# Optial SmartStart Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Optial SmartStart Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on October 29, 2025

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Optial SmartStart

## What is Optial SmartStart?

Monitor Internal Controls and Ensure Regulatory Compliance. Identify, distribute and assign control activities across your organisation. Automated control assessments enable you to continually monitor the effectiveness your control framework. Fully configurable compliance checklists used to gather consistent information across businesses, geographies and time. Distribute key policies and regulations to relevant individuals and track management signoffs.

## What is Optial SmartStart used for?

[Risk Management](https://www.capterra.com/risk-management-software/)[ESG](https://www.capterra.com/esg-software/)[Integrated Risk Management](https://www.capterra.com/integrated-risk-management-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 1 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

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Neutral

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Negative

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Starting price

$5000

Per Year

Free trial  
not available

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## Optial SmartStart alternatives

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[4.6 (253)](https://www.capterra.com/p/141080/iAuditor/reviews/)

Starting price

$29.00

Per User, Per Month

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Access Controls/Permissions

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Activity Dashboard

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Alerts/Escalation

System alerts about the need to escalate an issue or request

Alerts/Notifications

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

API

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Archiving & Retention

Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes

Optial SmartStart 51 features

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

System alerts about the need to escalate an issue or request

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes

Creation, administration, and evaluation of assessments or tests

Plan, schedule, and execute organization's accounts and assets to ensure compliance with policies and laws

Create a targeted plan, schedule resources, and determine long-term goals for the audit process

A record of all activities within the system, including user access, changes made, etc.

Examine established processes and records to ensure accuracy, compliance, and policy adherence

Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Track and report regulatory data to either internal management or external stakeholders

Investigate and take action at root cause or error in processes to prevent recurring issues

Customize contracts and forms to collect specific information

Alter the layout and content of reports

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

Assembly of graphs and charts for visualizing and tracking statistics/metrics

Creation and customization of dashboards

Graphical representation of data

Guidelines for conforming to environmental laws, regulations and requirements

Automated handling of non-compliant EDI transmissions.

Track and ensure quality of products in accordance with food and drug administration (FDA) act

Store, manage and track all forms in a centralized location

Management of rules, practices, and processes of a company

Compliant with HIPAA, which sets standards for sensitive patient data protection

Manage and track all disruptions and incidents

Ensure internal objectives and compliance with policies are met

Guidelines set by the International Organization for Standardization

Identify and respond to unexpected problems or failures (ie. "negative events")

Manage risks related to IT systems

Manage the risk of both financial and reputational loss resulting from nonadherence to current legislation

Access software remotely via mobile devices

Manage risk that occurs from systems failure or inadequate processes

Enforces guidelines set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to remain legally compliant

Active reporting of data and metrics

Timed notification for any upcoming task, deadline, appointment, or activity

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Identify, monitor, and assess risks to brands

Notifying as a warning or reminder of a potential or imminent hazard

Initiate collection and analysis of known risks

Process of identifying, evaluating, mitigating, addressing and reporting on potential risks or uncertainties

Reporting of risks associated with specific actions, events, or entities

Set & manage permission levels based on user roles and restrict access to only authorized individuals

Regulations on a company's internal process when dealing with financial reporting

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Create, manage and track all task activities and progression

Track revisions and updates made to files and navigate between different versions

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

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Features

5.0 (1)

5.0

Based on 1 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

5.0 (1)

Basic

$5,000

Per Year

Value for money

5.0 (1)

5.0

Based on 1 reviews

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

5.0 (1)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

5.0 (1)

5.0

Based on 1 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

5.0

Based on 1 reviews

Filter by rating

5(1)

4(0)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

AU

Anonymous User

Technology Specialist

Telecommunications

### ""Best Financial Audit Software Right Now""

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

November 19, 2019

My overall experience is good. The software are great for financial audit. Its easy to use for any organization. And I hope need to improve more feature .

Pros

There are audit planning just awesome. When I use "Optial Smartstart" i'm very confident for there accurate result. Dashboard is making me easy to use this software. I also like this software and love there issue management.

Cons

I dislike only things. Mostly the software is not access in Mobile.

Switched from

[ManageEngine ADAudit Plus](https://www.capterra.com/p/210774/ADAudit-Plus/)

Alternatives considered

[ManageEngine ADAudit Plus](https://www.capterra.com/p/210774/ADAudit-Plus/)

Reasons for choosing Optial SmartStart

Optial Smartstart have a Risk assessment way So mostly choose this software.

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