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19 capabilities, and what each one will not do

Everything below is in the product today. Where something needs another part switched on first, or does less than its name suggests, that's on the card too, so you can rule it in or out now rather than after you've moved your books across.

Sales and documents

Everything between a customer asking what it costs and the money arriving.

Quotes, invoices and credit notes

Raise a quote, turn the accepted one into an order or an invoice without retyping a line, and fix mistakes the way an auditor expects.

  • Quote → order confirmation → invoice, carrying lines and prices across
  • Credit and debit notes, so the original document stays intact
  • Your own layout, in your customer’s language, as PDF or e-invoice
  • Recurring invoices that raise and send themselves on your schedule
  • Payment reminders escalating through as many stages as you define
  • Purchase documents from suppliers on the same footing as your sales

Good to know - Finalizing only goes one way. An invoice you can still edit isn’t really an invoice, so corrections are credit notes, and that is what keeps your numbering sequential and defensible.

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Customers and suppliers

One record per company, holding every address, contact, agreed price and document you’ve exchanged.

  • One record can be a customer, a supplier, or both
  • As many addresses as a company has - billing, delivery, sites
  • The people behind the company: role, reporting line, how to reach them
  • Defaults that apply themselves - payment terms, price list, currency, language, tax treatment
  • Agreed prices, so a contract customer is never quoted list price
  • The full timeline of what you have exchanged, in one place

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Product catalog

The catalog underneath both invoicing and stock, priced and categorized once instead of retyped.

  • Hierarchical categories, product groups and catalogs
  • Price lists per customer, currency or agreement
  • Units, tax codes, ledger accounts and suppliers set per product
  • Multi-language names and descriptions for documents and the portal
  • Images and attachments on the product record
  • Automatic or manual product numbering from your own sequence

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Getting paid

Payments recorded against the documents they settle, allocated properly rather than ticked as “paid”.

  • One payment split across several invoices, or a part payment against one
  • Unapplied balances stay visible instead of vanishing into a rounding difference
  • Payments matched automatically when you import your bank statement
  • Payment links on invoices through Mollie, PayPal or a UPI QR code
  • Days sales outstanding tracked per payment, so aging is measured rather than guessed

Good to know - A document’s paid figure is always worked out from its allocations, never stored as a flag, which is why the invoice list and the books can’t disagree.

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Accounting and reporting

The books underneath it all, written as you work rather than caught up at quarter end.

Double-entry bookkeeping

Real double-entry accounting that posts itself from the documents you were raising anyway.

  • A standard chart of accounts for your country, or your own
  • Journals posted automatically from invoices, purchases, payments and stock movements
  • Bank statement import, with matching against outstanding invoices
  • Manual journals for what software cannot know - accruals, corrections, opening balances
  • Reversals rather than edits, so the audit trail survives
  • Tax return figures for your regime, with every box traceable to what produced it

Good to know - There’s no “enable accounting” step and no accounting tier. Every plan posts real double-entry journals, because books that are only correct on the expensive plan aren’t correct.

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Reports and dashboards

The standard statements, plus the operational reports you’ll actually open on a Monday.

  • Trial balance, profit and loss, balance sheet, aged receivables
  • Invoice, quote, order and procurement reports with drill-down
  • Revenue and cost by category, top customers and top suppliers
  • Dashboard tiles you can reorder and hide, remembered per user
  • Export to CSV, XLSX or PDF on most reports, and any chart as an image
  • Date filters from “today” to an arbitrary range, applied the same way everywhere

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Platform

The parts every other module leans on.

Several companies, one login

One person, one set of credentials, and a different set of roles in every company they belong to.

  • Belong to as many companies as you need, and switch between them
  • Roles granted per company, not globally - an admin in one is a viewer in another
  • Invite people, or let them request access and approve it
  • Accounting firms manage a roster of client companies from one console
  • Over sixty granular permissions, so “read the ledger” and “post to it” are separate rights

Good to know - Company data is separated at the point every query is made, not by remembering to filter. Everything you read is scoped to the company you’re acting as, and asking for one you’re not a member of simply returns nothing of theirs.

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Accounts and access

The sign-in a finance system should have, without a security add-on to buy.

  • Two-factor authentication with any authenticator app
  • API keys for your own scripts and tooling
  • Login history - when, from where, and by which method
  • Password reset and account deletion as documented workflows, not support tickets

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Extensions and connectors

Capabilities and external services on one list, switched on per company under Settings → Extensions.

  • E-commerce: WooCommerce and Bol.com
  • CRM and project tools: HubSpot both ways, Salesforce and Jira inbound
  • Banking and e-invoicing: Ponto bank feeds, Peppol, e-Boekhouden
  • Payments: Mollie, PayPal and UPI payment links
  • Calendar and mail: Google and Microsoft calendars, Outlook, Gmail
  • Storage: Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive
  • Lookups: VAT number and chamber-of-commerce checks

Good to know - Switching an extension off removes it completely: its menus, its screens and its API. Nothing you’ve turned off keeps running quietly in the background.

