Mayday vs Numeric

At a glance

1. Through Easy Month End, Mayday's close product.
2. Numeric documents dependency mapping, business-day due dates, control reviews and read-only auditor logins.
3. Numeric connects bank feeds through Plaid, Finicity and SFTP and states it matches over 90% of transactions.
4. Mayday Accruals is in early access at the time of writing.
5. Numeric surfaces missing accruals through flux and transaction monitoring. No evidence of accrual creation, calculation, posting or reversal.
6. Numeric can flag a transaction that belongs on a prepaid schedule, based on account and materiality threshold. Building and posting the schedule isn't described.
7. Numeric's references to intercompany are about matching bank transfers between your own accounts, not agreeing the two sides of an intercompany balance.
8. No public reference to recharges or cost allocation across entities or departments.
9. Numeric reads NetSuite's dimensions for reporting.
10. Transaction-level sync is described for NetSuite. For QuickBooks Online, Xero and Sage Intacct, Numeric describes pulling trial balance data.
11. Numeric's entry tier starts at $30 per user per month. Its two higher tiers are quote-only. Mayday prices by number of entities, in GBP.
12. Mayday's SOC 2 certification is under way; current controls are published on the Mayday security page.
13. Numeric publishes no security or trust page and no certification. Given its customer base that shouldn't be read as absence of one - only that it isn't public.

What both products do

There's some overlap, and it's worth being clear about:

• Running a close checklist with owners, due dates and status
• Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations against the general ledger
• Flagging an account that no longer reconciles after someone posts to it
• Month-on-month P&L variance analysis with AI-drafted commentary
• Recording who prepared and who reviewed, with a timestamped trail

Where Mayday is stronger

Here's the distinction that matters. Numeric tells you an account doesn't reconcile. Mayday does the work that makes it reconcile.

Numeric is candid about this. On general ledger reconciliation, their own site says the platform “does not build those work papers for you” - for accounts with complex supporting schedules, your team still assembles the schedule. That's an honest description of a close-management tool, and it's exactly the gap Mayday fills.

The schedules themselves.
‍Prepayments and deferred revenue: Mayday identifies the transactions, builds the schedule, and posts the monthly journal to Xero or QuickBooks Online. Numeric can flag that a transaction probably belongs on a prepaid schedule. Someone still has to go and build it. Accruals works the same way and is in early access.

Intercompany.
‍Balancer maps loan account relationships across entities, shows which balances disagree, surfaces the transaction responsible, and posts the FX and interest journals. Nothing in Numeric's public material does this - their intercompany references are about matching bank transfers between your own accounts.

Recharges.
‍Recharger allocates costs between entities and between departments and cost centres inside one entity, posting invoices, bills or journals to both sides. Numeric doesn't describe cost allocation at all.

Cross-entity bank reconciliation.
‍BRAG matches a statement line in one Xero entity to an invoice sitting in another, from inside Xero's own bank rec screen, and creates the intercompany entry as part of the match.

Group master data.
‍Mayday HQ manages chart of accounts and tracking categories across every entity and writes changes back into Xero. Numeric doesn't mention chart of accounts anywhere.

Depth on Xero and QuickBooks.
‍Both products support Xero and QuickBooks Online. The difference is what they do with them. Numeric's own pricing tiers tell the story: the middle tier is described as the fit for teams on QuickBooks and Xero, the top tier for teams on ERPs like NetSuite, and the transaction-level features are documented against NetSuite. Mayday was built for cloud ledgers from the start, and reads and writes at transaction level in all three it supports.

Ledgers and fit

Both support Xero and QuickBooks Online, so the integration list alone won't separate them. What separates them is depth and direction of travel.

Numeric is built outwards from NetSuite. The four ledgers it names aren't equal in the product: NetSuite gets every transaction line in real time, journal posting and SavedSearch integration, while the others are described in terms of pulling trial balance data. That's not necessarily a criticism; it's a sensible way to build for the market they serve, but a Xero team evaluating Numeric is buying a different, thinner product than the one in the NetSuite case studies.

Mayday runs the other way. Xero, QuickBooks Online and Intuit Enterprise Suite, at transaction level, with the accounting workflows that cloud-ledger teams do by hand because their ledger has no module for them.

The practical test: if you're on NetSuite, Mayday isn't in the running. If you're on Xero or QuickBooks Online and growing, the question is whether your problem is coordinating the close or doing the work in it.

On price

The two price on different axes, and only one of them prices in public.

Numeric charges per user, per month. The entry tier starts at $30 per user per month, but it has no ERP connection - the integration begins at the middle tier, which is quote-only, as is the top tier. So for any real deployment, the price is a conversation.

Mayday charges per entity, with the intercompany products bundled into one plan and published figures at every group size. Our Active plan, covering Balancer, Recharger, BRAG and Mayday HQ, is £34 a month at two entities, £139 at ten and £229 at twenty, billed annually. Flux, Deferred Revenue and Prepayments are add-ons. There's a free tier and a 30-day trial with no card, as well as options for pure single-entity.

Which should you choose

Neither is really a substitute for the other, which is unusual in a comparison and worth saying. Numeric is a control layer over a close. Mayday is a control layer plus the machinery that does the close. If you're on NetSuite you can't have Mayday, and if you're on Xero you'll find Numeric thinner than its case studies suggest.

Frequently asked questions

Does Numeric work with Xero and QuickBooks Online?

Yes. Numeric lists NetSuite, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online and Xero. The important caveat is depth: transaction-level sync, journal posting and SavedSearch integration are documented against NetSuite, while the other three are described in terms of pulling trial balance data. Their own pricing tiers reflect it - the middle tier is positioned for teams on QuickBooks and Xero, the top tier for teams on ERPs like NetSuite.

Can Numeric post accruals, prepayments or deferred revenue journals?

Not from what's published. Numeric will surface a missing accrual through flux or transaction monitoring, and flag a transaction that belongs on a prepaid schedule. Building the schedule and posting the journal isn't described anywhere, and their general ledger reconciliation page says plainly that the platform doesn't build work papers for you. Mayday does that part: identify the transaction, build the schedule, post the journal to Xero or QuickBooks Online, keep it reconciled.

Is Mayday a close management tool like Numeric?

Easy Month End covers close task management, ownership, progress tracking and balance sheet reconciliation review. Numeric's close product has dependency mapping, control reviews, materiality-based auto-certification, auditor logins, post-close analytics. If the close management layer itself is what you're comparing, Numeric wins that on features. Mayday's argument is that the layer is only half the problem.

Which is cheaper, Mayday or Numeric?

Numeric charges per user from $30 a month at the entry tier, which has no ERP connection; the tiers that do are quote-only. Mayday charges per entity with public figures - our Active plan is £34 a month at two entities, £139 at ten and £229 at twenty, billed annually. Cost scales with headcount on one and entity count on the other, so the answer depends on which of those you have more of.

Can you use both?

You could, but there's more overlap here than there is value. Both run a close checklist and both review reconciliations, so you'd be paying twice for the layer they share. In practice teams pick one, and the ledger usually decides it.

Last reviewed: August 2026