Shlomi Lavi / Nov 11, 2020
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Looking for the right Core Accounting solution for your business? buyers like you are primarily concerned about the real total implementation cost (TCO), full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, pros and cons. in this article we compare between the 2 software products:
Vendor comparison
TurboCASH: TurboCASH Accounting is a community developed, top drawer, SME accounting package that will make your business competitive. Here is a world class software package that is going to improve your profitability. Best of all it is free. There are no catches here. We are not looking to become your "accounting department". It is our pleasure to watch you make profit. As a community member, we want you to use TurboCASH- FREE TurboCASH is the world’s leading open source accounting software for small business. TurboCASH is available in 25 languages, covering over 80 different tax regimes. When you join us as a user, a consultant or a developer, you join a community of over 100 000.
ReconArt: ReconArt was born from the need for satisfaction and comfort - satisfaction in a comprehensive toolset to undertake reconciliations and period close and comfort in a wholesome and sustainable solution that was ready for the future. Manual processes, a multitude of spreadsheets, legacy reconciliation and period close software products with a high cost of ownership, and inboxes bulging with emails that could never be found when auditors asked for proof. These were the frustrations that the principals of ReconArt were dealing with daily and monthly prior to founding ReconArt in 2008. Having spent many years in support of finance and accounting teams, they felt these pains strongly. Just as strongly they were resolute to address these issues for their user community. They vowed to solve these issues and enable finance teams to effectively and efficiently conduct their routine surety work. Just over three years later the launch of the ReconArt™ Total Reconciliation Lifecycle™ into the North American made good on that promise. Today, ReconArt is the fastest growing provider of reconciliation automation and period close management solutions. There’s a reason for this. It stems from a commitment and on-going partnership with our client base. It also stems from our technology. Built from scratch for the cloud using the latest proven zero footprint web technology, ReconArt™ offers totally flexibility to be accessed with no more than a secure internet connection from anywhere, or to be installed in your data center under your exclusive control. Furthermore, ReconArt™ is already integrated with thousands of data feeds and partner applications to get you up and running in no time at all.
Pricing/cost comparison
The real cost of Core Accounting software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training cost, customization cost, required hardware, and the cost of maintenance & support and other related services. It's critical that you account for all of these costs to gain an understanding of the system's "total cost of ownership". We prepared a total cost calculator for TurboCASH TCO and ReconArt total cost to help with the total cost of ownership calculation.
TurboCASH price Starting from $174 per license , on a scale between 1 to 10 TurboCASH Open Source Accounting is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Core Accounting software. ReconArt price Starting from $1,500 Per 5 users/month , when comparing ReconArt to their competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Core Accounting software cost.
Bottom line: TurboCASH cost is around the same cost of ReconArt.
Features and functionality
As with any business software solutions, it’s important to consider the features & functionality. The tool should support the processes, workflows, reports and needs that matter to your team. To help you evaluate this, we've compared TurboCASH Vs. ReconArt based on some of the most important and required Core Accounting features.
TurboCASH: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, ..
ReconArt list of features include the following: We are still working to collect the list of features of ReconArt.
Target customer size
TurboCASH's typical customers include: Start up, Small business, Medium business, Large business, and ReconArt's target customer size include: Small business, Medium business.