Choose who needs to do the accounting work first
Indy is worth examining if you want to manage much of the tracking and filing yourself, within the scope provided for your business status. Tiime is particularly relevant if you share supporting documents and transactions with an accounting firm. Both offer free invoicing, so compare the work done after a quote or invoice is issued. The choice depends on handling purchases, discrepancies and deadlines.
Analysis of official documentation, with no testing on a paid account.
In this guide
Documentary analysis of the 27 September 2026. The functions below come from official pages. No accounting records or declarations were submitted for this comparison. For a particular tax need, have the perimeter confirmed by the vendor and the professional accompanying you.
Compare transactions, not just plan names
| Your needs | What matters at Indy | What matters at Tiime |
|---|---|---|
| Issue quotations and invoices | Free Essentiel base | Free Socle Free |
| Preparing statements | Autonomie scope by business status | Distribution of tasks with the firm and available functions |
| Transmit evidence | Classification and reconciliation in your monitoring | Collection and full sharing in paid offers |
| Working with many | Rights and support to check for your offer | Roles and access from Smart |
| Exit Tool | Accounting records and documents to be recovered | Exports of invoices, quotes, customers and relevant supporting documents |
Indy: Watch status before the call price
Indy’s pricing table has tabs for auto-entrepreneurs, sole traders, companies and property activities. Filing requirements differ between profiles. A price shown under micro-enterprise must not be used as the reference budget for a company. Record your legal structure, tax regime and the returns you need to prepare, then check that the chosen plan covers those tasks.
In the auto-entrepreneur profile rechecked on 7 October 2026, Plus is listed at 9 € excluding VAT per month with annual payment, equivalent to 108 € excluding VAT, or 12 € excluding VAT with monthly payment. Autonomie is presented at 15 € excluding VAT per month with annual payment and adds the returns provided for that profile. These two prices therefore do not describe the same service. Someone who only wants to sign quotes is not buying the same scope as someone who expects their returns to be prepared. See grid Indy.
Tiime: clarify the role of the firm
Tiime now offers Initial between Free and Smart: €9.99 excluding VAT/month, billed at €119.88 excluding VAT/year, with a Tiime business account required. Initial synchronises only that account; Smart becomes relevant for external banks and extra collaboration features. Before paying directly, ask whether your accounting firm already provides access and what it includes. Also name the person who corrects a misclassified transaction, requests a missing document or approves a period: sharing a screen does not automatically allocate these responsibilities.
For the micro-enterprise profile, the pricing table lists Smart at 17,99 € excluding VAT per month with annual payment and Business at 24,99 €. Other business sizes have different prices. Business stands out through features such as payment links, quote signing and forecasting. A feature marked “coming soon” in a pricing table remains a promise; do not count it in your comparison as an already available capability. See grid Tiime.
Three situations leading to different decisions
You start with a few bills a month
Start by checking the free core features of both tools. Use the same fictional quote, a deposit and a final invoice. Look at the document sent to the customer and how you find its payment. Zero cost alone is not a sufficient reason to migrate data that is already well organised; at this stage, a simple case and no duplicate entry matter more than a long list of paid features.
Your accounting firm asks for the same supporting documents each month
Reconstitute a month ago and identify repeated requests. If the problem is ticket collection, a well-used shared space can help. If the problem arises from a misunderstood classification rule, first ask the firm to explain the rule before changing the tool. Tiime deserves a demonstration here with your accounting partner, on a complete anomaly, from detection to resolution.
You want to prepare your self-government statements
Examine the Indy perimeter corresponding to your status, then identify situations that still require human intervention. Ask for an example year-end file and the conditions of assistance. Automation can prepare elements; you must always know who controls them and who is responsible for their transmission. Do not compare a stand-alone software subscription with a firm plan that includes review and advice.
Output test avoids incomplete comparison
List the data to retrieve: customers, invoices, credit notes, supporting documents, payments and accounting documents. Tiime’s help describes web exports filtered by period, tags, customers or statuses, plus a PDF option on mobile. A filtered export can be correct without being complete. Ask another person to open a small set of exported records and identify the relationship between an invoice and its payment. Export method Tiime.
Our Rule of Choice
Choose Indy if it covers your legal status and you want to handle the bookkeeping using the available automations. Choose Tiime if collaboration with your accounting firm is central and the remaining tasks are clearly divided. If your main need is prospecting, inventory or construction project management, broaden the comparison: invoicing software is only one part of that process.
To choose an Indy plan, see our guide to Essentiel, Plus and Autonomie Annual budget, free limits and documents to be recovered.
To deepen: Indy review, Tiime review and comparison with Qonto.
Product sources used
Analysis of 7 October 2026. Positioning and function information is verified primarily in the official resources of the vendors. Indy: official source ; Tiime: official source ; Editorial methodology Logicelio