Today we're excited to announce our partnership with SoftLedger, a cloud-native, API-first accounting platform. While Tailor handles operations (inventory, purchasing, and omnichannel orders), SoftLedger acts as a financial system of record and full general ledger.

We’ve been working closely with the SoftLedger team to meet the unique needs of operators and CFOs, and our partnership is built on a shared conviction: critical business systems (like operations and financial reporting) should be able to evolve independently without falling out of sync.

For most of the brands we talk to, closing the books at the end of the month is a persistent pain for operations and accounting. In order to scale, brands usually face two options:

1. Invest in a single ERP suite. Operations and accounting live in the same enterprise suite, which means the numbers agree. But that also means changing how you operate according to rigid software (and a potential accounting platform migration).
2. Patch together point solutions + accounting’s existing platform. You pick the right tool for each job — but then waste hundreds of hours every year on reconciliation between inventory, invoicing, and accounting systems.

Neither option is really about accounting or operations, but rather, about architecture. When your data and logic layers are locked to a single interface, every operational change becomes a financial reporting change, and vice versa. But when you decouple those layers and start from an API-first architecture, those trade-offs go away.

That was the thinking behind Tailor’s headless, composable architecture, and it's why SoftLedger was a natural fit. The team at SoftLedger built a general ledger the same way we built an ERP: API-first and architected for flexibility.

As Ben Taylor, SoftLedger's CEO, put it: “Tailor gives operators a composable way to run their business, and SoftLedger makes sure every transaction flows straight through to their financials. Together we enable retailers to use their financial data to make better strategic decisions.”

So if you’re a quickly scaling brand and your patchwork of operational solutions is holding you back, you can now modernize operations and accounting together. Or, modernize in stages — starting with whichever layer is causing the most pain to your business. The flexibility of API-first platforms puts you in charge.

Reach out to our team if you want to learn more about Tailor’s API-first retail solutions.

Yo Shibata Co-founder & CEO, Tailor