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Workforce Management Software for Accounting Firms
“Now that reminders appear automatically on our dashboards, we save around 20% of time spent on task management.”
Thomas M.

Sandgrav Solutions

”Uku’s Client Portal puts client first, makes collecting missing documents and communication easy, and is very easy to use.”
Anu A.

CFO

“Thanks to Uku, decisions have become better and work easier. We’re doing the same tasks more systematically and better.”
Christer H.

CEO

Reimagine how you manage your workforce with the help of Uku.

A Smarter Way to Give
Your Team’s Productivity a Push

Flextime Reporting

Your Team Deserves Work-Life Balance

Introducing Flextime — the all-in-one solution for managing working hours, overtime, and vacation planning.

Show your team you care by giving them the balance they deserve.

Have an overview of overtime with up-to-date work time balances. Adjust each team member’s workload, vacation days, and national holidays to fit their needs and keep mental health a priority in your accounting firm.

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Time Tracking & Billing

Every Tracked Minute Boosts Your Profits

Monitor and manage working time with Uku’s time tracking. Ensure you get paid for every billable task and import tracked data to your accounting software.

  • Easy Time Tracking Use a stopwatch or manual entries to log even the smallest tasks.
  • Productivity Insights Analyze time spent on clients and tasks to optimize your workload.

  • Transparent Billing
Automate invoicing and build trust with detailed time reports.

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Attendance Tracking

Know Where Your Employees Are

Get an overview of employee locations with office attendance tracking. Team members can update their status – remote or office, with a single click, helping you plan office capacity and coordinate team meetings.

Automate location assignments by designating office IP addresses.
Know Where Your Employees Are

Coordinate Team Vacations and Handle Absences

Manage your team’s vacation days effortlessly in Uku. Approve or deny vacation requests, customize settings for each employee, and export data directly to your accountant — all in one place.
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Manage Your Accounting Team to Keep Them Happy

Uku’s powerful features help you manage your team. Designed by bookkeepers and accountants for accounting firms

Customizable Employee Profiles

Create detailed profiles with standard and custom fields. Track essential information like contact details, departments, skills, certifications, performance metrics, contract start dates, software proficiency, health check dates, and assigned equipment — all in one place.

Save Memos & Documents

Add notes directly to employee profile for quick reference. Log important conversations, performance reviews, onboarding progress, and policy documentation. Keep everyone informed and up-to-date.

Laber Cost & Billable Rates


Assign labor costs and billable rates to each team member for accurate budgeting and profitability reporting. Import and export all your data fast. Set agreed working hours per week to provide flexibility for your team members.

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Team Calendar

Shows the Ultimate Overview

Bring your team closer together with a calendar that shows all your important information — vacations, absences, team and client birthdays, holidays, tax dates, company events, and most importantly, all tasks. The all-in-one planning tool not only enhances coordination and boosts productivity but truly unites your team by keeping everyone informed and connected across your accounting firm.

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Smooth Employee Onboarding

and Leave Management

Offer the best experience to new team members joining your accounting firm. With Uku, you can create onboarding projects that include all necessary steps — like setting up accounts, introducing company policies, scheduling training sessions, and more. Turn these projects into reusable templates for quick deployment, ensuring nothing important is overlooked.


Easily track each new hire’s progress with Uku’s super simple project overview. Link tasks together (task dependencies) for a smooth onboarding process that keeps everything organized and efficient, giving your new team members a welcoming start.

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Yes, With Uku You Will:

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Reduce Administrative Tasks

No more time-consuming admin tasks, like keeping track of Excel sheets or searching for documents.

Uku helps bookkeepers with time tracking, task handling and automating admin tasks, so the team can focus on delivering service to accounting clients.

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Help the Team Communicate

Unite your accounting team in every aspect of their work. With all client, employee, and work information in one place, communication flows better.

Coordinate tasks, share info, add comments, support each other. Work will fly by!

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Oversee of Everyone’s Work

No more blind spots, asking around, and micromanaging.

You know your team's workload, project statuses, and performance metrics in real time. Make informed decisions and keep your accounting firm responsive.

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Make Client Experience Better

When your team is more organized, they work better, and your clients feel the difference.

Uku helps you stay on top of deadlines, deliver transparent and personalized services that set your accounting firm apart and help gain your clients’ trust.

