Kick
Verified Oct 22, 2026 ActiveBookkeeping that categorises transactions itself and keeps a tax-ready P&L and balance sheet
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $40/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free is $0 with a 250-transaction annual cap and one entity. Basic is $40 a month or $480 billed annually for unlimited transactions; Plus $100 a month (or $300 billed quarterly) adds multi-entity, classes, AR/AP automation and an accrual ledger; Advanced $300 a month adds consolidation and revenue recognition. Extra entities are free for their first 250 transactions a year, then $50 a month. Unlimited team members on every plan; accountant plans discount client licences rather than list a price.
Use tool ↗About Kick
Kick is bookkeeping software that keeps the ledger itself rather than handing you a categorisation queue. It takes bank and card feeds, categorises transactions against rules you can edit, matches receipts, surfaces deductions and maintains a general ledger with journal entries behind a tax-ready P&L and balance sheet. Basic adds reconciliation, statement sync, a universal importer and an MCP/CLI route into the data; Plus covers multiple entities, classes, AR/AP automation and an accrual ledger; Advanced adds consolidation and revenue recognition. Free caps you at 250 transactions a year, team members are unlimited on every plan, and accountants get discounted client licences. The company is Kick, Inc. of San Francisco and states it has raised $20M.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 22, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Free $0 capped at 250 transactions/year; Basic $40/month or $480/year with MCP/CLI, universal importer, reconciliation and statement sync; Plus $100/month or $300 billed quarterly with multi-entity, classes, AR/AP and accrual ledger; Advanced $300/month with consolidation and revenue recognition; extra entities $50/month after 250 free transactions; unlimited team members; accountant Starter/Partner/Enterprise/Platform plans with client-licence discounts (15 October 2026)kick.co ↗
- Home page describes an agentic ledger with auto-categorisation, deduction flagging, custom rules, multi-entity insights and tax-ready P&L and balance sheet; banner states Kick has raised $20M; footer copyright Kick, Inc. (15 October 2026)kick.co ↗
- Legal page names Kick, Inc. at 548 Market St, San Francisco, California 94104 (15 October 2026)kick.co ↗
Is Kick legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Nov 25, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 22, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 22, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Kick, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Kick
Kick is aimed at founders and solo operators who want the ledger to keep itself, not at accountants who want control of every posting. The free tier is a real trial rather than a demo, and unlimited seats on every plan is unusual in this category. The gap is accountant-facing depth: accrual accounting and multi-entity only appear at $100 a month.
Pros
- Auto-categorisation with editable rules plus receipt matching
- A real general ledger with journal entries behind the reports, not just summaries
- Unlimited team members on every plan, including the free one
- MCP and CLI access to the ledger from the Basic tier upward
Cons
- Free is capped at 250 transactions a year, which many businesses pass in a quarter
- Accrual ledger, multi-entity and AR/AP need the $100/month Plus tier
- The pricing page's feature matrix contradicts its own plan cards on which tier includes reconciliation and the accrual ledger
Best for
- Founders and freelancers who want categorisation handled automatically
- Cash-basis businesses that need a clean P&L at tax time
- Operators running several entities who can justify the Plus tier
Not for
- Companies needing a full suite with payroll, inventory and projects
- Bookkeepers who want to control every journal entry by hand
Watch out: The $300 'billed quarterly' figure on Plus is not a discount — it is $100/month paid three at a time, so compare it against Basic's $480/year rather than assuming annual savings.
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