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A mid-market consumer brand in a highly regulated industry was running several brands across multiple entities — direct-to-consumer and wholesale — on a stack of tools that didn’t talk to each other. Their finance team had quietly become the integration layer. Here’s what changed when every system started feeding one set of books.
Time to live
Days, not months
Tools consolidated
6 point solutions
Reconciled
Money in & money out
Orders lived in one system. Bills in another. Payroll, fulfillment, and inventory each somewhere else — with spreadsheets and side databases patched in wherever two tools couldn’t connect. The general ledger sat at the end of the line, fed by manual journal entries and one-transaction-at-a-time reconciliation.
It worked, but only because people forced it to. Closing the books meant re-keying the same numbers by hand, every month, across systems that were never designed to agree.
The first time a unified picture comes together, it tends to surface details that manual reconciliation hides. A common one: how revenue is reported can quietly shift after an eCommerce platform migration — gross sales before discounts on one platform, net sales after discounts on the next. Each tool looks right on its own. The gap only shows up when the numbers finally sit side by side.
This is the difference between software that moves data around and software that reconciles it. Focal isn’t catching mistakes — it’s giving finance teams a complete view their previous tools were never built to produce.
Fewer systems. Less manual work. A close that no longer depends on someone stitching the numbers together by hand. The finance team is out of the integration business and back to actual finance — with a single source of truth that reconciles both sides of the money: what comes in from sales, and what goes out to vendors and payroll.
If your team spends more time reconciling data than analyzing it, there’s a better way to close the books.
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