How to choose accounting software in Honduras
Ten questions to compare any system, ours included, before you pay.
The 10 questions
- Does it invoice with a CAI and control the range and the deadline? It is what matters most: foreign software without this logic forces you to invoice separately.
- Does it prevent deleting invoices and reusing sequential numbers? Only voiding, without reusing the number, protects you in a review.
- Does it calculate payroll with IHSS, RAP, INFOP and ISR, 13th and 14th month payments and severance settlements?
- Is the accounting generated automatically from invoices, purchases, payroll and banks, or do you have to key in entries separately?
- Does it produce financial statements under IFRS for SMEs with their notes?
- Does it manage several companies with the same users and separate permissions? Key if you are an accounting firm.
- Does it really close periods? A closed period must not be modifiable, not even by mistake.
- Can you migrate from Excel or another system, with your chart of accounts and opening balances?
- Is there support in Spanish, during Honduran business hours, and who answers when something fails?
- What does it really cost? Ask about users, companies, modules and support, and get it in writing, in lempiras and with ISV.
How to test a system before paying
- Ask for a demo with sample data similar to your business.
- Issue a test invoice, void it and check that the number is not reused.
- Run a test payroll with two or three employees and compare it with your manual calculation.
- Produce a balance sheet and an income statement and check that they balance.
- Ask how your data is backed up and how you export it if one day you decide to leave.
Warning signs
- It promises to “comply with the SAR” without showing you how it controls the CAI.
- It only quotes in dollars and does not know what an RTN is.
- It does not let you export your data.
- It charges for support separately without telling you how much.
- It has nobody in your time zone.
Where PymesPros fits
PymesPros was born in Honduras for small businesses and accounting firms: it invoices with a CAI, calculates payroll, generates the accounting under IFRS for SMEs and manages several companies with separate permissions. You can ask for a free 14-day demo, with sample data and no card, and compare it with what you already use.
This guide is informational and does not replace the advice of a licensed public accountant. Rates, ceilings and dates are adjusted by the authorities from time to time: confirm them at the official source before applying them.
Frequently asked questions
Is a foreign system better, or a Honduran one?
It depends on whether it covers the local rules: SAR CAI, Honduran payroll and IFRS for SMEs. If it does not, you will end up keeping those parts separately.
How long does it take to implement accounting software?
For a small business it can be days, if the chart of accounts and the opening balances are ready. What usually takes longest is organizing the information, not the system.
What happens to my data if I stop using it?
Always ask how you export it before hiring. Your books are yours.
Keep reading
How to issue an invoice with a CAI in Honduras
What the CAI is, what the invoice must include, how it is numbered and the mistakes that cause the most trouble in a SAR review.
Read the guide →Software for accounting firms in Honduras
What a system must solve when you manage the accounting of many companies at once.
Read the guide →How to run payroll in Honduras
The items a payroll includes, the order to build it and the mistakes that cost the most in a review.
Read the guide →Accounting software and ERP for Honduras
IFRS accounting, SAR invoicing with CAI, payroll and inventory in one online system. Based in Tegucigalpa, serving all of Honduras remotely.
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