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Analytics in BrightManager
Struggling to pinpoint where your practice leaks profits or where the bottlenecks are in your team? Turn practice data into insight with the Insights Hub, included with your BrightManager subscription.
Get enhanced reporting for your practice, reduce outstanding billing and improve your workflows.
Award-winning practice management!
About BrightManager
BrightManager makes onboarding and managing clients simple for your business, saving you time and money. It’s loved by thousands of accountants for a reason.
- Automated client management and onboarding
- Efficient task management and time tracking
- Workflows and integrations to speed through daily tasks
“Enables me to focus on giving clients the service they deserve”
Adam Clegg
Swift Accountancy
“I would highly recommend BrightManager”
Sarah Douglas
House Tree Business
“Always evolving and crucial to our day-to-day operations”
Elliot Cargill
Charlton Baker Ltd
Free up time
Automate your admin
Get practice management software that streamlines your accounting workflow by automating repetitive admin tasks, scheduling, and client communications, giving you more time to focus on high-value advisory work and growing your practice.
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Work efficiently with tools built with accountants in mind
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Focus on the big picture while BrightManager handles the administration
Features Designed to Save Time
- Client timeline
- Automated client emails and SMS credits
- Streamlined task management
- Client portal
- Built-in notifications
- Time tracking
- Profitability
- Ready-to-go templates
- Customisations
- Email management
- Custom forms
- Anti-money laundering and risk
- Smooth onboarding
Client timeline
An audit trail of all client activity – whether a client has opened an email, signed a document or shared a form.
All activity is tracked and timestamped to protect your liability.
Automated client emails and texts
BrightManager will automatically request records and tax payments from your clients by email and text.
You won’t need to chase anything up and you’ll never miss a client deadline again.
Streamlined task management
Manage your time effectively with automatically generated task lists driven by compliance deadlines.
Create workflow templates, see task and subtask details at-a-glance, assign to team members, track progress, and customise your task list to suit your practice.
Client portal
Share documents with clients and request e-signatures through the online portal.
Your client portal is fully GDPR-compliant, acts as your internal filing system, and can be personalised to look like a part of your own website.
Built-in notifications
When a client signs a form, uploads a document, or there’s a new task assigned to you, you’ll be notified instantly.
Plus, you can send internal messages and progress notes to stay on top of your practice admin.
Time tracking
Track time to keep an eye on productivity, generate invoices from work in progress, and monitor profitability.
You can see what your team are working on in real-time, weigh up chargeable vs. non-chargeable work, and identify any bottlenecks.
Profitability
Feel empowered to make business-critical decisions by evaluating which jobs are the most and least profitable.
Monitor staff costs against client revenue, identify your profit sources, review your fee structure, and track your growth strategy.
Ready-to-go email templates
Our library of over 40 pre-designed and ready-to-go templates covers every email you need to send to your clients.
Best of all?
They’re pre-written by a qualified accountant, personalised, and fully customisable.
Customisations
BrightManager works ‘out of the box’, but you can also fully customise it to suit the individual needs of your practice and clients.
Email management
View all emails that have been forwarded into BrightManager, with the most recent appearing first.
You can filter by linked and unlinked emails too.
Custom forms
Build custom forms and share them with your clients through our GDPR-compliant portal.
BrightManager will automatically chase late or incomplete forms and get all the information you need on time, every time.
Anti-money laundering and risk
Carry out AML ID and credit checks, complete and store risk assessments with a built-in checklist, and give your clients a risk rating.
All of this helps ensure your clients remain compliant and your practice is covered.
Smooth onboarding
Automate your entire practice client onboarding process from professional clearance to proposal and letter of engagement.
Complete AML checks and risk assessments.
Client portal
On-brand client access
Save time with client portals that let you share and store documents, request e-signatures, and seamlessly communicate with your accounting clients. Use your brand to its full potential, and save time too!
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GDPR compliant portal
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Fast interaction to save time
Easy onboarding
Start as you mean to go on
Automate your entire onboarding process from professional clearance to proposals and letters of engagement. Streamlined and seamless to save you time and money.
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AML ID checks, credit screens and risk assessments
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Convenient and secure e-signatures
Stay on track
Stay ahead of deadlines
Automatic task management is built in, so you can keep on top of your team’s tasks and prioritise your own. Work is broken down into easier subtasks, to streamline the workload.
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Prioritise and manage day-to-day tasks
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Pull in compliance deadlines from CRO
Our versatile, easy-to-integrate solutions designed for seamless practice management.
Amplifying Efficiency with BrightManager Integrations
Boost profit
Make data-led decisions
Evaluate which jobs are the most or least profitable, and stay on track of expenditure and client revenue. In-built profitability tracking will empower you to make the right decision, every time.
