We plug into your tools. Moving everything over is still better.
Backlane connects to what you already run: accounting, trackers, banks, collection. You start without changing a thing. But it is when you move the operation onto Backlane that the agents stop reporting and start acting, and that switch takes days, not months.
What flows, line by line
A tool missing? Tell us: most connectors take a few days, because the ledger is the same for everyone.
Plug in today, switch when you want
Backlane reads your reference data (customers, items, accounts) and writes back what it produces: invoices, credit notes, payments. Nothing changes in your habits, no export to replay by hand.
Your files as they are, CSV or Excel, an export from your current tool. The mapping onto our schema is proposed automatically, you approve it row by row before anything is written, and it all stays undoable in one click.
Plugged in, Backlane reports. Switched over, it acts: one ledger, reminders go out, rents are debited, kilometres are billed. Double entry disappears, and the work is already done when you arrive.
Your data stays exportable in one click, in an open format. Switching does not lock you in: you leave with your ledger the day you decide to.
See the chain on your own fleet
The question nobody asks during a demo, and the one that decides everything after six months.
An integration that works on demo day proves nothing. What matters is what happens the night your bank renews its consent, a vehicle box goes quiet, or your accounting API answers with a five hundred. Here is the doctrine, and it is the same everywhere.
- Every write is safely replayable: the same invoice sent twice does not create two invoices, the same transfer read twice does not settle twice.
- Every stream keeps a progress marker, advanced after the write and never before. A crash costs a re-read, not a loss.
- A rejected credential degrades the sync by skipping it, with a warning, instead of failing the whole cycle.
- The next cycle is the reconciliation: there is no catch-up procedure to launch by hand.
- Missing data stays missing rather than being guessed: an absent mileage never becomes a billed estimate.
- A duplicate invoice, payment or vehicle.
- A half-written ledger, stuck between two states.
- A whole cycle lost because one customer in twelve has an expired token.
- A value invented to fill a gap.
That is what makes permanent sync sustainable over months: freshness can degrade for a few hours, the ledger stays right. And when a connection comes back, it catches up on its own, without you having known it was down.