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Mercury vs Netvisor

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Mercury

Accounting

Banking for startups

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Netvisor

Accounting

Finnish cloud accounting and payroll with pricing built from a base fee plus per transaction charges

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Mercury treasury access requires a $250,000 balance held with Mercury; Netvisor pricing is a base fee plus a charge per sales invoice, per purchase invoice, per payslip and per other transaction, so a company with high document volumes pays a bill that scales with trading activity and cannot be budgeted as a fixed monthly cost.
  • They diverge on capability: Mercury covers Business checking, Netvisor covers Finnish general ledger.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 30 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Mercury and Netvisor actually diverge.

Attributes where Mercury and Netvisor differ
AttributeMercuryNetvisor
Pricing modelfreemiumsubscription
PlatformsWeb, Ios, AndroidWeb
Founded2019Unknown

Identical on both: starting price (Free), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Accounting).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Mercury

  • Business checking
  • Savings accounts
  • Virtual cards
  • Team management
  • API access
  • QuickBooks
  • Xero
  • Stripe

Only in Netvisor

  • Finnish general ledger
  • Value added tax reporting
  • Bank connections
  • Electronic invoicing
  • Purchase invoice workflow
  • Sales invoicing
  • Payroll
  • Incomes register reporting

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Mercury

  • Business banking and payments for startupsnot Netvisor
  • Managing treasury, invoicing and corporate cards from one accountnot Netvisor

Netvisor

  • A Finnish company whose accounting firm works in Netvisor and wants the client approving purchase invoices in the same systemnot Mercury
  • A Finnish employer needing payroll that handles collective agreement terms and reports to the incomes register on timenot Mercury
  • A business receiving and sending structured e-invoices with Finnish counterparties that require themnot Mercury
  • A Finnish accounting practice standardising clients on one system with a shared role model rather than one instance per clientnot Mercury

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Mercury

  • Treasury access requires a $250,000 balance held with Mercury
  • Non USD international wires carry a 1% conversion fee
  • Choosing OUR wire coding, which covers intermediary bank charges, costs $15 per wire
  • ACH invoicing is $1 per transaction on Mercury Plus and only free on the $299 a month Pro plan
  • Advanced and recurring invoicing require Mercury Plus at $29.90 a month

Netvisor

  • Pricing is a base fee plus a charge per sales invoice, per purchase invoice, per payslip and per other transaction, so a company with high document volumes pays a bill that scales with trading activity and cannot be budgeted as a fixed monthly cost.
  • It serves Finland, so the tax and payroll logic is useless to entities filing elsewhere, and a Nordic group ends up running a different system in each country even where they belong to the same corporate family.
  • The interface, help material and support operate in Finnish, so a foreign owned subsidiary needs a Finnish speaking bookkeeper or accounting firm to operate it and cannot supervise it directly from head office.
  • Finnish payroll requires collective agreement terms to be configured correctly, and getting holiday pay, supplements and shift rules right is specialist work usually done by a partner, so payroll implementation is a paid project rather than a setup wizard.
  • Because most deployments come through an accounting firm, the practical service you receive depends on that firm's competence with the product, and changing accountant can mean changing system or inheriting a configuration nobody documented.

Pricing, plan by plan

Mercury

Free
  • Mercury (Free)Free
    • ACH payments
    • Domestic wires
    • Real-time payments
  • Mercury Plus$29.9/month
    • Invoice ACH debits
    • Recurring invoices
    • Invoicing API (500/month)
  • Mercury Pro$299/month
    • All Plus features
    • Relationship manager
    • Free ACH invoice debits

Netvisor

Free
  • Starter$25/month
    • Basic accounting, 1000 transactions, invoicing, payroll for 1 person
  • Basic$25/month
    • Basic accounting plus invoicing, 2.06 euros per invoice item, unlimited users, email support
  • Core$25/month
    • All Basic features, invoices included in monthly cost
  • Professional$25/month
    • All Core features, broadest software interface, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, purchase and sales orders

Which should you pick?

Choose Mercury if

  • You need business checking.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Web, Ios, Android.
  • You also want savings accounts.
Mercury review

Choose Netvisor if

  • You need finnish general ledger.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You also want value added tax reporting.
Netvisor review

Questions people ask

Is Mercury or Netvisor better?
Neither clearly leads. Mercury starts at Free and Netvisor at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Mercury or Netvisor?
Mercury starts at Free and Netvisor at Free.
Does Mercury or Netvisor run on more platforms?
Mercury runs on Web, Ios, Android. Netvisor runs on Web.
Can I use Mercury for free?
Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
What is Mercury best used for?
Mercury is most often used for business banking and payments for startups, managing treasury, invoicing and corporate cards from one account. Of those, business banking and payments for startups and managing treasury, invoicing and corporate cards from one account are not what Netvisor is typically brought in for.
What can Mercury do that Netvisor cannot?
Mercury covers Business checking, Savings accounts, Virtual cards, Team management. Netvisor covers Finnish general ledger, Value added tax reporting, Bank connections, Electronic invoicing.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Mercury: Is Mercury business banking free?

Mercury's base banking tier is free and includes ACH payments, domestic wire transfers, real-time payments, Bill Pay, and QuickBooks/Xero automations at no monthly cost.

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Netvisor: Is Netvisor usable outside Finland?

Not as a compliance system. The value is the Finnish tax, banking, e-invoicing and payroll logic. Companies filing elsewhere should look at the local product in the Visma range or another local vendor.

Mercury: What does Mercury Plus add beyond the free tier?

Mercury Plus costs $29.90 per month and adds invoice ACH debits, recurring invoice capabilities, invoicing API with 500 calls per month, unlimited 1099 filings, and access to partner benefits.

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Netvisor: Why is the pricing structured per transaction?

It reflects a Finnish market convention where the accounting firm's fee also scales with document volume. It means a low volume company pays very little and a high volume one pays a great deal, so estimate your annual invoice and payslip counts before comparing headline prices.

Mercury: Does Mercury charge monthly account fees?

No, Mercury states there are no minimum account balance requirements, overdraft fees, required monthly fees, or account opening fees. The free tier includes essential business banking, with paid tiers available for additional features.

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Netvisor: Can my accounting firm work in it with me?

Yes, that is the intended model. The practice and the client share one instance with different roles, so the firm does the bookkeeping while you approve purchase invoices and issue sales invoices.

Netvisor: Does it handle payroll for collective agreements?

It supports Finnish collective agreement based payroll, but configuring the specific agreement terms correctly is expert work normally done during a paid implementation. Do not assume payroll is switched on the same week as accounting.

Netvisor: What about the incomes register?

Reporting earnings to the national incomes register within the statutory deadline is built in, which is one of the main reasons Finnish employers use a local product rather than an international one.

Netvisor: Is it a full ERP?

It includes inventory and fixed assets alongside the ledger, which covers a good deal of a small distributor's needs, but it is a financial management system rather than a manufacturing or full supply chain ERP.

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