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MANA vs AccRevo: a digital accounting platform for SMEs, and a workspace for one-person businesses

AccRevo shows up constantly when Thai business owners search for online accounting software, and it is a genuinely good product for the audience it was built for. The only question worth asking is whether that audience includes you.

What AccRevo is

AccRevo positions itself plainly as a digital accounting platform for SMEs. Its headline capability is using AI and RPA to read documents and post the bookkeeping entries automatically so businesses can close their books faster. The product is split into several parts — AccRevoX for business operations, AccRevo Accistant for management, and AccRevo The Book for bookkeeping — alongside project management, multi-currency support with automatic exchange rates, document management, and support for e-Tax Invoice & e-Receipt.

What AccRevo does well, stated clearly:

On price, AccRevo does not publish public tiers — you register or contact sales, with a 30-day free trial available. Numbers visible through partner channels give a rough sense: a UOB BizSmart promotion listed a normal price of 8,000 THB per year per company discounted to 5,500 THB (excluding VAT). Treat that as a promotional example rather than a standing price, and confirm directly with AccRevo.

The billing unit tells you more than any marketing copy: per company, per year.

What MANA is

MANA is not accounting software and does not try to be. It is a workspace for the freelancer who does everything alone — tracking clients and projects, issuing Thai quotations, invoices and receipts, seeing which invoices are still unpaid, keeping a running total of the 3% withheld from your fees, and collecting every 50 ทวิ certificate before filing season.

There is no general ledger, no chart of accounts, no year-end close, no filing with the Department of Business Development — because individuals do not have those obligations.

Compared by the work you actually do

Task AccRevo MANA
Built for Registered SMEs with a bookkeeper Individuals working solo
Automated posting from documents Yes, its core strength No
Year-end close and financial statements Yes No
Quotation → invoice → receipt Present, inside an accounting system The core of the product
Tracking 3% withholding and 50 ทวิ Mainly from the payer's side From the freelancer's side, as the one withheld from
PromptPay on documents Not a focus Designed around it
Accounting knowledge required Yes, or an accountant None
Pricing unit Per company, per year Per person

Decide with one question

Ask yourself: do you have to close a set of financial statements this year?

If yes — you have a registered company, staff, high document volume, and an accounting firm — AccRevo or another full accounting system is the correct answer. MANA does not replace it, and using MANA in its place would be the wrong tool for the job.

If no — you file as an individual, serve somewhere between five and thirty clients a year, submit PND 90 and PND 94 yourself, and your real problems are the invoice a client forgot to pay, the two missing withholding certificates, and not knowing how much will land this month — then a corporate accounting platform gives you roughly 80% of features you will never open, wrapped in vocabulary you do not need to learn. MANA was built for exactly this case.

What if you're in between?

Freelancers approaching 1.8 million baht in revenue, weighing VAT registration or incorporation, genuinely sit on the line. The straightforward advice: buy for the status you have today. Do not purchase a corporate accounting system in advance of a decision you may never make. Do keep your documents and income history tidy from now on, because the day you do talk to an accountant about incorporating, the first thing they will ask for is a complete record of income and expenses — which is exactly what MANA has been keeping for you all along.