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Track expenditure and review your fees
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Develop a growth strategy
BrightManager Pricing
Essential
Pricing is per user, for 2-12 users. Billed annually.
€
487.20
+Vat
Per year
- Includes a 30-day free trial
Premium
For single users on a 24-month contract. Billed annually.
€
826.50
+Vat
Per year
- Includes a Branded Client Portal, Pricing & Proposal Tool, Customer Success Membership PLUS an additional FREE User Licence!
Includes free user!
Advanced
For single users on a 12-month contract. Billed annually.
€
826.50
+Vat
Per year
- Includes a Branded Client Portal, Pricing & Proposal Tool and Customer Success Membership
Essential
Pricing is per user, for 2-12 users. Billed monthly.
€
50.75
+Vat
Per month
- Includes a 30-day free trial
Premium
For single users on a 24-month contract. Billed monthly.
€
68.87
+Vat
Per month
- Includes a Branded Client Portal, Pricing & Proposal Tool, Customer Success Membership PLUS an additional FREE User Licence!
Includes free user!
Advanced
For single users on a 12-month contract. Billed monthly.
€
68.87
+Vat
Per month
- Includes a Branded Client Portal, Pricing & Proposal Tool and Customer Success Membership
Add-Ons
AML Credits
Carry out ID and credit checks
From €3.85
Per credit; Volume discounts available
White-labeled client portal
Customise the Client Portal with your branding
€24.00
Per month
SMS credits
Send text messages from BrightManager
€0.08
Per credit
BrightManager Resources
See what others have to say
Our Customers Love Us!
“The best system I’ve used, without a doubt.”
“I've worked in payroll for 35+ years and used many, many different payroll systems; in house, Sage and Iris among them. I've just switched to BrightPay for all my bureau payrolls and wish I'd done it years ago! It's the best system I've used, without a doubt. The software is so easy to use, robust and flexible, it's great.”
Clare
Ryefield Accountants
“It just gets better!”
“BrightManager is always evolving and has become crucial to our day-to-day operations in respect of on-boarding, workflows and client exchanges. It is easy to use and the guys behind it are always improving the features to ensure it just gets better!”
Elliot Cargill
Charlton Baker Ltd
“A fab company to work with.”
“The support is fantastic - lots of short how-to videos and if all else fails, they always answer the phone and sort out any queries straight away. A fab company to work with.”
Caroline Hinde
Caroline Hinde Accountancy
“Saves me a lot of time.”
“I find the cloud version of BrightPay very user friendly. I use it for clients' payrolls and I am more than happy with it. I can download monthly payroll journals to Xero at the touch of a button, this saves me a lot of time. It really is a no brainer to use BrightPay cloud.”
Howard Sherbourne
Director at Numbers R Us
“Nearly nine years.”
“I have been using BrightPay both for my own company and for clients for nearly nine years. It is the best payroll software out there, very easy to use and with excellent support. I have rarely needed help, but when something has cropped up, support get back within an incredibly short space of time.”
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Burton Beavon LTDÂ
“AÂ weight off my shoulders.”
“It's a great system. It's fully compliant and gets the adjustments done quickly. I think the product is a great asset. With the amount of compliance and regulations these days, knowing BrightAccountsProduction has me 100% covered is a weight off my shoulders.”
Nuala McGowan
McGowan Accountancy Services
“Embrace the world of digital auditing.”
“MyWorkpapers enables our practice to embrace the world of digital auditing and accounting. Year-ends are now being processed as quickly as possible, our files are more accurate, up-to-date and professional than we had before.”
Stuart Cuzner
Wagstaffs
“We regularly recommend it to other accountants.”
“Inform Direct has made a real difference to the way we manage company secretarial work at Amarillo. It’s intuitive, reliable, and has saved us countless hours. The support team is always quick to respond when we have questions. It’s become an essential part of our workflow, and we regularly recommend it to other accountants.”
Oscar Garcia
Amarillo Accounting Ltd
“Amazing at what they do”
“I use a number of Bright products all equally amazing at what they do. Amazing, simple, easy to use, and cost-effective software. Top-class customer service / tech support.”
Anne-Marie McCausland
Airport Cattery Ltd
“Efficient and easy to use.”
“AccountancyManager helps me easily keep all my clients' details securely in one place. It is efficient and easy to use and deals with Engagement Letters and AML compliance effortlessly.”
Gill Calvert
Wren Accounting Services Limited
“Constantly impressed.”
“Is it normal to love your payroll software? Perhaps not, but I do! I have been using BrightPay for almost 2 years now and I am constantly impressed at the ease of use and speed of the software.”
Ross Allan
Ray Allan Ltd
