--- title: "Manager Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Manager. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Manager is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/manager-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Accounting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/) / [Manager](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/manager-profile/) / Manager Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/manager-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/manager-profile/alternatives/) # Manager User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.8/5 - Total reviews: 74 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.7/5 - Customer support: 4.5/5 - Value for money: 4.8/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 62 reviews (84%) - 4 stars: 11 reviews (15%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - It does everything I need including multiple currencies, configuration for multiple counties, and unlimited number of different business accounts. - Product of the highest quality, easy to use - Thanks - I found "Manager" as the best free desktop option. ### Most mentioned cons - Another frustration is Manger's insistence on tracking 'Foreign exchange gains (losses)' every time you pay for something in a foreign currency. If, like me, you pay for these up front (no credit) this is totally unnecessary, but there's no way to turn it off—you have to manually update exchange rates. - The invoice templates that shipped with Manager were pretty basic and didn't meet my needs. - also, the cloud version is highly expensive. ## Manager customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 74 (page 1). ### Great alternative to the big guys - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Chris F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Does The Job Well - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use it for accounting in our 501 (c) 3 organization and find it adequate. After QuickBooks went to a subscriber-only, Internet-only user experience, we needed an inexpensive, user friendly option. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ease of use. Pro-bono feature. Ability to be utilized without being a CPA or professional financial manager. Non-profit and church budget management are possible.. #### Cons Still a bit of a reach at times. Could benefit from more user-friendliness. No customer support available. Ability to generate accounting reports is good, yet making them customizable could use more help. #### Reasons for choosing Manager Cost prevented us from considering the other options #### Reasons for switching to Manager Exorbitant fees and necessity of making this an Internet only software. --- ### Manager Accounting Free Software - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Roger P. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: October 2014 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 --- ### The best value for price I have ever got - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ebrahim A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Never been happier to spend USD 39 a month, ever. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Best small business accounting software with the most features and free - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civil Engineering - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Awesome Accounting Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: John S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We have replaced Quickbooks with Manager Desktop (Single User) which has served as better and saved us money. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### complexity of butane's - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Molefi Abel R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 --- ### A lifesaver! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jan S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Farming - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Manager Software is Awesome - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Daniel Amankwa A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Really good option for the "cost sensitive". - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Shaun D S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Excellent for small business - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jose R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have a small engineering related service business, I barely know anything about accounting, but this software makes it really easy to understand and keep track of the financial situation of my business at any moment. I can generate and track Invoices, quotes, bank statements; everything combined in a simple way. Very customizable. The way to input transactions is really intuitive for a non-accounting person. Free version is fully functional. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy to use accounting software for someone that doesn' t know much about accounting. And best of all, the free version is fully functional. #### Cons From my point of view, it's excellent. --- ### Great accounting app - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Norman S. - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered An extremely positive experience for me. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I'm a novice small business bookkeeper without formal training. I've used Quickbooks/Quicken and Manager is miles ahead for what I want. It has a simple, uncluttered interface, pages/forms are simple to complete, the pre-configured reports are well-designed, and it uses very few system resources so it's quick to open, use and close. The Manager Forum is a fantastic resource and although I have no programming background, I've customised some themes successfully. #### Cons There is nothing I've found that I dislike or that I find frustrating. --- ### Easy to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rajeev r. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Import and Export - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Its adaptable for almost any type company. Easy to understand the concept. #### Cons I don't find any negative points while using this software. --- ### Ease Of Use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Gaurav B. - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Its One of the Best Software to use #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The best thing is that you can learn this software within a Day or even less, Its Simple and easy to lear and use and it adapts according to usage #### Cons Some features missing like, serial number by default, No Total of items sold --- ### Manager by manager.io Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: metin b. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Apparel & Fashion - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I'm very happy about Manager program and for sure I will continue to use it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The software is free to use and it's very user friendly. Even I'm not an expert about accounting, I can use this program easily and do all the things like invoicing, accounting, statements, balance sheets. #### Cons I don't have any complaints about this software so far. They keep updating the program so I'm happy about it. --- ### Simple and effective accounting software for small businesses - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Junjie L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like that Manager provides a (free) desktop edition of its accounting software for the Mac. At a time where most accounting software are going on the cloud, which can be slow waiting for things to load, Manager's desktop edition is like a breath of fresh air where you can just key in what you need quickly without waiting. If you need to key in lots of entries, these waiting time really adds up. #### Cons The software is not optimized to resize its content to fit the window size. I run a 4K monitor and usually run apps side by side. When the software takes up half the screen on a 4K monitor, its content does not scale/reflow to fit properly, resulting in some horizontal scrolling. --- ### Good and easy - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Maria R. - Industry: Business Supplies and Equipment - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I can have an excellent picture of my business in a daily basis. The reporting system provides me periodical reviews the way i want them. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Free, easy to learn, easy to use, and very flexible. #### Cons It works in a single Window, i would like to have simultaneous view of multiple windows. --- ### User friendly UI with customizable reports - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: M. Saqib K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Experiencing currently with good feelings. can write more after further experience. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Free of any cost for a single user All options needs to maintain accounts of a business are available Seems good for small business I just installed in this month & found each & everything I need for my business accounts #### Cons Free version is not suitable for a medium size business due to single user limitation where multiple user can access with different role assigned to them. --- ### good software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Amir H. - Industry: Computer Hardware - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered free for lifetime and regular improvements ,easy to use ,happy #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros easy interface, user friendly, tax calculations #### Cons export to json/xls and should be more keybord friendly --- ### Manager a Good solution - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nayab S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Amazing. Have already recommended to two more companies. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Simple to understand and easy to use. Self-explanatory and can be used by those who are not accountants, like myself. #### Cons Nothing as all the features are good. Multiuser and desktop version combined could be amazing. --- ### Bookkeeper - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Derinda C. - Industry: Consumer Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2016 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been using this product for a few months now. Until now I have not had any problems. I tried to back up my data then the program shut down on me. Otherwise very easy to use. I hope I can get the back up to work because if I need to restore my data at any time then it is very useful. I am using the desktop system. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Very easy to use. You can pick which items you need. I do not sell anything, I use this program for personal use to do my taxes. #### Cons A glitch with the back up. --- ### Good Idea and very fast - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Khaled M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Simple and easy Many options are organized #### Cons Free version only for one person Inability to enter or manage checks There is no sync on more than one device --- ### Very well - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: jahed h. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Farming - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Need More Details future opposition at this time . #### Cons yes But I have need pos system Tipe this one --- ### This software is very simple and easy to use especially at a glance you can see all your summary - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: james a. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: September 2015 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered the arrangement of transactions were in ascending order which difference from other accounting software . automatic print out with headings is not there. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 --- ### Simple small business accounting software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Peg P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I had trouble figuring out how to do my accounting until I found this app. Beautiful interface and extremely easy to set up in a way that makes perfect sense. Lots of built in help. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros ease of use. beautiful clear setup. flexibilty in setting up chart of accounts #### Cons not multicurrency. no automated link to bank accounts. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/manager-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Manager Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice