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Close the books faster

Make month end a review of work already done.

Month end takes a week when reconciliation, supplier invoices and missing receipts are all left for the last few days. We move that work into the month: invoices read as they arrive, bank lines matched daily, and receipts chased while people still remember the purchase.

For finance leads and owners whose month end depends on one person and a pile of unmatched transactions.

QuickBooks

Before and after

What changes in a normal week.

Today

  • Supplier invoices sit in an inbox until the last week of the month.
  • Bank lines for the whole month are matched by hand in one sitting.
  • Receipts are chased from staff weeks after the card was used.
  • Management accounts arrive halfway through the following month.

After the build

  • Supplier invoices are read when they arrive and posted as drafts with the PO matched.
  • Bank lines are matched each day, and the unmatched ones are listed for review.
  • Staff get a message about a missing receipt within a day of the card payment.
  • Month end is a review of exceptions, and the reports are built from the closed ledger.

What we build

The systems behind the change.

Built in your accounts, at a fixed price agreed after the audit. Builds start at $1,500.

  • Supplier invoice intake

    Invoices read from email, matched to purchase orders and posted as drafts in your accounting system for approval.

  • Daily reconciliation

    Bank and gateway transactions matched to invoices and bills by rule, with a review queue for the rest.

    QuickBooks
  • Receipt chasing

    A message to the card holder when a transaction has no receipt, with a link to upload a photo of it.

  • Month-end pack

    Management reports generated from the ledger once the period is closed.

    Google Sheets

How it starts

Three steps, each with a price.

  1. 01Discovery call

    Thirty minutes on the work your team does by hand. Free, and you leave with a yes or no on fit.

  2. 02Automation Audit, $500

    One to two weeks with the people who do the work. Each fix gets hours saved and a fixed price. Credited to the build.

  3. 03Build, from $1,500

    Two-week sprints in your accounts, then 60 days of hypercare by the same engineers.

Questions

What people ask first.

Will our accountant be comfortable with this?

Matching follows rules your accountant agrees, and drafts can wait for their approval before posting. They keep full access to the ledger and to the log of what was matched and why.

What about the transactions that do not match?

They go to a review list with the closest candidates shown. In the first weeks that list is long, and it shrinks as we add rules for the patterns we see.

Is our financial data safe with you?

Everything is built in your own accounts with the access you grant, and we document which people and which workflows can read the ledger.

Close the books faster

Bring one process your team still runs by hand.

On a discovery call we look at how it runs today and tell you what it would take to change it, with a price. The call is free.

Book a discovery call
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A discovery call with the people who own the process.

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