Sage Accounting, also named Sage Business Cloud Accounting, comes from a long-established brand with an accountant channel. comma is Canadian books your own assistant can work in, where a person approves every posting.
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comma is built for Canadian corporations. There is no chat box inside the app. Your own Claude or ChatGPT connects to the books and can read and write, asking you before each write.
A built-in AI bookkeeper proposes categories and finds receipts. Nothing posts until a person reviews it.
Sage Accounting, also named Sage Business Cloud Accounting, comes from a long-established accounting brand with an accountant channel (Sage for Accountants, AutoEntry) and Sage Marketplace apps.
Bank feeds import transactions and bank rules you define process them. The first-party MCP work we found from Sage is for Sage Intacct, a different product.
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| AI assistant | comma Your own assistant, plus an AI bookkeeper There is no chat assistant inside the app. Connect Claude or ChatGPT to ask questions, draft and do real writes; it asks you before each one. A built-in AI bookkeeper (Pro and Premium) attaches receipts and proposes categories, transfers and matches. It never posts. | Sage Accounting Sage Copilot, launched in the UK first Sage Copilot is Sage’s assistant. Sage’s UK pages and annual report say every Sage Accounting plan includes Copilot at no extra charge in the UK. Sage’s 2024 announcement said it would launch in the UK first and then extend to Canada. Not found in their docs: whether Copilot is live in Sage Accounting in Canada today, what it can do there, and Copilot categorizing bank transactions or posting entries. |
| MCP / AI connector | comma Read and write, 190 tools An official remote MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and any compatible client: 91 read tools and 99 write tools, 77 of them flagged so the assistant asks you first. Read-only on Basic, read and write on Pro and Premium.
It records payments; it never moves money. Bank linking, people, billing and permanent delete stay in the browser. | Sage Accounting First-party MCP found for Sage Intacct, a different product The first-party MCP work we found from Sage is the Sage Intacct AI Gateway: REST APIs plus an MCP server that Sage describes as read-only, generally available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and South Africa per a May 2026 release. The options we found for Sage Accounting come from third parties, for example CData and AnythingMCP. Not found in their docs: an official MCP server, or a Claude or ChatGPT connector, for Sage Accounting itself. |
| Automatic AI transaction handling | comma Proposes, never posts No rules engine and no auto-posting. On each unreviewed bank row the AI bookkeeper (Pro and Premium) or your assistant proposes a category, a transfer or an invoice or bill match. Proposals carry an AI marker and can be filtered. Your tick on review is what books the entry. | Sage Accounting Bank feeds and bank rules Bank feeds import transactions, and bank rules you define process incoming transactions. Sage’s Canadian pages describe matching to invoices and payments. Not found in their docs: AI-based categorization in Sage Accounting, review-queue versus auto-post behaviour, transfer detection, and automatic reconciliation on the Start tier. |
| Email inbox receipt matching | comma Searches Gmail and Outlook Premium companies connect Gmail or Outlook, read-only. The AI bookkeeper or your assistant searches by sender, terms and dates, imports PDF and image attachments, and attaches the receipt to a transaction. That attachment waits for you to confirm or detach. Emails with no attachment are left for a person. There is no forward-to-email address. | Sage Accounting Receipt photos from the app Sage says you can snap receipts with the mobile app and upload the details to Sage Accounting. AutoEntry is Sage’s separate document-capture product, with its own app. Not found in their docs: which tiers include receipt capture, AutoEntry per-document prices, and searching a connected Gmail or Outlook inbox to find and match receipts. |
| iOS app | comma iPhone and iPad app A native iPhone and iPad app: review bank lines, capture receipts with the camera, invoices, bills, statements, reconciliation and search. It needs iOS 27. Its store listing is not confirmed on this page, so check before you count on it. Plans and billing are web-only. There is no Android app. | Sage Accounting Sage Accounting, listed on Apple’s App Store Listed as “Sage Accounting” (id 1341612411). The UK App Store showed 4.5 from about 1.6K ratings. The listing covers creating and sending invoices, quotes, expenses, recording payments, receipt photos and simple performance views. Not found in their docs: the Canadian store rating, and bank review, full reports and approvals in the app. |
| Multiple companies | comma One account, several companies One billing account holds several companies, each with its own ledger, currency, roles and audit trail. Every plan includes one company; each extra company is a paid add-on. Intercompany checks are on Premium. There are no consolidated financial statements. | Sage Accounting Not found in their docs: on Sage’s small-business pages, a way to add a second business to one subscription, a multi-business price, and consolidation. |
| Canada | comma Canada only Built for Canadian corporations: GST/HST on documents, a GST/HST return worksheet (regular method only), GIFI account mapping for the year-end handoff, and Canadian bank feeds. Books in CAD; USD bank and card accounts on Pro and Premium. There are no foreign-currency invoices or bills. | Sage Accounting Priced in CAD, with Canadian bank feeds Sage’s Canadian pages describe GST/HST, PST and QST handling. Multi-currency is on the Plus tier. Not found in their docs: the details of that sales tax handling (not re-checked in this pass), a GST/HST return, partially recoverable taxes, bank feeds for foreign-currency accounts, payroll inside Sage Accounting Canada, and GIFI or other CRA forms. |
| Other features | comma Core double-entry books Invoices, credit notes, customer statements, bills, journals, bank reconciliation, reports, audit log and year close. Four roles; invited users pay nothing. Not in comma: inventory, projects, time tracking, quotes, recurring invoices, online invoice payments or an app marketplace. | Sage Accounting Quotes, a marketplace and an accountant channel Invoicing and quotes, billing, purchase invoices, bank reconciliation, tax reporting, multi-currency on Plus, Sage Marketplace apps, and an accountant channel (Sage for Accountants, AutoEntry). Not found in their docs: inventory, projects and time tracking in the Canadian product, and the prices of the Sage for Accountants practice plans. |
| Pricing | comma Per company, not per user
CAD a month, or billed annually. Taxes extra. One company included; extra companies are an add-on priced by plan. No free plan; the trial needs a card. If a subscription lapses, the books become read-only and exportable, not deleted. | Sage Accounting Three tiers, in CAD
CAD a month plus tax, bought direct in Canada. List prices as shown on their pages on 10 November 2026. Prices change, so confirm on the live page. An introductory offer on the same page: Start $5.75, Standard $12.50, Plus $18.00, renewing at the then-current rate. A Square-linked Sage page shows different figures ($39 Standard, $55 Plus, first 4 months), so promotions vary by page. Through accountants: Start $14, Standard $18, Plus $22 CAD. Not found in their docs: which promotion is current and how long it lasts, users per tier, US pricing, and the trial length. |
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This page is comma’s perspective. Verify before you decide. Sage Accounting claims and list prices were checked on 10 November 2026. We could not open sage.com or apps.apple.com directly during this check. The Sage Accounting column rests on search-result extracts of the pages below, so re-read each point on the live page.