Comparison of accounting software

The following comparison of accounting software documents the various features and differences between different professional accounting software and personal finance packages.

Free and open source software

Package	License	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	Market focus	Type	Structure
Adempiere	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	ERP, CRM, POS	Web based
BlueErp	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Small to Mid-market	ERP, CRM	Web based
Compiere	GPL2, other proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	ERP, CRM, POS, WMS, MES	Web based
Cubit Accounting	BSD License	Yes	Yes	Yes	Small Enterprise	POS	Local and network install
Dolibarr	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-market	ERP, CRM, SCM, SaaS	Web based
ERP5	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	All Markets	ERP, CRM, SaaS	Web based
FrontAccounting	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	small to Mid-market	GL,Double-Entry Accounting, ERP, SaaS	Web based
GnuCash	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal and small enterprise	GL; Double-Entry Accounting; Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts; Small-Business Accounting; etc.	Stand alone
Grisbi	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	?	stand alone
HomeBank	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	?	stand alone
JFire	GPL	Yes	No	Yes	All Markets	ERP, CRM, POS, WMS	Web based, Stand alone
JGnash	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	Double-Entry Accounting, multi-currency	stand alone
KMyMoney	GPL	No	Yes	Yes	Personal	Double-Entry Accounting, multi-currency, Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts, online banking	stand alone
LedgerSMB	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	Double-Entry Accounting	Web based
Openbravo	MPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to Mid-market	ERP, CRM, POS, Business Intelligence, General Ledger , Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Control, Manufacturing, Payroll & HR, ecommerce connectivity	Web based
OpenERP	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	ERP, CRM, POS, GL, Double-Entry Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, SCM, SaaS, multi-currency	Stand alone and Web based
PLCash	Careware	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	?	Stand alone
PhreeBooks	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-market	ERP, Double-Entry Accounting, CRM, GL	Web based
Postbooks	CPAL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-market	ERP, CRM	Client-server
SQL-Ledger	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	Double-Entry Accounting	Web based
Tryton	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-market	ERP, GL, Double-Entry Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, SCM, WMS, multi-currency	Thin Client - Server
TurboCASH	GPL	Yes	No	No	Low to mid-market	Double-Entry Accounting	Stand alone
GNU Enterprise	GPL,other proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid to high end market	ERP	Web based + stand alone
WebERP	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to Mid-Market	ERP	Web based

