Skönto · Out-of-the-Box Distribution

Profit, without the fiction

Warranty spikes, rebates booked late, terms trued up at year-end — in distribution, the month is easy to distort. Skönto provisions irregular expenses in real time and matches them to the revenue they relate to, so reported profitability reflects the business, not the bookkeeping calendar.

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For finance leaders in distribution · Europe — Americas — ANZ

Expenses hit when they landnet income · without provisioning

Expenses matched to their revenuenet income · with Skönto

Irregular expenses distort the month

Dealing with irregular expenses and long-term liabilities affects the accuracy of time-based profitability performance. A warranty claim from last spring's sales, a rebate earned all year and booked in December — each one true, each one in the wrong place.

Skönto applies deduction techniques to allocate these costs over their related revenues. Provisions accrue the moment the revenue is booked — warranty reserves, conditional bonuses and rebates, prompt-payment discounts — first-class objects in the ledger, not month-end journal heroics.

Provisioning, made ordinary

Real-time insight into profitability

Provisioning irregular expenses in line with their corresponding revenues gives a clear view into trends and patterns — decisions rest on numbers that are already true.

Conditional bonuses & rebates

Performance-based pricing policies by customer tier, product category and brand — applied automatically, accrued as they are earned, never trued up blind at year-end.

Warranty provision

Reserves for future warranty claims are allocated against the sales that created them, so a claims spike lands on the ledger without landing on the month.

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Month-end, unhurriedSkönto in the field

Every line shows its working

Every rebate, bonus, discount and provision becomes an auditable number on the invoice and in the ledger — the same calculation from quotation to close. Discounts hit the price; provisions accrue to the accounts you choose.

Customer invoice

INV/2026/00347

Customer: Browns Appliances · Thames 3500
Currency: NZD
Terms: 14 days · PPD 3%

Line	Qty	Unit	Amount
Ash vacuum bundle — F-1041	25	100.00	2,500.00
↳ rebate · customer — Browns Appliances · 15%accrues → 080200 Provisions			375.00
↳ bonus · product category — Hearth & Flue · 10%accrues → 080210 Customer bonuses			250.00
two axes — who is buying × what is bought — compose; neither displaces the other
Flue liner 6 m — F-2210	8	~~240.00~~ 228.00	1,824.00
↳ discount · brand — Ethos · 5%inline — reduces the price			−96.00
↳ ppd · payment term — 14 days · 3%accrues → 080200 Provisions			54.72

Goods4,324.00

Provisions accrued679.72

Total dueNZD 4,324.00

Specimen — an invoice showing its workingOrder and invoice run the same engine

What the expert says

“Skönto is specifically designed for provisioning… The system is highly flexible and can meet every requirement.”
Mark Coory — CEO, Capisco Aust Pty

Accountants built this

A wealth of experience scaling business operations at PepsiCo and KPMG outlines the best practices of the fastest-growing trading businesses — embodied into Skönto.

Lily Tyler — CEO, Skönto · ACCA Professional Level

ACCA Professional Level certificate of Lily Tyler

Credential — ACCA, 2016Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

Independent axes: 02
Rate sources: 03
Reconciliation rules: 05
Deduction types: 09

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