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Overview

Unity Accounting

3.6

(17)

Pricing

Starting at CA$99.00 per month

About Unity Accounting

Unity Accounting is a web-based trust and general ledger accounting solution designed for law firms that helps manage accounting, billing and practice management needs of the business. It helps legal professionals, bookkeepers and accountants optimize their firm’s financial performance, maintain financial clarity, streamline operations and more.

It offers built-in credit card processing and a client payment portal, streamlining the invoicing and collections process. For practice management, the software provides tools to manage clients, matters, documents and calendars.

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Unity Accounting Pricing and Plans

Starting price: CA$99.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Standard

CA$99.00

per user, per month

No plan information available

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Unity Accounting Features

Popular features found in Law Practice Management
Calendar Management
Client Portal
Communication Management
Contract/License Management
CRM
Document Generation
Expense Tracking
Mobile Access
Reporting & Statistics
Task Management
Third-Party Integrations
Trust Accounting
More features of Unity Accounting
Access Controls/Permissions
Accounting
Accrual Accounting
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Asset Accounting
Automatic Backup
Automatic Billing
Billable Items Tracking
Billable & Non-Billable Hours
Billing & Invoicing
Billing Rate Management
Case Management
Case Notes
Check Writing
Client Management
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Conflict Management
Contact Database
Contact Management
Credit Card Processing
Cross Ledger Posting
Customer Statements
Customizable Fields
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Deadline Management
Document Management
Electronic Payments
Email Management
Fee Calculation & Posting
Financial Management
For Legal Professionals
Full Text Search
General Ledger
Invoice Management
Invoice Processing
Legal Case Management
Online Payments
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Receipt Management
Reminders
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Task Scheduling
Tax Management
Time & Expense Tracking
Time Tracking

Unity Accounting Integrations

OneDrive

Google Drive

Unity Accounting User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.6

Ratings Breakdown

47%

18%

24%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.6

Value for money

3.1

Customer support

3.7

Functionality

3.6

Have you used Unity Accounting and would like to share your experience with others?

Christopher C.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Esi Law is the best product I have used for my Law Firm & their support staff is phenomenal

I am solving all my issues, billings for general and trust accounts, time tracking, client management, accounting.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Esi law is extremely easy to use once you do the tutorial and watch videos online provided by the company. Also, I use the billings software, client management, conflict search, trust accounting daily and it has made my self so much easier. Additionally, their support staff are nothing short of amazing. Whenever I have an issue (which is rarely), I get support/help right away and I do not have to wait hours on hold. I am instantly contacted through email and their customer service is beyond exceptional. I have had the pleasure of having the help of many support staff but [SENSITIVE CONTENT] in particular who has always helped me, followed up and made sure I had no issues whatsoever. He has made my usage of Esi Law 100x better with his amazing customer service, great guy!

Cons:

So far there is nothing I do not like about Esi Law. I am learning to incorporate more of it's features as I go.

Reasons for choosing Unity Accounting

Esi Law was recommended by colleagues and I would never go backt o anything else.

Jenn R.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

ESI-Law review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The program enables organization of the client files which is very helpful. I like having a central area to go for all of the information I need on a file.

Cons:

I have always been disappointed by the lack of a training manual. I could solve a lot of problems on my own if I had the training manual instead of calling and waiting for days for a reply from customer service. Also, only having two people available to help is not helpful. It would be better if someone answered the call when I need help and helped me in that very moment. The help function through the program is horrible.

Reasons for choosing Unity Accounting

The pricing was good, however, we have recently been alerted to the fact the pricing is not what we were told in the beginning and are waiting for the sales team to contact us but that has already been two weeks with no call back from them.

David H.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

NOT friendly for IT admins who value time

I would describe my experience with Unity Accounting as a complete waste of my time. I have spent more time manually installing this product when I should have only configured it ONCE. Do not use this product if you value your time! A very simple MSI installation package or some basic effort to allow an admin to deploy your product would make a LOAD of difference.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

As an IT admin, I personally do not like this product. Its not easy to install, its not easy to deploy, literally 0 effort was spent in making it easy to deploy this product to the end user seamlessly.

