ActivMan vs Minty Assets

ActivMan is paid, on-premise Windows software for fixed asset management, developed by McHil software B.V. It tracks economic, commercial, fiscal, insured, and replacement values, with current, past, and forecast views. Records can include investments, disposals, costs, revaluations, additional depreciation, and forecasts. Users can link or split assets, rebook them, monitor investment plans, calculate interest, allocate costs, and record locations. Filtered reports can be printed or exported. Journal entries can be supplied in formats for general-ledger administration, with Exact listed as an accounting integration and an optional ODBC connection for compatible financial software. ActivMan supports tax depreciation and multiple entities. School inventories can be organized by branch, building, floor, section, and room, with barcode-assisted inventory. Optional security settings restrict permissions, while an optional logbook records activity and previous values. Annual-licence plans are ActivMan/lite and ActivMan; no prices are stated.

Minty Assets is web-based fixed asset register and depreciation software for book accounting, audit trails, journal entries and report exports. It supports component accounting, so parts of an asset can have separate costs, residual values, useful lives, depreciation methods and in-service dates. Listed methods include Straight Line, Declining Balance, Double Declining Balance, Sum of Years Digits and No Depreciation. Its workflows cover IAS 16 component accounting, IAS 36 impairment events, IFRS 5 held-for-sale classification, disposals and annual estimate reviews. Users can preview, post, reverse and export balanced depreciation journals traceable to assets and components. Eight reports include an asset register, depreciation schedule, roll forward, expense summary and journal report. The CSV import wizard maps and validates columns and can create opening accounting history for partially depreciated assets. Journal exports include Xero, QuickBooks and Sage presets, as well as custom mappings. Starter is free, billed Forever; Pro is $9 a month, billed annually. Accountant is $29 a month, billed annually. US tax depreciation and MACRS are unsupported.