Elba for new SP. How did Kontur Elba organize the login with SMS-push passwords? Free consultation of an accountant

Is an online bookkeeping service that was created to help small entrepreneurs do their bookkeeping without leaving home. Using convenient software, prompts and ready-made formulas, you can significantly save time and money. The service allows multi-user mode, work with primary documents, work with invoices. Suitable for individual entrepreneurs and LLCs on STS and UTII.

Our readers will be able to fully appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of the service. To do this, we have broken down the characteristics of the service into twelve points. We not only considered the pros and cons of the service, but also compared it with competitors. You will not find water in our article. Only interesting and useful information.

Interface

It can be seen that creative and professional people worked on the design of the Kontur website. Nice graphics, convenient arrangement of elements. The site looks very decent.

The control panel is designed so as not to confuse the user with a large fragmented menu. The idea was implemented perfectly. Elba's interface is one of the most user-friendly we've come across.

Step-by-step instruction

Registration in Elba starts by entering your email on the home page. Additionally, you need to enter a password. It is not necessary to enter the TIN.

Then you need to indicate the form of ownership of your company.

This is how the Elba platform interface looks like.

Directly from the main one, you can create the document you need: agreement, invoice, invoice, act, invoice, power of attorney. Other documents are also available. From the main one, you can note the flow of funds.

What immediately catches your eye is minimalism. The minimum number of sections, but at the same time everything is divided so that there are no questions in which section the required action is “hiding”.

Let's try to create an invoice. To do this, left-click the Invoice.

We fill in the rest of the information.

To add an employee, you need to select in the menu - Employees. There, check the box - I am registered as an employer. Then we click the Add employee button.

In online accounting Kontur, everything is arranged quite simply. Fill in the information (all or part) and click the green Save button.

What can you “do with an employee” in Elba? You can print a 2-NDFL certificate, delete an employee, mark a dismissal, charge a salary, fix deductions, mark a vacation, mark a sick leave / vacation.

Other sections available for filling: money, goods, counterparties, reporting, details.

Functional assessment

Elbe
Type of ownership SP; IP / LLC
Taxation scheme STS and / or UTII
Personnel accounting Creation of a detailed employee profile; accounting of dismissed employees; accounting for freelancers.
Tax accounting Formation of payment documents depending on the form of ownership.
Inventory control Main and retail warehouse; materials and goods
Cash accounting Receipt, write-off, movement
Payroll preparation Prepaid expense; salaries; awards; GPA; other charges; absenteeism: vacations, business trips, other absenteeism; benefits: sick leave, lump-sum benefits, maternity leave; Holiday to care for the child; contributions; Personal income tax. Not at all tariffs.
Reports Sending reports electronically to the Federal Tax Service.
Analytics The ability to keep a book of income and expenses, maintaining a balance sheet, creating monetary documents, maintaining stocks, the ability to keep personnel records.
Forms Forms of documents
Documents Invoice for payment, invoice-contract, invoice, invoice, act, advance report, orders. Not at all tariffs.
Electronic signature in the cloud Provided
Online data exchange with banks Provided
Expert advice Provided. Not at all tariffs.
Employee Sharing Provided
Double entry Not provided
Checking counterparties Not provided
Number of companies in the profile Unlimited amount

Kontur.Elba is focused primarily on individual entrepreneurs and allows you to fully work in the system without special knowledge in the field of accounting. In the program, you can keep track of primary documents (invoice, act, contract, invoice, invoice), receipts and write-offs of funds and payments of invoices by clients. Tax reports can be sent via the Internet without an electronic signature (by power of attorney).

For LLC, it is possible to generate financial statements for the year on the basis of the data entered into the system on the financial activities of the enterprise (only reporting, there is no possibility of full-fledged daily accounting in Elba).

Work with employees: salary establishment, bonuses, regional coefficient, northern allowance, reporting on employees. The system allows you to generate payment documents for the payment of taxes and contributions. The system coordinates the user on the deadlines for submitting reports to the regulatory authorities, including by SMS and e-mail. There are acts of reconciliation with the Federal Tax Service and suppliers.

