MN Program has been in Spanish law firms for decades for good reasons: real procedural depth, integrated tax accounting with official forms and coverage of the regional justice systems. If your firm lives on those three fronts, it's hard software to replace — and we won't pretend otherwise.
Mandato plays a different game: the firm that works in two languages, wants AI in the workflow — not in a separate module — and prefers software the team enjoys using. The table below says it plainly.
| Capability | Mandato | MN Program |
|---|---|---|
| Modern UX | ✓ | — |
| AI embedded in every workflow | ✓ | — |
| Bilingual ES/EN | ✓ | — |
| VeriFactu compliance | ◐chained records and QR; AEAT submission in approval | — |
| WhatsApp Business | ✓ | — |
| Client portal | ✓ | — |
| Transparent pricing | ✓ | — |
| Accounting depth and tax forms | ◐exports to Holded | ✓ |
| Regional systems (Avantius, eJusticia.cat) | —on the roadmap | ✓ |
| Working-day deadline calculation | ◐via LexNET | ✓ |
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AI inside the workflow, not in a separate module
Almost every legal product now says it has AI. In most cases that means one more tab: a chat box you paste text into, ask for a summary, and copy the answer back into the matter. It is useful once and abandoned by the third week, because it makes you leave the work in order to do the work.
In Mandato, AI is not a place you go. What enters a matter is read on arrival: an uploaded contract is summarised and its parties, dates and figures extracted; a court notification lands with the deadline already calculated; a pleading is drafted on the firm's own template with the matter's data already in it. The lawyer corrects, which is what a lawyer is for.
And there is no single generic model behind all of it: three providers chosen per task — Claude for document analysis and drafting, ChatGPT for meeting summaries and inline suggestions, and Mistral, European, for processing that must not leave the Union. It is a product decision, and it is published.
Two languages, not a translated interface
A product's bilingualism is measured where the client sees it, not in the menu. An interface can be translated in an afternoon. What cannot be translated in an afternoon is an engagement letter, a deposit contract or a pleading a Spanish lawyer will sign without rewriting — still less its English version, which a Norwegian or German buyer has to understand before signing it.
Mandato was built inside a firm serving clients of more than twenty nationalities, which is why both languages sit in the three layers that matter: the product the team uses, the templates that get signed, and the portal the client looks at. The templates are written in Spanish and in English by lawyers, not run through a translator.
For a firm practising in Spain with Spanish clients, this is worth nothing, and it should be said plainly. For one working on the coast, running immigration files or handling conveyancing for foreign buyers, it is half the client relationship.
The price, before you call
Mandato publishes what it costs: Starter at €29 per user per month, Professional at €49 and Despacho at €89, which on annual billing come down to €24, €39 and €74. WhatsApp and AI arrive with Professional; VeriFactu-ready invoicing with Despacho. Fourteen days free, no card, no lock-in.
It isn't only transparency. It is the difference between being able to compare and having to book a call to be told a number. A three-person firm that wants to know whether this fits can find out in a minute, without handing over a phone number and without a sales call in between.
Where MN Program wins
Two rows of the table go against us, and they deserve saying in full. The first is accounting. MN Program keeps it inside, with the official tax forms, and a firm that files its own 111, 115, 130 or 303 without leaving the program has a solid reason to stay there. Mandato invoices from the matter, with chained records and a QR, and exports to Holded — but the books live in Holded, not in Mandato. If your accountant sits inside your firm, that is a change of process, not a detail.
The second is the regional court systems. A firm litigating daily in Aragón, Navarra or Catalonia works with Avantius or eJusticia.cat, and there MN Program has coverage Mandato does not have today. It is on the roadmap, and a roadmap is not an integration. If that is your working day, this comparison ends on this line.
What is settled is LexNET: notifications enter the matter by proceeding number, the deadline is calculated over working days and appears in the calendar, and submissions are filed from the matter itself. For a firm litigating in the state system, that part is not a gap.
Your firm is pure litigation, keeps its tax accounting in-house — official forms included — and works daily with regional systems like Avantius or eJusticia.cat.
You want AI in every workflow, you serve clients in English, you need invoicing that's ready for VeriFactu with Holded export — and you prefer software your team enjoys using.
We import your matters — no pain, no Excel in between.
Clients, matters and documents migrate as part of onboarding, at no extra cost.