Your Finance and Accounting Data, Directly Connected to AI Tools
AI Features Built In
Our MCP complements our existing built in capabilities across bank transactions, credit cards, accounts payable, and reporting.
AP OCR Inbox
Set up a dedicated email address where vendors send bills, and have them automatically processed into SoftLedger, removing the manual data entry step. From the inbox screen, edit bills as needed and post them into a created status in the bill summary tab.
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Connect SoftLedger to your preferred AI tool, such as ChatGPT or Claude, to query your financial data, generate custom financial reports, and more, directly in the chat.
AI-Suggested Bank Rules
Stop repeatedly coding the same transactions. SoftLedger uses AI to suggest bank rules that auto-categorize recurring transactions, so your team codes them once and never again. so your team no longer spends time coding recurring transactions.
AI-Suggested Bank Transactions
Once bank transactions are posted or pulled in from Plaid, AI helps you quickly classify transactions to GL accounts, vendors, customers, and other dimensions, turning hours of coding into a few clicks.
What is MCP in Accounting Software?
In accounting specifically, an MCP server acts as a bridge between an AI assistant and your accounting platform. Instead of copying and pasting numbers (information or uploading files) into a chatbot, the AI can directly and securely query your general ledger, pull trial balances, look up invoices, and check cash positions.
As a CFO, you can ask “what were our travel expenses for our sales team last quarter?” in Claude or ChatGPT, from your phone when you park your car at the office and have the answer before you get back to your desk.
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AI That Works Where Your Accounting Happens
SoftLedger embeds AI across the platform to automate data entry, speed transaction coding, and connect your financials to the AI tools your team already uses, while your general ledger remains the one record everything reconciles to. Our ai features are built to assist you and your team to reduce remaining manual processes while providing access and visibility controls over what tools are used.
SoftLedger's MCP: Built with Privacy in Mind
Our MCP is designed to be safe through our read-only features allowing AI to explore financial data without making any actual change, access is inherently turned off until access is granted by an admin and privacy-preserving so no addresses or bank details are ever shown.
Frequently Asked Questions
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a secure bridge between an AI assistant and your accounting platform. Instead of copying numbers or uploading files into a chatbot, tools like ChatGPT or Claude can directly query your general ledger, pull trial balances, look up invoices, and check cash positions based on the permissions your team sets.
Yes. SoftLedger's MCP is built with privacy in mind: it defaults to read-only access so AI can explore data without making changes, access stays turned off until an admin grants it, and sensitive details like addresses and bank information are never exposed.
By default, MCP is read-only, so AI can view and analyze your financials without altering anything. Broader permissions, such as creating journal entries, are only available if an admin explicitly grants them.
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