Fortnox keeps the books and Closepact does not; Closepact replaces the invoicing program, builds the invoice from approved work and hands Fortnox SIE4 for the period. Fortnox licenses each program per user, so which one costs less depends on how many people invoice.
We are not neutral. We try to be honest about where Fortnox wins.
The short answer
Fortnox is the accounting platform most Swedish small companies and their accountants already use: bookkeeping, VAT returns, year-end, payroll, and an invoicing program sold at three levels — Enkel with no fixed fee, Standard at 99 kr and Plus at 149 kr a month per user. Closepact is not an accounting system. It keeps no general ledger, closes no year and files no VAT return, and does not plan to.
What Closepact replaces is the invoicing program, for a company whose invoices come from work it scheduled and did. The invoice is built from approved hours and materials rather than typed from a note; ROT and RUT are split by line type on the labour including VAT; the number is drawn from an unbroken series when the invoice is sent; and the period goes to Fortnox as a SIE4 file. With the scheduling module too, the hours and the invoice live in the same database.
The usual arrangement is both: Fortnox for the books, Closepact for the invoices. Fortnox is ahead on Peppol e-invoicing and on foreign-currency invoicing, and for a single person invoicing it can be the cheaper of the two.
Who it is for
Who Fortnox and Closepact are built for
Fortnox
Fortnox fits nearly every Swedish small company, if only because the accountant is probably already in it. It is the right invoicing choice when invoices are written in the office rather than produced by field work, when you invoice the public sector over Peppol or in foreign currencies, or when one person does all the invoicing. Its Fakturaservice will distribute invoices and send reminders for you, and bookkeeping, payroll and annual accounts sit in the same subscription.
Closepact
Closepact fits a service or field company of five to a hundred people whose invoice is the end of a job: hours approved in the schedule, materials used on site, a ROT or RUT deduction on the labour. It suits an office where several people invoice, since three, five or ten users are included per tier, and an accountant who would rather import SIE4 than retype PDFs. It does not suit anyone hoping to drop Fortnox altogether.
Where Fortnox wins
Full bookkeeping: general ledger, VAT return, year-end and annual accounts. Closepact does none of it.
Peppol e-invoicing to the public sector today, at 3 kr per e-invoice sent.
Fakturering Enkel has no fixed licence fee: 4.90 kr per invoice through Fakturaservice, 39 kr per invoice sent yourself.
ROT, RUT and grönt avdrag on the invoice, with the request generated as a file to upload to Skatteverket. Closepact builds that file too, but has no grönt avdrag.
Foreign-currency and reverse-charge invoicing, payroll, and an accountant who almost certainly already works in it.
Where Closepact wins
The invoice is built from approved hours and materials, not typed from a note.
ROT and RUT on the labour including VAT, with materials excluded by line type rather than by a tick box.
An unbroken number series held by a row lock, drawn only when the invoice is sent and returned if sending fails.
Three, five or ten users included per tier, where Fortnox licenses each program per user.
No per-invoice fee for PDF and email; reminders, recurring invoices and payment matching from the Väx tier.
What decides it
The differences that matter when you choose
01 The books, or the invoices
Fortnox Bokföring (189 kr per user a month) is the ledger: vouchers, the VAT return, period reports. Bokslut & Skatt adds the year-end and annual accounts, and Lön runs payroll. Closepact has none of these and does not plan them. Its invoicing module keeps the sales ledger and the receivables: invoices, credit notes, reminders, payment matching and the ageing of what customers owe.
So the comparison is Closepact's invoicing module against Fortnox Fakturering, not against Fortnox. A company that moves its invoicing to Closepact still pays for Fortnox Access and Bokföring, and its accountant still closes the year in Fortnox.
02 ROT and RUT: a Hus box, or the line type
In Fortnox, ROT, RUT and grönt avdrag are on Fakturering Standard and Plus, not on Enkel. Its help pages describe ticking a Hus box on the labour rows; once the customer's share is registered as paid, Fortnox generates a file that you upload on Skatteverket's website.
