Deep ANZ compliance across a broad product family built over several generations.
Before the feature detail, the choice is architectural: keep MYOB at the centre and add the missing pieces around it, or run the firm and its clients on one rebuilt record.
A cloud ledger at the centre, a separate practice manager, AI tools reading a copy of the data, and paid connectors holding the parts together. Every join is another sync to watch, another subscription, and another place the same number can disagree.
COUNT rebuilt the ledger and the practice engine together. Practice Manager and COUNT Workspace are two experiences on one system, with the intelligence reading live data — a single source of financial truth for the firm and its clients.
MYOB's compliance and tax heritage in Australia and New Zealand is real, and for firms doing heavy statutory work its practice suite is capable. The cost is fragmentation: Solo, Business Lite and Pro, AccountRight and the practice products come from different eras and behave differently. COUNT trades that heritage for one modern product, faster onboarding, and automation that improves as you use it.
Firms ready to consolidate: one modern platform where the ledger, practice tools and intelligence were built together, so subscription sprawl becomes a single system that gets better the more you use it.
Established ANZ firms with deep statutory and tax workflow already built around the MYOB suite.
How the two products differ on the things firms and businesses tell us matter most.
| Capability | COUNT | MYOB |
|---|---|---|
| Unified practice and client product | One product | Business or AccountRight, plus a practice product |
| Transaction coding | Cruise Control: five matching passes before AI is asked | Bank rules with embedded AI features |
| Multi-currency | Native on COUNT | AccountRight Premier only |
| AI assistant and MCP | Chat, scheduled agents and an MCP server | No branded assistant or MCP server |
| Practice licence cost | No per-user fees; clients on COUNT free | Paid, per user |
Expand any area for a line-by-line view of how COUNT and MYOB differ.
The clearest difference. MYOB is a family of products; COUNT is one.
| Capability | COUNT | MYOB |
|---|---|---|
| Products needed for a firm and its clients | One | A client file product plus a practice product |
| Consistent interface across modules | Yes | Varies by module and generation |
| Cloud-native | Yes | Cloud and desktop-derived lines coexist |
| Moving up a tier | A setting | Often a product migration |
| Capability | COUNT | MYOB |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing and quotes | Unlimited on every plan, with milestone payments and Stripe Terminal | Included across tiers |
| Payroll | Native in the US; manual payroll entry elsewhere | Employee count gated by tier |
| Bills and payment runs | Approvals, batch runs and a bank-ready direct credit file | Supplier payments, tier dependent |
| Multi-currency | Native, with automatic gain and loss postings | AccountRight Premier |
| GST and IRD | Returns generated from the ledger and filed to IRD over a direct connection | NZ GST reporting in the product and its API |
| Multi-entity consolidation | Free on all tiers | Not native to the business products |
| Capability | COUNT | MYOB |
|---|---|---|
| Transaction coding | Five deterministic passes, then AI, tuned per client | Bank rules plus in-built AI features |
| AI agents and chat | Saved skills on a schedule, workspace chat, approval on every write | Embedded AI features, no branded assistant |
| Document capture | Receipts, emailed bills, bank and loan statement extraction | In-product capture |
| Anomaly detection | Duplicate vendors, price-rise alerts, accuracy rules on review | Not native |
| MCP server | OAuth 2.1 MCP server for ledger and practice tools | Developer partner API; no published MCP server |
| Capability | COUNT | MYOB |
|---|---|---|
| Jobs, deadlines and workflow | Included | MYOB Practice, AE or AO |
| Workpapers and close | Period close with thirteen modules and a review pipeline | Included in the practice suite |
| Client record shared with the ledger | Yes | Synced between products |
| Client intelligence | Client synopsis, health signals and firm inbox triage | Not native |
| Practice licence cost | No per-user fees | Paid, per user |
| Capability | COUNT | MYOB |
|---|---|---|
| Typical setup | Days | Weeks, often with a consultant |
| Data migration | Guided, with importers and a migration dashboard | Structured project, often paid |
| Staff retraining | One interface to learn | Per-module training |
| Parallel run supported | Yes, one full cycle | Possible, manually managed |
MYOB details sourced from public information as at August 2026: MYOB NZ plans and pricing, MYOB AccountRight Premier, MYOB Practice Compliance, MYOB developer programme. Pricing and features change; check the vendor for current details.
Structured migration for ledgers, clients and jobs, with opening balances that reconcile cleanly.
Historic compliance documents attach to the new client record.
Firm-wide rollout support so the whole team moves at once.
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