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	Linux	Market focus	Type	Structure	Language
Adempiere	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	ERP , CRM, POS, Business Intelligence, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory control, Manufacturing, Payroll & HR, ecommerce connectivity	Web based	Java on JBoss, GlassFish, PostgreSQL
BlueErp	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-market	ERP, CRM	Web based	PHP
Compiere	GPL2, other proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	ERP, CRM, POS, WMS, MES	Web based	Java EE
Dolibarr	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-market	ERP, CRM, SCM, POS, WMS, SaaS	Web based (or Stand alone with DoliWamp)	PHP
FrontAccounting	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-market	GL, Double-Entry Accounting, ERP, SaaS	Web based	PHP
GnuCash	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal and small enterprise	GL; Double-Entry Accounting; Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts; Small-Business Accounting; etc.	Stand alone	C, Scheme
GNU Enterprise	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid to high end market	ERP	Web based + stand alone	Python
Grisbi	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	?	stand alone	C
HomeBank	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	?	stand alone	C, GTK+
JFire	GPL	Yes	No	Yes	All Markets	ERP, CRM, POS, WMS	Web based, Stand alone	Java
JGnash	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	Double-Entry Accounting, multi-currency	stand alone	Java
KMyMoney	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Personal	Double-Entry Accounting, multi-currency, Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts, online banking	stand alone	C++
LedgerSMB	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	ERP, POS, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Double-Entry Accounting, SaaS, Multi-user, Multi-company, Multi-currency|Multi-language (40),	Web based	Perl
Apache OFBiz	Apache License	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	ERP, CRM, POS, Business Intelligence, GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory control, Manufacturing, SCM, HR, Shopping Cart/Catalog/ecommerce, SaaS, Calendar, Webmail	Web based	Java
OpenPro	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, Multi-user, Multi-currency|Multi-language (26), PBX integration	Web based	PHP
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	Java
OpenERP	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	ERP, CRM, POS, Business Intelligence, GL, Double-Entry Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory control, Manufacturing, SCM, HRM (Human Resource Management), Shopping Cart/Catalog/ecommerce (both built-in or external integration/connectivity), SaaS, Calendar, Webmail, Multi-company, Multi-user, Multi-currency	Web based and Client-server	Python
Opentaps	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	Same as Apache OFBiz	Web based	Java
PhreeBooks	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-market	ERP, POS, Double-Entry Accounting, CRM, GL	Web based	PHP
Postbooks	CPAL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-market	ERP, CRM, POS, Business Intelligence, General Ledger, Double-Entry Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory control, Manufacturing, Distribution, Professional Services, ecommerce connectivity, Multi-Currency	Client-server	C++, Qt
SQL-Ledger	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-market	ERP, Double-Entry Accounting	Web based	Perl
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 or Stand alone	Python
TurboCASH	GPL	Yes	No	No	Low to mid-market	Double-Entry Accounting	Stand alone	Delphi
webERP	GPL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to mid-Market	ERP	Web based	PHP

