Producers, fabricators, and light industry.
Inventory, cost of goods, and the close — actually connected.
Manufacturing books break where inventory, work-in-process and cost of goods have to move together with the ledger — and in most setups, they don’t.
- Book balance
- $ ••••••
- Statement balance
- $ ••••••
- Difference
- 0.00
Hydro-Québec
STATEMENT LINE → BOOK ENTRY
Bell Canada
STATEMENT LINE → BOOK ENTRY
Deposit
ON THE STATEMENT, NOT IN THE BOOKS
Uni-Select
STATEMENT LINE → BOOK ENTRY
The problem
A COGS estimate that looks right and isn’t
Raw materials become work-in-process, become finished goods, become COGS the moment something sells — a chain of value that most bookkeeping setups don’t actually track together, so month-end usually means someone manually estimating COGS from an inventory system that isn’t wired into the ledger at all. That estimate is often close enough to pass a casual glance and far enough off to quietly distort real unit margins for months before anyone notices.
What cruisr does
Unit economics that match what actually happened
Inventory, WIP, and COGS as one connected picture
Reconciled continuously against the ledger — not an inventory system and a ledger that only meet once a month, roughly. cruisr works from what your inventory system already posts into QuickBooks or Xero rather than reading that system directly.
Unit economics from what happened, not an estimate
So pricing and production decisions run on real margins rather than a rough month-end figure.
The close finishes by business day 3
With COGS and inventory movement already reconciled — not waiting on a separate inventory close process to catch up. Proof: same calendar, every month.
Every entry carries its source and reasoning
When a unit-cost number gets questioned by ownership or a lender, the answer is already attached, not reconstructed from an inventory report and a ledger that don’t quite agree. Proof: the same evidence trail behind every entry sitewide.
Multi-facility production in one group view
If you run more than one plant, each is an entity in the group close — consolidated to one number and drillable back to a single facility and transaction, the same mechanic behind the 12-entity close.
One queue for the exceptions
An inventory adjustment that doesn’t tie out, a cost that lands in the wrong period, a receipt with no matching purchase — routed to a human to decide. Proof: the same 9-of-1,820 queue behind the stat above.
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Why not just estimate COGS at month-end?
A month-end COGS estimate, built from an inventory system that isn’t wired into the ledger, is close enough to look right and far enough off to quietly erode margin for months before it’s caught. cruisr keeps inventory, WIP, and COGS reconciled continuously against the ledger, so the number at close is the real one, not a rounded guess.
Account changed
SUSPENSE → COST OF REVENUE
FAQ
Manufacturing questions
Three about costing a physical product, and the one every operator asks before handing over a bank feed.
See your real unit economics, not a month-end estimate.
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