Early access — Australia
Accounting that
costs you nothing.
Balaana is invoicing, expense tracking and GST reporting for Australian sole traders and very small teams. Send an invoice, get paid into your account, and walk into BAS time with the numbers already added up.
No card. No trial clock. The free plan stays free.
Small businesses should not pay $40 a month to send an invoice
Most accounting software is priced for companies with a bookkeeper. If you are one person with an ABN, you are paying for payroll, multi-currency and approval workflows you will never open. Balaana gives away the part you actually use.
Free is the whole plan
Invoices, expenses, clients and GST tracking on the free plan, with no cap on how many invoices you send.
Built for one
No chart of accounts to design, no journal entries. You describe the work; Balaana keeps the ledger.
BAS-ready as you go
Every invoice and expense is tagged with its GST treatment the moment you enter it, not the week it is due.
Everything a one-person business needs
And nothing it does not.
Invoicing
Compliant tax invoices with your ABN, GST worked out per line, and a running view of what is still outstanding.
Payment collection
A Pay now button on every invoice — card, PayID or bank transfer — that reconciles itself when the money lands.
Expenses and receipts
Photograph a receipt in the ute and it is filed, categorised and kept for the five years the ATO expects.
GST and BAS reporting
G1, 1A and 1B totalled for the quarter, so lodging is copying figures across rather than a weekend of sorting.
How Balaana works
Three steps, and the BAS maths takes care of itself.
- 1
Send the invoice
Pick a client, add your lines, and Balaana writes a valid tax invoice — ABN, the words "Tax invoice", GST per line, all of it.
- 2
Get paid
Your client taps Pay now and settles by card, PayID or bank transfer. Balaana marks the invoice paid and files the GST.
- 3
Lodge without the shoebox
At quarter end your GST collected and GST paid are already tallied against the boxes the BAS asks for.
Two plans. One of them is free.
Free covers the books. The paid plan adds getting paid.
Free
The whole ledger, at no cost.
$0forever
AUD, including GST
Sole traders and side businesses doing their own books.
- Unlimited invoices and quotes
- Unlimited clients
- Expense and receipt capture
- GST tracked on every transaction
- BAS summary report each quarter
- Profit and loss statement
- 1 user
- Email support
Plus
Most usefulAdd getting paid.
$7per month
AUD, including GST
Anyone who chases invoices, or works with a partner or bookkeeper.
- Everything in Free
- Pay now button on invoices
- Card, PayID and bank transfer
- Automatic payment reminders
- Bank feed and auto-reconciliation
- Up to 3 users
- Your logo and colours on invoices
- Priority support
Card and PayID payments also carry the payment provider’s transaction fee, charged at cost.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Invoicing, expenses, clients, GST tracking and your BAS summary are on the free plan, with no cap on how many invoices you send and no trial that expires. The paid plan exists for people who want to collect payment through the invoice itself, add a second or third user, or connect a bank feed.
No. Balaana does not sell or share your financial data, and the free plan is not funded by advertising. It is funded by the people who upgrade to Plus and by the transaction fees on payments collected through Balaana, which is why payment collection sits on the paid plan rather than the free one.
No. If you are under the $75,000 turnover threshold and not registered, turn GST off and Balaana simply leaves it off your invoices. If you register later, switch it on and new invoices carry GST from that date forward.
Yes. You can export your invoices, expenses and BAS summary to CSV on any plan, so your accountant or bookkeeper can work from the same numbers. On the Plus plan you can give them a login of their own instead.
No. Balaana prepares the figures — GST collected, GST paid and total sales, laid out against the boxes the BAS asks for — but you or your tax agent lodge it with the ATO. Balaana is bookkeeping software, not a registered tax agent.
You export it and it is yours. Invoices, expenses and clients all export to CSV, and your issued invoices download as PDFs. There is no exit fee and no period where your records are held hostage on a downgrade.
Not sure it fits?
Tell us how you invoice today and we will tell you, honestly, whether Balaana is worth your switch.