BrightManager (formerly AccountancyManager) vs. Karbon: Which is Better for Practice Management?

What sets Karbon apart from BrightManager (formerly AccountancyManager)

	Karbon	BrightManager
Integrated email inbox
Collaborate with @mentions and comments
Job management
Kanban board
Workflow automation		Limited
Client portal
Client reminders and tasks
CRM and client management
Document management
Time tracking
Budgets
Invoice management
Payment
Customisable reporting dashboards		Limited
Companies House integration
GPT-powered AI

Why accounting firms choose Karbon over BrightManager

Collaboration and visibility

No other practice management platform provides 360-degree collaboration and visibility the way Karbon does. With Karbon’s Triage feature, your firm’s emails, job updates, client records, and internal communication are all centralised in one place.

When your firm works in Karbon, there’s no need to repeatedly ask for the same information. Everything you need to know is available at your fingertips.

Robust workflow management

Karbon’s workflow management goes beyond task lists. It features job status automators, customisable Kanban boards, drag and drop interfaces, and hundreds of best-practice workflow templates. Karbon’s workflows ensure you and your team are all getting client work done faster, better, and smarter.

Explore Karbon's workflow features

An evolving product

Karbon is evolving rapidly. New features and feature enhancements are released every few weeks and customer feedback shapes the product roadmap. As one of the first accounting practice management platforms to integrate GPT-powered AI, Karbon is leading the way in building an innovative solution that adds value to the accounting profession.

Explore Karbon’s product roadmap

Experience the Karbon effect.

These findings were obtained through Karbon’s 2022 Firm Usage Survey.

On average, Karbon saves every employee 16.5 hours each week.

3.2 hours

Saved chasing clients

3.9 hours

Saved managing and completing work and tasks

3.2 hours

Saved reading, actioning and searching for email

4.1 hours

Saved with more efficient team collaboration

2.1 hours

Saved automating low-value admin tasks

18% growth

In firm-wide productivity

A hub for it all
The visibility Karbon provides has been such a big win. Managers get a clear bird's-eye view of the work that is done across the business.
Joanna Alpe, Chief Digital Officer, Jeffreys Henry LLP

The centre of your accounting workflows
The biggest upside of Karbon is the collaborative aspects, the ability to just onto the client record and see all previous communications and manage workflows between all of the team is such a time saver! I don't need to worry if someone has saved something into a server or not!
Adam G., G2

Karbon is the best-in-class practice management software
The thing I love the most about Karbon is the conversation that it facilitates with clients. It allows us to stand behind the service level agreement and explain to clients how we're going to deliver on our promises. And Karbon gives us that transparency.
Adam Pritchard, Linford Grey Associates

Karbon has 98% positive reviews on G2.com

Frequently Asked Questions

Teams using Karbon save 16.5 hours per employee each week, on average.
Productivity per employee increases by 18%.
9 out of 10 customers say Karbon beats all competitive products for workflow management.

Karbon has three pricing plans: Team, Business and Enterprise.

	Team	Business	Enterprise
Annually	$£29/month, per user	£49/month, per user	Custom pricing
Monthly	£44/month, per user	£59/month, per user	Custom pricing
*Pricing shown in GBP

BrightManager costs £39+VAT/month, per user on a monthly subscription or £31.2+VAT/month, per user on an annual subscription.

Karbon is evolving rapidly with dozens of new features added every year and product updates released every few weeks. Karbon’s product roadmap is shaped by customers and it continues to improve based on customer suggestions and feedback.

Karbon integrates with Gmail, Microsoft Outlook 365, Microsoft Exchange, Dropbox, OneDrive, Companies House, Xama, and an ever-growing suite of popular accounting apps including QuickBooks Online, Ignition, GoProposal, and more.

Karbon offers an open API that you can leverage to integrate your apps with Karbon, build custom solutions, and optimise your workflows.

You can also connect Karbon to over 5,000 apps through Zapier.

To learn more about Karbon’s integration capabilities, visit the integrations library here.

Formerly known as AccountancyManager, in 2022, it was acquired by Bright, a UK tax, payroll, HR, and bookkeeping software group. It has now been rebranded as BrightManager.