Moving in
Midday is closing, and its export reads in whole here
Midday is winding down and you have ninety days. Orla reads that export whole, categories and receipts included.
Per Midday's announcement of 27 August 2026: accounts stay active for ninety days, with a full export throughout.
Side by side
What comes across, and what does not
The honest version, not the marketing one.
| In your export | In Orla after the import |
|---|---|
| TransactionsAcross every account | Booked to the account you point them at, in their own currency |
| Your categoriesThe ones you chose yourself | Kept as they are, with no tax rate invented for them |
| ReceiptsFiles attached to a payment | Filed against the same payment, not into a pile |
| CustomersNames, tax numbers, addresses | Your address book, ready to invoice from |
| Invoices you issuedPDFs and their numbering | Stored as documents, deliberately not as invoices of yours |
| Vault filesContracts, agreements | Documents, searchable |
| Tracked hoursProjects and timers | Not imported. Orla does not track time |
Old invoices stay documents on purpose: their numbering belongs to the books you are leaving, and filing them as yours would put another company's history into your VAT return.
The move
Three steps, and not one of them is retyping
Your books are a file. A file is something software can read.
- In Midday, ask for the full export from team settings. It arrives as one ZIP.
- In Orla, open Import and choose Coming from Midday. Drop the ZIP in.
- Point each of their accounts at an account here, or let Orla create it. Nothing is written until you say so.
Fair is fair
When Orla is the wrong move
Better to read it here than to find out after the import.
- Billable hours are how you invoice. Orla has no timer and no timesheets, and that was the heart of Midday for a lot of people.
- You want a US corporate card programme with spend controls. That is what Ramp is for, and their team offered eligible customers a path.
- Your accountant wants a specific ledger file every month. Orla exports clean books, but it is not a replacement for their software.
Where Orla is different
Money Midday never saw
If any of this is your money, the move decides itself.
- Coins on an exchange or in a wallet, priced by the day they moved and taxed like the rest of your income.
- Invoices paid in crypto or in fiat, chased the same way either way.
- A company, a family and your own money in separate books, without three logins.
- A VAT and tax centre that reads the same ledger the rest of the app reads.
Questions
The questions the table does not answer
Is Midday shutting down?
Their own announcement, read on 27 August 2026, says Midday is joining Ramp and the product winds down over three months. Accounts stay active for ninety days with a full data export available throughout, and eligible customers were offered a path to Ramp.
Can I import my Midday export into Orla?
Yes, the whole ZIP. Orla reads it, shows what is inside before writing anything, and then books the transactions, keeps the categories you gave them, files each receipt against its own payment, and brings your customer list into the address book.
What does not come across from Midday?
Tracked hours, because Orla has no timer and no timesheets. Invoices you issued arrive as PDFs in Documents rather than as invoices of yours: their numbering and paid statuses belong to the books you are leaving, and filing them as ours would put another company's history into your VAT return.
What happens to the categories I set up in Midday?
They are kept under the same names, and a category Orla does not have yet is created for you. No tax rate is attached to it: a rate carried over from another country's setup would be a deduction claim nobody can stand behind.
What is the closest Midday alternative for a freelancer paid in crypto?
That is the case Orla was built for. Invoices, bank accounts, exchanges and wallets sit in one book, coins are priced by the day they moved, and the tax centre reads the same ledger the rest of the app reads.
Other comparisons
Bring the export over while you still have it
The free plan has no time limit, connections are read only, and leaving again takes your data with you.
Or see what Orla does with crypto →- Orla vs T:0 →
- T:0 keeps GAAP books with a CPA; Orla runs everything before the accountant, and speaks crypto.
- Orla vs Dimely →
- Dimely turns a contract into an invoice inside your ERP; Orla takes it all the way to the money.
- Orla vs Fuelfinance →
- Fuelfinance is FP&A over QuickBooks; Orla is the book itself, for a company with no bookkeeper.
- Orla vs Light →
- Light is an agentic ERP for groups of companies; Orla is one company's back office, started this afternoon.
- Orla vs Neno →
- Neno is a Dutch accounting firm that holds money and files; Orla holds neither and hands the month to your accountant.
- Orla vs YNAB →
- Both budget your money. YNAB sees your banks; Orla sees banks, exchanges and wallets in one book.
- Orla vs Monarch →
- Monarch budgets American and Canadian banks well; Orla adds exchanges and wallets to the same money.
- Orla vs Copilot Money →
- Copilot tracks American money in dollars; Orla holds several currencies and puts coins in the budget.
- Orla vs Lunch Money →
- Both independent, both outside America; the split is whether a coin is a balance or a line.
- Orla vs Splitwise →
- Splitwise keeps score of who owes whom; Orla keeps the book those debts belong to.
- Orla vs CoinTracker →
- One counts last year's crypto for the tax office; the other runs your money all year.
- YNAB alternatives →
- Five options with the price and the catch on each.
- Splitwise alternatives →
- Two free like-for-like options, one different idea, and when moving a group is not worth it.
See it on your own books
Thirty minutes: we connect an account, drop a real bill in, and close a month together.