Consolidation.app

Consolidation.app is a web workspace for coordinating group reporting across entities. It is best suited to finance teams that want a visible, reviewer-led path from entity packages to a reporting package. Its public preview demonstrates the workflow, not a live close or finished financial statements.

Overview

The product organizes group reporting as a sequence of collection, account mapping, intercompany matching, explanations, proposed eliminations, and approvals. That structure makes responsibility and unresolved issues part of the process, rather than treating consolidation as an opaque calculation. Its strongest case is for teams that value documented human decisions; it is not a substitute for a production close system on the strength of the public preview.

Entity packages can carry a period, currency, source ledger, owner, and validation status. Those fields give reviewers useful context about what has arrived and who is responsible. Mappings relate local accounts and dimensions to the group chart, with ownership visible. This should help teams coordinate setup and review, though the preview does not establish how the workflow performs with live customer data.

Key features

Intercompany review

Receivable and payable positions are paired using entity, counterparty, currency, document, and period. That level of matching context can help reviewers investigate differences across counterparties and periods. The workflow also supports explanations and proposed eliminations, but the product does not itself validate accounting conclusions or post entries in the public preview.

Governance and approvals

Reviewer decisions and open limitations remain visible, and group output is held until accountable reviewers resolve exceptions and accept the reporting package. People are assigned responsibility for confirming source completeness, resolving policy choices, evaluating explanations, and approving postings and close. This is a meaningful control-oriented design for teams that need explicit sign-off; it also means the process depends on human review rather than automated assurance.

Security and operating scope

The security architecture describes statically generated public surfaces, same-origin server-function authentication, Secure HttpOnly session cookies, and organization-scoped data protected by PostgreSQL Row Level Security and membership checks. These are concrete architectural measures, not a certification, penetration-test attestation, compliance guarantee, or customer-specific security review. Enterprise controls, recovery objectives, incident terms, and production-data scope require a signed agreement. Registration, address, governing-law, and contracting details must also be confirmed in signed commercial documents before enterprise contracting.

The public preview is illustrative: it does not operate a live close, post entries, validate accounting conclusions, or produce financial statements. Teams should not treat its demonstrations as evidence of a live implementation or guaranteed outcome.

Pricing

Consolidation.app is paid, with custom pricing. That makes it difficult to assess budget fit before discussing scope, and the product is not a no-cost option for teams looking to evaluate a complete production deployment independently. Enterprise controls and production-data scope also depend on a signed agreement, so buyers should settle those terms alongside pricing before committing.

Platforms

Consolidation.app is available on the web. No other platform is part of its stated offering, so teams that need a broader set of device or deployment options should compare alternatives before choosing it.

Who it's for

It is most relevant to finance teams coordinating multiple entities that want clear ownership of incoming packages, mappings, intercompany review, exceptions, and approvals. It is a poor fit for organizations that need the public preview itself to run a live close, post accounting entries, validate conclusions, or generate financial statements. Buyers considering production use should confirm security, recovery, incident, and data-scope terms in the commercial agreement.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Package ownership, validation status, and mapping ownership make important responsibilities visible to reviewers.
• Pro: Intercompany matching uses entity, counterparty, currency, document, and period, giving teams specific context for investigating mismatches.
• Pro: Open limitations and reviewer decisions remain visible, while output waits for exceptions and package acceptance.
• Con: The public preview is illustrative and cannot run a live close, post entries, or produce financial statements.
• Con: Security claims do not amount to certification or a customer-specific review, and key enterprise controls depend on a signed agreement.
• Con: Custom pricing offers no published entry price for budget screening.

Alternatives

Financial Consolidation Software is the broader category to browse when comparing group-reporting tools. Choose Konsolidat instead if a free, self-hosted or API-accessible option matters: its self-hosted plan is free, open source, self-operated, with no per-user fees and community support. OneStream is a paid platform spanning web, mobile, Windows, API, and self-hosted access, with pricing discussed through a demo. AARO CPM is another paid option, with pricing on request and a demo offered; it can be deployed immediately or customized.

IDL Konsis is a paid web and Windows option with price available by request and a demo offered. Emfino may suit buyers who want user and legal-entity add-ons priced by monthly increments; its additional 50 users cost €100 a month and 10 additional legal entities cost €200 a month. Farseer is a paid web and API enterprise FP&A platform, with pricing handled through a demo or custom discussion. NDC Financial Consolidation offers standalone or SAP Analytics Cloud extension deployment, in cloud or on-premise form. Planful is a paid web and API option whose subscription is tailored to company size, user count, and selected modules.

Verdict

Choose Consolidation.app if your finance team wants a structured, human-reviewed group-reporting workflow with visible ownership, exceptions, and approvals, and is prepared to confirm commercial and enterprise terms before production use. Its central advantage is governance woven into the close sequence. Look elsewhere if you need a proven live close or financial statement production from the public preview, or if you need a published price before engaging with the vendor.