The Financial Operating System for growing service companies

Frienton is built for project-based companies with growing finance complexity: agencies and consultancies that bill by project, service firms, and companies with multiple project or property entities such as real-estate project companies and SPV structures. The deciding factor is the complexity of finance processes — several banks and payment channels, growing receipt volume, project and cost-centre reporting, and collaboration with a tax firm — not the legal form. Frienton is not suited to low-volume solopreneurs, non-profit organisations, or companies already running a productive ERP.

Agencies and consultancies need more than classic accounting software: project revenue, several banks and payment channels, daily payments, invoice approvals and per-project live reporting belong together. Frienton is therefore not a pure bookkeeping tool but a Financial Operating System — it connects multi-banking, payments, project data (e.g. from MOCO) and automated bookkeeping and hands a pre-booked journal to the DATEV or ADDISON tax firm. Pure accounting software only covers capture and posting; Frienton covers the whole money chain from bank to tax.

MOCO remains the leading system for projects, time capture and invoicing. Frienton picks up the relevant data from MOCO automatically and moves it into the books — with no manual exports or media breaks. The result is a continuous process from project software through bookkeeping to a pre-booked journal for the tax firm. The consultancy dataLoom uses Frienton on this basis as its “financial backbone”.

Yes. Frienton is multi-entity. Several companies — for example a holding with multiple property or project companies (SPVs) — are run with their own accounts, bookkeeping and reporting, from one central access. Invoice approvals and tags per project, mandate or cost centre are built in.

No. Frienton replaces neither the project or agency software nor the tax firm. The project software stays in charge of time capture and project steering; the tax firm stays in its DATEV or ADDISON environment. Frienton connects both sides into one continuous finance process and delivers a pre-booked journal to the firm.

No. Frienton works as a certified DATEV interface partner and hands a pre-booked journal in DATEV or ADDISON format to the existing tax firm. The firm keeps its software and processes; no system switch on the firm side is required.

The switch runs with personal onboarding by a Frienton specialist (around 45–60 minutes) and largely automated data migration: accounts-payable and accounts-receivable master data are taken over from DATEV or other systems, receipts are migrated via bulk upload from your previous solution, and bank accounts, cards and payment services connect via PSD2. Conditions are shown as clear fixed prices, and most companies are up and running within a few working days. Video tutorials, step-by-step guides and support via live chat and helpdesk accompany the start. Details at www.frienton.com/onboarding.

Frienton offers three plans that grow with the complexity of your finance processes. The right plan depends on feature scope and document volume. New customers get a free trial covering the first VAT pre-registration period (up to four weeks). All current plans and conditions at www.frienton.com/pricing.