Si-Accounting
A real general ledger, posted by the floor.
AR, AP, bank feeds, receipt capture and month-end close — where the labour hour that posts to the job is the same hour the machinist clocked, not a number typed in later from payroll.
The pain
The books are right. They are just late, and they are somewhere else.
Two systems, one of which knows what you sold and the other what it cost, reconciled by a person with a spreadsheet.
You find out in arrears
The job closed three weeks ago. Whether it made money is a question for month end.
Labour arrives as payroll
A total for the week, not an hour against an operation. So job cost is an allocation, not a fact.
Two sets of numbers
The shop system says one thing, the accounting package says another, and reconciling them is somebody’s Friday.
How it works
One database, so there is nothing to reconcile.
A real ledger
Chart of accounts, journals, AR, AP, bank feeds, receipt capture, sales tax and a month-end close. Not a reporting layer over a shop system.
Posted as it happens
The clock-on at the machine is the labour posting. The packing slip is the revenue recognition. The PO receipt is the payable.
Margin while it matters
Job cost is live, so a job going wrong is visible on Tuesday rather than at close.
The difference
Every accounting package stops at payroll.
Look at how job costing is sold everywhere else: labour reaches the ledger as a payroll figure, and job costing is an add-on, an integration or a report that runs after the fact.
Here the clocked operation is the posting. Op 30 on RFQ-2026-0188 ran 0.39 hours a piece against 0.32 quoted, and that variance is in the ledger as cost on that job while the job is still on the floor — not inferred at month end from a timesheet total.
That is the difference between knowing your margin and calculating it.
Switching
The part of this that everybody avoids talking about.
No accounting vendor describes migration on the page. They send you to a comparison article instead.
Your chart of accounts, customers, suppliers, open AR and open AP come across from what you are on now, and you approve every mapping before anything posts. You can run the two in parallel for a period and compare. Your accountant gets access, and your data exports whenever you want it.
Straight answers
Questions people ask about Si-Accounting.
Is this a real general ledger, or job costing with an accounting label?
A real double-entry general ledger: chart of accounts, journal entries, AR, AP, bank reconciliation, sales tax and a month-end close, with an audit trail on every posting. The difference from a standalone package is where the postings come from.
Does it replace QuickBooks?
Yes. That is the intent — one system rather than a shop system plus a books system plus the spreadsheet that reconciles them.
How does labour get into the ledger?
From the clock at the machine. The operation a machinist clocks is the labour posting against that job, at that employee’s burdened rate. There is no separate timesheet to key and no payroll total to allocate afterwards.
Can my accountant get in?
Yes, with their own access. They see the ledger, the trial balance and the backup for every posting, and they can export whatever they need.
What about month-end close?
Because postings happen as the work happens, close is a review rather than a reconstruction. Accruals, adjustments and period locks all work the way your accountant expects.
Can I get my data out?
Yes, at any time. The ledger exports in standard formats and the detail behind every figure comes with it.
Bring a closed job and your books.
Thirty minutes on a shop set up like yours. We will run a job from RFQ to posted invoice and show where every figure came from.