OneBookPlus vs Reckon One:
all-in-one vs focused accounting

It depends on what you need. Reckon One is genuinely good, Australian-owned cloud accounting, its Accounting Plus plan bundles unlimited invoices, GST/BAS, bank feeds, and 50+ reports for about A$24/month, and free eInvoicing via the Peppol network is included. If accounting is all you need and you want to keep the bill minimal, Reckon One is a strong, affordable choice. But Reckon is accounting-first: there's no CRM, no online booking page, no email marketing, and no review collection. OneBookPlus bundles invoicing, CRM, bookings, jobs, marketing, and GST accounting into one flat plan from $0/month, so you run the whole business from one app instead of one accounting tool plus separate booking, CRM, and marketing subscriptions.

Reckon One is well priced. Its cheapest accounting plan, Accounting Plus, is about A$24/month (with a promo of A$1/mo for the first 6 months) and bundles unlimited invoices and bills, GST/BAS, bank feeds, and 50+ reports, invoicing is included, not a separate add-on, and eInvoicing via the Peppol network is free. Payroll is a separate, flat-rate plan from A$16/month (up to 4 employees) or A$32/month (up to 10), see reckon.com/au/accounting-software/payroll. So accounting plus a small payroll plan lands around A$40/month, and that's still just accounting and payroll. To add CRM, online bookings, and marketing you'd bolt on more tools. OneBookPlus starts free and includes invoicing, CRM, bookings, jobs, marketing, and accounting for $0 to $69/month in one plan. 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.

For most small businesses, yes. OneBookPlus handles the core jobs people use Reckon One for: GST-compliant invoicing, expense tracking, profit-and-loss reporting, and BAS-ready figures. On top of that you get CRM, online bookings, job management, email marketing, POS, and Google review requests, features Reckon doesn't offer at all. If your accountant specifically works in Reckon, if you rely on Reckon's flat-rate payroll plan for a larger team, or if you need free Peppol eInvoicing today, weigh that before switching. Otherwise OneBookPlus consolidates your accounting plus the operational tools Reckon leaves you to source elsewhere.

Yes, and so is OneBookPlus. Reckon is Australian-owned, ASX-listed (RKN), headquartered in North Sydney, and hosts data on Australian AWS servers; Reckon One has handled GST, BAS, and Single Touch Payroll for the AU market since 2014 (reckon.com/au/about-us). OneBookPlus is also Australian-built and hosted in AWS Sydney (ap-southeast-2), calculates 10% GST, validates ABNs via the Australian Business Register, and generates BAS-ready summaries. Both are credible AU-compliant choices, the difference is breadth, not country.

A few real places. Reckon's Accounting Plus plan (about A$24/month) bundles unlimited invoices with GST/BAS and keeps an accounting-only bill genuinely low, hard to beat if you truly only need a ledger and invoicing. It includes free eInvoicing via the Peppol network for all customers, whereas OneBookPlus has eInvoicing on its roadmap, a clear Reckon advantage today. Its payroll plan is flat-rate (about A$16/month up to 4 employees, A$32/month up to 10) rather than per-head, which is a genuine advantage as a team grows (reckon.com/au/accounting-software/payroll). Reckon has 35+ years in the AU market, 100,000+ businesses, and a long-established base of accountants and bookkeepers who know the platform. If your priority is the cheapest possible compliant accounting plan, free Peppol eInvoicing today, or an accountant who insists on Reckon, Reckon One is the better fit.

OneBookPlus runs payroll through the Rostering & Payroll add-on, which is $29/month on top of your plan and starts with a 14 day trial. It covers rosters, timesheets, award and penalty rates, pay runs, PAYG withholding calculated to the ATO Schedule 1 coefficients, superannuation, leave accrual, payslips (emailed or downloaded), and an ABA file for paying staff through your bank. It does not lodge Single Touch Payroll. OneBookPlus does not send STP pay events to the ATO, so you still report each pay run through STP-enabled software, and super is calculated and recorded against its quarterly due dates rather than remitted through SuperStream. Reckon sells a dedicated flat-rate payroll plan separate from its accounting plans, and it does lodge STP. If payroll and STP are the centre of your business, Reckon is the better fit and worth comparing directly.

Yes. OneBookPlus imports your client contacts via CSV export from Reckon One during onboarding, so you keep your customer list without re-typing it. Your historical transactions stay in Reckon as a record for your accountant, while new invoices, quotes, jobs, and bookings happen in OneBookPlus. You can export your OneBookPlus data at any time, you're never locked in.

Talk to them before you switch, their workflow matters. A practical arrangement many businesses use: run the day-to-day (invoices, quotes, bookings, jobs) in OneBookPlus, keep the Reckon file as the historical archive until the last open BAS period is lodged, and hand your accountant CSV exports or the Xero-format export from OneBookPlus for anything they need. If your accountant lodges from inside Reckon and wants to keep doing so, that is a genuine reason to stay, or to time the cut-over to the start of a financial year so their handover is clean.

They were checked against reckon.com/au/accounting-software on 1 September 2026: Accounting Plus about A$24/month (with a promotional A$1/month for the first 6 months), and separate flat-rate payroll plans from A$16/month (up to 4 employees) or A$32/month (up to 10). Pricing can change, so treat Reckon's own pages (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.