Fishbowl + Go Fig

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Connect Fishbowl to Go Fig for true cost by SKU, work-order variance, and BOM-level margin loaded into the Excel your finance team already uses, every day, automatically.

Fishbowl runs the manufacturing and inventory floor for thousands of QuickBooks shops, tracking work orders, bills of material, and inventory movement that QuickBooks alone never sees. The problem for a cost accountant is that the numbers in Fishbowl and the numbers in the general ledger drift apart the moment a work order closes at a different actual cost than its standard, and rebuilding true cost by SKU means a manual export and a private spreadsheet that is stale by the end of the week. Go Fig does not replace Fishbowl. It connects to it, syncs the full Parts, Bills of Material, Work Orders, Manufacture Orders, and Inventory graph alongside your QuickBooks GL, reconciles standard cost against actual cost and the production-floor reality, and loads fresh, traceable cost data into the Excel your finance team already lives in, every day, automatically. Celeste, Go Fig's AI analyst, can then answer 'why did unit cost on this assembly jump last month' with a real audit trail back to the work order and the component issue that moved it. Your financial data stays in your environment. It is never pasted into a public chatbot and never used to train an outside model. Celeste works only on your data, with a full audit trail.

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Key facts

Connection: Fishbowl data API or read-only database role
Sync grain: Work-order, part, and inventory-movement level
Reconciles to: QuickBooks general ledger
Historical backfill: Up to 10 years of work orders and cost layers
Auth: Dedicated read-only integration account

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What you can do with Fishbowl data in Go Fig

True cost by SKU, reconciled to the GL

Standard cost rolled up through each bill of material and reconciled against actual posted cost in your QuickBooks general ledger, so the cost accountant sees true unit cost per finished good without rebuilding the rollup by hand every month.

Work-order variance and overhead absorption

Closed work orders compared standard versus actual on material, labor, and overhead, with absorption variance surfaced by assembly and production line. Pricing and mix decisions get made off reconciled numbers instead of last quarter's standards.

Inventory valuation and margin by product or customer

On-hand inventory valued at reconciled cost and margin computed by product, line, and customer from the same governed dataset, so the controller can defend valuation at close and the VP Finance can see where margin actually comes from.

Data available from Fishbowl

Go Fig extracts and normalizes the following data from your Fishbowl account:

Parts and product master

Bills of material (BOM)

Work orders and manufacture orders

Inventory on-hand and movement history

Standard cost and average cost layers

Sales orders and purchase orders

Vendors and customers

Receipts and shipments

Locations and inventory tags

QuickBooks GL accounts and postings

How to connect Fishbowl

Provision a read-only Fishbowl integration account

Create a dedicated Fishbowl user (commonly 'GOFIG_API') with read access to the modules you want exposed, or a read-only database role for self-hosted installs. Keep the account separate from your human operators so token rotation and audit trails stay clean.

Confirm your Fishbowl server and connection path

Go Fig connects to your Fishbowl server over its data API or directly to the backing database for self-hosted deployments. Confirm the server host, the integration account credentials, and whether your install is cloud-hosted or on-premise so Go Fig can route the connection correctly.

Pick the historical window

Most cost accountants backfill three to seven years of work orders, inventory movement, and cost layers so true-cost and variance trends have history to lean on. After the initial backfill, Go Fig syncs deltas incrementally.

Wire up the manufacturing cost flows

Celeste ships starter flows for true cost by SKU, work-order variance, inventory valuation, and margin by product and customer. Point them at your Fishbowl and QuickBooks connections and the cost data lands in Excel on day one, with drill-down back to the work order and component issue behind every number.

Authentication: Fishbowl exposes a local or hosted data API and a SQL-accessible database backend. Go Fig connects through a dedicated read-only Fishbowl integration user (or a read-only database role for self-hosted installs), authenticates against your Fishbowl server, and re-authenticates automatically when the session expires. The integration account is kept separate from your human operators so token rotation and the audit trail stay clean.

Common Questions About Fishbowl Integration

Does Go Fig replace Fishbowl?

No. Fishbowl stays your manufacturing and inventory system of record. Go Fig connects to it, reconciles its work-order and cost data against your QuickBooks general ledger and the production floor, and loads fresh, traceable cost data into the Excel your finance team already uses, every day, automatically. Nothing about how your floor operates in Fishbowl changes.

How does Go Fig handle standard versus actual cost?

Go Fig pulls your standard cost rollup through each bill of material and the actual cost recorded as work orders close, then reconciles both against the posted cost in your QuickBooks general ledger. Variance is surfaced by assembly, line, and component, so the cost accountant can see exactly where actual diverged from standard rather than discovering it at close.

Can Go Fig reconcile Fishbowl inventory value to QuickBooks?

Yes. Go Fig joins Fishbowl on-hand inventory and cost layers against the inventory and cost-of-goods accounts in your QuickBooks general ledger and surfaces variances by part and location. A typical reconciliation surfaces miscosted receipts, work orders closed at the wrong cost, and inventory adjustments that never made it to the GL.

Is our cost data safe and private?

Yes. Your financial and production data stays inside your Go Fig environment. It is never pasted into a public chatbot and never used to train an outside model. Celeste, our AI analyst, works only on your data, and every answer she gives carries a full audit trail back to the underlying work order, part, or GL posting.

How current is the Fishbowl data inside Go Fig?

Daily incremental sync is the default, so the Excel your finance team opens each morning reflects yesterday's production and inventory movement. Cost accountants running tight close cycles can dial sync up to hourly for work orders and inventory if the on-call analyst needs near-real-time visibility. A full reindex runs nightly.