Reconciles

Modern Treasury alternatives and competitors for payment reconciliation

Reconciles is a Modern Treasury alternative for finance teams that need payouts, bank deposits and invoices to reconcile, without building on a payments API. Modern Treasury is payment operations infrastructure: it sends ACH, wires, RTP and FedNow payments, runs ledgers and checks compliance, and it is priced on usage with an annual minimum commitment agreed with sales. Reconciles publishes its prices from $888 a year, needs no engineering work and matches your own bank, processor and ledger files in minutes.

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Where Modern Treasury fits and where it does not

Modern Treasury sells to companies that move money as part of their product: fintechs, marketplaces, lenders, payroll and insurance platforms. Its pricing page lists one API for payments, accounts and ledgering, payment rails from ACH and wires to RTP, FedNow, push to card, checks and stablecoins, plus KYB and KYC checks and transaction monitoring. When a payment it originated posts to the bank, Modern Treasury reconciles it to the bank transaction and matches returns and reversals back to the original payment.

That is the right buy if your engineers are building money movement into the product. You get bank connectivity, a ledger database and payment status in one place, and reconciliation comes along because the platform created the payments in the first place.

Many evaluations start somewhere else, though. The controller does not need a new way to send money. The problem is that Stripe pays out net of fees, Shopify holds a reserve, one customer ACH covers six invoices, and the bank account still does not tie to QuickBooks or NetSuite on day four of the close. Buying a payments platform to fix that means an integration project for a matching job.

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Modern Treasury vs Reconciles vs spreadsheets

ReconcilesModern TreasurySpreadsheets
What it is Reconciliation software for finance teams Payment operations platform with an API A workbook someone maintains
How you buy Self-serve, by card in your account Talk to sales, then a usage-based contract Already installed
Published price $888 to $5,988 a year billed yearly, or $149 to $999 monthly None on the pricing page; older listings on SourceForge show from $499 a month No license, paid in staff hours
Price model Plan limits on accounts, transactions and entities Platform fee plus per-payment fees by rail, toward one annual minimum commitment Headcount
Setup Upload two files, results in minutes API integration by your engineering team, bank connections, ledger design Formulas built by hand
Reconciles payments it did not send Yes, any bank, processor, marketplace or invoice file Built around payments it originates and ledger to bank balances Yes, by hand
Processor payouts split into fees, refunds and reserves Yes, Stripe, PayPal, Adyen, Shopify, Amazon Not its focus Manual lookups
One payment against many invoices Yes, one to many and many to one with tolerances Not its focus Manual
Moves money No Yes, ACH, wire, RTP, FedNow, push to card, checks No
Best for Controllers, accounting firms, ecommerce and SaaS finance teams Fintechs and platforms building payments into their product Very low volume

Other Modern Treasury competitors buyers compare

Modern Treasury competitors fall into two groups, and the right one depends on whether you are building payments or closing the books.

  • Payments and ledger infrastructure. Stripe Treasury, Moov, Dwolla and Column compete on money movement and bank accounts; Formance and Fragment compete on the ledger database. These are developer products, bought by engineering teams.
  • Reconciliation and close software. BlackLine, Trintech, FloQast and Numeric sit on the finance side and are sold by quote. Compare them on our BlackLine alternative, Trintech alternative, FloQast alternative and Numeric alternative pages.
  • Reconciles is in the second group with published self-serve plans. It does not move money. It matches the money that already moved, from whatever system sent it.

If you are not sure which group you are in, ask who will own the tool. If the answer is an engineer, look at infrastructure. If it is the controller, start with reconciliation.

What changes when reconciliation moves to Reconciles

Payouts tied to deposits

Stripe, PayPal, Adyen, Shopify and Amazon pay out net of fees, refunds, chargebacks and reserves. Reconciles splits each payout into its parts and ties it to the bank deposit, as described on the payment reconciliation software page.

Invoices closed by real payments

One ACH that settles several invoices, short payments and early payment discounts are matched as groups with tolerances on amount and date. See invoice reconciliation software.

A reason on every match

Each suggested pair carries a match reason and a confidence score, so the reviewer approves work instead of redoing it.

Exceptions in one queue

Unmatched, partial, duplicate, amount difference and date difference lines land in one queue, with assignment and comments on Growth and approvals with an audit log on Scale.

How to test a Modern Treasury alternative today

1. Export last month's bank statement and the payout, ledger or invoice file it should match.

2. Drop both files into the matcher on the home page and review the matched pairs.

3. Save the rules that worked, then connect your processors and QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite.

4. Clear the exceptions queue and export the reconciliation report or journal entries for the close.

When Modern Treasury is the better fit

We would rather you buy the right tool. Modern Treasury is likely the stronger choice if:

  • Your product sends or collects money over ACH, wires, RTP or FedNow and you need an API to do it.
  • You need a ledger database to track balances for your own customers or wallets.
  • KYB, KYC and transaction monitoring are part of the same project.
  • You have engineers to integrate the platform and payment volume that justifies an annual minimum.

When Reconciles is the better fit

  • Your money already moves through Stripe, PayPal, Shopify, Amazon or your bank, and the close slips because nothing ties out.
  • You run QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite and want a price you can approve today.
  • You want finance to own the setup, with no API project in the way. Scale adds an API and SFTP drop when you do want automation.
  • You are an ecommerce brand matching several sales channels, see ecommerce reconciliation software.
  • You want to see matches on your own data before talking to anyone.

Published prices instead of a minimum commitment

Starter costs $74 per month billed yearly or $149 monthly, with 3 accounts and 3,000 matched transactions a month. Growth costs $199 per month billed yearly or $399 monthly, with 15 accounts, 20,000 transactions and 5 entities. Scale costs $499 per month billed yearly or $999 monthly, with 60 accounts, 100,000 transactions, 25 entities, SSO, an audit log, an API and SFTP drop. There are no per-payment fees and no implementation invoice. Every limit is on the reconciliation software pricing page, and our Modern Treasury pricing breakdown explains what goes into its contract.

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See your matches before any sales call

Upload a bank statement and a second file. You will see how much of the problem is matching, and what it costs to fix.