What the flow protects
The path from a customer conversation to a posted journal entry crosses sales, operations and accounting. Each handoff is a place where the commercial record, the physical unit and the financial truth can quietly drift apart. This flow exists to keep them together.
- Confidence before commitmentSales should not move forward until price, availability, customer expectation and evidence are clear enough to stand behind.
- Fulfillment protects the promiseInventory, documents, quality, shipment and exchange obligations stay visible before the invoice is created.
- Posting creates the ledger truthAR invoices and receipts become posted journal entries only after the accounting checks are satisfied.
- Financial understanding stays currentGeneral ledger, AR aging, revenue visibility and external book sync all come from the same connected path.
The flow
Four phases, read top to bottom. The main path runs down the center. Where a phase can stall, the exception is shown to the right of the step that raises it.
How to read it
Rectangles on the center line are steps. Highlighted panels are the questions that decide whether the flow continues. The muted panels on the right are what happens when the answer is no — each one returns to the flow once it is resolved, rather than ending it. Nothing posts to the ledger until the phase above it is genuinely complete.