Connect Charles River and
QuickBooks with AI

Automate the flow between investment operations and accounting. Stop manually exporting trade settlements, reconciling management fees, and copying expense data between your IMS and books. Redbird syncs Charles River and QuickBooks so your finance team works from a single source of truth.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Sync settled trades to QuickBooks as journal entries for accurate books

When trades settle in Charles River, automatically create corresponding journal entries in QuickBooks with the correct accounts, amounts, and trade references. Eliminates manual export-import cycles and ensures your general ledger reflects actual investment activity without reconciliation delays.

Generate management fee invoices in QuickBooks from Charles River portfolio values

Calculate management fees based on portfolio AUM and performance data from Charles River, then automatically create detailed invoices in QuickBooks with proper account attribution. Streamlines billing workflows for asset managers and reduces manual calculation errors.

Post QuickBooks operating expenses back to Charles River for performance attribution

Capture fund-level operating expenses, admin fees, and custody charges from QuickBooks and write them to Charles River for accurate net performance calculation. Ensures portfolio managers see true returns after all costs without manual data entry.

Reconcile broker commissions and fees between trading and accounting systems

Match commission charges recorded in Charles River trades with broker invoices and payments in QuickBooks. Automatically flag discrepancies and create reconciliation reports, reducing month-end close time and catching billing errors early.

Alert finance team when Charles River cash movements exceed QuickBooks thresholds

Monitor large cash subscriptions, redemptions, or distributions in Charles River and trigger notifications when they require special accounting treatment or exceed materiality thresholds set in QuickBooks. Keeps controllers informed of events that impact financial statements.

Archive trade confirmation documents from Charles River with QuickBooks transaction records

Link trade confirmations, allocation reports, and compliance records from Charles River to the corresponding QuickBooks transactions and invoices. Creates a complete audit trail connecting investment activity to financial records for regulatory examinations and audits.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Charles River and QuickBooks with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands both Charles River's investment data structures and QuickBooks' accounting framework, so you can connect portfolio operations to your books without custom middleware.

AI that speaks investment management and accounting

Redbird maps Charles River entities — portfolios, accounts, trades, positions, and cash movements — to QuickBooks chart of accounts, classes, customers, and transaction types. The platform recognizes settlement dates, trade lifecycle events, and fee calculations from Charles River, then translates them into proper journal entries, invoices, and expense records in QuickBooks. No need to build field mappings or write transformation logic for every security type and transaction scenario.

Trade settlement mapping
Fee calculation sync
Multi-entity accounting
Cash reconciliation
10×

faster than exporting CSVs and manually posting to QuickBooks

No spreadsheet transformations, no manual journal entry creation, no end-of-month data cleanup

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Charles River and QuickBooks simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Charles River or QuickBooks.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Charles River into QuickBooks, or from QuickBooks back into Charles River. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start workflows from any event in Charles River or QuickBooks — trade execution, settlement, invoice creation, or expense posting.

Charles River
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Trade settled

Fires when a trade reaches settled status and is ready for accounting.

Trigger

Portfolio valuation updated

Triggers when end-of-day NAV or AUM calculation completes for a portfolio.

Trigger

Cash movement processed

Fires on subscription, redemption, distribution, or dividend cash events.

Action

Create journal entry

Post structured trade or cash movement data as a journal entry in QuickBooks.

Action

Generate invoice

Create a management fee or performance fee invoice with calculated amounts.

Action

Update expense allocation

Write fund-level expenses to Charles River for performance attribution.

QuickBooks
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Invoice created

Fires when a new invoice is generated in QuickBooks for client billing.

Trigger

Expense recorded

Triggers when an operating expense or vendor bill is entered.

Trigger

Payment received

Fires when a client payment is applied to an outstanding invoice.

Action

Match transaction

Link QuickBooks payments to corresponding Charles River cash events.

Action

Create reconciliation report

Generate variance reports comparing QuickBooks balances to Charles River positions.

Action

Update cash balance

Sync QuickBooks cash account balances back to Charles River portfolio records.

Charles River
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QuickBooks

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