In Elba, accounting is as automated as possible. You won't see standard transactions or multiple ledgers in the system. The system independently takes into account your transactions when filing documents and specifying the types of transactions, and then, based on all the data, builds financial statements based on all the data, after showing the data in the balance sheet and proposing to take a number of actions that complete economic activity in the year. Rating: 5

Comparison of tariffs

In total, the service provides three tariffs

Tariff characteristics

There are only three tariff plans: electronic reporting, online accounting and bookkeeping. Functions increase in proportion to the cost of the tariff.

Comparison with other tariffs

The first tariff is suitable for individual entrepreneurs who want to automate reporting to the Federal Tax Service.

The second tariff provides for the accounting of documents and finances.

The Premium tariff adds the ability to keep records of salaries and taxes, submit reports to the Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund, and receive expert advice.

Service payment

You can pay for Kontur.Elba service in different ways.

1.Bank transfer (payment will be received within 2-5 banking days):

  • p / p for the bank;
  • sberbank receipt (only for individual entrepreneurs);
  • file for online banking.

To receive a payment order or a receipt, you need to click Settings and Payment - Tariffs and Payment, select a tariff and a service period, and at the next step, follow the link by Bank Transfer.

2.Instant payment methods (through the Robokassa system, they enter the system up to 3 hours):

  • By plastic card (VISA, MasterCard, DCL, Maestro);
  • WebMoney;
  • Yandex money;
  • SMS (up to 10,000 rubles for MTS and Tele2 (Rostelecom) subscribers);
  • Cash through the QIWI terminal (instructions in the attachment to knowledge 5025).
  • Alpha click.

To proceed to payment, you must click Settings and Payment - Tariffs and Payment, select a tariff and a service period, and at the next step, follow the link of the most suitable payment method.

Discounts

When registering by specifying a promo code, the subscriber, when paying for any tariff plan for a quarter / year, receives + 3 months as a gift.

If you have already registered in the Kontur Elba online service, then the question will surely arise where is entrance to the Elbe? And, perhaps, under the theme entrance to the Elbe, we mean authorization-authentication. Let's take a look at how E was organized in order. lobe contour login

Elba Kontur login to your personal account - choose a site to enter

Probably, a little preface is needed - there is Elba's site, where the personal account is located, this site has never changed, since the launch of the web service in January 2010: elba. kontur. Common crawl en There are sites with prices, a blog, articles, among them there is the site of the Elba developer - SKB Kontur, and there are sites of SKB Kontur partners, all of them are official, all (partner sites) are marked with a red insert on their main pages, that this is "official site of SKB Kontur partner ”. Actually, there is no difference from which official site you go to the site with a personal account - the real site is the largest, as it is proposed to enter Elba - just below, but let's say right away that it was decided to disable the login button, but an alternative was proposed. Usually everyone chooses one option, and it is used most often. And, by the way, you can also figure this out - in order to choose the most convenient option.

There are several options with the entrance to the Elbe:

1) in principle, you can go to the main page of the Elba promo site from the developer company itself (SKB Kontur), and click on the beautiful "enter" button. Accordingly, the address of the news site (promo site) can be added to the browser bookmarks (you can enter and work with Elba through Opera, through Mozilla, Google Chrome, and, in fact, through any browser, if only you like it and be modern). Alternatively, if the browser remembers the visited addresses, then you can select the address of the Elba login page directly in the address bar. In the same way, you can work with any site of SKB Kontur's partner - in particular, with this site.

2) you can go directly to the Elba login page (site with a personal account). The difference with the first option is small - news will still be displayed, and it is even more convenient to view them in your personal account - on the official website, news is hidden in the "blog" section, and in your personal account there is a so-called "news digest". This is a small block with headlines for the latest news. In general, there is a choice. Memorization options can be recommended the same as in the first case. Entrance to Elba looks like that:

3) download shortcuts ("") to the desktop (you can leave only one shortcut to enter). At this point, someone is used to it. If it's more convenient with shortcuts, then you download a set of shortcuts for working with Elba and leave only the one you need.

