# Quaderno review (2026): is it worth $24 a month, billed yearly? > Sales tax, VAT and GST calculation, invoicing and filing for sellers Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Quaderno works out sales tax, VAT and GST on each sale, issues tax-compliant invoices and tracks the thresholds that require a seller to register in a new place. It pulls sales from platforms such as Stripe, Shopify and PayPal, and can either produce return-ready reports or file returns for the seller. - **Category:** Accounting & Invoicing - **Made by:** Quaderno - **Website:** https://quaderno.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a ledger, as it's sales tax and invoicing only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Quaderno is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $24 per month for 25 transactions, billed yearly ($29 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Hobby | $24 per month for up to 25 transactions, billed yearly ($29 monthly) | 1 user, 1 jurisdiction and 1 integration. Other plans have unlimited users, jurisdictions and integrations. | | Startup | $41 per month for up to 250 transactions, billed yearly ($49 monthly) | Unlimited users, jurisdictions and integrations for up to 250 transactions a month. | | Business | $83 per month for up to 1,000 transactions, billed yearly ($99 monthly) | Same features as Startup with a 1,000 transaction allowance; the page marks it as the most popular plan. | | Growth | $124 per month for up to 2,500 transactions, billed yearly ($149 monthly) | Same features with a 2,500 transaction allowance. Above that, Enterprise is sold through sales. | Read from https://quaderno.io/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Quaderno before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **2 months free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page says yearly billing gives 2 months free, which brings Growth from $149 to $124 a month. Source: https://quaderno.io/pricing/ ## Key features - **Tax calculation at checkout:** Calculates sales tax, VAT and GST for a sale from the product and the customer's location, in 150+ countries according to the homepage. - **Threshold alerts:** Watches sales by region and warns when a business is about to cross an economic nexus or similar threshold and needs to register. - **Compliant invoices:** Sends invoices automatically after each payment, branded and localized, with e-invoicing for government mandates. - **Tax reports and filing:** Turns sales into jurisdiction-specific reports for self-filing, or files returns on the seller's behalf for US states, EU VAT OSS and other regions. - **Platform integrations and API:** Connects to Stripe, PayPal, Shopify, WooCommerce, GoCardless and Amazon FBA, and exposes a REST API for custom setups. ## Good for - Online sellers collecting sales tax or VAT in several countries - SaaS and digital-product businesses billing through Stripe or PayPal - Sellers who want returns filed for them ## Worth knowing - Plans are priced by transactions, counting every sale, refund and purchase recorded; going over moves the account to the next tier automatically. - Hobby is limited to 1 user, 1 jurisdiction and 1 integration. - Registration and return filing done by Quaderno is quoted separately and is not part of the listed plans. - It handles sales tax and invoicing; it is not a general ledger or bookkeeping product. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Quaderno calculates sales tax, VAT and GST at checkout, issues compliant invoices and prepares tax reports, from $24 a month for 25 transactions. Pricing follows transaction count, registration and filing are quoted separately, and it isn't a ledger or bookkeeping product. - **Value for money: C.** $24 a month for 25 transactions, $41 for 250 and $83 for 1,000, billed yearly. Price follows volume, so it sits around the category's middle. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 7-day free trial with no credit card. No free plan. - **Features: C.** Tax calculation, threshold alerts, compliant invoices and tax reports. It covers the sales-tax job only, and filing is quoted separately. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect your checkout and set up the places you sell into. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with Stripe, PayPal, Shopify, WooCommerce, GoCardless, Amazon FBA and Zapier, and an API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Quaderno's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among accounting and invoicing tools - Quaderno's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 22 of the 65 other accounting and invoicing tools we grade, and level with 15. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 13 of 65) and worst on ease of use (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $24 a month, against a middle price of $18.09 for the category: 32 of the 54 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 9 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/accounting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Quaderno you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $288 a year. - You could make: Invoicing and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Stripe, PayPal, Shopify, WooCommerce, GoCardless, Amazon FBA, Zapier **Tags:** Invoicing, Reports, Public API, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Synder](https://toolgpa.com/tools/synder): Syncs sales, fees and payouts from 30+ platforms into your books. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/quaderno-vs-synder) - [Xero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/xero): Cloud accounting for small businesses, with unlimited users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/quaderno-vs-xero) - [QuickBooks Online](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickbooks): Cloud accounting from Intuit, from a free plan to 25-user Advanced. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/quaderno-vs-quickbooks) - [FreshBooks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/freshbooks): Invoicing and accounting for freelancers and service businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/freshbooks-vs-quaderno) - [Invoice Ninja](https://toolgpa.com/tools/invoice-ninja): Invoicing, expenses and time tracking with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/invoice-ninja-vs-quaderno) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://quaderno.io/ - https://quaderno.io/pricing/ - https://quaderno.io/filing/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/quaderno Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).