The Senta alternative with a clear road ahead
Senta is affordable and well liked, and IRIS is migrating its customers into IRIS Elements in stages. ZenWorkflow is an independent platform with workflows, billing, time, leave and AML/KYC included, from €39 per user per month.
Choose ZenWorkflow if you want
- A platform that is not mid-migration into a larger suite
- Native invoicing, estimates and credit notes
- AML/KYC screening and risk assessment included
- Staff leave, capacity and multi-entity support
Senta is the better fit if
- The lowest per-user price is the deciding factor
- You plan to adopt IRIS Elements for tax and accounts anyway
- A UK practice that wants Companies House and a client portal cheaply
- E-signatures from the same tool
ZenWorkflow vs Senta at a glance
Senta is cheap and capable today. ZenWorkflow is the independent all-in-one that is not being folded into a suite.
| ZenWorkflow | Senta | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | From €39/user/month | From about $24/user/month (yearly) |
| Free plan | Free plan for one user and 10 clients | |
| Workflow and job management | Templates, checklists, owners, budgets and approvals | Workflows and automation |
| Client records and ownership | Contacts, directors, shareholders, ownership and history | CRM with Companies House |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Weekly timesheets with submit-and-approve | Basic |
| Invoicing, estimates and credit notes | Invoices, estimates, credit notes and receipts | Via accounting integrations |
| AML/KYC screening and risk assessment | PEP and sanctions screening, risk assessments, document expiry | |
| Staff leave and capacity | Requests, balances and a team leave calendar | |
| Multiple firms or entities | Several firms or entities from one login, fully isolated | One firm per account |
| Client portal | Secure magic-link sharing, no full client portal | Client portal and e-signatures |
| Integrated email inbox | Email automation | |
| Document storage | Per-client files, Google Drive sync | Document management |
| AI assistant | In-app assistant plus Claude and ChatGPT connection | |
| Reporting | Capacity, profitability, compliance and billing reports | Limited |
| Contract | Monthly or yearly, no minimum seats | Monthly or yearly; product moving to IRIS Elements |
Senta details from its public pricing and feature pages and independent reviews, checked October 2026. Plans change: confirm on their site before deciding.
From €39/user/month (Practice) or €58/user/month with AML/KYC, billed monthly or yearly.
Everything is included at each tier: workflows, clients, time, billing, leave, reporting and the AI assistant, with AML/KYC on the Practice + AML plan. There are no per-module fees and no minimum number of users, and the free plan covers one user and ten clients.
From about $24 per user per month billed yearly, or $30 monthly.
Workflows, CRM, a client portal and e-signatures are included at that price, which is why Senta has been popular with small UK practices. IRIS has announced that Senta customers are being moved onto IRIS Elements in stages, so check the migration timeline for your segment before committing. AML/KYC screening, native invoicing and staff leave are not part of Senta.
Why firms move from Senta
Price kept firms on Senta. The migration to IRIS Elements is what prompts the review.
A platform in transition
IRIS is moving Senta into Elements in stages. ZenWorkflow is independently developed with a public roadmap of its own.
No native invoicing
Billing happens in your ledger. ZenWorkflow bills from the job with estimates and credit notes.
No AML/KYC
Screening and risk assessments need another tool. ZenWorkflow includes them.
No team planning
Leave and capacity are out of scope. ZenWorkflow plans around who is in.
Templates that run the practice
Build the steps each service really needs, assign owners and reviewers, set budgets and launch the same engagement every cycle with one click.
From work to paid invoice
Hours and fees roll onto invoices, estimates convert when accepted, and credit notes and receipts keep the ledger right, with approvals before anything goes to a client.
AML/KYC that stays with the client
Screening, risk assessments, identity documents and expiry tracking recorded on the client record with a complete history.
Switching from Senta in three steps
Guided onboarding imports your data and validates it with you before go-live. Most firms are running within a few weeks.
Export before migration
Export clients, contacts and jobs from Senta to CSV while the export tools are still the ones you know.
Import into ZenWorkflow
Import clients and jobs, add directors and shareholders, and connect Google Drive for client files.
Templates and go live
Recreate your services as templates and start the next cycle in ZenWorkflow.
ZenWorkflow vs Senta: questions firms ask
Straight answers on pricing, migration and where each tool wins.
Yes for firms that want an independent platform with billing, AML/KYC and staff leave built in. If you intend to standardise on IRIS Elements for tax and accounts, staying inside the IRIS family may be simpler.
About $24 per user per month billed yearly, or $30 billed monthly, with workflows, CRM, a client portal and e-signatures included.
IRIS has rolled Senta into its IRIS Elements platform and is migrating customers in stages, with timelines that vary by segment. Ask your IRIS account manager for your date.
Yes. Export clients, contacts and jobs to CSV and import them with guided onboarding.
The Practice plan is €39 per user per month, or €390 per user per year. Practice + AML, which adds PEP and sanctions screening, risk assessments and KYC document tracking, is €58 per user per month or €580 per year. A free plan covers one user and ten clients, and every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial. There are no module fees or minimum seat counts.
Yes. ZenWorkflow is built in the EU and is used by accounting, audit, tax, legal and corporate-services firms across Europe and beyond. It bills in EUR or USD, supports multiple entities from one login and includes the AML/KYC due-diligence that EU and UK regulated firms need, without a US-tax or Companies-House-only focus.
Yes. Start a free trial with no credit card, import a handful of clients and run one real engagement end to end. Book a demo if you would rather see your own workflows set up first.
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