In Closepact, ROT at 30 and RUT at 50 per cent are computed on the labour including VAT from the Väx tier, and the line type decides: a materials line cannot carry a deduction whatever anybody ticked. The deduction is its own negative line, and Skatteverket's share posts to account 1513, so the ageing report does not chase the state as though it were a customer.
What Closepact does not do is apply the annual ceiling per buyer, which depends on what other companies have claimed for the same person and cannot be seen from here. The request itself it does build: from paid ROT and RUT invoices it writes Skatteverket's import file, one per deduction type and payment year, lists what is missing per invoice and flags the 31 January deadline. You import the file in Skatteverket's e-service and sign there with BankID — Skatteverket has no API for this — and the decision is recorded and booked: what Skatteverket pays goes to 1630 against 1513, what it refuses back to 1510. Part payments and credited invoices are filed by hand, and grönt avdrag is not supported. On this step neither is ahead, except that Fortnox also handles grönt avdrag.
03 Number series and the SIE4 handover
Closepact draws an invoice number only when the invoice is sent, inside the transaction that renders and stores the PDF, from a counter row held under a lock. If anything fails afterwards the number goes back, so the series has no holes. A sent invoice has no route back to draft: the correction is a credit note in its own series, and the PDF is rendered once and never again.
The period goes to the accountant as SIE4 type 4I in CP437 against BAS — 3001–3003, 2611–2631, 1510, 1513 and 3740 — and no file is written unless every voucher balances to zero in öre. The account is pinned on the line when the line is created, so exporting March again in June gives the same file. The file has not yet been trial-imported into a live Fortnox and we do not claim it has: have your accountant import one month first.
04 Peppol, Enkel and per-invoice pricing: their ground
Fortnox sends e-invoices today, in Peppol BIS Billing 3 for the public sector, at 3 kr each. Closepact has a Peppol id field on the customer and nothing behind it yet: sending needs a certified access point and is on the Pro roadmap, at 2.50 kr per invoice when it ships. If you invoice municipalities or agencies now, invoice them from Fortnox.
Fakturering Enkel costs nothing fixed: 4.90 kr per invoice through Fakturaservice, 39 kr per invoice you send yourself. For a handful of invoices a month without ROT or RUT that beats any Closepact tier, and we will not argue otherwise. Standard and Plus add a monthly fee per user; on Standard an invoice you send yourself costs from 9.90 kr, on Plus from 0 kr. Both also invoice in foreign currencies and with reverse charge.
05 Keeping both, and what each bill is made of
Fortnox licenses per user and per program: its packages page says several people working in a program need one licence each. On top sits Fortnox Access, a mandatory platform fee of 9 to 199 kr a month depending on the vouchers created in the last 12 months, 29 kr for a new customer in the first period. List prices assume a 12-month agreement; three months adds 15 per cent.
Closepact Fakturering is a base price with users included: Start 139 kr with three, Väx 279 kr with five, Pro 449 kr with ten, then 29, 39 or 49 kr per extra user, on an annual agreement; quarterly adds 10 per cent. Keeping both means Fortnox Access and Bokföring stay and the Fakturering licences go. With the schedule in Closepact too, approved hours reach the invoice without Fortnox Tid (89 kr per user) or an Integration licence (189 kr).