How did Kontur Elba organize the login with SMS-push passwords?

Of course, web services are still a novelty and many questions arise for them in terms of security, reliability, etc. In fact, all this lies in the area of \u200b\u200bstereotypes. Here there were accountants at the enterprises, there were. It was considered reliable, everything was kept in papers at the enterprise, you could go into the office and ask for something, demand, etc. Anyone, there, fires, pregnancies, etc., no one considered as security risks, because it was considered a part of life, but risks, but in another way, without risks, it does not happen. And when new accountants appeared - accounting outsourcing - then a new wave of fears arose, because in addition to the already familiar fires, pregnancies, much less responsibility, reliability were added, control almost disappeared, etc. And no one thought about computer programs at all! And one has only to imagine that windows exposed to hundreds of risks on the home or office computers of accountants are not protected at all, then ... questions about web services seem somewhat naive. FSB, FSTEC, data centers, security departments, etc., etc. - a lot of people, laws, technologies and institutions are behind web services, so absolutely everything that can and should be used is used here. In Kontur Elbe, about a million users have registered in 8 years! So if in doubt, you just need to ask, and you also need to choose those methods of protection against unauthorized entry that you consider necessary.

So how does authorization and authentication work when entering Elba? Kontur Elba offers to enter the system by entering a login (e-mail) and password, this requirement is mandatory, everything else is a matter of user choice. You can log in via SMS, and the update from the beginning of 2018 allows you to authenticate through push notification, it works like this:

You can also put a checkmark "remember me" in the settings (login window) - then you can enter even after closing the browser. Here it is up to the user to decide whether to check the box, or, in general, it may work better in "incognito" mode - and this is a modern opportunity for modern browsers. You can configure the entrance in your personal account in the settings:

Although it does not matter whether you enter your personal account directly, or through a promo site, but if you prefer to enter through a promo site, then, as already mentioned above, entry to Elba is possible both through the official promo site e contour ru (although sometimes confused with "e elba "or" e contour elba "," e-kontur.ru elba "," elba.ru "," elba.com "," elba skbkontur.rf "," kontur.ru elba ". For a short period of time Elba was called" Kontur.Beschtrya Easy version "), and through the website of Elba partners.

What is it?

Tariffs and Features

Elbe has flexible prices. I like them because they make the cost cheaper depending on the size of the business itself - for small ones there is an economy for 325 rubles / month, for zero ones it is completely free, so I decided to write a review.

  • Preparation and sending via the Internet of tax reporting, including declarations of the simplified tax system (simplified taxation), UTII (imputed tax) and average listed. Report check function.
  • Possibility to submit VAT for those who have to pay this tax.
  • Calculation of taxes, individual entrepreneur contributions and preparation of payment orders for their payment. All you have to do is upload the ready-made payment to the Internet bank.
  • Integration with Internet banks: Alfa-Bank, Modulbank, Tinkoff-Bank or Tochka (partner banks).
  • Reminder by SMS and e-mail about the need to pay taxes and submit reports (tasks of the Kontur.Elba service).
  • Compliance with cash discipline: accounting for income and expenses, automatically generate the KUDiR and the cash book.
  • Reconciliation with tax reports submitted, payments to the budget, tax arrears.

All features of the Economy tariff plus:

  • Preparation of documents, invoices and invoices, acts, invoices. Convenient document planner.
  • Accounting for goods and inventory.
  • Create contracts: create documents based on popular templates or create your own.
  • Working with contractors. To make sure of the reliability and check contractors, you can request an extract from the state register.
  • Fast preparation of payment documents: Elba submits the details of counterparties automatically.

All the features of the tariff "Economy" and "Business" plus:

  • Preparation and submission of reports to the Pension Fund, FSS and 2-NDFL via the Internet. And also new 6-NDFL, unified social insurance fee (ESSC).
  • Automatic calculation of contributions and taxes for employees when filling out the salary section in the Elba electronic accountant. Calculation of sick leave and vacation pay.
  • Ability to work with foreign workers: when registering an employee, you have the opportunity to indicate his citizenship.
  • Additionally: Answers to questions from professional consultants

Discounts

Activation code

It is almost impossible to find a working activation code on the Internet, because they are sold for money.

