Natwest research shows that 1% growth in the UK’s mid-market segment may add £35bn in gross added value (GVA) by 2030. It’s clear, then, that implementing the best finance software is key to the scalability and success of mid-market companies. We explore seven key pillars of robust finance software.
The seven key pillars that finance software is built around are as follows:
- Integration
- Automation
- Real-time insights
- Support
- Accessibility
- Group accounting
- Compliance and security
For companies looking to upgrade their finance software and move from legacy or small-business systems, Xledger’s finance software is the number one mid-market choice. Built by accountants, for accountants, Xledger offers scalable software that helps future-proof your organisation.
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Integration
When true-cloud meets a unified design, three key areas of integration become available to customers: built-in native features, custom integrations, and self-serve integrations. Customers who integrate their business systems benefit from real-time data synchronisation across all areas of their organisation.
For example, when you update contact information in your Customer Relationship Manager (CRM tool), the same details are updated in Xledger, and the next invoice displays the correct information.
“Xledger integrates well with our existing systems, streamlining our processes and reducing manual data entry. This has not only minimised errors but also freed up our team to focus on other areas of the business […] I highly recommend Xledger to any organisation looking for a robust accounting solution.”
Native
Built-in features incur no additional expense for essential accounting modules, including budgeting and forecasting, project accounting, timesheets, and expenses, as well as dozens of other comprehensive modules. Our software connects to your bank using Open Banking, ensuring seamless bank reconciliation and data transfer on one screen.
Some of our other native integrations include:
- Pleo: Specialises in smart company credit cards for full visibility over company spending.
- Tessitura: Unifies ticket management and customer relationship management for streamlined financial data management.
- Salesforce: Supports customer relationship management and sales growth through automation and analytics.
Custom
Our in-house integration consultants build integrations that don’t exist on the market, and support organisations by maintaining these new integrations. Click here to read about our most recent custom-built integration with Tessitura.
Self-serve
Lastly, Xledger is supported by Zapier, an industry-leading technology partner that facilitates no-code integrations. Our in-house experts work with customers to scope requirements, guide implementation, and provide technical support that delivers efficient, effective, and valuable connections.

Integrations – A Roadmap to Unified Data
Our guide explores the challenges CFOs face when changing finance systems, with a focus on one of the most daunting steps—integrating accounting platforms with other business systems. Our integration experts share how to build a unified approach that enhances visibility, strengthens control, and ultimately improves your organisation’s financial health.
Automation
The collective term for automation in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is robotic process automation (RPA). This technology mimics human activity by performing repetitive tasks and calculating insights. Xledger’s RPA eliminates manual tasks and saves time so finance can analyse data rather than simply move it around.
“Time saving has gone from 1 day down to 30 minutes in order to process over 3000 payments. The difficulty we had before was uploading and checking all the payments on the banking BACS platform. Using Xledger to push the payments through means the information is not prone to human error on inputting figures. We have also added comfort from the checks embedded in Xledger on supplier payment information.”
Ultimately, manual data entry is time-consuming and demanding. As a result, organisations are left with burnt-out finance teams and delayed, error-prone data.
Xledger fixes these problems. Among the most automated accounting software on the market, the software creates efficient finance functions by streamlining dozens of workflows, including:
- Accounts payable and receivable
- Full invoicing and billing lifecycles
- Expenses & timesheets
- Bank reconciliation
- General ledger
- Group consolidation
- And many more.
By investing in highly automated finance software, our customers streamline key accounting processes, creating room for more meaningful data analysis and agile reporting capabilities.
Real-time insights
Not only does Xledger provide greater insights into the numbers in your organisation’s bank accounts or savings accounts, but it also offers complete financial oversight across departments, cost centres, projects, and individuals.
Our software empowers customers to become self-sufficient through self-serve dashboards tailored to their role. These can be configured with pre-defined information blocks, like donuts, Pareto charts, and tables, or more module-centric layouts that show key data, such as cash flow.
“The reporting functionality has been excellent. We can now report our month-end numbers in a matter of hours, where once it used to be days.”
Group accounting
Many of our customers have a wide reach, with entities spanning across borders and currencies, and benefit from Xledger’s specifically designed multi-entity software. Xledger consolidates the financial records of an organisation to ensure the parent company maintains visibility into individual entities and the company as a whole.
Our customers also ensure their intercompany business accounts remain balanced, regardless of the complexity or volume of their cross-entity transactions.
“Xledger enabled us to heal more children. Whereas before we were operating like ten independent hospitals, it enabled us to operate as a network with ten independent locations. Xledger transformed us. We want to double our surgical capacity over the next five years, and we believe Xledger is one of the crucial decisions we have made to make that a reality.”
Customers can set up rules at the group level that filter down to the whole structure. For example, the group’s finance function can set an authorisation rule limit across the whole structure to ensure the proper recording and approval of financial transactions. As a new entity is established, this rule is immediately applied, streamlining maintenance and system configuration.
Our software caters to businesses that need to:
- Generate consolidated financial reports
- Ensure financial accuracy across all entities
- Achieve complete compliance across all entities
- Customise consolidated dashboards to suit all entity needs
- Access all entities or enterprise levels with a single login

“The reporting functionality has been excellent. We can now report our month-end numbers in a matter of hours, where once it used to be days.”
Accessibility
Xledger is a true-cloud system, and our users only require a login, a device, and internet access to their account. In addition, our users benefit from a comprehensive mobile app. This ensures they have access to their personal finance software during stakeholder meetings or conferences.
“Because Xledger is cloud-based, we receive automatic releases and updates constantly, and I can really see the improvements in the product. I feel comfortable that I can put suggestions forward for changes and improvements, and sometimes they come through in the next release!”
With an on-the-go finance app, end-users can easily log expenses and claim mileage in the moment, rather than rushing to log multiple expenses at month-end. Likewise, budget holders can easily access their accounts while on business trips to see where they are spending money, empowering them to control costs and allocate spending appropriately.
Compliance and security
Compliance and security are arguably the most important features of any software: this is why Xledger places the utmost importance on up-to-date, compliant reporting and secure data storage for our customers.
Our customers can manage their finances knowing our software provides full, traceable audit trails and is ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials certified.
“We wanted a system that could adapt to strategic requirements in the future, could produce reports that would be useful to the rest of the business (not just finance), and we also wanted to improve data quality, especially for year-end. And what we have now with Xledger is yards ahead of what we had before.”
Taking the right step towards success
Choosing the best finance software for mid-market companies is a lengthy process, and digital transformation teams are wise to conduct exhaustive research with all their shortlisted vendors. As a mid-market finance software, Xledger caters to a wide range of businesses across not-for-profit and commercial sectors.
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