Proprietary software

Package	License	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	Market focus	Type	Structure
24SevenOffice	Software as a Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to Mid-Market	ERP, CRM, e-commerce	Web based
Access Accounting	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid-Market	Financials, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing, Job Costing, POS, Stock, ERP, Business Intelligence, CIS, Payroll	Stand alone
ACCPAC	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-Market	ERP	Stand Alone and Web based
AME Accounting Software	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid-Market	Payroll, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Double-entry Accounting, Small Business Accounting	Stand alone
Baan	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid to Low-Market	ERP	Stand alone and web based
Banana Accounting	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid-Market	GL; Double-Entry Accounting; Small-Business Accounting; etc.	Stand alone
CGram Software	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to Mid Market	Financials; ERP; CRM;Manufacturing; Multicompany; Multicurrency; Payroll; Stock; Accounts Receivable; Accounts Payable; General Ledger	Stand alone
COA Solutions	Proprietary	Yes	No	Yes	Mid-Market to High End	ERP	Stand alone
CODA	Proprietary	Yes	No	Yes	Mid-Market	GL; AP; AR; Analytics; Integration; etc.	Stand alone/Web Access
Cubit Accounting	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-Market	ERP, CRM, POS	Web based
Cougar Mountain Software	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid Market	Business Accounting, POS Retail, Nonprofit, Inventory Control	Stand alone and Web based
CYMA Systems	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid Market	?	Stand alone
EasyAs Accounting Software	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid Market	Single Entry, Small Business Accounting	Stand alone
FirstOffice	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low Market	?	Stand alone
FinanceToGo	Proprietary	No	Yes	No	Low to Mid Market	Double-entry Accounting, Mortgage/Loan/Profit & Loss Accounts, Share Portfolio Management, Small Business Accounting	Stand alone
FlexAccount	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid to High End Market	ERP, Manufacturing, Intercompany, Multicurrency, Budgeting, Reporting, Analysis	Stand alone and Web Based
Fortora Fresh Finance	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	No	Personal	?	Stand alone
HansaWorld	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid Market	ERP, CRM, Sales Management, Manufacturing, Job Costing, Stock, POS, Rental, Calendaring, Service Orders, Webshop, Loans, Alerts, Hospitality Management, Document Management, Graphical Resource Planning	Stand alone & WAN ready
iBank	Proprietary	No	Yes	No	Personal	?	?
Integrated Office Accounting	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid-Market	Payroll, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Small Business Accounting, Inventory Control, Manufacturing, POS, Order Entry, Job Costing	Stand alone - Multi-User - Terminal Server - WAN
IRIS Exchequer	Proprietary	Yes	No	Yes	Mid-Market	Payroll, General Ledger, Multi-currency, Cashbook, Sales and Purchase Ledgers, eBanking, Manufacturing, Wholesale & Distribution, Not-for-profit, Stock control, Stock Forecasting, Project Costing, Job Costing, Time Costing, CRM, Business Intelligence, Microsoft Excel Integration, Report Writer	Stand alone - Multi User - Terminal Server
Lawson Software	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid to Large size Enterprises	ERP, CRM, SCM, PM, e-Commerce, BI	Web Based
Mamut Software Limited	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid Market	ERP, CRM, e-commerce	Stand alone
Microsoft Dynamics AX	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid Market	ERP, SCM, CRM, WMS, Project mgmt, Manufacturing, Intercompany, Multicurrency, Cost Accounting, Reporting & Analysis services	Stand alone and Web based
Microsoft Dynamics GP	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid Market	?	Stand alone
Microsoft Dynamics NAV	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid Market	ERP, CRM, Intercompany, Multicurrency, Cost Accounting, Reporting & Analysis services	Stand alone
Microsoft Dynamics SL	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid Market	?	Stand alone and Web based
Microsoft Money	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Personal	Product is Discontinued	Stand alone
Microsoft Office Accounting	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low Market	Product is Discontinued	Stand alone
Mint.com	Software as a Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	Account aggregation	Web based
Moneydance	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	Double-Entry Accounting, multi-currency	Stand alone
MYOB	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	No	Low to High End Market	Small business and commercial accounting. Payroll and POS	Stand alone
NOSA XP	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Private Enterprises, Public Sectors and Accounting Firms	AR, AP, GL, Double-entry Accounting, Sales and Contracts, Inventory Control, Order Entry/Tracking, Job Costing, Integrated, Inter-Company, Multi-Currency, Multi-Language.	Stand alone and/or Web based
NetSuite	Software as a Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid Market	CRM, ERP, ecommerce	Web based
NolaPro	Software as a Service or Freeware	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to High End Market	Double-Entry Accounting, Small Business Accounting, Inventory Control, Order Entry/Tracking, Payroll, ERP, ecommerce, POS	Stand alone and Web based
Openda QX	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid Market	CRM, ERP	Stand Alone
Oracle E-Business Suite	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	High Market	ERP	Web based
Peachtree by Sage	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low-end to High end	Business management.	Stand alone
Pegasus Software Opera II	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid-market	?	Stand alone
POS Solutions	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Newsagency pharmacy	POS	Stand alone
Quasar Accounting	Proprietary	Yes	?	Yes	Mom and Pop to Medium Enterprise	Accounting, Inventory Control, Retail Point-of-Sale	Stand alone
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	No	Mid Market	Business management, Payroll	Stand alone
Quicken	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	No	Personal	?	Stand alone
Red Wing Software	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid-Market	Payroll, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Double-entry Accounting, Fund Accounting, Inventory Management, Procurement, Order Entry/Tracking, Small Business Accounting	Stand alone
Sage	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Accounting Firms	CRM, payroll	Stand alone
Sage Line 50	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low-market (for SME)	?	Stand alone
Sage Pastel Evolution	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Small, Medium to Mid-size Enterprises (SMME)	Financials,Inventory, Manufacturing, Job Costing, POS, Procurement, CRM, Business Intelligence, Payroll & HR	Stand alone
Sage PFW ERP	Proprietary	Yes	No	Yes	Mid-market	ERP, Process Manufacturing	Stand alone
SAP Business One	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Small & Midsize Enterprises (SME)	ERP, e-Commerce	Stand alone
SAP ERP	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Midsize to High-end	ERP, CRM, SCM, SRM, PLM, GTS, e-commerce, Business Intelligence, Mobile Business	Stand alone and Web based
Simply Accounting	Proprietary	Yes	No	Yes	Low-end	Business Accounting, Retail, Inventory Control	Stand alone
Tally	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid-market	Business Accounting, Inventory Management, Payroll	Stand alone
Ubikwiti	Software as a Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to High End markets	Easily customizable online accounting and business management software, personal finance.	Web based
Xero	Software as a Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to Mid-Market. Small & Midsize Enterprises (SME)	Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Double-Entry Accounting, Small Business Accounting, Multicurrency, automatic bank feeds, standard business reporting, management reporting	Web based
You Need a Budget (YNAB)	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Personal	Personal spending management, with an emphasis on budgeting	Stand alone
Package	Licence	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	Market focus	Type	Structure

