🏆 Top 5 admin tools for freelancers
Here is our selection of the best admin tools for freelancers: Swapn, Legalstart, Superindep, LegalPlace and Portail Auto-Entrepreneur.
📊 Detailed comparison
Compare the key features of each tool at a glance.
| Criterion |  Swapn Formation €0, accounting from €29 excl. VAT/month (French offer) |  Legalstart Formation from €0 excl. VAT (Starter) + legal fees, Standard €99, Premium €199 (French offer) |  LegalPlace Creation from €0 excl. VAT (legal fees extra), accounting from €39 excl. VAT/month, French offer |  Portail Auto-Entrepreneur From €59 (one-off, French offer) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speciality | Company formation & accounting | Formation & legal | Formation & legal | Auto-entreprise registration |
| Company formation (SASU, EURL) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Micro-entreprise setup / management | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated URSSAF filings | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Legal services (articles, contracts, trademarks) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
- Speciality
- Company formation & accounting
- Company formation (SASU, EURL)
- ✓
- Micro-entreprise setup / management
- ✗
- Automated URSSAF filings
- ✗
- Legal services (articles, contracts, trademarks)
- ✗
- Speciality
- Formation & legal
- Company formation (SASU, EURL)
- ✓
- Micro-entreprise setup / management
- ✓
- Automated URSSAF filings
- ✗
- Legal services (articles, contracts, trademarks)
- ✓
- Speciality
- Formation & legal
- Company formation (SASU, EURL)
- ✓
- Micro-entreprise setup / management
- ✓
- Automated URSSAF filings
- ✗
- Legal services (articles, contracts, trademarks)
- ✓
- Speciality
- Auto-entreprise registration
- Company formation (SASU, EURL)
- ✗
- Micro-entreprise setup / management
- ✓
- Automated URSSAF filings
- ✗
- Legal services (articles, contracts, trademarks)
- ✗
🧮 Choose your legal status before setting up your business
The right status depends on your revenue and how you pay yourself. Simulate it before starting the formalities.
Legal status comparator
Micro-entreprise, EURL or SASU: compare the net income of each status based on your revenue.
Micro-entreprise contributions simulator
Calculate your URSSAF contributions, your income tax and your CFE as a micro-entrepreneur.
SASU dividends simulator
Weigh salary against dividends to optimise how you pay yourself in a SASU.
🎯 Which tool should you pick for your profile?
💼Auto-entrepreneur with basic needs
If you are an auto-entrepreneur (France's simplified sole-trader status, also called micro-entrepreneur) with simple admin needs, Portail Auto-Entrepreneur (for registration) or Superindep (for management and filings) are more than enough. These solutions cover setting up the micro-entreprise and tracking the thresholds without unnecessary complexity.
🌱Freelancer with a complex status or a planned change
For freelancers running an EURL/SASU (French single-shareholder companies) or planning to move to these statuses, Legalstart or LegalPlace offer complete support with legal advice, company formation and follow-up of the more complex legal obligations.
Frequently asked questions
Obligations vary by status: revenue declaration (monthly or quarterly) for auto-entrepreneurs, bookkeeping for EURL/SASU companies, annual social and tax filings, and compliance with VAT (TVA) thresholds. Some activities have specific obligations.
For auto-entrepreneurs, largely yes, thanks to the simplicity of the regime. For the other statuses (EURL, SASU), a tool can make management easier but an accountant's expertise often remains necessary for complex filings and tax optimisation.
Prices range from €0 (official portal) to €50/month depending on the services. Basic tools cost €10-20/month, while solutions with legal support can reach €30-50/month. That is often cheaper than accountant fees.
Most modern tools include automatic alerts and reminders for important deadlines. They also offer dashboards to track your thresholds (revenue, VAT) and warn you if you exceed one or if a new obligation applies.
Yes, but you need to make sure your data and filings carry over. Export your data before switching and check that the new tool can import your history. Watch out for ongoing deadlines to avoid missing anything.
Both cover company formation (companies as well as auto-entreprises) from €0 + legal fees, with legal support. Legalstart highlights a team of legal specialists reachable by phone and chat, plus an invoicing + accounting ecosystem (LS Compta). LegalPlace offers a dedicated expert until you receive your Kbis (the official company registration extract) and integrates accounting (ComptaPlace) and registered-address services more easily in the same offer. In short: Legalstart if you want the most accessible human legal advice, LegalPlace if you want to centralise formation, accounting and registered address in one place.
For registration alone, Portail Auto-Entrepreneur handles the process in a few minutes and sends you your SIRET (business ID number). If you want to move straight on to management (invoicing + automated URSSAF filings), Superindep is the most complete for micro-entrepreneurs. Note: you can also register for free yourself on the INPI guichet unique (the official one-stop portal). These services charge for the support and the time saved.