Last updated: 13 October 2026

Support — Kontis

Kontis is Aumatex’s app for running Italian micro businesses with ordinary bookkeeping, on iPhone, iPad and Mac: invoices, cash book, VAT and deadlines. Here are the answers to the most common questions, with the menus named as you see them in the app.

Kontis

Getting started

On first launch tap Create your company and type the VAT number: the name and registered office come from the EU VIES registry, to check before you go on. Your company’s details go on every invoice and decide which deadlines apply to you.
Settings opens from the gear button in Overview; on the Mac from Kontis › Settings… In Settings › Companies you open, add, export or remove a company: you can keep more than one.
On iPhone the tabs are Overview, Documents, Movements and Contacts, plus the Register button; VAT, Deadlines, F24 and the rest of Taxes open from Overview. On iPad and Mac they are in the sidebar.

Recording invoices, expenses and movements

The Register button gathers everything you record: Movement, Document (quote, order, delivery note, invoice, credit note or expense report), Received invoice, Expense with no invoice, Transfer between your accounts and movements with partners.
A payment in or out is linked to the invoices it settles: Kontis suggests the documents still open for the same contact. Until you link it, the movement stays To link.
On iPhone and iPad, Scan an invoice uses the camera to capture a paper invoice: the page is straightened and becomes a PDF attached to the invoice you record.
Bank accounts, cards and cash, with their opening balances, are in Settings › Accounts; income and cost headings in Settings › Categories.

Electronic invoices (FatturaPA)

Register › Import XML takes your suppliers’ electronic invoices, signed .p7m files included, one or many at a time. Kontis keeps the original file with the invoice and asks you to check the contact it recognised.
For the invoices you issue, Kontis writes the XML file (Create the XML file, then Save the XML): you hand it to your provider, who sends it to the SDI. Kontis sends nothing to the SDI.
From a document, Send by email prepares the message with the courtesy PDF attached, from your Mail app.

VAT, deadlines and reminders

Kontis estimates the VAT settlement, monthly or quarterly, with the detail of every document, and gathers tax and invoice deadlines in one list. These estimates help you stay organised: they are not professional advice and do not replace your accountant.
In Settings › Deadline reminders choose the notifications (how many days before, and at what time) and each company’s system calendar, which Kontis keeps up to date by itself. Deadlines also show in the widgets.
If reminders do not arrive, check that notifications and Calendar access are allowed for Kontis in the device’s Settings.

iCloud and several devices

Kontis syncs your companies across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your private iCloud. Turn on Settings › iCloud › Sync with this iCloud account on each device, with the same Apple Account; Sync now forces an update.
If the status says Not signed in, the device is not signed in to iCloud: the companies stay there until it is.
Theme, deadline reminders and automatic backups follow your account to every device; the lock and the language stay with each device.

Export, import and backups

Settings › Data & Backups › Export this company or Export all companies creates a .kontis file with all the data, to save wherever you like. Export always works, even without a subscription.
Import from a Kontis file… adds the file’s companies next to the others; a company that is already there only receives what it lacks.
Once a day Kontis saves a backup of every company you changed in the Kontis folder of iCloud Drive (without iCloud Drive it stays on the device). Back Up Now makes one at once; from the list of backups you can put one back.

Subscription and free month

The free month starts when you create your first company; Kontis reminds you three days before it ends and on its last day. Then choose a monthly or annual subscription, with every feature included.
Without a subscription your data stays readable and exportable; recording anything new needs a subscription.
Subscription, Manage Subscription and Restore Purchases are at the top of Settings (on the Mac in the Subscription tab). Payments, renewals and refunds are handled by Apple.

Face ID lock

In Settings › Lock turn on Lock with Face ID (or Touch ID, or the device passcode) and choose how long after leaving Kontis it asks again: Immediately, After 1 minute, 5 or 15 minutes.
While the app is locked, and in the app switcher, your books stay covered. The lock applies only to the device where you turn it on.