- Comparison of accounting software
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The following comparison of accounting software documents the various features and differences between different professional accounting software and personal finance packages.
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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 Double-Entry Accounting 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[disambiguation needed 
], Multi-user, Multi-currency|Multi-language (26), PBX integrationWeb 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 HPL 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 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 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[disambiguation needed ], Accounts Receivable, Accounts PayableStand 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 ERP Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Midsize to High-end ERP, CRM, SCM, SRM, PLM, GTS[disambiguation needed ], e-commerce, Business Intelligence, Mobile BusinessStand 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 8: English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese ... 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 2.5.1 January 3, 2011 5 - Production / Stable XML, db4o English 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, ... NewViews C++, Tcl/Tk 1985 2.21.1 2011-10-28 5 - Production / Stable Proprietary, Object Oriented English LedgerSMB Perl September 6, 2006 1.3.5 Nov 17, 2011 5 - Production / Stable PostgreSQL 8.1/8.3+ +40:English development, Multilingual (.po files [1] ) 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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