Features

All Groot Finance features.

Browse what Groot can do today, from invoices and claims to accounting, stock, payroll and reporting. Availability notes show where a feature depends on your market or business setup.

Purchases and expenses

Supplier costs, employee claims and direct expenses.

Handle supplier documents, employee claims and costs paid directly by Finance without treating them as the same kind of work.

Supplier invoices

Upload PDFs or images in different layouts. Groot reads the supplier, dates, tax, totals and line items, then keeps the source beside the draft for Finance to review.

  • Multi-file upload and line-item extraction
  • Duplicate, total and price-change checks
  • Supplier ageing, payment tracking and accounting handoff
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Employee expense claims

Employees capture receipts and submit a complete report to the right approvers. Groot checks duplicates and policy rules, then creates the journal entry after final approval.

  • Named, multi-step approval policies
  • Return, resubmit and approval history
  • Lark and Malaysia merchant e-Invoice automation in beta
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Direct business expenses

Record rent, utilities, subscriptions, repairs and other costs paid directly by Finance. Track whether each cost is due or paid without filing it as an employee claim.

  • Recurring and one-off operating costs
  • Due and paid status
  • Accounting records kept with the expense

Purchasing and receiving controls

Setup dependent

For teams that use purchase orders and receiving records, Groot can compare what was ordered, received and invoiced before Finance accepts the invoice.

  • Purchase orders and goods-received records
  • Two-way and three-way matching
  • Price and quantity tolerances

Accounting

General ledger and core accounting.

Groot includes the accounting foundations a Finance team expects, from the chart of accounts to financial statements and period controls.

Chart of accounts

Start with a standard chart covering assets, liabilities, equity, revenue and expenses. Add, rename or import accounts, and organise them with headings and sub-accounts.

  • Country-aware tax control accounts where supported
  • Custom accounts and account hierarchy
  • Import and review tools for an existing chart

Journal entries

Create journals manually or review entries prepared from approved claims, invoices, payroll and reconciliation work. Each entry keeps its source and debit-credit detail.

  • Manual and workflow-generated entries
  • Source-linked journal lines
  • Department, project and location tracking where configured

Account balances and activity

Open any account to see its brought-forward balance, every debit and credit, the running balance and the closing figure for the selected period.

  • Per-account ledger view
  • Opening, running and closing balances
  • Drill-through to the source document

Accounting periods

Keep transactions in the right period and control when earlier months can still change. Finance can open, close and review periods from the accounting workspace.

  • Period setup and status
  • Open and closed period controls
  • Clear history of period changes

Bank reconciliation

Bring in statement transactions, assign the correct ledger accounts and reconcile the movement against the bank balance. Unresolved lines remain visible for review.

  • Statement transaction import
  • Account classification and matching
  • Opening-to-closing balance proof

Financial statements

Generate the standard reports needed to review the books, with date and location filters and access to the transactions behind the numbers.

  • Profit and loss
  • Balance sheet and trial balance
  • Cash flow and account activity

Sales and receivables

Sales invoices, customers and collections.

Keep issued invoices, payments and customer records together so Finance can see what was billed, what was collected and what is still outstanding.

Sales invoices

Create, issue and send customer invoices with your own numbering, payment terms, tax treatment, discounts and line items.

  • Draft, issue and send workflow
  • Credit and debit notes
  • Catalogue pricing and stock fulfilment where configured

Customers and collections

Keep customer details, open invoices and payment history in one place. Allocate a receipt across several invoices and see the remaining balance immediately.

  • Customer records and balances
  • Payment allocation
  • Ageing, statements and overdue invoices

Daily sales and reconciliation

Setup dependent

Record daily sales from stores or sales channels, compare expected settlements with what arrived, and keep the reconciliation with the accounting record.

  • Daily sales summaries
  • Channel and settlement reconciliation
  • Sales reporting by date and source

Regional e-Invoicing

Region specific

Capture the customer and tax identifiers needed for local e-Invoice workflows. Country-specific submission and status tools are available where they have been configured.

  • Malaysia LHDN e-Invoice workflow
  • Singapore InvoiceNow business fields
  • Taiwan business and tax identifiers

Products and stock

Product catalogue, stock and fulfilment.