3 months as a gift

You can find many promotional codes on the internet. They all offer one thing: three months as a gift when registering with a promo code (valid for 2017).

We also have such a promo code - 1358. Three months as a gift comes from the Elba system itself at the first payment.

Money on the phone

This bonus does not exclude 3 months as a gift and you can get two bonuses at once.

We can transfer you a bonus: 10% of the amount of the first payment to any phone - provided that during registration you enter the promotional code 1358 (otherwise we will not see you in our database).

You will need to email:

  1. Phone number. Telecommunications operator.
  2. Name of individual entrepreneur or LLC.
  3. The amount in rubles that you paid.

We will reply to the letter and transfer the reward within 24 hours.

Please apply for a bonus only by e-mail:. Other service centers and support Kontur.Elbs do not provide such a discount.

15 months for new individual entrepreneurs

A year of free use on the "Premium" tariff for (when registering, indicate the promotional code 1358). And also three months as a gift upon the first payment using the promo code 1358.

Internet reporting

Who is obligated?From January 1, 2015, all organizations and individual entrepreneurs with a number of employees of 25 people or more are required to report via the Internet. In addition, many tax authorities refuse to accept reports on paper, sending them to report with the help of third-party firms. This is illegal and although the report can be mailed in this case, it also creates problems. Since 2014, VAT can only be submitted electronically.

How do I get an electronic signature? An electronic signature comes complete with anyone. To obtain it, you must visit one of the SKB Kontur service centers with a Passport and SNILS and sign the documents.

How does an electronic signature work in Elba? The electronic signature works in the cloud. No special software or USB keys needed. It works on the side of the Kontur company and you can access it from any device, even a mobile phone. If you care about security, then you can set up two-level authentication.

How does the IFTS treat such reports? IFTS only welcomes everything that saves them from unnecessary work. After all, such reports are sent in the form of special electronic xml files. Such files are processed instantly, unlike paper reports, which must be driven in manually. Despite the complexity of the process, Kontur.Elba's clients are spared all technical details and will only see the dispatch report.

Comparison of accounting methods

Using Internet Accounting

On my own

Hiring an accountant
pros
  • Ease of use - no special knowledge required
  • Significant time savings through automation
  • The ability to send any reports via the Internet (online accounting)
  • There is no need to search and install updates or know about all changes in legislation
  • The ability to work together at the same time - for example, a manager and an accountant
  • Monetary savings on an accountant or service
  • You can delegate (transfer) part of the authority to another person
  • Save time
  • There is no need to search and install updates yourself or to know about all changes in legislation
Minuses
  • There are no free tariffs for income. Minimum tariff from. However, it is often enough.
  • Internet accounting is a great assistant who will remind and generate all reports, but will not do all the work for you, but will only simplify it
  • Dependence on errors and instability of the company providing such services. Therefore, we use - more than 5 years of trouble-free operation
  • Suitable only for individual entrepreneurs and organizations with up to 25 people. Some tax authorities refuse to accept on paper even with fewer employees
  • Reporting independently requires special knowledge and time
  • The need to visit the IFTS, or the post office
  • The need to track changes in reporting forms (declarations) and the rules for filling them out
  • There is nothing dearer than a real person - in every sense
  • Trust is essential, because an accountant works with finances
  • It is difficult to find an accountant if the activity is periodic
conclusions

Internet accounting has recently become an integral part of the business. The state itself often contributes to this by putting more and more obstacles to submitting reports through the offices of the IFTS.

Output: No one can replace you, a real person, but they don't pretend to be. The use of such systems, as well as the use of a calculator, greatly facilitates the work, but does not exclude it.

You can calculate taxes yourself, for example, using these free services: STS + declaration or UTII + declaration

Output: Nothing is impossible and you can independently keep track of income and submit declarations. However, not everyone can understand the reporting. Equally important, not every businessman has time for this. This method is suitable for people who are good at numbers with a very small business.

