Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Manager

4.8

(73)

Pricing

Starting at A$39.00 per month

About Manager

Manager is an accounting solution that supports multiple languages and currencies and provides users an offline mode that helps to manage their business operations when no internet connection is available.
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<H2>What is Manager?</H2> <br> <p> Manager is an accounting solution that provides key features such as fund accounting, bank reconciliation, expense tracking, fixed asset management and payroll management. Additionally, Manager provides users with functionalities that include general ledgers, delivery notes, sales orders, bank statement imports, project-based accounting, recurring billing, email templates and customizable invoicing. </p> <br> <H2>How do you use Manager?</H2> <br> <p> Manager can be used on-premise on Windows, Mac and Linux based devices or hosted in the cloud. Users can utilize the custom reporting and analytics engine that generates reports based on a variety of parameters. </p> <br> <H2>Who uses Manager?</H2> <br> <p> Manager can be used by small businesses across various industries such as retail, food and beverage, non-profit, education, consumer services and more. </p> <br> <H2>How much does Manager cost?</H2> <br> <p> Manager does not share pricin...

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Manager Pricing and Plans

Starting price: A$39.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

A$39.00

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No plan information available

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Manager Features

Popular features found in Accounting
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Expense Tracking
Fund Accounting
Income & Balance Sheet
Multi-Currency
Payroll Management
Project Accounting
Purchase Order Management
Tax Management
More features of Manager
Accounting
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Bank Reconciliation
Chart of Accounts
Customer Statements
Financial Reporting
Fixed Asset Management
General Ledger
Inventory Management
Transaction Management

Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

85%

14%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.6

Chris F.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Great alternative to the big guys

Manager saved me from going crazy using one of the big, cloud-based accounting packages. I get much more flexibility, better performance and better support, all while paying NOTHING so far. I would strongly encourage any SMB to take a look at Manager for their accounting needs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What's not to love about FREE accounting software?? Yes, that's right...the basic desktop version is free, forever. Now, that means you don't get fancy cloud backups (but you can save your files on OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive and such) nor do you get multiple user concurrent access. For those, you need to pay. But that's it! No other limitations. All features available to free users. Manager's strength is in the flexibility of setting up the chart of accounts. Unlike other similar software, there are virtually no restrictions on how you set up your accounts. The user interface is spartan, but easy to use. There are many modules which can be turned on or off to meet your needs. This helps keep your accounts and your software experience uncluttered. You can set up multiple business if desired, and each can be configured with unique sets of features as needed. Lastly, the authors update this program ALL THE TIME, like several times a month new features are added and bugs squashed. When using desktop or server versions, you can choose if and when to upgrade....the cloud version updates automatically.

Cons:

The importing of transactions from banks is very fragile. You basically must decide to either enter ALL your transactions by hand, or NONE of them. If you try to enter most transactions and then import your bank file to catch any you missed, you are very likely to end up duplicating transactions. No Bueno! Reporting is quite limited and the custom reports feature is quite mysterious and not thoroughly documented.

Ebrahim A.

Verified reviewer

Accounting

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

The best value for price I have ever got

Never been happier to spend USD 39 a month, ever.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's ease of use and it's strong core personality. There are no fancy gimmicks to draw attention to useless dashboards but the core functionality is among the strongest I have ever seen. The fault tolerance of this service is amazing, you can mess thing as much as you want, and any competent accountant could make quick work of fixing it. The custom reports, templates and easy API (which has no complete documentation as of now, but many are using it -- that's how easy it is) gives you the ability to integrate it and automate things that are not originally include.

Cons:

Everything has some down sides, or I might just be nitpicking here. There is no way to lock your reference numbers. The billable expenses and manufacturing still need some work.

Reasons for choosing Manager

Manager is more cost efficient than Odoo and has quicker deployment and training times. Compared to quickbooks, Manager is head and shoulders above that.

Reasons for switching to Manager

Tally has one of the best database designs, however, it has the worst UI design which makes it harder to sell to clients as an ERP that they use themselves. Manager solves this problem, where the client can use it to do their own billing and document generation, no more giving us paperwork, it is all electronic now.