Use a shared product catalogue across invoices and stock workflows, then add location and fulfilment controls when the business needs them.

Product catalogue

Maintain item codes, names, descriptions, units, tax treatment and selling prices in one catalogue that can be reused across invoices and inventory.

  • Products, services and units of measure
  • Pricing and tax settings
  • Bulk catalogue import

Catalogue review and price history

Review items that need matching or clean-up after an import, confirm suggested records and see how a product price has changed over time.

  • Needs-review queue
  • Suggested catalogue matches
  • Product price history

Stock levels and movements

Setup dependent

See quantities by location and follow stock in, stock out, transfers and adjustments back to the activity that created them.

  • Location-level stock balances
  • Receipts, transfers and adjustments
  • Low-stock and movement views

Delivery, production and customer-held stock

Setup dependent

Use delivery orders, record finished goods and components, or track stock held at a customer site when those operating models are part of your setup.

  • Delivery order workflow
  • Production runs and component usage
  • Customer-held stock release and return

People and payroll

Leave, timesheets and payroll.

Employees get clear self-service tools, while managers and Finance retain the approvals, balances and payroll records they need.

Leave management

Set leave types, public holidays, balances and carryover rules. Employees submit requests while managers see team availability and overlap before approving.

  • Leave requests and balances
  • Team calendar and overlap warnings
  • Leave and absence reports

Timesheets and attendance

Let employees record time and attendance, submit timesheets on the business schedule and send completed periods to a manager for review.

  • Check-in and attendance records
  • Weekly, fortnightly or monthly timesheets
  • Manager review and approval

Manager approvals

Managers get one place to review the work assigned to them, including expense claims, leave and timesheets, without needing access to the full Finance workspace.

  • Role-based approval queues
  • Supporting records shown with each request
  • Approval history retained

Payroll

Malaysia & Singapore

Set up employee payroll profiles, calculate local statutory items, review the pay run and prepare payslips and accounting entries.

  • Malaysia EPF, SOCSO, EIS and PCB calculations
  • Singapore CPF, SDL and SHG calculations
  • Pay runs, payslips and payroll journals

Reports and data

Reports, exports and integrations.

Use operational reports inside Groot, keep a record of changes and export reviewed data when another system or advisor needs it.

Operational reports

Review the reports behind day-to-day finance and team work, not only the final financial statements.

  • Expense and duplicate reports
  • AP, AR, sales and tax reports
  • Daily sales, leave and attendance reports

Import and export

Bring in master data and export reports or reviewed transactions in the format the next system expects.

  • CSV and spreadsheet import tools
  • Reusable export templates
  • Export history and scheduled exports where enabled

Audit trail and access

Keep approval decisions, status changes and accounting activity tied to the user and business that made them. Roles limit what each person can see and change.

  • Business-level roles and permissions
  • Traceable approvals and changes
  • Source records retained with finance work

Accounting integrations

Keep accounting in Groot or hand reviewed entries to the system your team already uses. The exact sync or export method depends on the integration setup.

  • SQL Account and AutoCount
  • Xero and QuickBooks coming soon
  • Lark workflow integration in beta

Groot Agent

Questions and actions across live records.

The agent works with live business records across the enabled modules. It can answer questions and prepare supported actions, with confirmation before a write changes the records.

Questions across live records

Ask about invoices, claims, ageing, financial statements, leave or attendance in ordinary language instead of finding the right report first.

  • Finance and operational lookups
  • Answers linked to the underlying records
  • Report preparation and download

Actions with confirmation

Ask Groot to prepare a supported action such as updating a finance record, progressing a workflow or preparing a report. Groot shows the proposed change before it writes.

  • Role and business permissions still apply
  • Confirmation before sensitive changes
  • Action history kept with the conversation

Action Center

Bring due items, unusual movements and other exceptions into a shared attention list so Finance can start with what needs review.

  • Due and overdue work
  • Price and spending signals where data is available
  • Links back to the relevant record

A note on availability

The modules available to a business can vary by region, plan and setup. Beta and setup-dependent features are labelled above. We can confirm the exact fit before you start.

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