AccountEdge is a small business accounting software for Mac and Windows users. AccountEdge allows business owners to organize, process, and report on their financial information. Its features include accounting, integrated payroll, sales and purchases, contact management, inventory, and time billing. It was acquired by Priority Software in January 2018 to expand that company's small business portfolio.
$20
per month
Pricing
AccountEdge
Editions & Modules
AccountEdge Pro
$20
per month
AccountEdge Network Edition
$30
per month
AccountEdge Hosted
$50
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AccountEdge
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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Community Pulse
AccountEdge
Considered Both Products
Priority Software
Verified User
Chose AccountEdge
Originally the decision was made for us when Quickbooks abandoned Mac users for a number of years. However, now that QuickBooks has returned to serving the Mac market, we are satisfied with AccountEdge's support of our platform. The user-friendly interface has made it easy for …
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Owner at Dan Workman Music (Entertainment, 1-10 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
I have considered Quickbooks, but a cursory use did not lead me to believe that it was a good replacement for us. I might take a look again in the future if we can't link bank accounts to AccountEdge soon.
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Verified User
Chose AccountEdge
I haven't tried any alternatives other than using Quicken for my personal use.
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Owner / CEO in Information Technology at Personal Computing - Professional Service (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
Originally Account Edge topped out other comparable accounting suites with the feature set sought after for account management, order-invoice creation & user based role deployment on the server side out to workstation use. This has not changed to current revision & we are …
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President in Corporate at Auxo Medical, LLC (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
I think AccountEdge is superior to Peachtree, which is not a high bar. Its compatibility with MAC OS is good, but I think Xero will be taking much of the Mac based customers as it appears to be a better product.
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Owner at FlyDragon Consulting (Professional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
My hands down preference is to keep my accounting off of the cloud but that is not always the case with my clients. So, to make this comparison somewhat fair I will consider only the items containing parity in cloud vs desktop.
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Shareholder in Finance and Accounting at Thomas E Healy CPA PC (Accounting, 1-10 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
A number of my clients use QuickBooks, mostly on PCs, so I'm quite familiar with what it does. I'm just glad I'm using AccountEdge for my own accounting, because it's more straightforward and doesn't create 'hidden' transactions. Some years ago, a client on QuickBooks …
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Owner in Finance and Accounting at Keeping Books & Computing Consulting LLC (Accounting, 1-10 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
For Mac enthusiasts, AccountEdge is the complete installed software solution for small to medium-sized businesses, as it has so many capabilities that QuickBooks for Mac lacks. However, it holds your hand less than QuickBooks for Mac does, so you ought to know what your are …
Personal Angel with a Financial Background in Corporate at Sharon L Nash (Accounting, 1-10 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
Some of my clients use QuickBooks, some use AccountEdge. Hands down I prefer the user friendliness of AccountEdge over QuickBooks. There is no comparison in the return on profit when having the proper tools to be able to do a task efficiently and quickly. The more time wasted …
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Director, Special Accounts in Sales at Lake Industries Company (Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
AccountEdge had already been implemented when I started working at Lake Industries.I have some experience in several other accounting & CRM software. AccountEdge has really come together in the last couple of years. The software is strong, easy-to-use, and great for daily …
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Verified User
Chose AccountEdge
AccountEdge is a much easier product to learn, and it is also much better integrated. That being said, AccountEdge could definitely use a few updates to bring it forward into today's world of technology.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose AccountEdge
I think that AccountEdge is a good alternative for Macs.