A good accountant is by far the best option for organizing finance and reporting. However, usually the better, the more expensive. Besides, you should never forget the old joke: "We are looking for a new accountant. And the old one too."

Output: In a small business, at first, you can get by on your own and with help. Even if you then hire an accountant, you can entrust the work to him and use it together. Now accountants themselves insist on buying such systems, because this greatly facilitates the work. At the same time, the accountant himself, from saving time, it will be possible to transfer more work - for example, personnel issues.

Question answer

What is the official site? The official website of Elbe is located only at one address - (link). Login to your personal account -. Confused with "e elba" or "e contour elba", "e-kontur.ru elba", "elba.ru", "elba.com", "elba skbkontur.rf", "kontur.ru elba". Previously called "Kontur.Beschtry Light version".

Can I download Elba? Elba online works in the cloud. This ensures performance, updateability and the ability to work simultaneously. You cannot download the program itself for free, but you can download reports.

Is there a free version Yes, sometimes. Various promotions are taking place. For example, now - and. Follow the promotions.

What is the difference between Elba and Kontur.Accounting? suitable for all individual entrepreneurs and small LLCs. It is optimized for them. the service is more complex and functional and is designed more for accountants.

What is the purpose of the counterparty check function? Checking partners for reliability. Checking the connection between different organizations and individuals. In general, checking the reliability of those individuals and organizations with which you plan to work.

What is a props in a service? This is an opportunity to create your own mini-site, a business card with a description of the details, products and prices. Such props can be made available to everyone or sent to a limited circle.

The Elba program appeared a long time ago - eight years ago, and it struck by the fact that it was an online program. For many years, the computer software market was practically completely occupied by programs that require installation, settings, binding to the workplace, etc. The Kontur Elba program is not like that! Yes, there were attempts in large companies to create workplaces with remote terminal access, work through virtual machines, etc., but there was no talk of mass character, convenience and availability, and even now it cannot go. But Elba's program for entrepreneurs and accountants was originally built on completely different principles or, as the developers say, on a different architecture. For ordinary users, this meant the following. To start working with Elba, you do not need to download it and do other actions, the Elba program works online, that is, through a browser. If you have a device with any operating system of the Linux, Windows, or even Android and iOS families, then you just need to launch the browser and enter the Elba website. For mobile operating systems, of course, you need to download the application, but the initial registration is still through any modern browser. ... If you need to generate and send reports through the Elbe, then there is no problem - the Kontur Elba program will generate reports at the click of a button, you can send it in exactly the same motion - you only need a digital signature. If it is, press the button, if not, Elba will show you instructions on how to get it, we will say in advance that everything is extremely simple - only one of your actions is required - to confirm your identity in any service center that can be found in almost any locality in Russia Elba will also provide you with addresses and contacts.

As a rule, individual entrepreneurs are looking for Elba. And this is correct, Elba is a program for individual entrepreneurs, first of all, but on the other hand, we have an Elba accounting program - after all, you can run a lot of individual entrepreneurs and LLCs in it, that is, it can be used as a program for service accounting - a kind of CRM for an accounting company. A business can be on a simplified taxation system, UTII or a patent. But I must say right away that it will not be possible to fully maintain accounting in the Elbe, you can only generate financial statements on the eve of its delivery - each time the developers specially prepare for this and a separate task is opened for users. Then, of course, the financial statements can be sent online. But for the accounting company that runs the LLC, this may not seem quite convenient - therefore, it is better to try Elba on the example of a couple of clients. On the other hand, it is very convenient for business to work in Elba, in fact, the Elba program has already become the norm, for no one provides the best opportunities for beginner entrepreneurs (at the time of this writing, there weren't any before). This means that an entrepreneur can offer an accounting company to conduct his business in Elba. But Elba may well be considered a CRM for an accounting company, since it can be “measured” for free - there is a fairly long free mode of operation. If you want to try online reporting, you can use the "free quarter" promotion, for this you need to enter the promotional code 5000 and in the Elbe, after the first payment, the quarter will automatically be added.

