Comparison · Light vs Finmatics
Light vs Finmatics
Finmatics is an AI accountant for the German and Austrian market: Fin, its digital employee, takes incoming documents, proposes accounts, tax rates and cost centres, and delivers finished booking entries into DATEV, BMD, RZL, Agenda, Business Central or SAP, for tax firms and companies alike. It does not replace DATEV; it connects to it. Light is the agentic ERP that is the ledger, with AP, AR, corporate cards, vendor payments on local rails in 80+ countries and consolidation in the same system.
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Light and Finmatics, compared
| Feature | Light | Finmatics |
|---|---|---|
| General ledger and accounting system of record | Yes | No |
| Document capture with AI coding | Yes | Yes |
| Approval workflows for incoming invoices | Yes | Yes |
| Financial statements (P&L, balance sheet) | Yes | No |
| Multi-entity consolidation and group reporting | Yes | No |
| Corporate and virtual cards issued from the ledger | Yes | No |
| Vendor payments on local rails in 80+ countries | Yes | No |
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The world's most demanding finance teams run on Light.
Work inside the accounting system
Finmatics codes documents and delivers booking entries into DATEV, BMD or SAP. Light's agents code, match and post inside its own ledger, under your finance team's controls.
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Bring the whole group together
Light holds each entity on the same ledger, with continuous consolidation and intercompany elimination. Group reporting uses the underlying accounting records.
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Go beyond document booking
Light includes invoicing, corporate cards, procurement and supplier payments on local rails in more than 80 countries. The work stays with the accounts.
When to choose Light
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Your finance team runs the books
You work directly in the ledger and see current figures any day, not at an advisor's handover.
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Agents do the routine work
They code, match and post inside the controls you set, with every action logged.
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One ledger for every entity
Add a company, a country or a currency without adding another system.
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Read customer stories-
“We evaluated several vendors. Light won because it covers our full finance stack, revenue, AR, AP, expenses, and consolidation, without stitching together a patchwork of point solutions.”
Tanja, Director of FinanceOmnea -
“Even though we’re three entities, it’s like I’m running a finance department for one entity.”
Thobias, Finance ManagerAlva Labs -
“I really like that Light’s AI already gives me suggestions, GL accounts, cost centers, tax codes. I don’t have to start from scratch.”
Cédric, Finance ManagerOper Credits -
“Nine times out of ten the AI matches everything and posts it to the right account. One click and you’re done.”
Jeppe, CFOKeyShot
Built for the daily work
Bills through to payment
Capture invoices, route approvals and pay vendors from the same system.
Room to grow
One ledger built to handle billions of transactions across your business.
Trace every number
Open a report and drill straight into the transactions behind it.
Spending, under control
Expenses, vendors and cards connected to your ledger.
Expenses
Collect receipts, approve expenses and track spend as it happens.
Vendors
Keep supplier details, bills and approvals together. Apply your purchasing rules as work moves through.
Cards
Issue cards for employees and vendors. Pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay. Send receipts through Slack, Teams or email.
Frequently asked questions
Is Finmatics a general ledger?
No. It codes documents and delivers finished booking entries into the accounting system you keep.
Does Light replace DATEV?
Light becomes the accounting system. It is a different choice from automating documents for a DATEV workflow you keep.
When does Finmatics fit?
When you want to keep DATEV, BMD or RZL and your existing process while reducing document work.
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