Aico Financial Close Platform vs Mayday

Aico Financial Close Platform is a web-based system for managing enterprise financial close work. It brings closing tasks, account reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany invoicing, transaction matching, financial requests, compliance tasks, manual payments, and account or variance monitoring into one platform. Enterprises can configure templates, workflows, approvals, and process rules, allowing finance teams to develop processes without IT. Dashboards show progress, completed tasks, bottlenecks, ownership, priorities, and performance across entities and teams. Reconciliation tools provide one-click automation, configurable templates, exception flags, audit trails, reporting, and approval workflows. Aico lists integrations for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Unit4, IFS, Infor, Sage, Epicor, Workday, and Deltek, while other ERP systems can connect through standard methods. The platform supports multi-entity close, recurring templates, task dependencies, native ERP connectivity, and audit trails. It is aimed at large enterprises and complex finance teams. Pricing is on request.

Mayday is a web-based month-end platform for finance teams using Xero, QuickBooks Online or Intuit Enterprise Suite. It identifies missing or incorrect entries, calculates adjustments for review and approval, then posts approved journals to Xero or QuickBooks. Its products include Flux, Prepayments, Accruals, Deferred Revenue, Balancer, Mayday HQ, BRAG and Recharger. Mayday AIR suggests actions using accounting principles and business context; the maker says it will not train AIR on private customer data without permission. The platform supports approval workflows, audit trails, multi-entity close and recurring templates. The Basic plan is £0/mo, and a 30-day free trial does not require card details. The pricing note lists paid access from £12.50/mo when billed annually, while several listed plans are £10/mo. QuickBooks Online has restrictions: BRAG and Mayday HQ are unavailable, and some functions in Balancer, Recharger, Deferred Revenue and Prepayments are limited. Mayday says its service runs on AWS, with data storage and processing in the London region. It lists encryption, SSO and MFA via Xero and Intuit, role-based access controls and 24/7 infrastructure monitoring.