Capability comparison
Closepact vs Fortnox, feature by feature
Capability
Closepact
Fortnox
Customer invoices and credit notes
From Start
All three Fakturering levels
ROT/RUT on the invoice
Väx and Pro; the line type decides
Standard and Plus; Hus box on labour rows
ROT/RUT request to Skatteverket
Import file, signed in Skatteverket's e-service (Väx, Pro)
File to upload on Skatteverket's site
Recurring invoices
Väx and Pro
Plus
Reminders
Three levels, statutory fees (Väx, Pro)
Through Fakturaservice (Fortnox Finans)
SIE4 to the accountant
Type 4I, balance-checked; not yet trial-imported into Fortnox
Not needed — the books are in Fortnox
Bank statements
CAMT.053 and CSV import (Väx, Pro)
Bank connection
E-invoicing over Peppol
Planned, 2.50 kr
3 kr per e-invoice sent
General ledger, year-end, VAT return
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Payroll
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Lön 199 kr + 25 kr per paid employee
Invoice built from approved, scheduled work
Same database, with Schema & arbetsorder
Fortnox Tid, 89 kr per user
API
Väx and Pro
Plus; Integration licence 189 kr
Users
3 / 5 / 10 included by tier
One licence per user and program
Per-invoice fee, PDF or email
None
Sent yourself: Enkel 39 kr, Standard from 9.90 kr, Plus from 0 kr
Entry price
139 kr a month, 3 users
Enkel 0 kr fixed; Standard 99 kr; Plus 149 kr per user
Trial or right of return
14 days per module, no card
30 days öppet köp
Competitor facts checked against Fortnox's own public pages on 2026-10-18. We update this page when either product ships a meaningful change.
Pricing snapshot
Pricing, honestly summarized
Fortnox
Fortnox Fakturering: Enkel with no fixed fee (4.90 kr per invoice through Fakturaservice, 39 kr sent yourself), Standard 99 kr, Plus 149 kr a month per user. Bokföring 189 kr, Tid 89 kr, Integration 189 kr; packages Mini 209, Liten 349, Mellan 490 kr. Fortnox Access from 9 kr a month on top. 12-month prices; 3 months adds 15 per cent.
Closepact
Closepact Fakturering: Start 139 kr (3 users), Väx 279 kr (5 users), Pro 449 kr (10 users) a month on an annual agreement, then 29/39/49 kr per extra user. Quarterly billing adds 10 per cent.
Closepact: 14 days free per module, no card. Fortnox: 30 days öppet köp on a new subscription, and the first half-year free for a company started in the last three months.
Worked example
An installer sending 40 invoices a month with three office users
They need ROT on the labour, reminders and SIE4 for the accountant, which is Closepact Väx: 279 kr a month with five users included, so the three office users cost nothing extra, and nothing is charged per invoice sent as PDF or email. That is 3 348 kr a year on an annual agreement.
In Fortnox, ROT needs Fakturering Standard or Plus, and each of the three needs a licence. Plus, which like Väx has recurring invoices and an API: 3 × 149 = 447 kr a month with invoices you send yourself from 0 kr, 5 364 kr a year — 168 kr a month and 2 016 kr a year more than Closepact. Standard: 3 × 99 = 297 kr, plus from 9.90 kr per invoice you send yourself (40 × 9.90 = 396 kr), at least 693 kr a month; through Fakturaservice instead, 40 × 4.90 = 196 kr, which makes 493 kr.
With one office user the answer reverses: Fakturering Plus at 149 kr is cheaper than Väx at 279 kr. The crossover is the second licence, at 298 kr. Bokföring and Fortnox Access stay on the Fortnox bill whichever program sends the invoices, so both are left out of both sides.
You invoice the public sector and need Peppol e-invoices now.
One person does all the invoicing, or you send few invoices and none of them carry ROT or RUT.
Invoices are written in the office, not produced from scheduled work.
You invoice in foreign currencies or with reverse charge.
You also claim grönt avdrag, which Closepact does not handle.
You want Fortnox Finans to distribute invoices and chase payment through Fakturaservice.
Choose Closepact if
Your invoices come from jobs: approved hours, materials used on site, travel.
Several people invoice, and per-user licences add up.
ROT and RUT must never land on a materials line, whoever fills in the invoice.
Your accountant would rather import SIE4 than retype PDFs, and is content to keep Fortnox for the books.
You also want the schedule and field app in the same database as the invoices.
Switching
Moving invoicing out of Fortnox, keeping the books in it
Export the customer and article registers from Fortnox as CSV. Contacts import into Closepact from CSV, and the article register imports with semicolons or commas, Swedish or English column headers, and descriptions that span several lines kept together. An article number that is too long is refused with a message rather than truncated, so two articles never collapse into one carrying the wrong price.