Further details

Package	Programming Language	First public release date	Latest stable release	Stable release date	Development Status	Database	Supported languages
Adempiere	J2EE, JBoss	October 12, 2006 23:46	3.4.2s	Dec 20, 2008	5 - Production / Stable	Oracle, PostgreSQL	+10: English, Spanish, French, ...
CGram Software	C, Java	1982	5.0.0	August 2009	5 - Production / Stable	PostgreSQL	English
Compiere	J2EE, JBoss	June 8, 2001	3.2.0s	October, 2008	5 - Production / Stable	Oracle, Advance Server, MS SQL, PostgreSQL	+10: English, Germany, Spanish, French, Indonesia,...
Dolibarr	PHP	Septembre 1, 2003	2.6.1	June 13, 2009	5 - Production / Stable	MySQL	English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Nyrnosk, Dutch, Polish, German, Romanian
ERP5	Python	April 29, 2002	1.0rc11	February 1, 2007	5 - Production / Stable	ZODB (any with ODBC interface)	English, French, German, Japanese, Polish
FrontAccounting	PHP	April 2007	2.0.7	February 03, 2009	5 - Production / Stable	MySQL	16 languages
GnuCash	C 80%, Scheme / Lisp 13%, Perl 7%?	Registered: 1999-11-08 23:59	2.3.5	August 29, 2009	5 - Production / Stable	XML (Compressed), SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL	8: English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, ...
Grisbi	C		0.5.9	July 10, 2006	5 - Production / Stable		German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Hebrew, Bulgarian.
HomeBank	C	January 2, 1998	4.0.4	June 10, 2009	5 - Production / Stable	XML file	35: English, Spanish, French, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, ...
IntarS	?	?	5.1	?	5 - Production / Stable	?	German
JFire	J2EE, JBoss, Eclipse RCP, JDO	?	?	?	?	MS SQL, Derby, ...	English, German, Thai, ...
JGnash	Java		2.3.0	June 28, 2009
KMyMoney	C++	Registered: 2000-04-15 19:16	1.0.2	2009-10-04	5 - Production / Stable	XML file	19: English , Spanish, German, Catalan, Czech, French, Galician, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, ...
LedgerSMB	Perl	?	1.2.9	September 28, 2007	5 - Production / Stable	PostgreSQL 8.x	?
Openbravo	J2EE, JBoss	?	2.50	April 2009	5 - Production / Stable	Oracle, PostgreSQL	Multilingual
OpenERP	Python, XML	?	5.0.6	September 29, 2009	5 - Production / Stable	PostgreSQL (any through SQLAlchemy in SAServer branch)	+10
opentaps	?	?	1.0.2	?	5 - Production / Stable	?	?
PhreeBooks	PHP	August 2007	1.7	April 2009	5 - Production / Stable	mySQL	Multilingual
SQL-Ledger	Perl	?	?	?	?	PostgreSQL	30: English, ...
Tryton	Python	November 17, 2008	1.4	October 19, 2009	5 - Production / Stable	PostgreSQL, SQLite	English, French, German, Spanish
GNU Enterprise	J2EE	June 28, 2002	1.4	November 19, 2008	5 - Production / Stable	PostgreSQL 8.1+	English, Chinese
WebERP	PHP	January 2003	3.10	February 2009	5 - Production / Stable	mySQL - innodb	Multilingual

See also

• Personal financial management - Web-based money management tools and services.

External links

• Making the Accounting Software Decision, Society of Nonprofit Organizations
• Top 10 Linux Financial Tools, 10 Things, Tech Republic