The left column is ours to fill and ours to be held to in a trial. The right column belongs to Canopy, and it stays ruled and empty against every row below, because the only thing we could put in it is a guess.
Run the whole firm in one system, clients and work and documents and billing, instead of a spreadsheet, a drive and a mail client held together by memory.
That is the job as we read it. A firm shortlisting Canopy is shopping for it, and so is a firm shortlisting Accute.
Canopy
How they read the same job is theirs to publish.
Accute carries clients, engagements, documents, forms, time and invoicing on one multi-tenant record set, with role-based access control separating platform administration from firm data: a platform role cannot hold an organisation, and client portal users sign in against a separate, narrower role. A document is filed against the client and the engagement it belongs to rather than into a folder only a person can interpret, and billing a completed engagement raises a draft invoice that carries that engagement, so an invoice traces back to the work it settles. Hours are logged against the client from the task the person is working on.
Canopy
We have not run their software, so we have nothing honest to put here.
Every mechanism named in that answer, listed on its own so you can put each one to us separately. Each survived an audit against the code that ships it, and anything that did not survive was struck rather than softened.
Canopy
Nothing tested, so nothing cited, so nothing claimed.
In the words we would use to a partner on a call, including the one a comparison page usually leaves out.
Accute is the alternative we can speak for. Accute carries clients, engagements, documents, forms, time and invoicing on one multi-tenant record set, with role-based access control separating platform administration from firm data: a platform role cannot hold an organisation, and client portal users sign in against a separate, narrower role. A document is filed against the client and the engagement it belongs to rather than into a folder only a person can interpret, and billing a completed engagement raises a draft invoice that carries that engagement, so an invoice traces back to the work it settles. Hours are logged against the client from the task the person is working on.
It depends on whether the firm expects to add services. Accute is one product inside the FinACEverse suite. Staff can reach it through the suite gateway rather than through a second password: CAP issues a signed token carrying the user and the firm, and Accute verifies that token and starts the session. Where a firm account is linked to CAP, the tax-filing and audit-automation subscriptions Accute honours are read from that same suite record rather than registered again here.
No. We have not run Canopy through a firm season, so we publish no pricing for it and make no claims about its features. This page states the job firms hire accounting practice management to do and what Accute does against that job, which is the only half we can be held to. For the other half, read what Canopy publishes itself.
These questions decide this category. Put every one of them to Canopy, to Accute, and to anything else on your shortlist, and buy whichever answers them on a screen rather than in a deck.
The rules every page in this family is written under, printed here because you may never see the index.
Plans change, currencies differ and term discounts move the number. A price we captured once and never re-checked would be presented as current while being wrong, so we publish none. Every vendor below publishes its own pricing, and that page is the only one worth reading.
We have not run their software through a firm season, so we are not in a position to say what it does or does not do. Anyone who tells you otherwise about a product they have not used is guessing in public.
What each entry states is the job a firm hires the category to do, and what Accute does against that job. That half is ours, it is testable in a trial, and you should hold us to it.
So: no Canopy pricing on this page, and nothing about what Canopy does or does not do. Canopy publishes both, and that is the page worth reading for their half.
Same contract, same two columns, a different product on the empty side of them.
Run one real engagement through Accute, on your own client list, and hold every line in the left column against what you see. We will set that up with you rather than hand you a trial and hope.
Accounts and plans live in the FinACEverse gateway, so nothing on this page asks you for a card.