Roger P.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed October 2014

Manager Accounting Free Software

Easy to use and intuitive. Much simpler than others I've tried. Has the odd glitch but Lubos is onto it and willing to implement suggestions. give it a try.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Verified

Reviewer

Civil Engineering

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Best small business accounting software with the most features and free

I have been very happy with Manager. As a small consulting business with a more complicated accounting setup than most small businesses, the small business accounting software do not do what I need. Not so with Manager. It does everything I need including multiple currencies, configuration for multiple counties, and unlimited number of different business accounts. The features are rich and customizable which makes setting up just how I need and want simple and effective. Plus, Manager is actively updated.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is feature rich, customizable at all levels, yet simple and intuitive to use. The help files are the best I've seen for any software of any type and also has the best explanations of basic accounting concepts that I've read including AccountingCoach.com. The chart of accounts is the most useful and easy to design of any software I evaluated.

Cons:

The GUI is a little dated looking. No automatic connection to banks (but that is not very important to me).

Reasons for switching to Manager

The other softwares did not meet my needs, leaving me always scrambling to figure out how to do what I needed only to discover I works need to buy the enterprise level software to do what I needed. That was too much for my small business.

John S.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Awesome Accounting Software

We have replaced Quickbooks with Manager Desktop (Single User) which has served as better and saved us money.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The Banking Dashboard in Manager makes it very easy to manage banking transactions . The bank reconciliation tool is the best I have ever seen. It has custom field feature and custom fields can be set to appear as column in tables on documents. It is light weight despite it many features and opens and closes very fast, it takes up very small system resources. The search tool makes it very easy to find transactions. It has reports which are not present in many popular paid accounting software. Has AR, AP, GL, Payroll, Fixed and Intangible Asset Management, expense claims, inventory management etc. Manager has a lot of customising features so you can make your documents look exactly how you want. Finally the Desktop (single User) is totally free and comes with all the features the server and cloud versions have.

Cons:

The server version needs some minor improvement in Audit trail and User Access levels.

Molefi Abel R.

Verified reviewer

Construction

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed December 2019

complexity of butane's

I spend less time making invoices than I would on the other apps I have used before, accounting problems solved in a jefe, if you have any problem the is help for you in the system. it's a 10 it does perform better than the ones I have used before and with it working the way it does one has no risen to sick another.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked everything about the software it's user-friendly, it has all the choices in the palm of your hands, you can do it all with this software, it makes it easy to do reports.

Cons:

except for only, I should be able to write the name of my customer as I do the Order or Invoice, now for every new client, I must add them fist as a Customer. Custom Fields. it's another one of those things I don't get why must you add a field outside of it and then go back to it for editing, adding or editing a tag on a field should not be hard.

Reasons for choosing Manager

less complicated

Jan S.

Verified reviewer

Farming

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

A lifesaver!

This is very easy to use for the untrained bookkeeper. Most issues arise with bookkeeping conventions, and NOT with the programme. That said, I succeeded in using this software myself for tax and management reports.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy layout. Modular setup. Fully customisable chart of accounts. Easy editing - fast location of entry errors. Fully functional for small and medium sized business. I like the fact that the desktop version does NOT require internet access.

Cons:

Some work still is required for custom reporting and forecasting.

Daniel Amankwa A.

Verified reviewer

Internet

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Manager Software is Awesome

I have been able to prepare pay slips and done a proper tax record keeping and reports for tax returns and management decisions. I have also been able to do proper bookkeeping on MOST of my business financial transactions and processes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is easy to learn it's usage and it has a simple user interface and approach to book keeping.

Cons:

The fact that there are still some vital improvements to be done to the software.

Shaun D S.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Really good option for the "cost sensitive".

It seems to do the trick for "basic" accounting and the "free for life" version is plenty however for mobile needs a month package or "Cloud" is great however automatic payroll function could be the killer.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

If you're familiar with QBO it's rather simple to use. Slight nuances however their online tutorial is rather easy and laid out by sections so you can quickly find your answers. We started with the Desktop edition however quickly transitioned to the Cloud version which has a small monthly cost but Cloud it better for people always on the move. AR, AP, Tax etc are all really easy to navigate and the "unlimited" client feature as well as inventory tracking, both physical and virtual is very helpful!

Cons:

Still trying to figure out the Payroll function and we've put in a ticket. At face value it looks like we have to manually write a check versus payroll automatically being pulled from the specified account via ACH.