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Around the documents

The contact history and the outbound mail that sit either side of a sale.

  • Log calls, meetings, emails, SMS, WhatsApp and LinkedIn against a company or a person
  • Notes that attach to anything - an invoice, a project, a product
  • Mailing lists with segmentation, subscription status and unsubscribe handling
  • Campaigns composed against your own email designs and footers, sent now or scheduled
  • Raise a support ticket with us from inside the product, with priority and impact

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Optional

Switch on what you need

These all start off. A company that holds no stock never sees a warehouse menu, and an extension you’ve turned off is gone rather than greyed out.

Stock and warehouses

What’s on hand at each location, moved between them, and counted without stopping the business.

  • As many warehouses as you have locations, one of them the default
  • On hand, reserved and available shown per location
  • Transfers as a two-step send and receive, so goods in transit are not counted as arrived
  • Stock counts over a whole warehouse or a slice, with variances calculated as you type
  • Count adjustments posted to your accounts automatically
  • A complete movement history: what moved, when, why, and which document caused it

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Projects and timesheets

The whole story for a business that sells time: budget it, track it, get it approved, invoice it.

  • Time and materials, fixed fee or non-billable, per project
  • Budgets in hours or money, per project, task or person, with over-budget alerts
  • Time entry by day, week or month, with a running timer
  • Two-stage approval before anything reaches an invoice
  • Invoicing by project hour, task hour, person hour or line detail
  • Worklogs imported from Jira where the time is already tracked

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People and payroll

An employee register built on the people records you already have, so nobody gets typed in twice.

  • Departments as a real org tree rather than a free-text field
  • Employees created from an existing contact, never retyped
  • Leave requests against defined balances and public holidays
  • Expense claims with receipts, reimbursed through a posted journal
  • Payroll from contract to payslip PDF to a balanced journal to the payment

Good to know - HR arrives on the same switch as projects and timesheets. It’s one extension, not a second purchase.

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Sales pipeline

Leads before they are customers, and deals on a board that forecasts their worth.

  • Leads kept out of the customer list until they convert, so customer counts stay true
  • Conversion that links an existing account rather than duplicating it, and tells you it did
  • Opportunities on a Kanban board with your own stages
  • Weighted forecasting from each stage’s probability
  • Capture leads straight from your own website with a paste-in form
  • Win and lose with reasons, and the history of every stage change
  • Forecast by month on weighted, committed and best-case value

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Goods receipts

Book stock in when it physically arrives, rather than when the supplier gets round to invoicing you.

  • Receive against a purchase order line by line, with ordered, received and remaining shown
  • Choose the warehouse the goods land in
  • Stock arrives at the receipt, so the later purchase invoice does not move it again

Good to know - Named for exactly what it does: goods receipt against a purchase order. It’s the groundwork for three-way matching rather than three-way matching itself, and it needs stock switched on first.

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Budgets and cost centers

An analytical dimension on the ledger, and budgets to compare the actuals against.

  • A cost-center tree of departments, product lines, regions or sites
  • Journal lines optionally tagged with a cost center
  • Budgets per fiscal year, by account, period and cost center
  • Approve and lock a budget so it stops moving
  • Budget versus actual, with variance and variance percentage

Good to know - The cost center is a pure tag. It never changes an amount or which side of the ledger a line falls on, so switching it on can’t move any figure you already have.

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Fixed assets

Register assets, depreciate them on a schedule that posts itself, and hand your auditor the movement schedule.

  • Straight-line, declining-balance or sum-of-years depreciation
  • The full period-by-period schedule generated when you activate an asset
  • Depreciation posted automatically and idempotently - a period posts at most once
  • Revaluation and impairment, each to the accounts you nominate
  • Disposal with the gain or loss entry made correctly
  • Posting accounts picked from your own chart of accounts - nothing hard-coded

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Manufacturing

Versioned bills of materials driving work orders, with work in progress properly accounted for.

  • Bills of materials with versions, output quantity, component lines and scrap
  • Routings: the ordered operations and their standard hours
  • Work centers carrying a cost per hour and an overhead percentage
  • Work orders that release, consume, record labour and receive finished goods
  • Material, labour and overhead into WIP; finished goods out at actual cost
  • The residual settled to production variance on close, so a closed order leaves WIP at zero

Good to know - Needs stock switched on first, because components and finished goods move through the same single stock path as everything else.

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B2B portal

A storefront your trade customers order from, where an order becomes a real document.

  • One store or several, each with its own name, address, language and currency
  • Your catalog, your design, your carousel and menu
  • Customers order against their own account and delivery addresses
  • Orders generate the documents you nominate - an invoice, a packing note, or both
  • Your own shipping, refund, privacy and subscription policy text

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Read it before you buy it

The user guide is public and always has been. It is written to answer your question, not to sell you the answer.