Campfire
AI-native ERP that helps finance teams close the books 3 to 10 days faster
By Campfire · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Mid-market to enterprise accounting teams that want a faster month-end close
- High-growth software, fintech and subscription businesses outgrowing QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite
- Multi-entity, multi-currency groups needing consolidation in 180+ currencies
- Revenue-heavy businesses automating recognition for usage, subscription and contract billing
- Finance teams that want 100+ native integrations instead of custom data pipelines
Ideal size: 5-50 finance staff people · Series B+ to enterprise, multi-entity or multi-currency
Not for
- Solo bookkeepers and micro-businesses wanting a cheap self-serve ledger
- Companies with no cloud banking, payroll or billing systems to connect
- Organizations that need on-premise deployment or heavy custom module development
- Buyers who require published list pricing before taking a demo
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
2-4 weeks
~30 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Annual subscription, quote-based; no public price list or free tier published
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Not listed
Add-on costs
- None
Company & support
Who is behind Campfire, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
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- Headquarters
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How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerPlan not stated
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
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Homepage advertises dedicated in-house support from accountants who have closed books themselves; the changelog directs customers to their CSM for feature access. No support hours, channel list or SLA are published.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Campfire sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Campfire
- Shelf
- Enterpret
- Dust
- Qobra
- Time Doctor
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Campfire. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Campfire ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Ember, Campfire's in-product accounting assistant, answers questions, runs AP/AR pipelines and codes transaction batches, with review before anything posts. Agent activity entries record who or what acted. Forecast blends posted actuals, committed subledger schedules and Ember estimates, showing the assumption behind each number.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Not recorded
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Full audit trail
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Campfire is an AI-native ERP for finance teams: general ledger, close management, revenue automation and multi-entity reporting, with Ember, an AI accounting assistant, and 100+ native integrations. Customers such as PostHog, Replit and Flex report 5-10 day closes and consolidation across 180+ currencies. Typical buyers are mid-market to enterprise accounting teams replacing QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite. Pricing is quote-based; no public price list is published.
Frequently asked questions
How fast can a finance team be live on Campfire?
Vendor material points to days rather than months: the Migration Agent moves a general ledger into Campfire 'in minutes instead of months' with a reconciliation workbook proving each account tied out, and 100+ native integrations sync without middleware. Named customers report closing in five to six days after switching, versus 10-20 days on their previous ERP. Plan for a short migration window plus one full close cycle to validate mappings before you depend on the numbers.
What does Campfire cost?
Campfire publishes no price list, packaging or free tier on its public site, so contracts appear to be quoted annually and scoped by entities, currencies, integrations and transaction volume. Ask the vendor for a written quote that separately states migration, implementation and any add-on pricing before comparing Campfire with NetSuite, Rillet or Xero on total cost of ownership.
Does Campfire replace our ERP or sit alongside QuickBooks and NetSuite?
Campfire positions itself as an AI-native ERP with its own general ledger, close management, revenue automation and reporting. Its case studies describe migrations off QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage and Rillet, and one story covers moving several QuickBooks Online companies at once. It can run alongside an incumbent system for specific entities or subledgers, but the intended direction is replacement, not a bolt-on ledger.
What AI does Campfire actually ship, and does it post entries on its own?
Ember, the in-product assistant, answers questions, kicks off AP and AR pipeline runs, codes transaction batches and can generate accruals. The changelog states nothing posts until a person approves it, and that agent activity records who or what acted, with a link to the bill or invoice involved. Forecast combines posted actuals with committed subledger schedules and uses Ember only for the remainder, showing its assumption.
Which systems does Campfire connect to?
The vendor advertises 100+ natively built integrations with real-time sync, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake, Stripe, Ramp, Brex, BILL, ADP, Rippling, Gusto, Deel, Justworks, Plaid, JPMorgan, Bank of America, HSBC, Avalara, Anrok, FloQast, Workday Adaptive Planning, Cube, Datarails, Pigment, Cin7 and Wrike. A Salesforce inbound sync log shows field-level mapping detail and lets you resync without a support ticket.
Is Campfire SOC 2 certified or HIPAA-ready?
No security, trust or compliance page was published among the material reviewed, so SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP and CMMC status could not be confirmed. The privacy policy does state that Google Workspace user data is not used to create or train generalized AI models and that AI-assisted categorisation and reconciliation runs under human oversight. Request a current trust report and data processing agreement before signing.