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Bookkeeper, Payroll Administrator in Finance and Accounting at Eads & Associates, Inc. (Accounting, 1-10 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
I have a client who is in the firearms manufacturing industry that makes components. They had been using QuickBooks credit card processing feature and their service was recently canceled by QuickBooks for political reasons. QuickBooks is a privately held company so they can do …
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Owner and Electrical Contractor in Corporate at Griffie Electric, LLC (Construction, 1-10 employees)
Chose AccountEdge
I have used QuickBooks in the past and, although I really liked it when I started with them, when I switched to a Mac computer they were not at all compatible. AccountEdge filled the gap with a small learning curve where QuickBooks just couldn't satisfy. The only other products …
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Key User Insights
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Delivers good value for the price
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Features
AccountEdge
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of AccountEdge
Feature
AccountEdge
6.6
6 Ratings
14% below category average
Pay calculation
10.06 Ratings
Benefit plan administration
8.04 Ratings
Direct deposit files
5.04 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management
6.05 Ratings
Reimbursement management
4.03 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of AccountEdge
Feature
AccountEdge
9.0
7 Ratings
10% above category average
Role-based user permissions
9.07 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of AccountEdge
Feature
AccountEdge
9.0
7 Ratings
14% above category average
Dashboards
9.04 Ratings
Standard reports
9.07 Ratings
Custom reports
9.06 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of AccountEdge
Feature
AccountEdge
7.2
8 Ratings
6% below category average
Accounts payable
9.08 Ratings
Accounts receivable
9.08 Ratings
Cash management
8.12 Ratings
Bank reconciliation
6.08 Ratings
Expense management
6.06 Ratings
Time tracking
6.04 Ratings
Multi-currency support
9.03 Ratings
Multi-division support
9.02 Ratings
Regulations compliance
7.02 Ratings
Electronic tax filing
7.04 Ratings
Self-service portal
2.71 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of AccountEdge
Feature
AccountEdge
8.0
6 Ratings
9% above category average
Inventory tracking
8.06 Ratings
Automatic reordering
8.01 Ratings
Location management
8.03 Ratings
Manufacturing module
8.02 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of AccountEdge
Feature
AccountEdge
8.0
7 Ratings
8% above category average
Pricing
8.05 Ratings
Order entry
9.05 Ratings
Credit card processing
6.05 Ratings
Cost of goods sold
9.06 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of AccountEdge
If you are handling a large client list, and are selling services, it is dead easy. If you are managing/selling a physical inventory, it seems like it has great options to do that quite well (disclaimer, I do not use those functions, but I have paid attention as that functionality was built into the software). If you want to link your bank account to a bookkeeping platform, this is not the software for you (at least so far).
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AccountEdge has a robust report menu that allows a user to slice and dice data for analysis. Report on projects for the life of the project across fiscal years. Report on different departments with segregated income statements.
For users who want to run payroll in house that is easily done through the payroll module. Print physical checks or direct deposit to employee's account, process payroll taxes and file year end W2s.
My personal favorites are time billing and retainers. As a service based business I can at my fingertips review how much money a client has on deposit with me and how much of that will be billed out at the end of the month. The integration with AccountEdge Mobile rounds it all out with being able to log my time on-site.
Last but not least AccountEdge Mobile in general, as the companion app for the desktop software is invaluable. My heaviest use is the spend money feature. Excellent for logging travel receipts & cash expenses while they are fresh on the brain. Really cuts back the data entry at the end of a trip and trying to recall what something may have been for.
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My biggest frustration, and one that I've mentioned to Acclivity for many years, is that it only permits opening nine windows at a time (plus the home window). I hit that limit almost daily, and then I have to decide what do I close so I can complete the transaction that needed the "9th" window.
The Accounts section includes two quick reports, "Analyze Profit and Loss" and "Analyze Balance Sheet. These can be filtered for the current month or any prior month in the current fiscal year. And that's fine most of the year, but at the beginning of the next year, when I haven't yet started the new fiscal year, these only go to December of the prior year. The regular reports for these can select "next year;" why can't these?
It would be helpful if the journal entry number would have one or two additional digits available. For example, when I am entering journal entries for a client, I would like to use a number such as CPA2014001, CPA2014002, etc. to distinguish what I enter from the "automatic" entries that AccountEdge does. But that's one more digit than AccountEdge allows, so if I had over 100 adjustments, I would run out of entry numbers.
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Without a doubt, when you need to do accounting use the program that will get the job done in the least amount of time with the least amount of errors. Once you are using a program that works you stay with it year after year and you will find yourself even excited about the updates
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The intuitive interface does all the tasks we need our accounting software to do. Some tasks are slower to process than I would like but overall very usable. Customizable forms let us choose to either go with the easy ready-made out-of-the-box options or retool them to better fit our specific needs.
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One of the finer advantages of desktop software, it's always available. AccountEdge doesn't suffer from outages or sluggish internet like web based applications do. It's always there when you power on your device!
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On the few occasions we have needed tech support over the years, they were responsive and worked to get to the root of the issues. However, even though Checkout POS is a separate application, it was pitched to us as a natural extension of the functionality of our AE software that would integrate seamlessly. The company's support for Checkout has been minimal at best, and now totally abandoned. That colors our view of Priority's support unfortunately. And to be honest, that's why it's a 9 instead of a 10. So to be fair, AccountEdge's support itself has been very good over the years.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
For Mac enthusiasts, AccountEdge is the complete installed software solution for small to medium-sized businesses, as it has so many capabilities that QuickBooks for Mac lacks. However, it holds your hand less than QuickBooks for Mac does, so you ought to know what your are doing in keeping business books properly. If your needs are simple, QuickBooks for Mac may be a better solution. QuickBooks Online and Xero are excellent cloud accounting solutions that can be used on the Mac equally well as on Windows. QuickBooks Online offers a similar set of features as QuickBooks for Mac, with the addition of anywhere, anytime access. Xero is a great basic accounting solution in the cloud that can also be used equally well on Macs and WIndows, and offers endless customization and flexibility through its extensive third-party app integration for almost any need.
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