AutoCount vs Financio for e-Invoicing
Key takeaways
- AutoCount's Cloud Accounting Lite is RM70/month (price excludes SST) with very cheap extra users (RM10/month each); Financio's Accounting Essentials is RM50/month and bundles payroll.
- The decisive difference is e-Invoice volume: Financio publishes hard per-plan LHDN caps (25/month on Essentials up to 5,000/month on Premier); AutoCount publishes no monthly e-Invoice cap on Lite.
- Choose AutoCount for a broad accounting suite that scales cheaply across a team; choose Financio if you want payroll in the same tool and your e-Invoice volume fits its plan tiers.
- If you don't need accounting at all, a focused tool like MyInvois Bridge (RM49/month) handles LHDN submission without either suite.
AutoCount and Financio are both Malaysian cloud accounting suites with LHDN e-Invoice included, but they're aimed slightly differently: AutoCount is a broad, dealer-supported accounting system, while Financio pairs accounting with payroll and organises its plans around explicit e-Invoice volume tiers.
The short answer
AutoCount is the lower-per-seat, broader accounting choice at RM70/month (excluding SST), with additional users at just RM10/month. Financio costs RM50/month but includes payroll and is built around per-plan LHDN e-Invoice caps — an advantage if your volume is predictable, a constraint if it spikes.
Pricing and limits, side by side
| AutoCount | Financio | MyInvois Bridge | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | Cloud Accounting Lite | Accounting Essentials | Starter |
| Monthly price | RM70/mo | RM50/mo | RM49/mo |
| What it is | Full accounting suite | Accounting + payroll | LHDN e-Invoicing only |
| e-Invoice volume | No published monthly cap on Lite | 25/mo (Essentials) up to 5,000/mo (Premier) | 100/mo (Starter), higher tiers above |
| Additional user | RM10/mo per user | Per-plan | Included in plan tiers |
| SST | Price excludes SST | Confirm with vendor | Shown at checkout |
AutoCount: where it wins
- You need a full set of books — general ledger, journals, trial balance and statutory financial statements — in one system.
- You manage stock and want inventory tied directly to your sales and purchase documents.
- You want purchasing, AP/AR ageing and bank reconciliation handled in the same place as invoicing.
- You want an all-in-one accounting migration, with LHDN e-Invoice already inside the same flow.
- You value AutoCount's dealer and trainer network, and their low RM10/month per additional user rate as your team grows.
Financio: where it wins
- You need real accounting: Financio keeps your books, and we do not.
- You want payroll from the same vendor — Financio publishes Payroll Essentials at RM75/month for up to 30 employees and Premier at RM135/month for up to 200.
- Your e-Invoice volume is high: Accounting Premier publishes 5,000 LHDN e-Invoices per month at RM85, well above our Pro plan's 2,000 at RM199.
- You want AI document scanning — 5 scans on Essentials, 50 on Premier — with no equivalent on our side.
- You want multi-currency and multi-location inventory, both on Premier.
- You want a 30-day trial of the top tier before deciding.
Volume is the number that decides
Financio's per-plan e-Invoice caps are the detail most likely to force a plan upgrade — Essentials' 25/month is tight for an active B2B seller. AutoCount publishes no monthly cap on Lite. Estimate your real monthly invoice count before comparing headline prices.
If you only need LHDN e-Invoicing
Both are accounting systems first. If your books already work and the only gap is LHDN submission, a focused tool like MyInvois Bridge does that from RM49/month without a migration — but it has no ledger, inventory, or payroll, so it complements rather than replaces either suite.
Do AutoCount and Financio both include LHDN e-Invoice?
Yes. Both include LHDN MyInvois e-Invoicing within their accounting plans. The difference is that Financio publishes explicit per-plan e-Invoice volume caps, while AutoCount publishes no monthly cap on its Lite plan.
Which is cheaper, AutoCount or Financio?
Financio's entry plan (RM50/month) is lower than AutoCount's (RM70/month, excluding SST), but Financio's price includes payroll and caps e-Invoice volume, while AutoCount adds users at just RM10/month. The better value depends on payroll need, team size, and invoice volume.
Does Financio's payroll matter for e-Invoicing?
Not directly — payroll and e-Invoicing are separate. But if you need payroll anyway, Financio bundling it can make the total cheaper than buying accounting, payroll, and e-Invoice separately.
Only need the LHDN half?
MyInvois Bridge creates, validates, submits and tracks your LHDN e-Invoices — alongside whatever you already use for accounting and payroll. 14-day free trial, no credit card.
Why MyInvois Bridge
Integrates with your systems
Connect your own software — or an ERP, POS, or accounting system — to LHDN through our REST API today: submit invoices, then poll for status or receive signed webhooks. Direct CSV import is on the roadmap.
Focused, not a migration
We do LHDN e-Invoicing, not accounting. Keep the system you already use — there's no chart of accounts to import and nothing to switch, so you're compliant without a migration project.
The status is the product
Every document shows draft → validated → submitted → accepted or rejected, with the real LHDN reason in plain language and a full event trail.
Validated before LHDN sees it
Fields are checked against LHDN's rules before submission, so you catch and fix problems here instead of decoding cryptic rejections later.
Guided, sandbox-first onboarding
We help your first invoice through the official LHDN sandbox. Nothing real is sent until you've watched a test succeed — and the 14-day trial needs no credit card.
Built for Malaysia
LHDN document types, RM pricing, SST-aware copy, and a fully bilingual EN/BM product — not a global tool with Malaysia bolted on.