Comparison of accounting software
The following comparison of accounting software documents the various features and differences between different professional accounting software, personal and small enterprise software, medium-sized and large-sized enterprise software, and other accounting packages. The comparison only focus considering financial and external accounting functions. No comparison is made for internal/management accounting, cost accounting, budgeting, or integrated MAS accounting.
Proprietary software
Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.Further details
| Package | Programming Language | First public release date | Latest stable release | Stable release date | Development Status | Database | Supported languages |
| Acumatica | C#, C++ | 2009-01-01 | 2022 R2 | 2022-09-15 | 5 - Production / Stable | SQL Server, MySQL | +100: UNICODE: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Khmer, Thai... |
| Adempiere | J2EE, JBoss | 2006-10-12 | 3.9.3 | 2019-12-02 | 5 - Production / Stable | Oracle, PostgreSQL | +10: English, Spanish, French,... |
| Apache OFBiz | Java, XML, FreeMarker, Groovy, JavaScript | ; | 5 - Production / Stable | Apache Derby, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL | Multilingual | ||
| CGram Software | C, Java | 1982 | 5.0.0 | 2009-08-01 | 5 - Production / Stable | PostgreSQL | English |
| Compiere | J2EE, JBoss | 2001-06-08 | 3.8.9 | 2016-09-13 | 5 - Production / Stable | Oracle, Advance Server, MS SQL, PostgreSQL | +10: English, Germany, Spanish, French, Indonesia,... |
| GnuCash | C 80%, Scheme / Lisp 13%, Perl 7%? | 1999-11-08 - Registered | ; | 5 - Production / Stable | MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL | software: 33 languages; website: 8 languages | |
| JFire | J2EE, JBoss, Eclipse RCP, JDO | 1.0.1 | 2010-03-20 | MS SQL, Derby,... | English, German, Thai,... | ||
| LedgerSMB | Perl | 2006-09-06 | 1.13.2 | 2025-12-21 | 5 - Production / Stable | PostgreSQL | +40:English development, Multilingual |
| NewViews | C++, Tcl/Tk | 1985 | 2.38.6 | 2025-12-23 | 5 - Production / Stable | Proprietary, Object Oriented | English |
| Openbravo | J2EE, JBoss | 2006 | 3.0.30460 | 2017-03-09 | 5 - Production / Stable | Oracle, PostgreSQL | English, German, Spanish, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Hebrew, Bulgarian, etc. |
| Odoo | Python, JavaScript | 2005 | ; | 5 - Production / Stable | PostgreSQL | +40 Multilingual | |
| SQL-Ledger | Perl | 1999-01-29 | ; | 5 - Production / Stable | PostgreSQL | 44 | |
| Tryton | Python | 2008-11-17 | ; | 5 - Production / Stable | PostgreSQL, SQLite | English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, Slovene, Spanish |