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Patriot Accounting

Low-cost US small-business accounting with human phone support

patriotsoftware.com ↗Canton, Ohio, United StatesFounded 2002Claim this profile

TOP SCORE™

51/100

#7 of 8 Accounting Software

High confidence

Score breakdown

What makes up this score

External Reputation89
  • 1 independent review sources
  • 630 third-party reviews counted
AI Authority8
  • 3 answer engines measured
  • cross-model consistency 0.9
Web Authority47
  • 19 web authority signals
  • average citing-domain authority 36.2
Expert Assessment53
  • 100% of the category rubric covered
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Explanation

Why Patriot Accounting ranks #7

Patriot Accounting ranks #7 of 8 accounting software with a TOP SCORE of 51.

The category leader scores 68, a gap of 17 points.

That is 6 points below the category average of 58.

Its strongest component is External Reputation at 89; its weakest is AI Authority at 8.

No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.

Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.

Score history

How the score has moved

58 → 51 ↓7.0

05010030 Aug1 Sept

External reputation

What third-party sources publish

SourcePublishedNormalisedReviewsLast checkedMethod
G2 ↗4.8/59663030 Aug 2026permitted crawl

AI visibility

How answer engines treat this platform

EngineMentionRecommendationCitationAvg positionQueriesMeasured
claude sonnet 5 parametric0%0%0%—2031 Aug 2026
claude grounded5%0%5%5.02030 Aug 2026
claude parametric5%5%0%5.02030 Aug 2026

Web authority

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TOP10 users

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Company information

The facts on file

Description
Patriot Accounting is cloud-based double-entry bookkeeping software from Patriot Software LLC (Canton, Ohio) aimed at US small businesses, offering chart of accounts, unlimited invoices and users, bank imports, reconciliation and 1099/1096 creation from $20/month. It is sold separately from, but integrates free with, Patriot's payroll product, and can be extended with an add-on Bookkeeping Service on the Premium plan. It is best suited to owner-operators and firms of roughly 1–20 staff who value cheap flat pricing and US-based business-hours support over depth of features.
Category
Accounting Software
Founded
2002
Headquarters
Canton, Ohio, United States
Products
Accounting Basic, Accounting Premium, Basic Payroll, Full Service Payroll, Time & Attendance, HR Software, Bookkeeping Service
Markets
Self-employed, SMB, Accountants/Partners
Countries
United States
Integrations
Patriot Basic Payroll, Patriot Full Service Payroll, QuickBooks Desktop (payroll data), QuickBooks Online (payroll data), Stripe (card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH on invoices)
Pricing
$20/month (Accounting Basic; shown discounted to $10/month under promo) · free tier: 30 days free trial (promotion live at retrieval, alongside 50% off for 6 months, offer end date 8/31) pricing page ↗
Regulatory
Patriot Software LLC (Canton, Ohio, founded 2002) is categorised by BBB under Payroll Services and is NOT BBB Accredited; its current BBB grade could not be retrieved. The tax-filing penalty-and-interest guarantee applies to the payroll product only, not to accounting plans. Card and ACH acceptance is handled by Stripe, so payment-funds safeguarding sits with Stripe, not Patriot. A licences page and terms exist at patriotsoftware.com/about/licenses/ and /about/terms/ but their contents were not retrieved, so no licensing claim is verified.
Official website
https://www.patriotsoftware.com/accounting/pricing/ ↗
Last verified
30 Aug 2026

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