Switch from Financial Cents to Uku.
A practice-management tool your team actually enjoys — beautifully simple, fast, and everything quick to find. One cohesive system with fast, included support — not a patchwork of features that each feel built by a different team.
- Fast, professional support — included not slow replies and a charge for every change
- Beautiful and fast — your team enjoys it, and finds everything in seconds
- One cohesive system — not features that are always almost-there
4.8 from 300+ reviews · No credit card required
The question that runs a firm is simple: who’s doing what, and is it on time? Uku puts that answer on one screen — in a system your team actually enjoys opening.
Financial Cents has the features — the gap is experience and support.
Financial Cents is a capable, purpose-built platform for US and Canadian firms, with a long feature list. It’s only marginally pricier than Uku — so this isn’t a money story. Firms move to Uku for how the product feels day to day: cohesive, fast, and well supported.
- Support
Slow to reply — and a charge for every change.
Firms who switched tell us Financial Cents' support often doesn't reply fast enough, and that you're quoted for nearly every adjustment. Mid-deadline, waiting on support — or being billed for a small change — is exactly the friction you're trying to remove.
- Setup
You have to buy the onboarding to get set up.
The product is complex enough that setting it up yourself is hard, so buying their onboarding is effectively required. It's fine at the start, but those services keep adding up — the real cost is higher than the sticker price suggests.
- Cohesion
It doesn't feel like one product.
Inside Financial Cents, things aren't logically connected — as if each piece was built by a different team, and the unity just isn't there. You end up working around the seams instead of with the tool.
- The gaps
Lots of features — but always something missing.
There are plenty of capabilities, but in daily use many feel built for the sales demo: start relying on one and something's always incomplete. Breadth on the feature list doesn't always mean it does the job end to end.
Everything connected — and quick to find.
Uku is built as one thought-through product, not separate tools stitched together. The client-portal task, the team’s task, and the billing line are the same object — every log, time entry, file, and comment attached. So “who’s doing what, and is it on time?” lives on one screen, and your team finds what it needs in seconds instead of hunting across disconnected modules.
Beautiful and fast — a tool your team enjoys.
The thing firms notice first is how it feels. Uku is clean, fast, and simple to learn — the kind of software a team is happy to open every morning, with a Client Portal you can brand as your own (logo, domain, per-client menus, e-signing inside the task). Adoption isn’t a battle when the tool is a pleasure to use.
Onboarding and support included — not metered.
Every Uku account gets a free 90-minute onboarding and fast, professional support — you’re not buying a setup package or paying for each small change. Billing, automations, and the work that runs your firm are included, so the price you see is closer to the price you pay. Less metering, more momentum.
How automated billing works
“Uku keeps our team organized and all client work in one secure place — no more scattered desktops or chasing updates. I love how easy it is to customize Uku for each client, without re-entering everything from scratch.”
Sarah L. · verified review on G2
Financial Cents vs Uku, at a glance.
The price is close — both start at $19/month. The difference firms feel is in support, how the product hangs together, and what’s included versus metered. All figures are list prices in USD.
Experience and support points reflect what firms who switched report; pricing and reach are from Financial Cents’ published 2026 details. Uku prices shown are yearly-billed display rates.
Want the full plan-by-plan breakdown? See our deep dives on Financial Cents pricing, the Financial Cents review, and the best Financial Cents alternatives. Or see Uku’s full pricing.
What firms get after switching.
average rating, 300+ reviews
Teams rate Uku highly for ease of use and fast, professional support.
free onboarding, included
With every account — setup isn't a paid add-on you have to buy.
days to fully migrate
Client import, workflow setup, and team training — a short, guided project.
You won’t do the move alone.
Moving off Financial Cents sounds heavy — in practice it’s a short, guided project, not a system rebuild. Here’s the shape of it.
Export from Financial Cents
Pull your client list, contacts, work templates, and time entries (CSV/Excel). Uku imports them directly — or syncs clients straight from QuickBooks, Xero, or e-conomic.
Set up your workflow
We help map your recurring work into Uku workflow templates and automations, switching on only the modules you need so the team is productive immediately.
Train the team
A 90-minute onboarding session, free with every account, gets your members confident fast — most are productive the same week. No paid onboarding package required.
Go live
Turn on the Client Portal, billing, and Reporting. Most firms are fully live within 5–7 business days.
Want the step-by-step? Our help center has the full client-import playbook, with screenshots and the exact export/import flow. Read the migration playbook
Switching from Financial Cents — your questions
How long does it take to switch from Financial Cents to Uku?
Most firms complete the full move — client import, workflow setup, and team training — within 5–7 business days. You export your data from Financial Cents (CSV/Excel), and Uku's team helps import it. Every new account gets a free 90-minute onboarding session — onboarding is included, not a paid add-on.
Will I lose my data moving from Financial Cents to Uku?
No. You export your client list, contacts, work templates, and time entries from Financial Cents (CSV/Excel), and Uku imports them directly. You can also sync clients straight from QuickBooks, Xero, or e-conomic. Our team helps with the import.
Is Uku cheaper than Financial Cents?
Slightly, on a like-for-like plan — but price isn't the reason most firms switch. Financial Cents and Uku both start at $19/month, and on a Team plan Uku is modestly lower ($38/member vs $49/user). The bigger saving over time is what you stop paying for: Financial Cents' onboarding services and per-change add-ons add up, while Uku's onboarding and support are included. Firms move for the experience and support, not to chase a small monthly difference.
What's the real reason firms switch from Financial Cents?
The experience. Firms who moved tell us Uku is well thought-out, beautifully simple, and fast — their teams genuinely enjoy using it, everything is quick to find, and support is fast and professional. Where Financial Cents can feel like separate tools stitched together with features that are 'almost there,' Uku works as one cohesive system.
Does Uku do what Financial Cents does — reporting, portal, billing?
Yes. Uku covers the core practice-management workflow: CRM, recurring tasks and workflow automations, time tracking, billing, a branded Client Portal, document management, email management, AML, Reporting on every plan from Team up, and BI Analytics on the Elite plan ($48/member/month). The difference is cohesion — the same task lives across the portal, the team view, and billing as one object, so nothing scatters.
Have a question? Contact us — real people answer.
Top-rated by accounting firms, consistently.
Explore the rest of Uku.
Deliver the work
Serve clients
Run a profitable firm
QuickBooks 
Xero 
Gmail 
Google Drive 
Dropbox 
Zapier 
Microsoft 365Move to a system your team actually enjoys. Be live on Uku by next week.
"Let's create a dream, where the team is happy, clients are well served and profits are fair." — Rain Allikvee, Co-founder of Uku
