Karbon Tops G2’s Accounting Practice Management Winter 2026 Report with 27 Badges and 5 #1 Rankings | Karbon Magazine
17 consecutive quarters: Karbon named #1 accounting practice management software in G2’s Winter 2026 Report
Karbon has topped the G2 Winter 2026 Report as the #1 accounting practice management software for the 17th quarter in a row.
Karbon continues to lead the way in accounting practice management, ranked as the #1 solution for the 17th quarter in a row on G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace.
Each quarter, G2 releases Market Reports that feature rankings of software products and services based on the latest data, awarding badges to the highest-performing tools available. This quarter, only 3% of the tools on G2 received a Leader badge—and Karbon is in that 3%.
The G2 Winter 2026 Report at a glance
🥇 5 x #1 rankings in the Accounting Practice Management category
🏆 Grid Leader in the Accounting Practice Management category
🛡️ Appeared in 63 reports (a Karbon record)
🏅 15 x badges in the Workflow Management category
🎖️ 27 x total new badges
⭐ 4.8/5 stars from 721 reviews (and counting!)
The G2 Winter 2026 Grid for accounting practice management
G2 is the leading software review marketplace, built on verified customer feedback. For accounting, especially in practice management, it’s the most trusted independent benchmark, helping firms cut through marketing claims and make confident tech choices based on the real experiences of their peers.
Karbon’s Winter 2026 badges
We’re thrilled to have received 27 badges this quarter, across the Accounting Practice Management, Workflow Management, Payment Processing, and Tax Practice Management categories.
Highlights from the Accounting Practice Management and Tax Practice Management categories
Momentum Leaders For Accounting Practice Management: Karbon is recognized as the fastest-growing, highest-performing software that’s gaining traction, user satisfaction, and market presence in the accounting practice management category.
Easiest To Do Business with for Small-Business (fewer than 50 employees)
Easiest To Do Business with for the Mid-Market (51-1,000 employees)
Ranked #1 in the Best Relationship for Small Business category
Karbon was also recognized as Regional Leader and High Performer in Australia, New Zealand, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Karbon's G2 Winter 2026 Badges as Regional Leaders for Workflow Management
Highlights from the Payment and Payment Processing categories
Karbon's G2 Winter 2026 Report badges for the Payment and Payment Processing categories
Karbon is a high performer in the following categories:
Payment Software
Payment Processing
Payment Processing for Small Business
Like last quarter, Karbon is also the tool that users are most likely to recommend in the Payment Software, Payment Processing, and Payment Processing for Small-Business categories.
“Karbon alsocentralizes all work, deadlines and responsibilitiesin one place making it easy to see what need. to be done, current statuses, and who is responsible.” — Mark Ramirez, Staff Accountant, Mid-Market
“Karbon is adynamic toolfor workflows. Building custom templates with automators that continually push a work item to the next assignee or step not onlysimplifies workflows, but also makes it easy to see progress and hold-ups and to address issues of prioritization or imbalanced workloads on employees. Especially during tax season, being able to track daily progress across a group of clientskeeps us constantly aware of where we are as a team in reaching our goals and serving our clients.” —G2 user, Small-Business
“I've gotten such positive feedback from clients on the Karbon portal…they are so happy with the ability to easily provide files and updates and thereal-time updates on job statusesin Karbon without needing to follow up with me. Thefeedback from clients has been 100% positiveand satisfied. I'm still absolutely thrilled with Karbon, this was a fantastic pick for me and my firm.” —Lisa Rumsey, Partner, Small-Business
“With Karbon, we are able to do more with less and improve our overall communications both internally and externally.We would be lost without it. The Karbon folks are great to work with and super helpful all year long.” —Jean Stenger, Director of Operations, Mid-Market
Looking ahead
No matter the size of your firm—small, scaling, or enterprise—Karbon is built to help you get more done, deepen client relationships, and run a more profitable practice.
We’re proud of the progress we’re making, grateful for the feedback from our customers, honored to serve the accounting community, and excited for what’s next.
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