Methodology
Light is scored the same way as every other vendor on this site. We do not sell rankings. Light is one row.
We cover four vendors: Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage Intacct, and Light. Every function page answers the same buyer question for all four. No vendor is pinned to the top.
Prices are the shape the vendor sells in. Where a number is indicative, we say so. Nothing here is a quote.
What we score
AI OCR
Does the system read invoices and receipts itself, and what does a person still have to do?
Copilot or agent
Does the AI draft for a person to post, or does it run the job on the ledger for finance to review?
Expense
Is there a native AI expense function, a preview, or a partner tool to bolt on?
Close and reconciliation
What the AI does at period end, and who still drives the close.
Operational scope
Inventory, manufacturing, and commerce. A finance system will not cover these.
Implementation
Who does the work, how long it takes, and what the buyer has to staff.
Price shape
Published, banded, or quoted. We say which, and we mark indicative numbers as indicative.
Hosting and data
Where the data sits and which cloud regions are offered.
What we do not do
- We do not sell placement or ranking.
- We do not publish customer counts we cannot check.
- We do not score demos we have not seen run.
- We do not rewrite vendor marketing as fact.