Choose the right solution for your business
Frienton: Complete financial operating system
Best for:
✅ Growing e-commerce businesses needing full financial control
✅ Teams wanting real-time financial visibility
✅ Businesses managing both revenues & costs in one place
✅ Companies needing approval workflows & operational finance
✅ Organizations seeking live P&L & cash flow analysis
Complete platform includes:
✅ Continuous bookkeeping for all revenues and costs
✅ Real-time P&L, cash flow, and liquidity reporting
✅ Built-in invoice & cost management with approval workflows
✅ Daily financial insights & plan vs. actual analysis
✅ Tax advisor collaboration with comments & communication
✅ DATEV, ADDISON & OSS data export
🚀
Platform advantage
One platform replaces multiple tools—get complete financial automation instead of piecing together revenue data, cost management & reporting separately.
Pathway Solutions: Revenue data preparation tool
Best for:
✅ Shops needing automated revenue data collection
✅ Businesses with simple, revenue-focused accounting needs
✅ Sellers on multiple marketplaces needing data consolidation
✅ Teams comfortable managing costs via separate tools
What you get:
✅ Automated revenue data import from shops & marketplaces
✅ Monthly accounting batch for tax advisor
✅ Built-in invoicing for supported shop systems
✅ DATEV & ADDISON export
Key limitations:
❌ No integrated cost or invoice management
❌ No real-time financial overview during the month
❌ No built-in P&L or cash flow reporting
❌ Limited operational finance workflows
Frienton vs. Pathway Solutions | Details
Why growing businesses choose comprehensive financial automation over point solutions
Features
RECOMMENDED
Frienton
All-in-one platform
Pathway Solutions
CORE APPROACH
Primary focus
Comprehensive financial operating system
Shop & marketplace revenue preparation for tax advisor
Accounting model
Continuous bookkeeping for revenues & costs
Monthly accounting batch from revenue data only
Processing timeline
Real-time continuous processing
End-of-month revenue data preparation
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Cost & invoice management
Fully integrated part of accounting process
Not central to the tool
Operational finance processes
Built-in approval workflows for invoices & payments
Handled via additional tools or tax advisor
Monthly financial overview
Daily financial insights available
Requires additional reporting tools
REPORTING & ANALYTICS
P&L reporting
Live P&L, cash flow analysis, liquidity overview & plan vs. actual
Generated via tax advisor or separate tools
Real-time insights
Continuous financial view during the month
Only after accounting process completion
INTEGRATION & COLLABORATION
Invoicing integration
Integrates with existing tools (easybill, Billbee, Chargebee, Shopify)
Own invoicing module for certain shop systems
E-commerce platforms
Key platforms integrated
Wide range of specialized integrations
Tax advisor collaboration
Full accounting batch incl. comments & communication
Basic accounting batch transfer only
Tax exports
DATEV, ADDISON & OSS data export
DATEV & ADDISON