.
Merit → Uku
Work volume data
Uku auto-imports the actual volume of work per client — documents, entries, sales and purchase invoices, bank entries, VAT entries, and more. One interactive report, no switching between clients in Merit.
Imports actual entry counts for last month, including changes inserted into previous periods.
Merit → Uku
Payment status
When Merit marks an invoice paid, Uku closes the loop on the same client.
Read-only. You still collect payments in Merit.
How it works
1 hour to set up. The same day to your first invoice.
- 01
Connect Merit Aktiva
App Store → Merit Aktiva → enter email and password. Uku auto-creates API keys for each client and imports your customer list.
- 02
Configure data import
Set monthly recurrence. Uku imports documents, entries, invoices, bank entries — the actual counts, including changes from previous periods.
- 03
Build your contracts
Pick the services, set the rates. Add volume pricing if you bill by entry count. Uku starts collecting time and data for you.
- 04
Send the invoice
Review, hit send. It lands in Merit Aktiva — line items, VAT, due date.
Fast Client Import
Your Merit customers, in Uku in minutes.
Enter your Merit Aktiva email and password. Uku auto-creates API keys for each client and pulls everyone in — name, email, address, registry code, VAT.
Imported clients are automatically matched against the Estonian Business Register. Missing details get filled in — so your CRM starts complete, not half-empty.
clients
Volume-Aware Billing
One report. Every client. Every entry.
Uku auto-imports the actual volume of work for each client from Merit — documents, entries, sales and purchase invoices, bank entries, VAT entries, and more. No more switching between clients in Merit to count documents.
The numbers land in one interactive report. Uku uses them to bill volume-based contracts automatically — including changes inserted into previous periods. Mix time, fixed, and volume pricing in the same contract.
Invoices to Merit
From Uku to Merit Aktiva in 4 clicks.
Review the draft, hit send. Uku pushes the invoice into Merit Aktiva — header, line items, VAT, due date, reference. All of it.
Merit marks it paid? Uku closes the loop on the same client. No double entry. No reconciliation. No spreadsheets in the middle.
Automated Debt Reminders
Overdue invoices chase themselves.
Merit knows which invoices are paid. Uku knows the rest. So Uku sends the reminders — politely, on a schedule you set.
Set up two reminders or five. Different templates for 2, 7, and 14 days overdue. Your team stops chasing money and goes back to actual work.
On schedule
2d Friendly
7d Polite nudge
14d Final notice
Set your own schedule, write your own emails, change the tone any time. Uku runs it. Your team doesn't touch it.
"I'd been looking for a practice management solution for my accounting firm for years. Uku was the answer to our problems."
Merit Aktiva integration checklist
Yes, Uku Merit Aktiva integration can do that.
Every Merit Aktiva integration question we hear from accounting firms — and the answer is always the same.
- Can I pull every Merit customer into Uku via API? Yes!
- Can Uku bill by Merit's purchase and sales invoice counts automatically? Yes!
- Can Uku push invoices with line items and VAT codes straight into Merit? Yes!
- Can Uku auto-send polite debt reminders when invoices go overdue? Yes!
- Does it work with Estonian VAT rules and registry codes? Yes!
What Estonian practice managers say after a year with Uku
38% more customers in just one year
1 year with Uku and we can serve 38% more customers. Couldn't imagine life without Uku."
Annika R.
Chief accountant, Estonia
Brought our clients closer to the accountants
Uku's team is very helpful in coming up with solutions. In our company, Uku has brought the client closer to accountant while giving both the accountant and management an overview of how much time is spent on what kind of work or communication."
Piret T.
IT Manager, Estonia
The answer to our practice management problems
I'd been looking for a practice management solution for my accounting firm for years. Uku was the answer to our problems."
Christer H.
CEO, Estonia
Increased efficiency and visibility across the team
Uku is simple and intuitive and covers anything we might need from a work management system — from tracking time and managing tasks to billing. It has increased efficiency and visibility throughout our team."
Kersti S.
Lead accountant, Sweden
Accountants actually love working with it
Uku is easy to use and accountants actually love working with it."
Jurgita A.
CEO, Lithuania
The perfect solution for financial services
Uku is the perfect solution for financial services companies unlike any other. Uku team is a pleasure to work with. They're quick to respond and offer adaptations and upgrades to match our needs."
Andzej R.
CEO, Lithuania
FAQ
Questions about the Merit Aktiva integration
Uku connects to Merit via API key. Add it once in Uku settings and your customer list, products, and invoice counts start flowing — no other setup on the Merit side.
One-way: Merit → Uku. Customers, addresses and registry codes flow from Merit into Uku. We deliberately don't push client edits back — your books stay the single source of truth.
From Merit → Uku: customers, products, purchase and sales invoice counts, payment status. From Uku → Merit: invoices, line items, VAT rates, due dates, references. The "What syncs" section above shows the full picture.
Yes. This is the killer feature of the Merit integration: Merit reports the number of sales and purchase invoices per client per month, and Uku uses that number to bill your volume-based contracts automatically. Stop running invoice-count spreadsheets.
Connecting Merit and importing your customer list takes under 10 minutes. Mapping your services to Uku contracts takes 30–60 minutes depending on how many you have. Our onboarding team will sit on a call with you and do most of it.
No. Nothing leaves Uku until you hit send. There's no background sync running in the dark. You stay in control of every invoice that lands in Merit.
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