Consolidation.app

Consolidation.app is a web workspace for coordinating group reporting across entities. It suits finance teams that want ownership, review decisions, and exceptions carried through a close workflow. Its value is the governed process; the public preview is not a production accounting system.

Overview

The workflow runs from collecting entity packages to mapping local accounts and dimensions, matching intercompany positions, explaining differences, proposing eliminations, and recording approvals. A package can include its period, currency, source ledger, owner, and validation status, giving reviewers a consistent context for deciding whether information is ready.

That structure is most useful when several entities and reviewers must coordinate policy choices and unresolved issues. The workflow keeps reviewer decisions and open limitations visible, then holds group output until accountable reviewers resolve exceptions and accept the reporting package. It is a process-control strength, but it does not by itself establish accounting conclusions or a completed close.

Key features

Entity packages and mappings

Visible ownership and validation status make responsibility explicit instead of leaving collection and readiness in informal correspondence. Relating local accounts and dimensions to a group chart, with mapping ownership shown, gives teams a defined place to manage one of the more error-prone parts of consolidation.

Intercompany and eliminations

Receivable and payable positions are paired by entity, counterparty, currency, document, and period. Those fields give reviewers useful axes for investigating mismatches. The workflow can propose intercompany eliminations, while human reviewers evaluate explanations and approve postings and close decisions.

Governance and audit trail

Reviewer decisions, open limitations, and approvals remain part of the close record. The product assigns people responsibility for source completeness, policy choices, explanations, and approval, and includes an audit trail. This is a good fit for organizations that need an accountable review path rather than an unattended calculation.

Preview boundaries and security

The public preview does not post entries, operate a live close, validate accounting conclusions, or produce financial statements. Its workflows and records are illustrative and do not establish a live customer implementation or professional conclusion. Public surfaces are statically generated; authentication uses same-origin server functions, Secure HttpOnly session cookies, and organization-scoped PostgreSQL Row Level Security with membership checks. These are architectural measures, not a certification, penetration-test attestation, compliance guarantee, or customer-specific security review.

Pricing

Pricing is on request. There are no published seat counts, quotas, trial terms, renewal terms, or free-plan caps to use for budgeting, so prospective buyers need a commercial discussion. Enterprise controls, recovery objectives, incident terms, and production-data scope require a signed agreement. Registration, address, governing-law, and contracting details should also be confirmed in those documents before enterprise contracting.

Platforms

Consolidation.app runs on the web. That suits distributed finance teams that want browser access, but the published platform information does not describe native desktop or mobile applications.

Who it's for

Choose it when a group finance function needs a visible chain from entity submissions through mappings, intercompany review, eliminations, exceptions, and approvals. It is especially relevant where named reviewers must accept a reporting package before group output moves forward.

Look elsewhere if you need a live close, journal posting, accounting validation, or financial-statement production now. The preview expressly does not provide those capabilities, and production-data scope and enterprise operating terms depend on a signed agreement.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Governed close sequence: collection, matching, explanations, eliminations, and approvals are connected in one review path.
• Clear accountability: package owners, mapping owners, reviewer decisions, and unresolved limitations stay visible.
• Detailed intercompany context: matching by entity, counterparty, currency, document, and period supports targeted investigation.
• Multi-currency and audit support: the product addresses multi-currency consolidation and retains an audit trail.

Cons

• Not a live accounting workflow in the preview: it does not post entries, run a close, validate conclusions, or produce statements.
• Commercial uncertainty: pricing and operating terms are negotiated rather than published.
• Security scope is conditional: enterprise controls, recovery objectives, incident terms, and production-data scope require a signed agreement, and the security page disclaims certification and compliance guarantees.

Alternatives

For a broader directory of options, see Financial Consolidation Software.

• Konsolidat is the better choice for a free, self-hosted deployment: its free plan is open source, self-operated, has no per-user fees, and offers Dynamics 365 F&O and ERPNext connectors, with community support.
• OneStream is worth considering when you need a broader platform across web, mobile, Windows, API, or self-hosted environments; pricing is discussed by demo.
• AARO CPM fits buyers wanting an immediately deployable or customizable package, with pricing on request.
• Arvexi is another paid API-and-web option.
• CCH Tagetik suits organizations seeking a paid web or self-hosted product and a quote-led purchase.
• Clausion offers a paid web consolidation product priced by tailored estimate.
• Entrilia is a paid API-and-web alternative.
• Farseer is a paid enterprise FP&A platform sold through demo or custom discussion.

Verdict

Consolidation.app is a strong candidate for finance teams that prioritize a reviewer-led, auditable route from entity data to an accepted group package. Choose it for its explicit ownership and exception governance; look elsewhere if your immediate requirement is production posting, a live close, or finished financial statements, or if you need transparent pricing before engaging commercially.