“That changed everything”
Pennylane has become the platform of choice for fast-growing French businesses: AI-driven, modern, and built for the way finance teams actually work today.
But when those groups expand internationally, consolidation was historically a manual job. Data out of Pennylane, into spreadsheets, reconciled by hand, with error risk at every step and finance teams always a week behind reality.
The Pennylane integration with Joiin removed all of that.
“When Joiin introduced the Pennylane API, it significantly expanded integration possibilities. Pennylane is one of the fastest-growing accounting platforms in France and is actively expanding across Europe.”
– Ilan Abitbol, Transformation Manager for Accounting, Orbiss
About Orbiss
Orbiss is an American accounting and financial services firm specializing in helping international businesses enter and scale in the US market. Unlike traditional firms, Orbiss emphasises automation-first workflows, leveraging technology to reduce manual processing and redirect human effort on review, analysis, and advisory work.
They primarily serve tech-forward businesses, which is why most French clients build their entities on Pennylane.
Today, Orbiss consolidates 62 companies across 15 clients on Joiin, with Pennylane at the heart of the stack.
A leading European
One of Europe’s most prominent AI unicorns runs Pennylane for its French entity. As the group expanded into the US and now Japan, Orbiss needed a way to consolidate without forcing a migration away from Pennylane.
Joiin’s Pennylane integration did exactly that.
Between 2023 and 2024, the group’s consolidated revenue grew 147%. Orbiss delivered the full US GAAP-ready consolidated pack throughout that growth curve with one or two people on the engagement, not a team of ten.
Before Orbiss stepped in, the group had no API-based consolidation in place. The transformation was complete: no manual data pulls, no spreadsheet reconciliations, and no delays waiting for month-end adjustments to settle.
“Having customised statements matching exactly their reporting requirements, without any manual entry, is a big game changer.”
Faster close, real time saved.
For a typical Pennylane-led group, the Pennylane-to-Joiin pipeline cuts 3 to 5 days off month-end close compared with a fully manual consolidation process. The main efficiency gain comes from eliminating the back-and-forth: no email exchanges to import balances, no juggling multiple CSV versions, no rebuilding the consolidation when the French books are adjusted.
That typically saves 1 to 2 days of finance-team time every month, depending on how data would otherwise be shared by the French accountant in the absence of the Pennylane API.
From email attachment to interactive tool
Traditional consolidation ends with a PDF or Excel pack emailed to the CFO. The CFO sends questions back. The firm answers by email. Days go by.
Orbiss does it differently. Every client gets direct access to Joiin.
“The client already has access to Joiin as a user. They can play with the tool, drill down as much as they want, analyse any discrepancy or variance by themselves, and even access the journals, the detailed transactions, and the general ledgers.”
Finance leaders self-serve. Questions drop. Close timelines shorten. Because Pennylane data flows into Joiin in real time, the consolidated view is always live.
“Any changes used to be a source of anxiety. Now, any change is not a problem any more.”
Monthly consolidation demands a finance team that is constantly on top of the numbers. Without a platform like Joiin, that is not achievable at pace. Books change. Adjustments come in.
Without automation, every change forces a rebuild of the spreadsheet. With Joiin, the Pennylane data flows through automatically, and the consolidation stays accurate without manual rework.
The benefits, in numbers
- 3 to 5 days faster month-end close for groups moving from fully manual consolidation.
- 1 to 2 days of finance-team time saved every month after direct integration from Pennylane to Joiin.
- 62 companies consolidated across 15 clients, delivered by a small, engineer-led team.
- 473 elimination accounts and 145 FX rates configured, so complex multi-currency groups are handled cleanly.
- 1,205 reports run in the last 30 days, with finance teams pulling their own answers in real time.
- US GAAP, French GAAP, and IFRS reporting from a single Pennylane-backed pipeline.
Looking ahead
Joiin is committed to deepening its partnership with Pennylane. The Pennylane integration is already the backbone for groups scaling internationally, and Joiin will continue investing in the relationship to deliver best-of-breed consolidation for multi-geography, multi-entity groups of every size.
As Pennylane’s footprint expands across Europe, Joiin will be there, giving Pennylane customers a clear, automated path to consolidated reporting the moment they cross a border.
“Joiin is definitely one of the best tools I have in my toolbox.”
– Ilan Abitbol
