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Card spend and bills, coded to your own chart.
Accounting
Finly + FreeAgent
Accounting · Two-way sync · Live since 2025 · About 6 minutes to connect
What it does
Finly writes card spend and bills into FreeAgent as they happen, and explains each one where the explanation belongs. Projects and the VAT scheme come across with the line, so the quarterly return is a review rather than a rebuild.
What syncs
What moves, and which way.
Both directions, on every sync.Nothing here is a nightly batch —a record that changes at 14:02 is in the ledger before you look at it.
FreeAgent → Finly
- Categories and their accounting codes
- The VAT scheme, including flat rate
- Projects and the contacts they belong to
- Contacts and their default category
- Bank accounts and their balances
- The locked-down date
Finly → FreeAgent
- Card spend as explained bank transactions
- Bills, with the attachment and the due date
- Reimbursements as one bill per pay run
Connected
What it looks like once it is on.
Every line, already coded.
Card spend, bills and reimbursements arrive in FreeAgent with the account, the tax treatment and the cost centre already on them.The bank feed matches them without anyone opening a spreadsheet.
Before you start
What you need, and what it will not do.
You need a FreeAgent account with adviser or administrator rights and a Finly plan that includes the ledger sync, which means Core and above.One FreeAgent organisation maps to one Finly entity, so a group running several sets of books connects each one separately —that separation is what keeps the intercompany lines apart at the close.Nothing is installed, and the credentials never leave Finly.
Two things it deliberately will not do.It will not post into a locked period:if the month is closed in FreeAgent, the entry waits in Finly until you reopen it or roll it forward.It will not touch master data —Finly reads your chart, your dimensions and your suppliers and never writes them back, so a mapping change is always yours to make.
Related
Others in accounting.
QuickBooks
Receipts and bills, matched to the register.
Sage
Nominal codes and VAT, on every line.
Exact
Dutch GL and VAT, without the rework.
Get started
Stop closing the month in arrears.
Book a 30-minute demo and we'll run your own last month through a sandbox, so you can see the close before you commit to anything.