Why do fund controllers choose Ceviche over TripsWare?
Ceviche splits every expense line under your LPA terms and posts the entries to your GL.
It reads expense reports and vendor invoices from the systems where your team files them today. With TripsWare, those reports and invoices are filed in TripsWare.
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Legal invoices split line by line
Each line of a 25-line legal bill can follow its own methodology, and LEDES files come in directly. The invoice lines and the split sit side by side while your team reviews them.
LPA terms checked at allocation time
Caps, thresholds, exclusions, and entity eligibility come from your LPA terms and are checked as each cost allocates. A charge that breaks them shows up before its entry posts, while your controller can still change it.
Rules your accounting team can edit
We set up your current methodologies during onboarding, and your accounting team edits them in the app from then on. Most changes go live the same day, and we review complex methodology changes with you within 48 hours.
Compare Ceviche vs TripsWare
The differences that decide your close, side by side.
 Ceviche | TripsWare | |
|---|---|---|
| Your expense tools | Stay where your team files expenses now | Expense reports and vendor invoices are filed in TripsWare |
| Allocation rules | Configured at onboarding, then edited by your team in the app | Custom rules and GL mappings built for each client |
| Users | Not metered | Fees based on number of users and features |
| Legal invoices | Split per line, each line under its own methodology, LEDES files ingested | Vendor module allocates legal and professional-services invoices |
Compare using AIOpens ChatGPT in a new tab.Your expense tools stay put
Submitting and approving stay in Expensify, Concur, Ramp, Brex, or Bill.com, and Ceviche takes each line from there.
Example: a partner files a client dinner in Expensify and a law firm bill lands in Bill.com the same week. Ceviche pulls both, splits each line across the right funds under your LPA terms, and posts the entries to your GL. The partner never has to open Ceviche.
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How Flybridge unified quarterly allocations across 18+ fund entities
“Ceviche streamlines our close process, organizes our data for audits, and drafts entries for our fund admin, all in a single workflow.”
Every allocation traces back to source documentation with a full audit trail, turning year-end fire drills into one-click PDF pulls.
Why does Ceviche stand out?
Ceviche posts to QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, and Sage Intacct. Each entry links back to its source line and to the methodology snapshot in force when it was allocated, so when an auditor asks about an entry, your team can show the source line and the rule behind it.
Customers quoted on TripsWare's site credit its support and its depth in private equity, and one says the firm has used it for more than a decade. Ceviche covers less ground, since it does not handle expense report submission or route vendor invoices for approval.
Questions about Ceviche and TripsWare
No. Ceviche connects to Expensify, Concur, Ramp, Brex, and Bill.com and reads expenses from them.
Yes. Send your allocation spreadsheet and entity list, and we build a sandbox on it with your current methodologies. You can compare its splits against your spreadsheet before you change anything.
No. Ceviche is an annual subscription priced on your entity count and how your allocation runs. Onboarding is included and users are not metered.
TripsWare is expense and AP software for alternative asset managers, in business since 2006. It handles travel and expense reports and vendor invoices, and it can invoice portfolio companies for recoverable costs. Its rules split costs across funds, deals, and investor groups by AUM, NAV, commitments, or any metric a firm chooses. It integrates with accounting systems including QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, and Yardi, using GL mappings and export files built for each client.
Stop reconciling. Get it right the first time.
Move your fund expense allocation process on Ceviche today.