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QuickBooks is een boekhoudpakket voor bedrijven met één entiteit, maar ondersteunt geen multi-entity structuren. Vermijd handmatige reconciliatie en rapportages in spreadsheets; gebruik de native QuickBooks-import van Light om direct van start te gaan.
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Omzet die Tillo via Light beheert over 8 entiteiten
Tijdsbesparing bij de maandafsluiting van Tillo
Mensen in het finance-team dat Lovable opschaalt naar $500M omzet
| Light | QuickBooks | |
|---|---|---|
| Implementatie | Weeks, with a dedicated implementation team and account manager included | Self-serve |
| Architectuur | One AI-native ledger; consolidation posts as transactions happen | Single-entity ledger; consolidation happens in spreadsheets or add-ons |
| Agents | Agents complete work end to end inside your controls; every action logged and attributable | Intuit Assist, assistive |
| Configuratie | Astra learns from your data and suggests workflow and configuration changes to increase performance; applied in-product, no consultants | Self-serve but static; setup doesn't adapt to how you work |
| Abonnementenbeheer | Contract-based invoicing and deferred revenue automated | Recurring invoices only |
| Spend management | Corporate and virtual cards with Apple Pay and Google Pay, expense capture via Slack, Teams and email, native to the ledger | Add-ons; no native card issuing |
| Wereldwijde factuurbetalingen | AP and vendor payments executed on local rails in 80+ countries, from the ledger itself | US bill pay; international payments limited |
| Geavanceerde rapportage | Real-time multi-entity reporting with instant drill-down; no spreadsheet exports | Basic reports; group numbers assembled in spreadsheets |
| SaaS-metrics | ARR, MRR, NRR, churn and cohort metrics computed from the ledger and contracts, in real time | Not available; built in spreadsheets or a separate tool |
| Wereldwijde dekking | Local payment rails in 80+ countries; multi-entity, multi-currency by default | US-centred; one entity per file |
QuickBooks is where most companies start, and it is good at what it is for: one entity, one currency, one bookkeeper. The model breaks the day the second entity appears. Consolidation moves into spreadsheets, the add-on stack grows, and the system of record quietly becomes an Excel file named FINAL.
Light is what teams graduate to when that day comes: one ledger that treats multi-entity, multi-currency and approvals as defaults, with agents doing the daily work. Ocean.io replaced QuickBooks and e-conomic with Light, cut its close by 60%, and scaled to a second entity without adding finance headcount.
Moving off QuickBooks does not need a system integrator. Light's implementation team migrates the chart of accounts, balances and open items in weeks, with an account manager included, and the finance team runs the platform from the first close.
QuickBooks is one company per file; a group is several files and a spreadsheet. Light is one ledger where entities, currencies and books are dimensions: consolidation and intercompany eliminations post continuously, and any report spans the group by default, drillable to the entry.
The QuickBooks stack accretes add-ons: bill pay here, expense capture there, cards from a fintech, each syncing imperfectly. Light issues cards natively, captures receipts in Slack, Teams and email, executes vendor payments on local rails in 80+ countries, and posts all of it straight to the ledger.
Intuit Assist summarizes and suggests inside the old workflow. Light's agents complete the workflow: coding, matching, reconciling, chasing and posting inside approval thresholds, with every action logged. It is the difference between a smarter QuickBooks and a finance team that scales without hiring.
QuickBooks looks cheap until you price the add-on stack and the manual hours around it. Light consolidates the tools and moves the mechanical work to agents, which is why 4 people run finance at $500M-revenue Lovable.
QuickBooks hanteert één bedrijf per bestand. Zodra u consolideert in een spreadsheet, wordt de spreadsheet uw system of record. Ocean.io verving QuickBooks en e-conomic door Light en verkortte de maandafsluiting met 60%.
Facturen hier betalen, declaraties daar, en rapportage weer ergens anders. Light integreert crediteuren, uitgaven, kaarten en rapportage in één grootboek.
Wat QuickBooks niet doet, doet een mens. De agents van Light boeken, matchen, reconciliëren en sturen herinneringen, volledig binnen uw controls.
“We hebben meerdere leveranciers geëvalueerd. Light won omdat het onze volledige finance-stack, omzet, debiteuren, crediteuren, uitgaven en consolidatie dekt, zonder een lappendeken van losse oplossingen aan elkaar te hoeven knopen.”
TanjaDirector of Finance, Omnea
Leverage native products for AP, AR, Procurement and budgeting that seamlessly leverage AI and integrate to Slack and Teams.
Whether you are processing 100,000 or 50 million transactions, the Light Ledger is based on a hyper-performant database.
Stop the reporting headache of spreadsheets, and get fast, intuitive reports with instant drill-down capabilities.
Enjoy integrated products that both finance and the employees enjoy using.
Automate expense approvals, track spending in real-time, and gain insights with AI-powered analytics.
Streamline vendor relationships with simplified onboarding, tracking supplier performance, and enforcing procurement policies.
Issue vendor and employee cards with Apple Pay and Google Pay globally. Upload receipts via Slack, Teams or email.
De meest betrouwbare trigger is entiteit nummer 2, een tweede valuta, of een finance-team dat verdrinkt in add-ons en spreadsheets. Als consolidatie in Excel gebeurt, is de overstap eigenlijk al te laat.
Weken. Het team van Light migreert grootboekrekeningen, saldi en openstaande posten. De meeste teams draaien hun eerste maandafsluiting in Light nog in hetzelfde kwartaal als waarin ze tekenden.
Ja. Kaarten, declaraties, crediteurenbetalingen en inkoop zijn native geïntegreerd, waardoor de satelliet-tools rondom QuickBooks tegelijkertijd kunnen worden uitgefaseerd.
Light is gebouwd voor snelgroeiende multi-entity bedrijven. Een bedrijf met één entiteit dat tevreden is met QuickBooks heeft het misschien nog niet nodig; de match begint waar het model van QuickBooks ophoudt.