Every product we have reviewed

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 established payroll software for larger or more complex UK payrolls, priced in bands from 15 employees to unlimited.

• No limit on employee numbers
• Full auto enrolment assessment
• Pay run rollback and corrections
• Detailed statutory reporting

An open source business platform of interlocking apps covering accounting, CRM, inventory, manufacturing and more. Free for one app, then per user, with a large implementation partner network.

• Modular, switch on only what you need
• One app free forever
• Far cheaper than proprietary ERP
• Open source and highly customisable

Payroll for QuickBooks users, sold as a paid add on to any QuickBooks Online plan, with RTI submissions and pension auto enrolment.

• Posts the payroll journal automatically
• Auto enrolment assessment built in
• One supplier for accounts and payroll
• Employee self service portal

A German built HR system designed for mid sized European businesses, covering the full employee lifecycle with a focus on structured process and multi country compliance.

• Strong multi country capability
• Process driven and structured
• Good recruitment and onboarding
• Built for mid sized companies

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 CRM for businesses already running Sage finance software, with sales, marketing and customer service in one place.

• Integrates with Sage 50 and Sage 200
• Sales, marketing and service in one
• Cloud or on premise deployment
• Live customer finance data for sales

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