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How COUNT compares

A straight comparison against the accounting and practice management tools most firms and businesses in New Zealand are using today. We include what the alternatives genuinely do well.

Compared with practice management platforms

Practice tools usually sit above someone else's ledger, sync overnight and charge per user. COUNT Practice Manager has no per-user fees, and the work you manage is part of the same record as the client's accounting.

No per-user fees

Priced by clients managed, and clients on COUNT are free.

One system, not a sync

Practice data and COUNT Workspace are the same system, so nothing is reconciled twice.

Intelligence in the record

Portfolio-wide insight that reads the numbers, not just the workflow.

It isn't a feature list. It's how the system is built

Most comparisons come down to one structural choice: keep a fragmented set of products around a legacy cloud ledger, or run the firm and its clients on one rebuilt infrastructure layer.

The fragmented approach

  • A cloud ledger built around twenty years ago, at the centre of everything
  • A separate practice manager bought from another vendor
  • AI tools bolted on top of both, reading a copy of the data
  • Connectors, sync delays and metered API charges between the parts
  • Reconciling the same numbers in more than one system

The infrastructure approach

  • One rebuilt ledger and practice engine, built together
  • Practice Manager and COUNT Workspace as two experiences on one system
  • Intelligence reading the live record, not an export of it
  • Open, documented access for your own tools, developers and AI agents
  • A single source of financial truth for the firm and its clients

Switching is easier than staying

We migrate your data, and run in parallel for a cycle so nothing is lost.