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Botkeeper vs. Booke AI

We’ve compiled a few key differences between two accounting solutions: Botkeeper and Booke AI. Choosing the right automated bookkeeping solution is critical, and we want you to have the best information possible to do so. Ready to see the power of Botkeeper? Click below to book a live presentation.

 

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Overview

DON’T SETTLE FOR INCOMPLETE PLATFORMS.

A true automation-based bookkeeping platform will help you operate your end-to-end bookkeeping programs. While many bookkeeping solutions are available today to help streamline specific bookkeeping tasks, not all solutions are built comprehensively. This page will help you understand the differences between Botkeeper and Keeper, so you can decide which bookkeeping solution is best for your firm.

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HERE’S AN OVERVIEW OF BOTKEEPER AND KEEPER.

Botkeeper

Botkeeper offers firms the ability to choose the right approach for each of their clients: tech-only gives firms total control over the Botkeeper platform (automated transaction categorization, exception surfacing, task and project management, and much more), while tech plus add-on services provides your firm with dedicated, professional accountants who can both run your Botkeeper platform and offer much more according to the service plan chosen. In short, Botkeeper delivers a full-suite bookkeeping and pre-accounting solution to accounting firms and their clients.

The powerful combination of our proprietary AI and machine learning with skilled accountants makes for a complete, end-to-end solution.

Booke AI

Booke AI is an AI-powered bookkeeping platform designed to streamline parts of the accounting workflow. It integrates with QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Zoho Books, and is positioned as a tool for automating transaction categorization, document collection, and certain reconciliation tasks. The platform is built to support automation within the confines of active GL feeds, making it suitable for firms that primarily work with cloud-based accounting systems and clients with stable bank integrations.

 

Bookkeeping Services

Automating the time-consuming and laborious aspects of bookkeeping is where Botkeeper shines.

Booke AI automates categorization based on learned behavior but offers no transparency into confidence levels or the ability to isolate and manage exceptions at scale. All transactions land in a single view, requiring one-by-one cleanup with no bulk editing, audit trails, or automation controls. There’s also no journal entry automation, meaning firms must create recurring entries like amortizations or accruals manually. Reconciliations rely entirely on the capabilities of the connected GL, with no dedicated engine or variance detection tools.

Botkeeper, on the other hand, supports categorization that adapts at both the firm and client level, offers auto-sync via AutoPush, manages exceptions with Transaction Manager, automates journal entries, and provides a built-in reconciliation engine to flag variances and streamline review.

 

Technology and Features

Finding the right automated accounting solution for all your bookkeeping needs can become the foundation of your practice and the differentiator you need to grow. As a result, it’s important to seek out technology and features that fit your firm, staff, AND client base. This is why we’ve made Botkeeper with our accounting partner firms in mind — we can grow and adapt our platform to your organization’s wants and needs, offering unsurpassed value for your clients.

The Booke AI platform includes a client portal for uploading documents such as invoices and receipts, which can then be processed via OCR. However, document management is limited to extraction tasks, without additional tools for organizing files into folders, managing versions, or maintaining audit trails. Booke AI does not include built-in tools for managing month-end close workflows, and performance reporting is restricted to basic metrics like the percentage of tasks completed by AI versus human users. It is best suited for straightforward use cases rather than complex, multi-client workflows.

Botkeeper leverages proprietary machine learning technology to handle labor-intensive bookkeeping tasks by processing and categorizing transactions at an incredibly high accuracy level. This goes FAR beyond static rules—our global models are continuously refining, while your client's specific model improves with each transaction successfully coded or updated. This is smart tech that adapts.

As an end-to-end bookkeeping solution, Botkeeper integrates with QBO and Xero, auto-categorizing and matching transactions, surfacing exceptions, automatically reconciling bank and credit card accounts and recording of principal/interest loan splits. It also offers centralized communication, task and project management, secure password management, and a close tracker that helps you see at a glance how closing is proceeding.

Interacting with your team and even your clients is made simple with Activity Hub, a central space for all comments made anywhere across the platform, while Client & User Management helps you control access and permissions, customize your portal with your logo and favicon, and more. Botkeeper's Documents feature incorporates a secure portal for document storage, exchange, and review—it even includes version tracking and a customizable folder structure. And all of it is super-secure, with 256-bit encryption that's SOC 2 Type 2 accredited.

 

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Training & Support

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When your firm streamlines its bookkeeping with Botkeeper, your support and training needs will be unique.

To accommodate all needs cases, Botkeeper offers different service tiers. While everyone gets in-app step-by-step guides, access to our comprehensive Knowledge Base, live chat, monthly group training  webinars and access to Botkeeper University (our vibrant user community), we also offer additional options:

Our Enhanced Onboarding & Support tier adds our four-week Essentials training course, a quarterly strategy consultation, and an assigned client success associate. This plan is included when adding 11-50 entities, but it available for a one-time fee if you are adding fewer than 11.

Choose Premium Onboarding & Support to add your own outreach concierge and everything in the Enhanced plan. This plan is included when adding 51 or more entities, but it available for a one-time fee if you are adding fewer than 51.

Information about Booke AI’s onboarding process and customer support structure is limited. The company has not publicly outlined a formal onboarding program, nor are there details about assigned support specialists or guided training experiences. Some user reviews have mentioned inconsistencies in onboarding delivery, including missed calls and lack of follow-up. Support appears to be reactive rather than structured, which may impact the user experience during adoption and ongoing usage.

 

Security

As a firm, you want to ensure that your clients' personal and financial information is held in the strictest confidence. Before choosing a solution, ask about the level of security employed and whether the vendor's security standards are in line with those of your industry.

