Accounting API

Accounting integration removes a substantial manual finance workload for partner organizations whose reimbursement volumes are growing as activity registration becomes easier. Today, approved expenses must be re-keyed into Xledger or Dynamics, which delays payouts to peer mentors and creates reconciliation risk. By pushing approved reimbursements directly from Meander into the accounting system, the platform shortens the payout cycle, reduces double-entry errors, and frees coordinator and admin time that currently goes to bookkeeping handover. Strategically, this feature also strengthens Meander's value proposition for larger organizations who already have established accounting workflows - without it, those organizations would treat Meander as a partial solution requiring a parallel finance process.

Implementation introduces an Accounting Gateway infrastructure component on the backend that abstracts vendor-specific APIs (Xledger, Dynamics) behind a single internal contract, so additional accounting systems can be added without touching the admin UI. Credentials are stored per organization in an encrypted configuration store and never exposed to the client. The Accounting Config Page in the admin portal lets Org Admins enable the integration, supply credentials, and map expense types to ledger codes. Outbound calls run asynchronously via a job queue with retry/backoff and idempotency keys to avoid duplicate postings. All postings are written to the org's audit log per the security & audit area.