There is also a more incredible gift for an individual entrepreneur - this is the opportunity to report for free (zero reporting with zero activity, this LLC is also available), and ... get a year of work in Elba for newly registered individual entrepreneurs, from the moment of registration no more than 3 months should pass. In fact, you can work for a whole year without an accountant and without a headache what to do with taxes, contributions, reporting, how to issue invoices, where to get contracts, etc. - all this and many, many other IP will be provided by the Elba program. If anyone does not know, the very name Elba received from the combination of two words - "electronic accountant".

In Elba, invoicing takes less than a minute, just a few fields are required. The documents that you generate in Elba fully comply with the law and contain all the necessary details.

You can save the created invoices, acts and invoices in PDF or Excel format.

How to create a new contract

Things are ok

Don't remember if you received an advance payment on your invoice? Has the client signed an act? How much money should the client pay for the services provided?

In Elba, such questions do not arise - all documents and receipts are at a glance.

Signature and seal - already in the documents

No need to waste time sending documents by fax - send documents with your signature and seal to customers by email directly from Elbe.

Income and expenses

All your income and expenses are saved in Elba. At any time you can see - to whom and when you paid, as well as who paid you and for what.

Internet bank connection

Do you work by bank transfer? Fine! This means that you do not need to manually enter information about receipts to the account in Elba.

Just upload your online bank statement file to Elba - the list of income and expenses will be filled in automatically. If you do not have a checking account, you can apply to open an account directly from Elbe.

Customers and suppliers

All transactions in Elba in which a customer or supplier is involved are automatically collected on his page. Thus, by going to the counterparty's page, you can see the entire history of interaction with him.

Find out everything about the counterparty in 15 minutes

Not sure if it's worth working with a new supplier? Request an extract from the state register of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs (USRLE and USRIP).

Elba will provide you with an extract in 15 minutes, from which you will find out: founders, authorized capital, registration date, address and much more.

Open a current account? It couldn't be easier!

How to open a current account

Learn more in this short video.

Reporting calendar

The reporting calendar contains only those tasks that need to be completed during the year of the organization on the taxation system of your choice.

Elba itself monitors changes in legislation and keeps the calendar up to date.

How to pay and return UTII

Learn more in this short video.

Accounting has never been so easy!

Elba is specially designed for people who do not understand accounting. All operations for reporting and calculating taxes are broken down into simple steps, each of which is provided with instructions and tips. In addition, videos are always available to you that explain everything in detail.

Send reports via the Internet!

You don't need to leave your home or office to send a report. You can send reports via the Internet to any tax office in Russia. You will also be able to send reports to the Pension Fund and the Social Insurance Fund.

Pay your taxes

Elba will not only help you calculate all the necessary taxes, but will also generate payment orders for their payment. You just need to upload a file with a payment order to your Internet bank, or print a payment order and pay at a bank branch.


How to pay taxes via Internet Banking

Learn more in this short video.

All reporting

Elba will generate the necessary reports: a declaration of the simplified tax system, UTII, a book of income and expenses, a report on the average number of employees, reports of individual entrepreneurs to the Pension Fund, as well as reports of the employer. In Elba, there are always up-to-date reporting forms, since we follow the changes in legislation.

Employee reporting

All reports that must be submitted by the employer are generated in Elba without additional effort. You simply indicate the monthly payments to employees - on their basis, Elba generates reports. Here is a list of forms: 2-NDFL, SZV-6-1, SZV-6-2, RSV-1, RSV-2 and 4-FSS.

Payroll taxes

You probably already know that you need to pay 6 taxes and contributions from the employee's salary! It is extremely difficult to do this manually. In the Elbe, it is enough to just indicate the salary - taxes and contributions from it will be calculated automatically. All that remains is to pay the payment orders, which Elba will also form herself.

Payouts

All information about payments to an employee is saved in a personal card. At any time you can view the employee's salary for the past periods.

Contracts and statements

In Elba, you will find the contract and application forms required for hiring or firing employees.

 

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