By the makn team · Updated July 2026
Search for accounting software in the UAE and you will find the same shortlist everywhere: QuickBooks, Xero, Zoho Books, and a handful of local players. All of them can keep a ledger. The harder question, and the one that actually determines whether the tool works for you, is what a small UAE business needs around the ledger, and when accounting software alone stops being enough.
Generic accounting tools are good at exactly what the name says: accounting. Invoices go out, expenses come in, the bank feed reconciles. For a services business of two or three people, that can be enough for a while.
The cracks appear the moment your business is more than its ledger. Inventory lives in a separate app or a spreadsheet. Sales orders live in WhatsApp. Purchasing lives in email. Each tool holds a partial truth, and you become the integration, retyping the same data between systems and hoping the numbers agree at month-end.
Do not ask "which accounting software is best?" Ask: how many systems will my business run on, and who keeps them in sync? If the honest answer is four apps and you, the cheapest subscription is not the cheapest option. The hours you spend reconciling tools against each other are the real cost, and they grow with the business.
This is the gap makn is built for: instead of accounting software plus an inventory app plus spreadsheets, you describe your business and get one system, accounting, invoicing, inventory, purchasing and customers connected from day one, VAT and e-invoicing ready, hosted in the UAE. You approve the design before anything is built, and it goes live in days, from AED 299/month with no setup fees.
If you are just starting, that choice is even simpler: start clean on one system and never inherit the multi-app mess at all.
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