Every team is different. That’s where Sterling shines. Book a demo, tell us the trickiest little job you do and we’ll show you how Sterling get’s it done.
Sterling is simple to use, and can get going with a single job or task. These are some of the questions we hear most often.
Sterling’s time can be bought at $1,000/month for an FTE (Full Time Employee)— less than 10% the cost of an assistant accountant. These can be bought in 0.5 FTE increments, so you can get just as much help as you need. We charge monthly so during busier months you can scale up, and when things are quiet you can scale down. An FTE is 160 HET (Human Equivalent Time) hours.
A 30-minute onboarding call is all it takes. Sterling connects to your existing systems via secure OAuth, starts learning your chart of accounts, vendor patterns, and coding conventions immediately. Most teams are seeing value within the first week.
No — and that’s by design. Sterling handles the repetitive, time-consuming work (data entry, reconciliations, chasing missing information) so your finance team can focus on advisory, analysis, and decision-making. Think of Sterling as the assistant accountant that never takes a sick day.
Yes. Sterling is SOC 2 certified with enterprise-grade encryption for all data in transit and at rest. We store minimal data locally, comply with GDPR and the NZ Privacy Act, and maintain full audit trails. Visit the Sterling Trust Center for full details on our security practices.
Sterling escalates to your team for a decision. It never guesses on ambiguous transactions — it asks, gets an answer, and learns from every approval. Over time, Sterling handles more autonomously as it builds confidence in your preferences and rules.
Yes. Sterling handles multi-entity consolidation, inter-company transactions, and entity-specific rules. It knows which chart of accounts, tax treatments, and approval workflows apply to each entity and keeps everything separated correctly.