The Tools in Detail
1. Pathway Solutions: The Automation Engine for E-Commerce and SaaS
For companies scaling via platforms like Shopify, Amazon, or Stripe, accounting is often a major hurdle. Thousands of individual transactions must be correctly recorded, assigned, and booked. This is where Pathway Solutions comes in. The software acts as intelligent middleware that connects directly to your sales platforms and payment providers.
Pathway prepares transaction data for tax compliance—including complex OSS checks for intra-European trade—and transfers it as ready-made booking records to DATEV. The manual reconciliation of payout reports with individual orders is completely eliminated.
- Your Advantage: You eliminate booking errors that inevitably occur during the manual processing of mass transactions.
- Key Highlight: The automated reconciliation of payout amounts with the corresponding orders saves your accounting team hours of manual work every week and ensures audit security.
2. finway: The Operating System for All Company Expenses
finway revolutionizes traditional expense management by uniting control and flexibility. The platform combines digital and physical corporate cards with a pre-approval process. Every expense—from software subscriptions to travel costs—is budgeted and approved before the money is spent.
Employees can request budgets, upload invoices, and submit expenses directly via the finway app. The finance team retains full control and transparency over all cost centers in real time. The software also automates the matching of orders, delivery notes, and invoices (3-way match), which significantly speeds up invoice verification.
- Your Advantage: You gain absolute transparency and proactive control over all corporate expenses.
- Key Highlight: finway is more than just a tool for expense reports. It is a holistic platform for the proactive management of the entire “purchase-to-pay” process.
3. Lexware Office: The Reliable Foundation for Your Accounting
As one of the market leaders for cloud accounting in Germany, Lexware Office remains an indispensable tool for SMEs in 2026. With the introduction of mandatory e-invoicing, GoBD-compliant and intuitive software has become a necessity. Lexware meets these requirements and offers seamless connectivity to almost all banks.
The platform is known for its user-friendly interface, which makes it easy for users without deep accounting knowledge to get started. The AI-supported document recognition is constantly improving, achieving high accuracy in the automatic assignment of invoices.
- Your Advantage: You ensure a legally secure and efficient basis for your entire financial accounting.
- Key Highlight: Intuitive operation and a high degree of automation make ongoing accounting a manageable process.
4. Tidely: The Future of Your Liquidity in Focus
Traditional business assessments look only into the past. In volatile markets, however, companies need a forward-looking approach. Tidely enables exactly that: dynamic and precise liquidity planning.
The tool connects with your bank accounts, accounting systems, and ERP solutions to analyze cash flow data in real time. You can simulate various scenarios (e.g., “What happens if a major customer pays late?”) and identify potential bottlenecks before they become a problem.
- Your Advantage: You make well-founded strategic decisions based on reliable cash flow forecasts.
- Key Highlight: The ability to play through scenarios gives you security and control over your company’s financial future.
5. Debtist: Receivables Management with Sensitivity
A stable cash flow depends on customers paying their invoices on time. Debtist automates and professionalizes receivables management. The software handles the entire process from the first friendly payment reminder to the handover to digital debt collection.
The focus is on customer-oriented communication. The goal is to clear open items quickly without straining the business relationship. AI-supported analyses help choose the optimal time and communication channel for each dunning level.
- Your Advantage: You reduce the number of overdue receivables and improve your cash conversion cycle.
- Key Highlight: Debtist maintains the balance between consistent dunning and preserving good customer relationships.
6. Vivid Money Business: More Than Just a Business Account
Why should your working capital sit idle in a checking account? Vivid Money Business challenges this status quo. It offers a modern business account linked with attractive financial benefits. Companies receive interest on their balances, which represents real added value in times of rising interest rates.
Furthermore, Vivid offers attractive cashback programs for typical business expenses such as marketing ads, software subscriptions, or travel. This allows SMEs to turn their expenses into direct financial returns.
- Your Advantage: You optimize your working capital and generate additional revenue from everyday business expenses.
- Key Highlight: The combination of interest and cashback turns the business account into an active financial instrument.
7. Ledgy: Manage Equity Professionally and Transparently
For growing startups and established SMEs wanting to retain talent through employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), managing shares is a complex task. Ledgy digitizes so-called “Cap Table Management.”
The platform creates a central, reliable source for all equity structures. It makes it easy for founders, investors, and employees to keep track of shares, vesting schedules, and potential exit scenarios. This creates transparency and trust, which are crucial for motivating and retaining key employees.
- Your Advantage: You professionalize your equity management and create transparency for all stakeholders.
- Key Highlight: Ledgy simplifies complex processes such as financing rounds, ESOP modeling, and reporting.
