These two tools answer different questions
If the question in your head is “how do I keep the books correct, file the right forms, and hand clean data to my accountant,” SMEMOVE was built for exactly that. If the question is “where is each job, who hasn't paid me, and will next month cover itself,” that's a different job — and the one MANA was built for.
Here's the comparison as each product actually is, not as either would like to be seen.
What SMEMOVE does well
SMEMOVE is Thai cloud accounting software aimed at SME owners, startups and online shops. Its strength is genuine accounting depth:
- A full sales and purchase document set — quotations, invoices, receipts, tax invoices, credit notes
- Tax work tied to real Thai filing cycles: PND 1, 3, 53 and PP 30, 36, with export into the Revenue Department's RD Prep software
- Inventory management, including serial-number tracking
- Payroll with automatic tax calculation, supporting up to 45 employees depending on tier, plus the TIMEMOVE app for time attendance and payslips
- e-Tax Invoice by Email support for VAT-registered users
- Standard financial reporting — balance sheet, P&L, and receipts/payments projections
Pricing as listed on SMEMOVE's package comparison page in August 2026: a free tier with 1 user and 200 MB (standard document theme, no e-Tax), Basic at ฿199/month or ฿1,990/year for 5 users, Premium at ฿399/month for 10 users, and Pro at ฿699/month for 15 users. Data sits on Google Cloud, the site claims over 6,000 companies using it, and there are arrangements for accounting firms handling multiple entities. Worth re-checking current pricing on their site before you commit.
If you carry stock, employ people who need payroll and social security, or work with a bookkeeper who closes your accounts, SMEMOVE is a lot of software for the money — and it covers ground MANA simply doesn't.
Where a solo freelancer gets stuck
Freelance work rarely ends at the ledger. It ends at delivery and collection, and three things sit outside what an accounting package is designed to do.
The work and the money live apart. Accounting software knows an invoice was issued. It doesn't know the project is 70% done, which milestone is next, or what's still open on your task list. So you end up running two or three tools side by side.
You pay for features you never open. Inventory, payroll and time attendance are the heart of SMEMOVE. A one-person business touches almost none of it.
Getting paid is a client-side problem. What actually shortens payment time is a link the client can open to view the invoice, pay by PromptPay, and attach the slip without registering for anything — not a nicer balance sheet.
Where MANA sits
MANA is not a double-entry accounting system and doesn't pretend to be. It's a workspace covering the whole freelance job in one place:
- Projects, tasks and boards, attached directly to the client and that job's documents
- Client records and contact history alongside the work and the invoices
- Quotation → invoice → receipt as a single chain, with a public document link so clients can view and pay via PromptPay without an account
- e-Tax Invoice by Email sending, following the ETDA time-stamp scheme, for Thailand-region VAT-registered users
- Your own money: income and expenses, wallets, monthly budgets and cash-flow forecasting, with receipt import from a photo
- A calendar that syncs with Google Calendar, with reminders by email or LINE
- A built-in AI assistant and an MCP endpoint for connecting other tools
- Full Thai and English, with Thai regional settings including the Buddhist calendar
Pricing: a usable Free plan, Mana at ฿290/month or ฿2,900/year, Aether at ฿890/month or ฿8,900/year, with annual billed as ten months.
Side by side
| SMEMOVE | MANA | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | SME and shop accounting, and accounting firms | Solo freelancers and very small teams |
| Projects and tasks | Not included | Included, linked to clients and documents |
| Inventory | Yes, with serial numbers | No |
| Payroll and time attendance | Yes, with the TIMEMOVE app | No |
| Thai tax forms and RD Prep | PND/PP forms, RD Prep export | No — you file yourself or hand data to a bookkeeper |
| e-Tax Invoice by Email | On paid tiers | For Thai VAT-registered users |
| Client-side PromptPay payment link | Not the focus | Yes, with slip attachment booked as income |
| Personal cash-flow forecasting | Accounting-style receipts/payments projection | Yes, tied to wallets and monthly budgets |
| AI assistant | Not the focus | Built in, including receipt import from photos |
One question decides it
Ask yourself: last month, what ate more of your time — keeping the books right, or chasing work and chasing money?
If it was the books — because you hold stock, employ people, file PP 30 monthly, or your accountant needs RD Prep files — SMEMOVE is the better answer, and good value at that price.
If it was chasing work and money — because you work in projects, juggle clients who pay on different cycles, get 3% withheld on everything, and need to know in advance whether next month is covered — that's the question MANA was designed around.
And if you're in the middle, say a VAT-registered freelancer with a bookkeeper closing the accounts, running the daily work, documents and cash in MANA and handing your accountant a periodic export is a sensible split that doesn't mean paying twice for the same thing.