Pick a cut-over date. Before the first invoice goes out from Closepact, set the invoice series to continue from the last Fortnox number, with the same prefix and leading zeros; the counter only moves forward, so do it first. Invoices already sent from Fortnox are paid, reminded and credited there, so each document stays in the system that issued it.
From then on, export SIE4 for each period and have the accountant import it into Fortnox. Agree the accounts first — Closepact defaults to BAS 3001–3003, 2611–2631, 1510, 1513 and 3740, and an account set on a line wins — and run the first month as a test import, since we have not done that against a live Fortnox ourselves. Drop the Fakturering licences at the end of the contract period; notice is due 30 days before the next one starts.
Comparison FAQ
What buyers ask when they compare Closepact and Fortnox
Does Closepact replace Fortnox?
It replaces the invoicing program, not the accounting platform. There is no general ledger here, no year-end close and no VAT return. Most companies keep Fortnox for the books, invoice in Closepact and hand over SIE4 for the period — which is usually less work for the accountant than retyping PDFs, and usually a smaller fee, though it does not remove the fee.
Can I keep Fortnox?
Yes, and that is the ordinary arrangement. Invoice in Closepact, export SIE4 for the period and import it into Fortnox. The account is pinned on the invoice line when the line is created, so the same month exported twice gives the same file — an article remapped in June does not rewrite the March export. You keep Fortnox Access and Bokföring; the Fakturering licences are what you stop paying for.
What does Fortnox invoicing cost?
Fakturering comes at three levels. Enkel has no fixed licence fee: 4.90 kr per invoice through Fakturaservice or 39 kr per invoice you send yourself. Standard is 99 kr a month per user and adds ROT/RUT and foreign currency; Plus is 149 kr per user and adds recurring invoices and an API. All three sit on top of Fortnox Access, from 9 kr a month. Prices assume a 12-month agreement; three months adds 15 per cent.
Fortnox has an invoicing level with no fixed fee. How can Closepact be cheaper?
At low volume without ROT or RUT, it is not. Closepact Start is 139 kr a month; through Fortnox Fakturaservice at 4.90 kr per invoice, Enkel costs less up to 28 invoices a month. Closepact gets cheaper from the second user, because Fortnox charges per user and program while Closepact includes three to ten, and wherever ROT, RUT or recurring invoices push you to Standard or Plus.
What about ROT and RUT?
The calculation and the split are built and strict: 30 and 50 per cent on the labour including VAT, from the Väx tier, and a materials line cannot carry a deduction whatever anybody ticked. The annual ceiling per buyer is not applied, and the invoice basis says so. For the request, Closepact builds Skatteverket's import file from paid invoices; you import it in Skatteverket's e-service and sign with BankID there, since Skatteverket has no API for it, and the decision is recorded and booked.
Has the SIE4 file been tested against Fortnox?
Not against a live Fortnox installation, and we will not write "validated with Fortnox" until it has been. The file is written as SIE4 type 4I in CP437 with CRLF line endings, against the BAS chart of accounts, and every voucher is checked to balance to zero in öre before any file is produced. Take a month's export to your accountant and have them import it.
Can we send e-invoices to municipalities and agencies?
Not from Closepact yet. Peppol needs a certified access point and is planned on the Pro tier, at 2.50 kr per invoice. The Peppol id field exists on the customer, but nothing is transmitted, and the API says so rather than pretending it went out. Fortnox sends Peppol e-invoices today at 3 kr each, so public-sector customers are best invoiced from Fortnox for now.
Will our invoice numbers continue from Fortnox?
Yes, if you set it before the first invoice. In the invoicing settings you set the next number to one past your last Fortnox invoice and match the prefix and leading zeros, so the series carries on without a gap. The counter only moves forward: lowering it would hand out a number already on an invoice somebody holds, so the system refuses.
Sources
What this page says about Fortnox comes from Fortnox's own public pages, listed below, as they read on 2026-10-18. Dollar prices are converted at 9,59 kr per USD, the rate checked on 2026-09-15. If something here is out of date, write to hello@closepact.com and we correct it.
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