Beancount vs Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Beancount
beancount.github.ioMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Sales
microsoft.comSide by side
| Figure | Beancount | Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $4/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 11 |
| Spec score · General Ledger Software | 8.9 (#1) | 8.4 (#12) |
| Audience | The author says the project began as a tool for doing personal accounting and is intended to be useful to others as open-source software. | Microsoft identifies sales leaders and executives, sales representatives and account managers, and sales operations and administrators as audiences for its sales agents. |
| Founded | 2007 | 1975 |
| Security | The project page identifies the code license as GNU GPLv2 only. | Sales data is stored in Dataverse and, for certain features, Azure resources; Microsoft says the data can be protected with Customer Lockbox and encrypted with customer-managed keys, with conversation intelligence exceptions. |
Plans
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
- Dynamics 365 Human Resources Self Service$4 a month
- Dynamics 365 Sales free trialPriced on request
- Dynamics 365 Sales free trialPrice not published
- Dynamics 365 Sales Professional$65 a month
- Dynamics 365 Human Resources$135 a month
- Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise Edition$105 a month
- Dynamics 365 Sales Premium$150 a month
- Microsoft Relationship SalesPriced on request
- Dynamics 365 Sales Professional$65 a year
- Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise Edition$105 a year
In their own words
Beancount
Beancount is a double-entry bookkeeping language for recording transactions in text files and producing reports. The `bean-check` command checks ledger files, while `bean-query` extracts tables of data from them. Documentation covers importing files downloaded from financial institutions and automating parts of that process. The `bean-price` tool can retrieve prices for commodities held in accounts, but ledger processing does not fetch prices automatically; reports can therefore run offline and remain deterministic. Beancount supports multiple currencies and documents portfolio export to external tracking websites. Version 3 is identified as the current stable, maintained branch, while version 2 is frozen and obsolete. The v3 guide notes that some tools were removed and that `bean-report` and `bean-web` are deprecated. Installation instructions cover uv, pipx, pip and source, including Windows instructions for v3. Contributed editor support includes Emacs, Sublime Text, Vim and two Visual Studio Code extensions. Beancount is open source under GNU GPLv2 only and has a free plan priced at free; it has no free trial.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.