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Latest revision as of 21:49, 27 April 2011
The following comparison of accounting software documents the various features and differences between different accounting software packages.
Proprietary software
Package | Licence | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | Market focus | Type | Structure |
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24SevenOffice | Software as a Service | yes | yes | yes | low to Mid-Market | ? | 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, $595 upwards | yes | yes | yes | Mid-Market | ERP | Stand Alone and Web based |
ALERE Accounting | Proprietary | yes | no | no | Low to Mid-Market | ? | Stand alone |
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 |
Compeat | Proprietary | yes | no | no | Restaurant management | POS | Stand alone |
Cubit_Accounting | Proprietary, $549 upwards | 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, Online Demonstrations | Stand alone and Web based |
CYMA Systems | Proprietary | yes | no | no | Low to Mid Market | ? | 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 |
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 |
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 | ? | Stand alone |
Microsoft Dynamics SL | Proprietary | yes | no | no | Mid Market | ? | Stand alone and Web based |
Microsoft Money | Proprietary | yes | no | no | Personal | ? | Stand alone |
Microsoft Office Accounting | Proprietary | yes | no | no | Low Market | ? | Stand alone |
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 |
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 | High Market | ERP | Stand Alone |
Peachtree by Sage | Proprietary, $69.99 - $3375.00 | 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 | ? | ? | Stand alone |
QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions | Proprietary, $3,000 - $9,000 | yes | yes | yes | Mid Market | Business management, Payroll | Stand alone |
Quicken | Proprietary | yes | yes | no | Personal | ? | 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 |
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 | no | Low-end | Business Accounting, Retail, Inventory Control | Stand alone |
Tally | Proprietary | yes | no | yes | Mid-market | payroll | Stand alone |
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 |
Free and open source software
Package | Licence | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | Market focus | Type | Structure |
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Adempiere | GPL | yes | yes | yes | Mid-market | ERP, CRM, POS | Web based |
Compiere | GPL2, other proprietary (certain dependence on Oracle) | yes | yes | yes | Mid-market | ERP, CRM, POS | Web based |
Cubit_Accounting | BSD_License | yes | yes | yes | Small Enterprise | POS | Local and network install |
Dolibarr | GPL | yes | yes | yes | Low markets | ERP, CRM, SCM, SaaS | Web based |
ERP5 | GPL | yes | yes | yes | All Markets | ERP, CRM, SaaS | Web based |
GnuCash | GPL | yes | yes | yes | Personal | 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 |
JGnash | GPL | yes | yes | yes | Personal | Double-Entry Accounting, multi-currency | stand alone |
KMyMoney | GPL | no | yes | yes | Personal | ? | stand alone |
LedgerSMB | GPL | yes | yes | yes | Mid-market | ? | Web based |
OpenERP | GPL | yes | yes | yes | Mid-market | ERP, CRM, POS | Stand alone and Web based |
PhpOrganisation | GPL | yes | yes | yes | Low-end | ? | Web based |
Postbooks | CPAL | yes | yes | yes | Low to mid-market | ERP, CRM | Client-server |
SQL-Ledger | GPL | yes | yes | yes | Mid-market | ? | Web based |
Stoq | GPL | no | no | yes | Low-end and Mid-market | ERP, CRM, POS | Standalone |
TurboCASH | GPL | yes | no | no | Low to mid-market | Double-Entry Accounting | Stand alone |
WebERP | GPL | yes | yes | yes | low to Mid-Market | ERP | Web based |
Xpert | LGPL | yes | yes | yes | Mid-Market | GL;Fund Accounting;Payroll | Client/Server |
Further details
Package | Programming Language | First public release date | Latest stable release | Stable release date | Development Status | Database | Supported languages |
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Adempiere | J2EE, JBoss | October 12, 2006 23:46 | 3.4.0s | Mar 26, 2008 | 5 - Production / Stable | Oracle, PostgreSQL | +10: English, Spanish, French, ... |
Compiere | J2EE | June 8, 2001 | 2.6.1 | April 27, 2007 | 5 - Production / Stable | Oracle, PostgreSQL | ? |
Dolibarr | PHP | Septembre 1, 2003 | 2.4 | August 1, 2008 | 5 - Production / Stable | MySQL | English, Spanish, French |
ERP5 | Python | April 29, 2002 | 1.0rc11 | February 1, 2007 | 5 - Production / Stable | ZODB (any with ODBC interface) | English, French, German, Japanese, Polish |
GnuCash | C 80%, Scheme / Lisp 13%, Perl 7%? | Registered: 1999-11-08 23:59 | 2.2.6 | July 31, 2008 | 5 - Production / Stable | ? | 8: English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, ... |
Grisbi | C | 0.5.9 | July 10, 2006 | 5 - Production / Stable | German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Hebrew, Bulgarian. | ||
HomeBank | C | January 2, 1998 | 3.8 | April 2, 2008 | 5 - Production / Stable | XML file | 35: English, Spanish, French, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, ... |
JGnash | Java | ||||||
KMyMoney | C++ | Registered: 2000-04-15 19:16 | 0.8.9 | March 23 2008 | 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 | ? |
OpenERP | Python, XML | ? | 4.2.2 | ? | 5 - Production / Stable | PostgreSQL | +10 |
SQL-Ledger | Perl | ? | ? | ? | ? | PostgreSQL | 30: English, ... |
Stoq | Python | August 28, 2001 | 0.9.5 | March 19, 2008 | 5 - Production / Stable | PostgreSQL 8.1+ | English, Spanish, Portuguese |
WebERP | PHP | January 2003 | 3.0.8 | November 2007 | 5 - Production / Stable | mySQL - innodb | Multilingual |
Xpert | C | June 2005 | 1.10.2 | September 2008 | 5 - Production / Stable | MyISAM | English |
References
- This article is based on text from Wikipedia, available under the GFDL.