Keep your GL. Lose the month-end scramble.
The operation keeps track of itself as it runs. Warnings surface while there's still time to fix them, the period locks, and invoices post to the books you already keep.
Finance shouldn't be the last to know
The floor moves steel all day. The books find out at month-end.
The operation runs in one system and the books live in another. Someone types the same numbers twice, and the two never quite agree.
The close starts a hunt: costs that never landed on material, services nobody billed, an invoice that doesn't match its receipt. The period's problems surface weeks after the period ended.
A January transaction gets edited in March, and the statements you already sent are quietly wrong. Without a lock, history is always up for revision.
Freight gets spread across the month. Processing sits in overhead. Margin reports read from averages, so nobody can say what any one order actually made.
This is what Fion fixes before the books close.
The period, at a glance.
The dashboard reads straight from the operation: what sold, what was bought, what production released, in the period you're looking at. Nobody re-keys a number to build it, because the system that ran the work is the system keeping track.
- Sales, purchases, and production in one view
- Numbers come from the transactions themselves
- Pick the period, see its activity
Catch it before you close.
The overview report surfaces what's wrong while the period is still open: costs that haven't landed on material, vouchers still waiting on an invoice, services nobody billed, a purchase price above the past average. Work the list all month and month-end stops being an investigation.
- Warnings surface while there's time to fix them
- Open vouchers and unbilled services on one list
- Purchase costs flagged when they run above past average
Clear the list. Lock the month.
When the warnings hit zero, close the period. A locked period is read-only: nothing posts into it, nothing gets edited after the fact, and the statements you sent stay exactly as you sent them.
- Close a prior period to lock it
- Nothing posts into a closed month
- History stays put
Nothing posts into a locked month. The statements you sent stay exactly as you sent them.
Keep your accounting system. Fion feeds it.
Invoices generate as a batch, you look the batch over, and it posts straight to your accounting system. Reviewed, then posted, on your schedule. Your accountant keeps the GL they know.
- Batch invoice posting to your accounting system
- Review the batch before it posts
- No rip-and-replace, no new GL to learn
NetSuite
Every number traces to a piece.
Every piece in stock carries what it actually cost: purchase, freight, processing. So inventory value is real, priced as of any date you ask for, and margin reports read from the pieces that shipped, not a blended average. When a number looks off, drill to the material and see every dollar that built it.
- Inventory value as of any date
- Margin from each piece's actual cost
- Drill from the report to the piece
Month-end with Fion vs. without
- Books built from re-keyed numbers
- Problems found weeks after the close
- Backdated edits rewrite history
- Margin figured from blended averages
- A new GL forced on your accountant
- The operation keeps track of itself
- Warnings surface while the period is open
- Locked periods are read-only
- Margin from each piece's actual cost
- Invoices post to the GL you already keep
Common questions about accounting in Fion
Does Fion replace our accounting system?
No. Fion runs the operation and feeds your books: invoices post in batches to the accounting system you already keep, including QuickBooks, Dynamics, NetSuite, and Sage.
What exactly posts to our books?
Batched customer invoices. You generate the batch, look it over, and post it. AP vouchering runs inside Fion as your control layer and doesn't post to the GL.
Can we lock a closed period?
Yes. Close a prior period and it locks: nothing posts into it and nothing gets edited after the fact, so the statements you sent stay as you sent them.
Can we value inventory as of a past date?
Yes. Inventory value reads as of any date you ask for, built from each piece's actual cost rather than an average.
What are period close warnings?
The overview report surfaces what needs fixing while the period is still open: costs not yet landed on material, open vouchers, unbilled services, and purchase cost anomalies.
See a close with nothing hiding in it
Walk through the warnings, the period lock, and posting to your own accounting system. Bring your accountant.