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-mail, collaboration, Project Management, Integrated VoIP	Web based
The Access Group	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid-Market	Financials, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing, Job Costing, POS, Inventory control, ERP, Business Intelligence, CIS, Payroll	Stand alone
ACCPAC	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-Market	ERP	Stand Alone and Web based
Acumatica	Proprietary and Software as a service	Yes	No	No	Mid-Market	ERP, Accounting software	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
BIG4books	Software as a Service or Freeware	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to Mid Market	Double-Entry Accounting, Small Business Accounting, Inventory control, Order Entry/Tracking, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, ERP, ecommerce, POS	Web based
Clear Books	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, Multi-currency, automatic bank feeds, standard business reporting, management reporting, fixed asset depreciation, payroll, inventory items	Web based
CGram Software	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to Mid Market	Financials; ERP; CRM;Manufacturing; Multicompany; Multicurrency; Payroll; Inventory control; 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
Comarch Altum	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid-Market	ERP; GL; Bookkeeping, Multi-Currency, Multi-Language, Double-entry Accounting, AP; AR; Analytics; Integration; CRM; BI; e-commerce; Workflow; Retail; POS	Stand alone / Web Access
Cougar Mountain Software	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid Market	Business Accounting, POS Retail, Nonprofit, Inventory Control	Stand alone and Web based
Express Accounts from NCH Software	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	No	Low to Mid Market	Business Accounting and Invoicing	Stand Alone/Web Access
FinancialForce.com	Software as a Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid-Market to Enterprise	ERP, Ordering & Billing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Management, General Ledger, Reporting & Dashboarding, Multi-Currency, Multi-Company, Global Tax, Analytics	Web based
FirstOffice	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low Market	?	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
iBank	Proprietary	No	Yes	No	Personal	?	Stand alone and Mobile
inniAccounts	Software as a Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Freelancers and Contractors	Timesheets, Expenses Tracking, Mileage Tracking, Payroll, Double-Entry Accounting, Small Business Accounting, standard business reporting, management reporting	Web based
invoiceit	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid Market	Small Business Accounting, single entry, accounts receivable, accounts payable, Contact Management System, Inventory Management, Purchasing, Quotations, Invoices, Scheduler, Marketing	Stand-alone
Intacct	Software as a Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid Market	Custom Reporting, Double-Entry Accounting, Employee Expenses, ERP, Inventory Control, Order Entry/Tracking, Payroll, ecommerce, POS, Revenue Recognition, VSOE	Web based
IRIS Exchequer	Proprietary	Yes	No	Yes	Mid-Market	Payroll, General Ledger, Multi-currency, Cashbook, Sales and Purchase Ledgers, eBanking, MRP, Stock Forecasting, Project Costing, Job Costing, Time Costing, CRM, Business Intelligence, Microsoft Excel Integration, Report Writer	Stand alone - Multi User - Terminal Server
Jonas Software	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Mid-Market to High-Market	Payroll, General Ledger, POS, Payroll, Double-Entry Accounting, Analytic, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable	Stand Alone
Lawson Software	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mid to Large size Enterprises	ERP, CRM, SCM, PM, e-Commerce, BI	Web Based
Locbook	Freeware	No	No	Yes	Low to High End Market	Accounting software for Petroleum Marketers and POS interface for retail scanning.	Stand alone
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	ERP, SCM, manufacturing, Cost Accounting, Double-Entry Accounting, project accounting, Payroll, General Ledger, Analytic, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable	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 AccountRight	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	No	Low to High End Market	Small business and commercial accounting. Payroll and POS	Stand alone
NewViews	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid Market	Real-time, ecommerce, Integrated, Multi-user, Payroll, General Ledger, AR, AP, Multi-Currency, Small Business Accounting, Inventory Control, Order Entry, Job Costing	Stand alone and/or Web Access
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
Nominal Accounting	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Micro business management software	AR, AP, GL, Double-entry Accounting, Sales and Contracts, Inventory Control, Job Costing, Integrated, Inter-Company, .	Stand alone, Web connected
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
Open Systems Accounting Software	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low to Mid Market	ERP, SCM, eCommerce, Reporting & Business Intelligence	Stand Alone
Outright	Software as a service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Entrepreneurs, freelancers, Contractors, Consultants, Small businesses - Low Market	Bookkeeping, Taxes, eCommerce, Reporting & Business Intelligence	Web based
Passport Software, Inc.	Proprietary	Yes	No	Yes	Mid to Low-Market	General ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts payable, ERP	Stand alone
Softline Pastel	Proprietary and Software as a service	Yes	Yes	No	Low-end to High End Markets	Accounting, ERP, CRM, Financials, Business Intelligence, POS,Small business accounting,Mid-sized enterprise accounting,Large enterprise accounting, Payroll, HR	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
QuickBooks Online	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	Low Market	Financial management, Payroll	Web Based
QuickBooks Pro/Premier	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	No	Low to Mid Market	Financial management, Inventory Management, Payroll	Stand alone
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	No	Mid Market	Business management, Payroll	Stand alone
Quicken	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	No	Personal	Personal Cash Management, Investment Management	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 (SME)	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 Business ByDesign	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Small & Midsize Enterprises (SME)	ERP, e-Commerce	Web based
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
TRAVERSE	Proprietary	Yes	No	No	Low to Mid Market	ERP, CRM, SCM, Intercompany, Multicurrency, Manufacturing, Distribution, eCommerce, Mobile Business Solutions, Reporting & Business Intelligence	Stand Alone
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, Multi-currency, automatic bank feeds, standard business reporting, management reporting, fixed asset depreciation, payroll, inventory items	Web based
You Need a Budget (YNAB)	Proprietary	Yes	Yes	Yes	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	3.6.0LTS	Jun 14, 2010	5 - Production / Stable	Oracle, PostgreSQL	+10: English, Spanish, French, ...
Apache OFBiz	Java	?	9.04	April 2009	5 - Production / Stable	any	Multilingual
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	September 1, 2003	2.8.1	February 1, 2010	5 - Production / Stable	MySQL, PostgreSQL	+15: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Nyrnosk, Dutch, Polish, German, Romanian, Slovenian and more...
FrontAccounting	PHP	April 2007	2.2	February 14, 2011	5 - Production / Stable	MySQL	16 languages
GnuCash	C 80%, Scheme / Lisp 13%, Perl 7%?	Registered: 1999-11-08 23:59	2.4.8	October 23, 2011	5 - Production / Stable	XML (Compressed), SQLite3, MySQL, PostgreSQL	software: 33 languages; website: 8 languages
GNU Enterprise	Python 100%	June 28, 2002	1.4	November 19, 2008	5 - Production / Stable	PostgreSQL 8.1+	2: English, German,
Grisbi	C		0.6.0	May 19, 2010	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	2003-01-01	2.6.0	December 24, 2011	5 - Production / Stable	XML, db4o	English
KMyMoney	C++	Registered: 2000-04-15 19:16	4.6.1	2011-11-06	5 - Production / Stable	XML file	19: English, Spanish, German, Catalan, Czech, French, Galician, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, ...
NewViews	C++, Tcl/Tk	1985	2.22.3	2012-01-18	5 - Production / Stable	Proprietary, Object Oriented	English
LedgerSMB	Perl	September 6, 2006	1.3.7	Dec 1, 2011	5 - Production / Stable	PostgreSQL 8.1/8.3+	+40:English development, Multilingual (.po files Gettext#Translating )
OpenPro	PHP	1998	6.3	July 12, 2011	5 - Production / Stable	MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2	Arabic, Chinese Cantonese, Chinese Mandarin, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil Thai, Urdu
Openbravo	J2EE, JBoss	?	2.50	April 2009	5 - Production / Stable	Oracle, PostgreSQL	Multilingual
OpenERP	Python, XML	?	6.0.2	April 2, 2011	5 - Production / Stable	PostgreSQL (any through SQLAlchemy in SAServer branch)	+10
opentaps	Java	?	1.4	March 2010	5 - Production / Stable	any	Multilingual
PhreeBooks	PHP	August 2007	2.1	January 21, 2011	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
webERP	PHP	January 2003	3.11.2	January 2010	5 - Production / Stable	mySQL - innodb	Multilingual

See also

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• Comparison of development estimation software