Cons:

As an IT admin, its quite frustrating to be forced to use a "user setup" method. We need to log the user in manually, wait for their profile to load and then manually install the software. The company has provided NO means for automation here. I do not recommend using this software. It will waste your admin time, your IT time and your employee's time.

JOANNE B.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

ESILAW 360

Overall experience is great. Esilaw is what is says

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We started off with Esilaw original version which worked fine. The new version Esilaw 360 is much improved as regards to time entering - easy to go back to correct dates and entries, all the reporting requirements are clear and it's easy to access everything the business or Law Society requires. Billing is very easy to use and very easy to read pre-bills and make adjustments, as well as reversing or editing after.

Cons:

There have been a few glitches. My main complaint would be with timing of support. Support is very good with regard to advice, fixing a problem or correcting errors, but what use to be same day support, it now takes a few days.

Reasons for choosing Unity Accounting

I had heard more complaints with ease of use and support with PCLaw.

Kathy M.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Simply the Best

Have been using the system for well over ten years, and only once did I need to call for assistance, which was promptly dealt with.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

After using several softwares, I find that Esilaw is exactly what it claims; "Easy". All aspects of the system are very straight forward.

Cons:

Cannot think of anything negative, and will not make up anything.

Reasons for choosing Unity Accounting

Again, Esilaw was straight forward

Reasons for switching to Unity Accounting

It was a good system, but if there were problems, you did not always get a response in a timely manner.

Anna P.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2023

WORST SOFTWARE with no support

Poor. The customer service is terrible, the system is terrible, and there is no user help manual so you are forced to contact the service department, which means hours or days of waiting to get assistance.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a program that is designed for trust accounting, which is a critical component of Canadian legal practice, but the software is terrible, not intuitive, has extremely poor support options, and is really expensive.

Cons:

The whole program is old, outdated, not intuitive, comes with zero user manual, and support options are limited to phoning (oh, wait, they cancelled that option) or sending a help request via the Dye and Durham website. It is a ton of money annually, for a terrible product that has never been improved or modernized.

Reasons for choosing Unity Accounting

There are few other options and I was familiar with ESIlaw. I deeply regret that decision.

Renee M.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Useless software update has left me stranded for days with zero tech support

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Not sure I like any of it anymore - what a waste of my time.

Cons:

Tech support is useless, multiple phone calls left unanswered. For $1,200/year per user you would think Esi Law might care about

Reasons for switching to Unity Accounting

I changed law firms

Kristyn M.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

The proof is in the name

My Overall experience with this program is that it is user friendly and more then adequate for smaller Firm's who need proper accounting software to do day to day Law Firm trust and general accounts reconciling.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I like most about this software is the ease of use in adding new clients, disbursements, trust receipts as well as the simple looking user interface. At first it is a little intimidating as I have come from using strictly PCLaw but I have found that you can easily adjust to this new program in a short amount of time.

Cons:

What I like least about this software is how I am unable to insert numbers and letters into the "Receipt Number" field when receiving funds into trust via Wire. When selecting "Payment Type", "Wire" it then requires that you enter a "Receipt Number" which should correspond with your receipt into your Firm's trust account. Without allowing me to enter letters as well the Receipt Number will not 100% match the incoming wire reference number from our bank account. Which could prove to be messy should we be receiving multiple wires in on the same day with similar receipt numbers.

Amanda B.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

Good product needs some work

It’s been good but the 360 cloud version seems to freeze alot and close down without warning

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its developed well and easy to use. Like the layout.

Cons:

I don’t like that there isn’t an easy calendar feature to see what each lawyer has billed in a day. Creating prebills is hard as I have to view each bill in order to save it as a prebill, it would be handy to have an option to save to pdf without finalizing them

Reasons for choosing Unity Accounting

Our accountant suggested it