Pennylane has become a popular choice for fast-growing French businesses. But as those companies expand internationally, consolidation can quickly become complicated.
Before using Joiin, many groups relied on spreadsheets, manual exports, and endless reconciliation work to bring their numbers together.
For Orbiss, that approach simply wasn’t scalable.
“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 helping international businesses expand into the US market. The team focuses heavily on automation, using technology to reduce manual processing and spend more time on advisory and analysis.
Most of Orbiss’ French clients already use Pennylane, making the integration with Joiin a natural fit.
Today, Orbiss consolidates 62 companies across 15 clients using Joiin.
Scaling internationally without leaving Pennylane
One of Europe’s leading AI unicorns uses Pennylane for its French entity. As the business expanded into the US and Japan, Orbiss needed a way to consolidate the group without moving away from Pennylane.
Joiin made that possible.
Between 2023 and 2024, the group’s consolidated revenue grew by 147%. Throughout that growth, Orbiss continued delivering US GAAP-ready consolidated reporting with a lean team of just one or two people.
“Having customised statements matching exactly their reporting requirements, without any manual entry, is a big game changer.”
Faster close. Less manual work.
For a typical Pennylane-led group, Joiin cuts three to five days from the month-end close process compared with fully manual consolidation.
The biggest improvement comes from removing repetitive admin work.
No emailing spreadsheets. No importing CSV files. No rebuilding reports every time adjustments are made.
Instead, Pennylane data flows directly into Joiin automatically, saving finance teams one to two days every month.
“Any changes used to be a source of anxiety. Now, any change is not a problem any more.”
From static reports to live visibility
Orbiss also gives every client direct access to Joiin, allowing finance teams to explore their numbers in real time.
“The client already has access to Joiin as a user. They can drill down as much as they want, analyse discrepancies themselves, and even access journals, transactions, and general ledgers.”
Instead of waiting for answers over email, finance leaders can investigate variances and reporting questions themselves, helping reduce back-and-forth and speed up decision making.
The impact, in numbers
- 3 to 5 days faster month-end close
- 1 to 2 days of finance-team time saved every month
- 62 companies consolidated across 15 clients
- 473 elimination accounts configured
- 145 FX rates managed within Joiin
- 1,205 reports run in the last 30 days
- US GAAP, French GAAP, and IFRS reporting delivered from one workflow
Looking ahead
As more Pennylane customers expand internationally, Joiin continues to help firms like Orbiss deliver fast, automated consolidation without the complexity of manual reporting processes.
“Joiin is definitely one of the best tools I have in my toolbox.”
– Ilan Abitbol
