OneBookPlus vs Hnry:
tax service vs all-in-one platform

Not a like-for-like one, they solve different problems. Hnry is an automatic tax-payment service: it takes 1% + GST of every payment into your Hnry Account, sets aside and remits your income tax, GST and Medicare on each payment, and its accountants lodge your income tax and BAS returns for you (see hnry.com.au/pricing and hnry.com.au/sole-traders). OneBookPlus is a flat-fee all-in-one business platform, invoicing, quotes, online bookings, job management, CRM, marketing, POS and GST/BAS-ready reporting from $0/month. If your only pain is tax admin, Hnry is purpose-built for that. If you want to run the whole business, winning, booking, quoting, invoicing and tracking clients, OneBookPlus is the broader tool, and many sole traders happily use both.

Hnry charges 1% + GST of every payment into your Hnry Account, capped at a maximum of $1,500 + GST per year, with a $0.50 + GST minimum on individual payments under $50 (hnry.com.au/pricing). There is no subscription, if you don't earn, you don't pay, and the fee is auto-claimed as a business expense. So a sole trader earning $50,000 pays roughly $500 + GST a year; someone earning $150,000+ hits the $1,500 + GST cap. OneBookPlus is a flat monthly fee: $0 on the Free plan, $29/month Starter, $49/month Plus, or $69/month Growth, independent of how much you invoice. For higher earners the flat fee is usually cheaper; for very low or irregular income, Hnry's percentage can be smaller. They also buy different things, Hnry's fee includes accountants lodging your returns, while OneBookPlus's fee includes the bookings, CRM, jobs and marketing Hnry doesn't offer. The AI Receptionist is a $79/mo add-on and it needs the AI Companion ($25/mo, included free on Growth), so budget about $104 a month on top of your plan, or $79/mo on Growth.

No, and we want to be clear about that. Automatically deducting and remitting your income tax and GST on every payment is Hnry's signature feature, and OneBookPlus does not do it. What OneBookPlus does is calculate 10% GST on your invoices and quotes, validate ABNs via the Australian Business Register, track GST collected and paid, and generate ATO-ready BAS summaries so you (or your accountant or tax agent) can lodge confidently. If hands-off, set-and-forget tax payment is the single thing you want, Hnry is built for exactly that. If you want a platform to run the rest of the business and are comfortable lodging BAS yourself or via your agent, OneBookPlus fits.

Yes, and it's a sensible combination. You can run your client-facing business in OneBookPlus, online bookings, quotes, job management, CRM, marketing and GST invoicing, and still have payments land in your Hnry Account so Hnry handles the automatic tax deduction and lodgement. OneBookPlus gives you the front-of-house tools Hnry doesn't (bookings, quotes, jobs, CRM, reviews, POS); Hnry gives you the hands-off tax-payment service OneBookPlus doesn't. Used together you get a booking-to-BAS workflow plus automated tax payments, while keeping the OneBookPlus flat fee predictable.

It depends on your bottleneck. If your business is simple, a contractor or freelancer whose main stress is remembering to set aside tax and lodge on time, Hnry's automatic tax payment and included accountant lodgement is hard to beat, and the 1% + GST fee is genuinely set-and-forget. If you're a tradie, salon, studio or services business that needs to take bookings, send quotes, manage jobs, keep a client CRM, request reviews and run marketing, not just handle tax, OneBookPlus does far more of the day-to-day work, at a flat fee that doesn't scale with your income. For many, the answer is OneBookPlus for running the business and an accountant (or Hnry) for the tax.

Yes. OneBookPlus automatically calculates 10% GST on all invoices and quotes, validates ABNs against the Australian Business Register, tracks GST collected and GST paid, and produces ATO-ready BAS summaries (G1, 1A, 1B). The difference from Hnry is who acts on those figures: Hnry's accountants lodge your BAS and income tax return as part of its fee, whereas OneBookPlus hands you (or your bookkeeper or tax agent) clean, lodgement-ready numbers. OneBookPlus is Australian-built and hosted in AWS Sydney, with GST, ABN and BAS support built in from day one.

Yes. OneBookPlus is designed for Australian small businesses with GST, ABN validation and ATO-ready BAS built in, and customer data hosted in AWS Sydney (ap-southeast-2). Hnry is also an Australia/New-Zealand-built service with Australian operations. Both are genuinely local, the real difference is scope: Hnry is a focused tax-payment service for sole traders, while OneBookPlus is a broader business platform covering bookings, quotes, jobs, CRM, marketing, POS and accounting alongside GST/BAS.

Export your client list from Hnry, import it into OneBookPlus as a CSV, then set your ABN, GST settings and invoice template. It is one sitting of admin, not a project. Invoices you raised through Hnry stay in Hnry's records, so download copies for your tax records, and your lodgement history stays with the ATO and whoever lodged for you. One thing to plan for: if Hnry has been setting aside and paying your tax automatically, that stops once payments stop landing in your Hnry Account, so from that point you or your accountant handle the set-asides and lodgement. That last point is general information, not tax advice, check the timing with your accountant before you switch.

They were checked against hnry.com.au/pricing in July 2026: 1% + GST of income paid into your Hnry Account, capped at $1,500 + GST per year, with a $0.50 + GST minimum on payments under $50. Pricing can change, so treat Hnry's own pricing page (linked throughout this comparison) as the source of truth. OneBookPlus pricing is $0 (Free), $29 (Starter), $49 (Plus) or $69 (Growth) per month, and the current numbers are listed on the OneBookPlus pricing page, linked from the top of this comparison.