No installer. No sign-up. No card. Not even an email address. One click puts you inside a working accounting system whose books are already full of transactions.
Launch the Live Demo →Accounting vendors have trained everyone to expect a gate: leave your details, sit through a scheduled walkthrough, or install something before you are allowed to see whether the thing is any good. We would rather you simply looked. What opens below is the genuine application on our servers, carrying the books of an invented company so there is something substantial to examine.
Raise an invoice. Take a payment against it. Reconcile a bank line. Run the reports and see whether the numbers land where you would expect. It is a sandbox, so there is no wrong move available to you.
Issue an invoice, apply a payment, and watch it flow through to the ledger and the customer’s balance.
Step through a reconciliation exactly as you would at month end, against transactions already sitting there.
Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow, drawn from books with enough history to be worth reading.
Inspect a properly built double-entry chart of accounts, and rearrange it if you like.
Move between separate company files the way anyone running several entities has to.
Put the categorisation engine and the plain-English report summaries to work on the sample data.
That is the whole process. No form stands between you and the software, and nothing is captured on the way through.
We hold fully seeded demo companies ready in advance, so there is no loading screen and no waiting for anything to build.
The session is disposable and resets afterwards. Delete an account, post a mad journal entry, see what the software does about it.
The 30-day trial puts the same software on your own machine with your own books. It asks for no payment details either.
Worth being explicit: Kantivo is desktop accounting software. It installs on your computer and your books sit in a database you own, on hardware you control — not on our servers, and not hostage to a subscription lapsing. This demo is a window into the product, not a change of direction. We have watched what QuickBooks did to its desktop customers and have no intention of repeating it.
This is it. Runs in the browser, opens immediately, and requires nothing of you.
No, and you will not be asked afterwards either. Nothing is collected at any point and there is no follow-up sequence waiting for you.
It is the same codebase, hosted by us instead of running locally. The differences are confined to things that inherently need your own machine — reading a bank statement file off your hard drive, for instance.
No. Sessions are disposable and reset. Nothing you type there follows you into a real installation, and nothing there is yours to lose.
No. Everyone gets their own private set of demo books, so your entries stay yours and other people’s edits never surface in your session.
No — it is a desktop install and will remain one. Should a hosted option ever appear it would be an additional choice sitting beside the desktop app, never a replacement for it.
One click, nothing asked of you, and the software is on screen. If it holds up, the 30-day trial is there whenever you want it.