Accounting · head to head
Netvisor vs Vena Solutions
Netvisor
Accounting
Finnish cloud accounting and payroll with pricing built from a base fee plus per transaction charges
- From
- Free
- Rated
- -
Vena Solutions
Accounting
FP&A planning that keeps Excel as the front end and puts a database and workflow behind it
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Only Netvisor has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: 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.; Vena Solutions vena publishes no pricing and contracts are modular, so two organisations of similar size can pay very different amounts and neither can benchmark without going through procurement.
- They diverge on capability: Netvisor covers Finnish general ledger, Vena Solutions covers Excel add-in interface.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Netvisor and Vena Solutions actually diverge.
| Attribute | Netvisor | Vena Solutions |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free | On request |
| Pricing model | subscription | quote |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Platforms | Web | Web, Windows, Excel add-in |
Identical on both: 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 Netvisor
- Finnish general ledger
- Value added tax reporting
- Bank connections
- Electronic invoicing
- Purchase invoice workflow
- Sales invoicing
- Payroll
- Incomes register reporting
Only in Vena Solutions
- Excel add-in interface
- Central multidimensional database
- Workflow and approvals
- Audit trail
- Rolling forecasts
- Close management
- Power BI integration
- ERP connectors
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Netvisor
- A Finnish company whose accounting firm works in Netvisor and wants the client approving purchase invoices in the same systemnot Vena Solutions
- A Finnish employer needing payroll that handles collective agreement terms and reports to the incomes register on timenot Vena Solutions
- A business receiving and sending structured e-invoices with Finnish counterparties that require themnot Vena Solutions
- A Finnish accounting practice standardising clients on one system with a shared role model rather than one instance per clientnot Vena Solutions
Vena Solutions
- A finance team that wants governance and audit over budgeting but refuses to give up Excel formulasnot Netvisor
- Replacing a shared drive full of departmental budget workbooks with routed templates and tracked submissionnot Netvisor
- Consolidating actuals from more than one ERP into a single reporting set without a data warehouse projectnot Netvisor
- Running monthly rolling forecasts where the model is complex enough to need real spreadsheet logicnot Netvisor
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
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.
Vena Solutions
- Vena publishes no pricing and contracts are modular, so two organisations of similar size can pay very different amounts and neither can benchmark without going through procurement.
- Implementation services for data integration and template configuration typically make up a large part of first-year cost, often exceeding the licence, and that figure only appears in the proposal.
- Excel dependency is structural: organisations on Google Workspace, or staff working only in a browser or on Chromebooks, cannot use the primary interface as intended.
- Because it accepts existing spreadsheets, it can preserve years of undocumented logic and circular workarounds rather than forcing the clean-up that a rebuild on a purpose-built modelling tool would require.
- Model performance degrades with very large dimensional models, so organisations that grow into genuinely large planning problems eventually hit the limits of the spreadsheet-first design and face a second migration.
Pricing, plan by plan
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$25/month
- All Core features, broadest software interface, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, purchase and sales orders
Vena Solutions
On request- Vena Professional$undefined/year
- Core planning platform and Excel add-in
- Workflow, audit trail and version control
- Standard support
- Vena Complete$undefined/year
- Everything in Professional
- Power BI integration
- Premium support and a customer success manager
Which should you pick?
Choose Netvisor if
- You need finnish general ledger.
- You want to start without paying.
- You also want value added tax reporting.
Choose Vena Solutions if
- You need excel add-in interface.
- You work on Web, Windows, Excel add-in.
- You also want central multidimensional database.
Questions people ask
- Is Netvisor or Vena Solutions better?
- Neither clearly leads. Netvisor starts at Free and Vena Solutions at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Netvisor or Vena Solutions?
- Netvisor has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Netvisor and On request for Vena Solutions.
- Does Netvisor or Vena Solutions run on more platforms?
- Netvisor runs on Web. Vena Solutions runs on Web, Windows, Excel add-in.
- Can I use Netvisor for free?
- Yes. Netvisor has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Vena Solutions starts at On request.
- What is Netvisor best used for?
- Netvisor is most often used for a finnish company whose accounting firm works in netvisor and wants the client approving purchase invoices in the same system, a finnish employer needing payroll that handles collective agreement terms and reports to the incomes register on time, a business receiving and sending structured e-invoices with finnish counterparties that require them, a finnish accounting practice standardising clients on one system with a shared role model rather than one instance per client. Of those, a finnish company whose accounting firm works in netvisor and wants the client approving purchase invoices in the same system and a finnish employer needing payroll that handles collective agreement terms and reports to the incomes register on time are not what Vena Solutions is typically brought in for.
- What can Netvisor do that Vena Solutions cannot?
- Netvisor covers Finnish general ledger, Value added tax reporting, Bank connections, Electronic invoicing. Vena Solutions covers Excel add-in interface, Central multidimensional database, Workflow and approvals, Audit trail.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
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.
Vena Solutions: Do we have to give up Excel?
No, that is the point of the product. Excel is the interface, backed by a central database and workflow.
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.
Vena Solutions: Is pricing published?
No. Vena quotes per organisation based on users, modules and services.
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.
Vena Solutions: How much is implementation?
It is quoted separately and commonly forms a large share of first-year cost. Get it itemised before comparing against Anaplan or Adaptive.
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.
Vena Solutions: Does it work without Microsoft Office?
Not properly. The Excel add-in is the main working surface.
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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