Calitem vs Centinel: accounting execution or control
Centinel organizes accounting policies and exceptions. Calitem acts on each supplier invoice, from receipt to entry.
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Short answer
Choose Calitem to automate business processes with custom workflows, including purchase checks, line-level allocations and your own approval rules. It adapts to the rules of companies and accounting firms and generates journal entries for their ERP.
Consider Centinel if your priority is to maintain and apply the company's accounting criteria, relating policies, contracts, decisions and entries for closing and financial review.
What is Centinel and how does it work?
Centinel is an accounting knowledge and control platform that connects to the company's systems. It organizes policies, precedents, exceptions and evidence in what it calls Accounting Constitution. Their current proposal focuses on keeping that criteria available as contracts and activity change.
This is how the work is organized:
- Reconstruct the criterion.Analyzes records and documents to propose policies and decisions that explain accounting.
- Validate the changes.The team reviews cases that require professional judgment and retains decisions.
- Consult with evidence.The connected information is used to answer closing, audit or operations review questions.
Centinel focuses on the reasoning that supports the accounting treatment. Calitem executes the circuit of documents, verifications, allocations and approvals of accounts payable.
When Centinel fits
- Complex accounting criteria.You need to preserve policies and precedents for operations that require professional judgment.
- Closings and reviews.You prepare explanations and evidence for audit or financial diligence.
- Frequent changes.Your business structure or contracts change and affect the accounting treatment.
What is Calitem?
Calitem is the AI accounting system that automates accounts payable, from receiving documents to posting journal entries in your ERP.
It is designed for companies where each invoice can require several checks: finding the purchase order, checking what was received, allocating the expense and obtaining the right approval. Calitem connects this work with your accounting rules and business systems.
Where Centinel has the advantage
Connected policies and precedents
Centinel brings together the business context, policies and previous decisions. It fits when the treatment of an operation depends on criteria that today are distributed among contracts, internal notes and the team's memory.
Track business changes
The platform tracks new transactions, contracts and conversations to flag decisions that require review. It is relevant when a new company or a change in business model affects the accounting criteria used.
Answers with accounting evidence
Centinel relates the explanation of a decision to its documents and entries. Helps prepare responses for closings, audits or purchase and sale processes without rebuilding the context of each operation.
Knowledge available to other agents
Its offering includes making that accounting knowledge available to AI agents. It allows evaluating a common base of criteria when several tools must interpret the same company policies.
Where Calitem has the advantage
Documents from your team channels
Calitem receives invoices and documents from email, WhatsApp, Teams and shared repositories. A person in a store or warehouse can send a photo without installing another app. The documentation enters the same accounting process, although it arrives through different channels.
Extraction tailored to your documents
The AI extracts general data, lines and specific fields of your operation. Calitem processes up to 250 documents every five minutes, to absorb large volumes without transcribing invoices one by one. Fields with low confidence are reviewed.
Duplicate invoices under control
Calitem detects duplicate documents automatically. When the same invoice arrives through different channels, your team can identify repetition before it turns into more accounting work.
Matching invoices, purchase orders and delivery notes
Calitem matches the three documents line by line and checks references, quantities, prices and taxes. If more units are invoiced than received, or a price changes, it flags the difference for your team to review before posting.
Accounts and cost centers by line
One invoice can include expenses from several stores, departments or projects. Calitem assigns categories, subaccounts and cost centres to each line using your chart of accounts and the team’s previous classifications.
Approvals that follow your rules
Define who must approve based on the amount, legal entity, cost centre or supplier. Calitem routes each document through the appropriate workflow and can automatically approve transactions that meet your limits.
AI-generated accounting entries
Calitem uses your chart of accounts and previous accounting decisions to generate journal entries and send them to your ERP. Allocations are included, so the team does not have to re-enter information that has already been processed.
Integrations that connect the entire operation
Calitem connects the ERP to stock systems, POS and internal tools using native integrations and an open API. Specific connections adapt to the flow and data your operation needs, to reduce manual transfers between systems.
Several companies, well-organized accounting
Calitem supports multiple legal entities and cost centres. Classifications and approval routes follow your operational structure, whether you are a group of companies or an accounting firm managing clients’ accounts.
Analysis of accounting information
Calitem allows you to analyze the accounting and accounts payable information it processes. Your team can use that data to track the operation and understand expenses, as well as complete the work on each invoice.
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Choose Centinel if…
- You need to preserve policies and precedents for operations that require professional judgment.
- You prepare explanations and evidence for audit or financial diligence.
- Your business structure or contracts change and affect the accounting treatment.
Choose Calitem if…
- You manage a high volume of invoices or processes that require several checks before posting.
- You need to cross invoices, orders and delivery notes by line and detect differences in quantities or prices.
- You distribute the expense of the same invoice between different accounts and cost centers.
- You want to configure approvals by company code, cost center, amount, or supplier.
- You are looking to automate the generation of entries with your chart of accounts and previous classifications.
- You need to connect the ERP with stock systems, POS or other tools in your operation.
Frequently asked questions about Centinel and Calitem
When to choose Centinel and when to choose Calitem?
Centinel fits if your priority is to preserve and apply the company's accounting criteria, relating policies, contracts, decisions and entries for closing and financial review. Calitem is designed to automate a high volume of documents and accounts payable processes with purchase reconciliation, allocations by line and approvals adapted to the company or accounting firm, up to the entry in the ERP.
What programs does Calitem integrate with?
Calitem integrates with most ERP available on the market, such as A3, Sage, SAP, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Holded and more than 20 others. Available dimensions vary by connector: channels in a3innuva, projects in Sage, and tags in Holded.
How does Calitem manage cost centers?
Calitem uses projects, channels or other dimensions depending on your accounting software. It can assign them automatically using addresses, descriptions, suppliers or products.
How does Calitem match invoices, delivery notes and purchase orders?
Calitem’s document management system matches invoices, purchase orders and delivery notes and compares their products. It checks references, quantities, prices and taxes line by line and flags differences for review.
How does duplicate detection work in Calitem?
Calitem identifies duplicates based on the digital ID of each document and crossing data such as amounts, document number and supplier to flag duplicates to the user.
How does the workflow builder in Calitem work?
In Calitem you can configure routes by company code, cost center, amount or supplier, with automatic approval for operations that comply with your rules.