Finance & PaymentsDougs
Online accounting built for French freelancers and small businesses that want real CPAs.
Dougs is a French online accounting platform that combines automated bookkeeping software with access to a dedicated human accountant, targeting freelancers, independent contractors, and small businesses operating under French legal and tax structures. It is used primarily by solo founders, consultants, and small agency owners in France who need compliant accounting without the overhead of a traditional accounting firm. The core problem it solves is that most small French businesses either overpay a traditional cabinet comptable for basic work or try to manage French tax compliance manually, which is error-prone given the complexity of TVA declarations, social charges, and annual filings. Dougs automates bank transaction categorization, generates regulatory filings, and gives each client a named accountant available by chat and phone, at a subscription price well below traditional firm rates. It covers SAS, SASU, SARL, EURL, and micro-entrepreneur structures.
French freelancers, solo founders, and small business owners under 20 employees who operate under a French legal entity and need compliant accounting without a full-service accounting firm. The right time to adopt Dougs is when you are spending more than two hours per month on bookkeeping yourself, or when you realize you do not have a reliable system for TVA declarations and annual filings.
First month free
Subject to partner eligibility criteria. Savings estimates reflect maximum potential value.
Dougsin depth.
Automated Bank Reconciliation
Dougs connects to French bank accounts and automatically categorizes incoming and outgoing transactions using machine learning. This eliminates the monthly work of manually sorting transactions before sending data to an accountant.
Regulatory Filing Automation
TVA declarations, cotisations sociales, and annual accounts are prepared and filed by Dougs on the client's behalf according to French deadlines. Small business owners stop tracking tax filing calendars and worrying about missed deadlines.
Dedicated Human Accountant
Each Dougs client is assigned a named French CPA who can be reached by chat or phone for questions about expenses, invoicing, optimization, and compliance. This is the key differentiator from pure-software accounting tools that leave compliance questions unanswered.
Invoice and Expense Management
Clients create and send invoices from within Dougs and upload expense receipts via mobile, which are matched automatically to bank transactions. The paper trail required for French tax audits is maintained automatically.
Legal Structure Support
Dougs supports multiple French legal entities including SAS, SASU, SARL, EURL, and micro-entrepreneur, with accounting rules and filing workflows adapted to each structure. Founders switching legal structure as they grow do not need to change accountants.
Dougs connects to major French banks including BNP, Credit Agricole, Societe Generale, and Qonto, as well as online payment processors to pull transaction data automatically. In a typical small French business stack it replaces or works alongside invoicing tools like Pennylane or Freebe, acting as the accounting compliance layer so the founder does not need to maintain a separate relationship with a cabinet comptable.
Commonuse cases.
Managing accounting for a French freelance software consultancy
Independent developers and consultants under SASU or micro-entrepreneur status use Dougs to handle all their quarterly TVA declarations, invoice issuance, and annual accounts without hiring a separate accountant. The result is full French tax compliance at a predictable monthly cost that fits a solo operator's budget.
Reducing accounting overhead for a small French SaaS startup
Early-stage teams of two to five people use Dougs to replace a traditional accounting firm once the founding year is past and the legal structure is established. The automated bank sync and dedicated accountant access handle the compliance workload while the team focuses on building the product.
Getting compliant bookkeeping in place before a first fundraise
Founders preparing for seed or pre-seed funding use Dougs to ensure their accounts are clean, up to date, and prepared by a licensed French CPA before investor due diligence begins. Clean books prepared by a real accountant reduce friction in the due diligence process.
Three stepsto activate.
Check eligibility
Each partner maintains independent qualification criteria. We assess your profile and determine which offers you qualify for.
Schedule a briefing
Book a call with our partnerships team to discuss your stack requirements and walk through the activation process.
Activate credits
Once approved by the partner, credits are deployed to your account. Timelines vary by partner.
BearPlex maintains partnerships with leading technology providers to facilitate access to exclusive programs for our clients. All offers are subject to each partner's independent eligibility requirements, approval processes, and terms of service. Savings figures represent maximum potential value and may vary based on qualification, usage, and partner-specific criteria. BearPlex acts as a facilitation partner and does not guarantee approval or specific credit amounts. Offer availability and terms may change at the partner's discretion.
