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for hardware & physical goods

Every shipment moves inventory. Aleq is the ledger that moves with it.

Aleq is the books for companies that make and ship physical goods — it values inventory under ASC 330, rolls landed cost into the unit, relieves COGS on every shipment, and keeps gross margin true at the SKU level.

See it on your booksHow it works
synced from your 3PL & customs feeds · ties to the ledger
Perpetual inventory · livelive
On-hand inventory value$4,210,000
freight + duty, capitalizedLanded cost in transit$312,000
COGS this month$1,840,000
Gross margin41.2%
Relieved on shipment · ties to the GLreconciled
perpetual inventory · valued from the ledger
41.2%
Gross marginby SKU, from the GL
6.4x
Inventory turnson perpetual on-hand
$4.21M
On-hand valuereconciled nightly
$0.00
COGS-to-shipment variancesubledger ties to the GL
The reality today

On-hand value, COGS, and the GL disagree by month-end.

Inventory lives in a warehouse or 3PL system, freight and duty arrive on supplier invoices weeks later, and standard costs drift from actuals. Returns re-add inventory nobody re-values, and the margin you report is a quarter-end estimate. Aleq keeps the perpetual inventory subledger and the GL in lockstep, shipment by shipment.

the close, by hand
3PL / WMSSupplier invoicesExcel cost rollNetSuitequarter-end count
one ledger — read, derived, posted, signed
How it works

A container lands. The cost rolls into the unit.

Freight and duty arrive weeks after the goods, so standard cost drifts and margin becomes a guess. Aleq captures landed cost from the customs invoice and rolls it into the unit before the first sale.

Landed cost · PO-4471 · 1,200 unitsderived
1
Read · PO + customs invoice
Captured every cost to the dock
Goods (FOB)$96,000
Freight + duty$14,400
Broker + insurance$2,400
2
Capitalized · into unit cost
Rolled landed cost into the SKU
Total landed cost$112,800
Per-unit cost$94.00
Methodweighted-average
3
Booked · on shipment
COGS relieved at true landed cost
DRCost of goods sold300 units shipped$28,200
CRInventory300 × $94.00$28,200
Relieved at landed cost · margin trueposted
What Aleq runsautonomous
ASC 330 inventory valuationAleq maintains a perpetual inventory subledger — raw, WIP, and finished goods — valued at standard or weighted-average, with lower-of-cost-or-NRV write-downs posted automatically.
Landed cost rolled into the unitFreight, duty, insurance, and broker fees are captured from supplier and customs invoices and capitalized into unit cost — so COGS reflects true landed cost, not just the PO.
COGS relieved on every shipmentEach fulfillment relieves inventory and recognizes COGS in the same entry, matched to the revenue it earned. Returns reverse the entry and re-value the restocked unit.
Standard costing with variancesPurchase-price and usage variances against standard are isolated, posted, and reported, so you see where the model and the warehouse diverge.
Gross margin at the SKURevenue, landed COGS, and returns roll up to gross margin by SKU, channel, and period — derived from the ledger, current to the last shipment.
what Aleq does

The books for hardware & physical goods, run for you.

Aleq is the system of record and the controller that runs it — it does this work autonomously, inside your policy, and signs every move. Not a tool your team feeds; the colleague that closes the books.

the whole close

And it runs the rest of your close, too.

Inventory is the hard part for physical goods — but Aleq is the whole ledger, from the PO to the bank line.

Three-way match · AP

PO, receipt, and bill matched before a dollar is paid.

Bank reconciliation

Deposits, card settlements, and payouts matched nightly.

Order-to-cash · AR

Invoices, receipts, and collections on the ledger.

Continuous close

Accruals and the month sealed, day by day.

Equipment & warehouse leases

ROU asset and lease liability, derived under ASC 842.

Multi-entity

Brands and channels consolidated into one close.

Sales-tax & nexus

Nexus watched, the provision kept current.

General ledger

Every entry traceable, always balanced.

From the field
“Inventory lives in the 3PL, freight and duty hit on supplier invoices weeks later, and standard cost drifts from actuals. The margin we report is a quarter-end estimate.”
Controller · direct-to-consumer hardware brand
3PL / WMSSupplier invoicesExcelNetSuitequarter-end count
What Aleq does instead

Aleq captures landed cost from the customs invoice, rolls it into unit cost, and relieves COGS on every shipment — so on-hand value and gross margin are right to the last unit, not the last physical count.

the whole batch, before you open itposted
built on the standards you live on

It speaks your accounting natively.

The standards and subledgers your model runs on — derived and posted by Aleq, not configured by you.

ASC 842 · Equipment leasesASC 330 (inventory)Perpetual inventory subledgerLanded cost / capitalizationStandard costingLower of cost or NRVSales returns & allowances

Closing on a quarter-end inventory estimate?

Connect your warehouse and supplier feeds read-only. In 48 hours Aleq rebuilds the perpetual subledger and ties on-hand value to the GL, signed.

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