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Incode vs Very Good Security

Incode logo

Incode

Government

Financial & HR Software for Government

From
$700/month
Free plan
No
Full reviewWebsite
Very Good Security logo

Very Good Security

Cybersecurity

Tokenisation proxy that keeps card and personal data out of your own systems and out of PCI scope

From
$1000/month
Free plan
No
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Incode incode is now sold as Tyler ERP Pro and tylertech.com/products/incode redirects to the ERP Pro product page; Very Good Security vGS sits in the live path of every request carrying sensitive data, so its latency and availability become yours, and an outage in the proxy is a payment outage no matter how healthy your own systems are.
  • They diverge on capability: Incode covers General Ledger, Very Good Security covers Aliasing proxy.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Incode and Very Good Security actually diverge.

Attributes where Incode and Very Good Security differ
AttributeIncodeVery Good Security
Starting price$700/month$1000/month
Pricing modelsubscriptionPer month
PlatformsWeb, DesktopWeb, API
CategoryGovernmentCybersecurity
Founded1966Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Incode

  • General Ledger
  • Accounts Payable
  • Payroll Management
  • Utility Billing
  • Budget Management
  • Bank Integrations
  • ADP
  • Third-party Payroll

Only in Very Good Security

  • Aliasing proxy
  • PCI scope reduction
  • Network tokenisation
  • Processor optionality
  • Card issuing data
  • Vault and access controls
  • Data residency options
  • Compliance artefacts

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Incode

  • Financial management and ERP for small and mid-sized local governmentsnot Very Good Security
  • Utility billing, payroll and human resources for city and county administrationnot Very Good Security
  • Court and public safety records for municipalitiesnot Very Good Security

Very Good Security

  • A marketplace facing its first PCI DSS Level 1 assessment that wants to keep card data off its own estate rather than harden a dozen servicesnot Incode
  • A merchant negotiating with a second acquirer that needs card credentials portable so the negotiation is real rather than theoreticalnot Incode
  • A fintech collecting bank account and identity documents that wants sensitive fields absent from logs, backups and analytics warehouses by constructionnot Incode
  • A card issuer that must display a full PAN in its own mobile app without the app or its backend touching cardholder datanot Incode

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Incode

  • Incode is now sold as Tyler ERP Pro and tylertech.com/products/incode redirects to the ERP Pro product page
  • No pricing is published; Tyler routes all enquiries through contact and demo requests with no published rate, minimum or cost driver
  • The product is sold only to public sector organisations

Very Good Security

  • VGS sits in the live path of every request carrying sensitive data, so its latency and availability become yours, and an outage in the proxy is a payment outage no matter how healthy your own systems are.
  • Token portability is the whole selling point yet leaving VGS means migrating tokens back out, a project the vendor has no incentive to streamline, so the lock-in you removed from your acquirer partly moves to VGS.
  • Entry pricing at around one thousand US dollars a month is real money for a pre-revenue fintech, and it buys volume-limited throughput, so cost scales with exactly the growth that made you buy it.
  • Scope reduction is not scope elimination: your QSA still assesses how you integrate, and teams regularly discover that a support tool or an internal admin screen pulled plaintext back in and dragged systems into scope again.
  • Proxy-based interception constrains how you design request flows, and non-standard payloads, streaming uploads or binary formats often need custom routing rules that make debugging production issues noticeably harder.

Pricing, plan by plan

Incode

$700/month
  • Municipal Suite$700/month
    • Financial Management
    • HR/Payroll
    • Utility Billing

Very Good Security

$1000/month
  • Starter$1000/month
    • Aliasing proxy
    • Vault storage
    • PCI scope reduction
  • Growth$undefined/month
    • Network tokenisation
    • Multiple processors
    • Data residency options
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Custom vault architecture
    • Dedicated support and SLA
    • Contractual compliance coverage

Which should you pick?

Choose Incode if

  • You need general ledger.
  • You work on Web, Desktop.
  • You also want accounts payable.
Incode review

Choose Very Good Security if

  • You need aliasing proxy.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want pci scope reduction.
Very Good Security review

Questions people ask

Is Incode or Very Good Security better?
Neither clearly leads. Incode starts at $700/month and Very Good Security at $1000/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Incode or Very Good Security?
Incode starts at $700/month and Very Good Security at $1000/month.
Does Incode or Very Good Security run on more platforms?
Incode runs on Web, Desktop. Very Good Security runs on Web, API.
What is Incode best used for?
Incode is most often used for financial management and erp for small and mid-sized local governments, utility billing, payroll and human resources for city and county administration, court and public safety records for municipalities. Of those, financial management and erp for small and mid-sized local governments and utility billing, payroll and human resources for city and county administration are not what Very Good Security is typically brought in for.
What can Incode do that Very Good Security cannot?
Incode covers General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Payroll Management, Utility Billing. Very Good Security covers Aliasing proxy, PCI scope reduction, Network tokenisation, Processor optionality.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Very Good Security: Does VGS make me PCI compliant?

No. It removes cardholder data from your systems so your assessment covers a far smaller boundary, but you still complete an assessment and your integration is part of it.

Very Good Security: Can I move to another processor without re-collecting cards?

Yes, that is a core reason people buy it. The vault reveals stored credentials to whichever processor you route to.

Very Good Security: What does it cost?

Published entry pricing is about one thousand US dollars per month; growth and enterprise tiers are quoted.

Very Good Security: Is it only for card data?

No. The proxy handles any sensitive field, including bank details, national identifiers and documents, though payments is where the product is now focused.

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