Finance areas · Close & reconciliation
Bank lines match as they arrive, accruals and amortization post on schedule, and every exception is routed to an owner the moment it appears. By period-end, the work left is judgment — and the locked period carries its evidence.
Everything the close touches
01 / The lifecycle
Bank and payment-provider lines flow in on their own cadence — not gathered in a month-end scramble.
Each statement line is classified and matched to the transaction it settles — a direct, auditable link, not a side spreadsheet.
Unmatched lines, missing documents and unusual movements go to the right owner with context attached — the day they appear.
Cost accruals, prepaid amortization and recurring adjustments post as governed transactions through the period, not as month-end catch-up.
Open items, unposted drafts and unreconciled balances are surfaced as a worklist — what actually blocks the close, by entity.
Closing a period is a governed action: what was checked, who approved, and every underlying link preserved for audit.
Statement lines link directly to the transactions they settle — matching lives on the ledger, not in a spreadsheet.
02 / Coverage
Every statement line carries its status and its link to the ledger transaction it settles.
Card and PSP payouts matched through fees and refunds to their bank lines and invoices.
Cost accruals proposed and posted on schedule, reversed when the bill arrives.
Prepaid expenses and deferred items recognized period by period, automatically.
Every unmatched or unusual item becomes an owned task with context — nothing waits in an inbox.
Periods open, close and lock as governed actions — postings into closed periods are refused by the engine.
03 / Who does the work
Matching runs continuously in agents; the close itself is a procedure your team drives — with the worklist prepared.
Classifies bank and card lines, resolves the counterparty, posts the GL entry, matches the line, and delegates anything it can't resolve.
Lines it can't resolve inline are deferred and delegated (master data, configuration, or triage) rather than guessed. Human review answers drive the final posting, and confident patterns are remembered so identical lines post without review next time.
Matches payment transactions to invoices across AP and AR using a six-pass matching pipeline.
Processed Stripe payout and balance activity — now superseded by the Bank Transaction Processor, which owns card and connector processing.
Disabled in configuration. Its work is handled today by the Bank Transaction Processor — kept here for a complete, honest inventory.
Automated + manual payment-to-invoice matching
Not limited to four
Accountants describe the work to Claude in plain language — what starts it, what to check, when to ask a person. Claude turns it into an agent with its own triggers, steps and limits, running under the same controls and audit trail as the four above.
04 / Go deeper
Start with this workflow
Run reconciliation in shadow mode through one month-end — then compare the exception list and the days it took against your current close.
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