How Pape & Co. keeps complex finance processes manageable — additive to DATEV
“For me, Frienton runs almost silently — and that's a good sign.”
Bettina Kaiser,
Responsible for Systems, Tools and Client Onboarding
Pape & Co
Company profile
With around 140 people at its Munich and Siegsdorf offices, Pape & Co. advises demanding companies and entrepreneur-led assets — nationally and internationally, as a personal sparring partner for entrepreneurial decisions.
~140
people, two locations
2 years
working with Frienton
Nearly silent
BayStartUp
clients run without constant follow-up
actively recommended
Starting point
Many clients work with Stripe, Shopify, PayPal, Amazon, credit cards and international bank connections all at once. The challenge lies not in the bookkeeping itself, but in reliably bringing together different systems, payment flows and documents — and handing them over cleanly to DATEV. DATEV remains the leading practice system; Frienton complements the operational layer upstream.
The issue is: DATEV can now pull the transactions from various systems. But we don't automatically get the corresponding receipts with them.
Bettina Kaiser,
Responsible for Systems, Tools and Client Onboarding
Pain points
DATEV pulls the payments, but the corresponding receipts are missing.
Large volumes of outgoing invoices — not covered by many tools.
Foreign bank accounts and fintechs often can't be mapped the classic way.
Credit cards and receipts otherwise have to be reconciled manually.
Goals
Reliably process large volumes of outgoing invoices.
Connect international banks and fintechs — including accounts with foreign IBANs.
Automate credit-card and receipt processes.
A reliable DATEV export with a ready-made booking record.
Frienton covers outgoing invoices in addition to expenses — an advantage over many other expense-management tools.
Bettina Kaiser,
Responsible for Systems, Tools and Client Onboarding
Results
Multi-banking incl. foreign IBANs; credit cards and receipts automated (e.g. GetMyInvoices, Pliant).
Outgoing invoices and e-commerce end to end into the DATEV export.
Four-eyes payment approvals incl. multi-level approvals; a high match rate in OPOS reconciliation.
Up-to-date reporting gives clients a forward-looking basis for steering — liquidity, costs, margins.
Fewer queries: onboarded clients run almost silently.
Frienton connects three crucial things for us: reliable financial data, efficient processes and up-to-date reporting. That delivers tangible added value for our clients who want to — and can — handle the Frienton part of the accounting process in-house.
Bettina Kaiser,
Responsible for Systems, Tools and Client Onboarding
Technology creates transparency. The real value we create together — by putting current numbers into context and drawing the right entrepreneurial decisions from them.
Arthur Pape,
Partner · Pape & Co.
Recommendation
Within the BayStartUp network, Pape & Co. actively recommends Frienton to founders — additive to DATEV, without a system change.