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Free Your Team's Time

Save your staff time and give them peace of mind with tools that do the boring tasks.

Uku automates routine processes like writing and sending emails and invoices. Your accounting team can focus on what they enjoy doing most.

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Stay Ahead of the Competitors

Uku’s clients are happy other accounting firms have not found Uku yet.

The software keeps you competitive. You have more free time to adapt to new regulations and market demands thanks to automations and integrations that save you time.

How Much Time Does a 10-Person Accounting Firm Save?

Implementing Uku, the accounting practice management software to your accounting firm could save you 975 hours per year
Here’s how:

Assuming your firm has 10 bookkeepers and 2 managers, here’s the total time saved:

  • Bookkeepers: 83 hours/year × 10 bookkeepers = 830 hours per year
  • Managers: 37.5 hours/year × 2 managers = 75 hours per year
  • Onboarding: 20 hours per year
  • Team coordination: 50 hours per year

Implementing Uku’s Workforce Management Software can significantly reduce the time spent on administrative tasks, allowing your team to focus on delivering exceptional service to your clients. Here’s an example calculation of how these features can save your firm time

 

1. Time Tracking and Automated Billing

  • Before Uku: Accountants spend about 30 minutes daily manually tracking time and preparing invoices.
  • With Uku: Time tracking with Uku reduces this to 10 minutes daily.
  • Time Saved per Accountant: 20 minutes/day.
  • Annual Savings per Accountant: 20 minutes/day × 5 days/week × 50 weeks/year = 83 hours/year.

 

2. Simplified Vacation and Absence Management

  • Before Uku: Managers spend approximately 1 hour per week handling leave requests and updating schedules.
  • With Uku: Uku streamlines this process to 15 minutes per week.
  • Time Saved per Accountant: 20 minutes/day.
  • Annual Savings per Accountant: 45 minutes/week × 50 weeks/year = 37.5 hours/year.

 

3. Efficient Employee Onboarding

  • Before Uku: Onboarding a new employee takes around 8 hours over several days.
  • With Uku: Using onboarding templates cuts this down to 4 hours.
  • Time Saved per New Hire: 4 hours.
  • If you onboard 5 employees a year:
4 hours × 5 employees = 20 hours/year saved.

 

4. Streamlined Team Coordination

  • Before Uku: Teams spend about 2 hours per week coordinating schedules and meetings.
  • With Uku: The unified team calendar reduces this to 1 hour per week.
  • Time Saved per Team: 1 hour/week.
  • Annual Savings for the Team:
1 hour/week × 50 weeks/year = 50 hours/year.

 

Unlock your firm’s potential by saving time with Uku’s Workforce Management Software.

Release your firm's full potential by saving time with Uku.
FAQ

Questions about Uku’s
workforce management feature

It removes the need for a separate HR or workforce management software. You can handle all of your tasks, client data, client communication, business analytics and workforce management from a single software. Uku’s workforce management helps you plan vacations, have an overview of absences and sick leave, delegate work between colleagues, keep up with task status, and manage office attendance.

Uku’s Flextime feature simplifies vacations and absences management. Employees can request time off and view their vacation balance in real-time, without having to contact anyone. Transparency and fairness in vacation scheduling helps create a positive work environment, enhancing employee satisfaction.

Absolutely. Uku offers high levels of customization. Create employee profiles with custom fields, set individual working hours for employees, and design onboarding or offboarding templates specific to your firm’s processes. This flexibility makes Uku adapt to your needs, not the other way around.

Uku’s features keep teams connected regardless of their location. The office attendance tracking allows employees to update their work status (remote or office) with a single click, which helps managers plan resources and team meetings. Real-time collaboration tools, like sharable client profiles, notes, comments, and a unified team calendar ensure smooth cooperation in remote or hybrid setups.

Uku prioritizes the security of your data with encryption protocols and access controls. It complies with industry standards and regulations related to data protection and privacy. Updates and security audits are performed yearly to safeguard sensitive information, giving you peace of mind.

Uku offers the Elite plan at €39 per month when billed annually. This plan provides full access to all the advanced features. Investing in Uku means investing in a solution that saves you time, reduces administrative work, and helps your firm grow profits as well as client and employee satisfaction.

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Rain Allikvee

Let’s create a dream, where the team is happy, clients are well served and profits are fair.

Rain Allikvee / Uku’s co-founder