Best Accounting Software in the UK 2026

A long standing UK cloud accounting product now owned by IRIS, aimed at sole traders and small businesses that want low cost bookkeeping with the option to add payroll.

• Affordable entry pricing
• Optional payroll add on
• Backed by the IRIS group
• HMRC recognised for MTD VAT

Sage's cloud financial management platform for medium sized and growing organisations, built around dimensional reporting and multi entity consolidation.

• Dimensional accounting
• Multi entity consolidation
• Real time financial dashboards
• Project and revenue accounting

Sage's main cloud accounting product for small UK businesses. Payroll for one employee and the Sage Copilot assistant are now bundled into all three tiers.

• Payroll included in every plan
• Making Tax Digital for VAT
• Sage Copilot AI assistant
• CIS management and submission

Sage's desktop accounting software for established small and medium UK businesses. Deep stock, project costing and multi company reporting that the cloud products do not match.

• Advanced stock management
• Project costing
• Multi company reporting
• AI document capture