Compare Karbon and Aero
Karbon is the collaborative accounting practice management software that gives your tax and accounting firm everything you need to grow—embedded communication, workflow automation, connectivity, insights and more.
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Karbon outperforms Aero
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Why accounting firms choose Karbon over Aero
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A complete practice management platform
Karbon is a practice management solution for accounting, tax, and bookkeeping firms to manage all aspects of their firm. Aero is primarily a workflow management tool built for sole accountants or bookkeepers.
For firms that need a single platform to manage their clients, work, team, and data, Karbon is the #1-rated practice management solution.
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Powerful workflow automation
Karbon’s workflow automation goes beyond task lists. It features hundreds of best-practice workflow templates, client tasks and auto-reminders, job status automators, and customizable Kanban boards. When you use Karbon to manage your client work, everyone knows where everything stands, automatically.
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Team and client collaboration
Communication and collaboration are at the heart of every successful accounting firm. Karbon's fully embedded emails, @mentions and comments, shared communication timelines, and secure client portal enable teams to seamlessly collaborate with each other and clients in context.
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A continuously improving product
Karbon is the practice management solution that future-proofs your accounting firm. New features and feature enhancements are released every few weeks and the product roadmap is shaped by customer feedback. As one of the first accounting practice management platforms to integrate GPT-powered AI, Karbon is the leader of innovation in the industry.
Experience the Karbon effect.
Employee productivity thrives with Karbon.
In 2022, all Karbon customers were invited to participate in Karbon’s Firm Usage Survey.
Of those, 35% responded.
16.5 hours
Saved on average each week
3.2 hours
Saved chasing clients
3.9 hours
Saved managing and completing work and tasks
3.2 hours
Saved reading, actioning and searching for email
4.1 hours
Saved with more efficient team collaboration
18% growth
In firm-wide productivity