Exact Online vs OneStream

Exact Online is a cloud-delivered package for accounting and business operations, with accounting and CRM included across its products. Online accounting provides bank feeds and invoicing, while Time & Billing includes time tracking, invoicing, and CRM. Industry solutions are available for manufacturing, wholesale, and professional services. Wholesale offerings list order, relation, and stock management; a listed manufacturing plan includes calculation, planning, and production. The service also includes inventory and order management, and users can work together online. The accountancy solution supports administration management with clients. Exact says around 675,000 companies use Exact Online and that 2,000 specialists are ready to help. Packages are priced monthly and exclude VAT; payments, including extensions, are made by direct debit. The pricing note says From £25/mo, while the listed Accountancy Professional plan costs £91 a month. There is no free plan, and the free trial's duration and feature limits are unstated.

OneStream is an enterprise finance platform that brings financial and operational data together for finance teams. It supports financial close and consolidation, reporting, account reconciliations, transaction matching, tax provisioning, budgeting, rolling forecasts, scenario analysis, and workforce planning. Dashboards, charts, reports, and drill-back to source data support analysis, while connectors and REST APIs link to more than 250 ERP, CRM, and other data sources, including SAP, Oracle, and Workday. OneStream also lists SensibleAI Forecast, SensibleAI Studio, and SensibleAI Agents. The platform provides audit trails and supports US GAAP, IFRS, SOX controls, and lease accounting. Access options include web, Windows applications, APIs, and SaaS or self-hosted deployments; reports and dashboards adapt to different devices. The software is paid, with pricing on request. Visitors can schedule a free personal demo, but no free trial is stated.