Built for Norwegian rules, presented in English
Norway has its own specific accounting requirements: the NS 4102 chart of accounts, bimonthly VAT reporting (six terms per year), monthly payroll filing (A-melding), annual tax return through Altinn, and the strict Norwegian Bookkeeping Act (Bokføringsloven) with its rules on document immutability and five-year retention.
These rules don't disappear because you don't speak Norwegian. Macct enforces them automatically while presenting everything you need to read, decide and approve in plain English. The actual submissions to the Norwegian tax authorities use Norwegian terminology because that's what the authorities require — but Macct fills in the forms from your bookkeeping data and you review the contents in English before anything is sent.
Who Macct is for
- Foreign founders setting up a Norwegian business. You've registered an ENK or AS at Brønnøysund and need bookkeeping that complies with Norwegian law.
- International consultants invoicing in EUR, USD, GBP. Multi-currency invoicing built in, with daily Norges Bank rates and automatic NOK conversion for the general ledger.
- EU citizens with a Norwegian D-number. You can run a sole proprietorship in Norway with a D-number; Macct supports this directly.
- Anyone tired of Google-translating Norwegian accounting terms. The interface is native English. Help text, error messages, support — all in English.
What's included
- Double-entry bookkeeping on the official NS 4102 chart of accounts. Hard balance validation — no unbalanced entries can be saved.
- VAT (MVA) calculated automatically per transaction. Bimonthly VAT report generated from your books and submitted directly to Altinn and the Tax Administration from Macct — with full traceability, and never sent without your approval.
- Invoicing as PDF by email, or electronically to Norwegian businesses and public bodies that can receive it. Multi-currency. KID and IBAN both supported.
- Payroll with tax withholding, employer contribution (AGA), and holiday pay (12% standard). The monthly A-melding is built in the Tax Administration's JSON format and submitted when you confirm, never automatically.
- Receipt scanning with OCR plus AI-assisted account suggestions. You review and approve before anything is posted.
- Document intake by e-mail: every company gets its own intake address. Forward an invoice or receipt — or give the address to your supplier — and the attachment is interpreted and queued for approval, just like a scan.
- Annual closing for AS: NRS 8 validation, corporate tax from the approved business tax specification (22% for 2026, on the taxable result), transfer of result to equity, period locking, RF-1167 annual report draft.
- Tax return drafts: RF-1175 for ENK, RF-1167 for AS. Generated from your books, never auto-submitted.
- SAF-T export in the v1.40 format (the only valid format in Norway from January 2027; v1.30 up to and including 2026).
- Public integrations: company details validated automatically from the Brønnøysund Register Centre (Brreg), with your role checked against the register as an advisory signal; VAT, the tax return with its business income statement (næringsspesifikasjon) and the A-melding submitted to Altinn and the Tax Administration directly from the system.
- Bank: CSV/PDF bank-statement import with automatic matching and reconciliation is included — enough for most small businesses. A direct bank connection (PSD2/Open Banking via Neonomics) with automatic transaction fetching is available as an add-on.
Pricing
250 NOK/month per company. No annual contract, no lock-in, cancel anytime from settings. 30-day free trial — no credit card required to start.
For comparison: the larger Norwegian competitors (Fiken, Tripletex, Visma) typically charge 199-500 NOK/month with tier packages. Macct is a flat rate regardless of how many vouchers or employees you have, which makes it especially attractive for small operators.
You choose how to pay: by card or Klarna, renewing automatically every month until you cancel, or with Vipps or invoice for the months you want. How card payment works →
What you still need to handle yourself
Honest about scope:
- Brønnøysund registration: register your ENK or AS at brreg.no before signing up for Macct.
- Norwegian business bank account: required for receiving customer payments and paying VAT/tax.
- BankID or D-number: needed to log in to Altinn and submit tax returns.
- Statutory auditor (only AS over certain thresholds — most small AS are exempt).
The full guide at macct.no/foreigners walks through each of these in detail.
Data & privacy
Servers are in the EU (Hetzner Germany / Finland). GDPR compliant. AI features (bookkeeping suggestions, help and OCR) send requests to external providers (Anthropic and Google) to generate suggestions and answers; your accounting data itself is stored in the EU/EEA. You can export everything as SAF-T, Excel and PDF at any time — no extra charge, no lock-in. The Norwegian Bookkeeping Act requires five-year retention of accounting data; Macct delivers export files that satisfy this requirement so you can leave whenever you want and still meet the legal retention requirement.