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About Bright
Bright offers a suite of industry-leading software solutions for accountants, bookkeepers and SMEs across the UK and Ireland. Our multi-award-winning, user-friendly and innovative products let users support clients while profitably running their practices, with the backing of exceptional support.
Our product suite includes:
• BrightPay (Payroll software)
• BrightManager (Practice management software)
• BrightPropose (Proposal and pricing software)
• BrightTax (Tax and accounts software for the UK only)
• BrightCosec (Company secretarial software for the UK only)
• BrightAccountsProduction (Accounts production software for IE only)
• BrightBooks (Bookkeeping software for IE only)
Bright pricing
Bright does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Bright paid version starts at GBP 279.00/year.
Starting Price:
GBP 279.00/year
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes
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Bright Reviews
Feature rating
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Claire
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 14/01/2023
Brightpay - employee portal winner
Pros
That employees can access their own payroll portal
Cons
Hasn't yet adapted for the recent ruling relating to holiday pay
Response from Bright
Hi Claire, thank you for your review and we are delighted to hear that you are using the BrightPay Connect employee portal.
Please ensure you have ran the latest upgrade, which will be prompted on the main BrightPay screen.
Replied 25/01/2023
Samantha
- Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 27/09/2024
Incredible company
excellent great company great customer service
Pros
very helpful clear instructions in a friendly way
Cons
N/A nothing to complain about product and service always outstanding
Baljit
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review Source
3
Reviewed on 28/08/2019
Review
Our experience has been positive with AM but there are still a few features that need to be added.
Pros
The software is easy to set up and is user friendly.
You can save all your deadlines, references and customer information in one place.
Keep track of all outstanding tasks.
Send mass emails easily.
Cons
There are many areas that need developing eg adding budgeted hours against a client, mass documents to be attached when sending an email, uploaded documents to be saved all together, folders to be created to structure uploaded documents, exporting outstanding tasks, customised drop down boxes for short description on time log.
Daniel
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 14/09/2023
Great software helping manage your practice
Very good software that saves lots of time.
Pros
It is online and linked to other software and HMRC
Cons
Pricing per user, it would be better to have pricing per number of clients. Also the invoicing is not linked properly with QuickBooks.
Rasa
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 25/08/2022
Superb product for accountants
Pros
I have tried and tested quite a few software before I came across Accountancy manager. One had a client database but required extensive work to set up tasks, especially those that are requiring, preset specific templates, another had some features that were required in Practice (i.e. Letters of engagement), but not others, so in fact, my practice and tasks were managed across 3-4 CMR's and client management software, that in combination served my practice management needs. AM was revolutionary, for it had all of the features I wanted and needed in one software.
Cons
I find filters bit cumbersome. Guess it's a very low price to pay.
