Accounting software and shop software solve different problems
A full accounting package exists to produce books — journals, ledgers, statutory reports, the things an accountant works with. Shop software exists to record what happens at a counter and in a godown. Most shops we speak to bought accounting software, used the billing and inventory parts, left the rest untouched, and had their CA do the books anyway. If that describes you, the question is not which is better but which one you are actually going to use.
Who is going to sit in front of it
This decides more than any feature. The person on your counter has usually kept a paper register for years. A screen built around accounting concepts, in English, with a chart of accounts behind it, is where that person stops and the register quietly comes back out. Software that is abandoned by the staff is not cheaper than software that is used, whatever it cost. Ours is in Hindi, built around a working day rather than a ledger structure, and most counter staff are billing unaided after one session.
Installed on a machine, or in the cloud
Installed software runs in a power cut and keeps your data on your own computer, which feels safer and is usually not. Your entire trading history sits on one machine at the counter, exposed to theft, a failed disk and ransomware, and backed up only when somebody remembers. You also cannot bill from a site, and a second branch means a second installation. We answer the power-cut objection with an Android app that bills offline and syncs afterwards, while the data itself stays backed up in the cloud.
What you keep and what you give up
You give up double-entry journals, depreciation schedules, cost centres and statutory payroll. Your CA does those from the sales, purchase, stock and GST summaries this produces. What you gain is a system your staff will actually use, billing from a site, a second branch on the same account, and a setup measured in half an hour rather than weeks. For most shops that is the right trade; for a business that genuinely keeps its own books in-house it is not.