Botkeeper’s automated bookkeeping solution takes security seriously, with industry-standard SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation, two-factor authentication, and 256-bit encryption for data at rest and data in transit.

SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation means:

  • Botkeeper has the required data security controls in place to protect customer data against unauthorized access.

  • Botkeeper can detect anomalies and security incidents across its entire ecosystem.

  • In addition to preventing risk situations, Botkeeper can quickly repair damage and restore functionality in the event of infrastructure or system failures.

  • Botkeeper’s security controls are both correctly designed AND function as intended.

Botkeeper’s SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation is granted by an industry best, reputable independent third party, and Botkeeper renews the report annually with continuous testings. That means any information shared with Botkeeper is protected to the highest current standards, and you can rest easy knowing your data is in good hands.

Botkeeper does not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us, and it does not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties without your consent. Your personal information is secured from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, using the following methods for this purpose: SSL Protocol; Two Factor Authentication; and Database Encryption.

Botkeeper is also a member of the Financial Data Exchange (FDX), a nonprofit dedicated to unifying the financial industry around a common, interoperable, royalty-free standard for secure and convenient consumer and business access to their financial data.

Booke AI claims to offer secure platform access, but its website lacks publicly verified proof of compliance with major certifications like SOC 2. However, a third-party profile from Nudge Security lists Booke AI as compliant with SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, and CSA STAR Level 1. It's unclear how accurate or current this information is. The company’s privacy policy mentions the use of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards, with payment data handled exclusively via Stripe. Still, the absence of detailed disclosures on encryption, audit logging, or role-based access controls may be a concern for firms requiring enterprise-grade security.

 

 

MEASURE ROI

Measure the performance of your bookkeeping when you integrate an automated solution, and see what your firm is able to achieve.

Booke AI includes dashboards that show transactional progress and indicate the balance between AI-handled and manually completed work. However, the platform does not offer deeper analytics around firm-level efficiency, client profitability, or time savings. Insights are focused on day-to-day operations rather than broader return on investment metrics or productivity optimization.

Botkeeper goes a bit farther. Our solution allows you to automate bookkeeping and pre-accounting procedures so you can dedicate more time and resources to your client base. Built-in collaboration via task and project management as well as centralized communication cuts down on emails, texts, or prolonged water cooler conversations. And while our investigations have shown time savings for firms at or in excess of 50% for bookkeeping activities, we've even included a module called Transaction Insights that allows you to see the savings for yourself.

 

Cost of Ownership

The cost of ownership is a way for you to assess the long-term value of an automated accounting solution to your firm. While the cost of the package is certainly a key component to keep in mind, it’s not the only cost that you should take into account.

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Booke AI may appeal to price-sensitive firms with its basic automation features, but its lack of deep automation, review tools, and firm-level support could lead to hidden costs over time. Without automation controls, recurring JE functionality, or team collaboration tools, staff may spend more time cleaning up what the system misses.

Botkeeper’s pricing for our Infinite (tech-only) package is $69/entity/month, and that includes everything the platform can do. Looking for even more? Add services to bring professional accountants into the fold for those clients with even more complex needs.

 

SCALABILITY

As the bookkeeping decision-maker, you probably think about your business every day (probably multiple times a day). Finding a bookkeeping solution that works for you today is as important as finding a solution that continues to work for you in the future. Will the solution you pick today be able to grow as you and your clients grow?

Booke AI is designed with individual users and small teams in mind. While it offers basic client interaction features like a document upload portal, the platform lacks advanced tools for internal collaboration, role-based access controls, or workflow visibility across multiple clients. There are no public tools for tracking the status of monthly close processes or assigning responsibilities across a broader team, which may limit its usefulness in larger or fast-growing firms.

Botkeeper supports small, medium, or large accounting firms — we’re talking to all of you! By both managing AND reviewing the books, Botkeeper saves enormous amounts of time allowing firms of all sizes to scale endlessly. Need to add more clients? We can take it. You'll save precious time all along the process, not just at the end.

Botkeeper is much more than just software.

Choosing a bookkeeping automation provider is a crucial decision. Considerations such as ease of use, security, features, and more are top of mind, Botkeeper isn't only thinking in terms of selling software.

  • Free Training & Education — Botkeeper resources are available to help you and your entire team learn best practices and successfully execute tactics that grow your business. Take a look at the dozens of resources available, and get started today.

  • Firm-first mentality — Botkeeper doesn't compete with firms. Our platform isn't available to businesses directly, because we support the accounting profession and understand the expertise required to do the job right.

  • Deployment — When you start using Botkeeper, you'll have a dedicated team to help you get started with the software, and technical setup tasks, and execute your first successful dive into the tool. 

    Learn more about Botkeeper Deployment here.

We've built the Botkeeper Platform to be easy for Accounting Professionals and their clients to use. That's why we're happy to share reviews of everyday professionals using Botkeeper to grow better, just like you. Click below to request a demo.

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Implementing Botkeeper has been a game-changer for GHJ’s Client Accounting and Advisory Services Practice. By automating transactional processes, we have not only improved efficiency but also gained a competitive edge with our pricing. The real breakthrough, however, has been the transformation of our team. With routine tasks taken care of by automation, our staff has been able to upskill and focus on higher-level, strategic activities that add greater value to our clients. Botkeeper has truly empowered us to deliver more while growing professionally, and I certainly appreciate the partnership with the Botkeeper team.
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Arna Erazo, CPA
Principal, Client Accounting and Advisory Services Practice Leader | GHJ

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