Maritime accounting that speaks your language.
Purpose-built maritime accounting — not a generic ERP with a marine skin. Multi-currency processing, vessel-level profit and loss, voyage costing, and crew payroll integration operate on the same dataset as your technical and commercial modules.
A vessel is a profit centre, a cost centre, a moving asset, and a currency crossroads — all at once.
Generic ERPs treat every business unit as a static entity. A vessel is anything but: it changes port, currency, charter, and cost profile weekly. VOLAX Finance was built to model the ship as its own accounting dimension — every cost tagged, every voyage measured, every hire currency handled, every consolidation seamless.
Accounting that a maritime CFO recognises
Maritime chart of accounts
Vessel, voyage, department, project, and cost-category dimensions. Configurable per company. Consolidation across owning entities.
Multi-currency, multi-company
Automatic exchange rate updates from central bank feeds. Realised and unrealised FX handled per transaction. Intercompany transactions eliminated at consolidation.
Vessel-level budgeting
Annual budget per vessel per cost category. Actual-vs-budget with variance analysis. Rolling forecast supported. Alerts on budget breach.
Payables & receivables
Aged AP and AR analysis. Approval workflows on payment runs. Charterer collection cycle tracked. Multi-currency ageing.
Electronic bank payments
ISO 20022 pain.001 payment file generation. SWIFT gpi tracking. Multi-bank support. Approval and signing workflow.
Asset lifecycle & depreciation
Vessel and equipment asset register. Straight-line, reducing-balance, and unit-of-production depreciation. Impairment support. Class-society valuation link.
VOLAX Procure integration
Every PO cost allocates automatically to the correct vessel, voyage, and cost centre. Three-way matching feeds the ledger. No re-key.
VOLAX Crew integration
Payroll journals posted from crew payroll runs. Currency conversion. Employer contributions accrued. Full audit link from journal back to seafarer wage slip.
Configurable dashboards
Financial dashboards per role: CFO, controller, vessel accountant, superintendent. Drill from consolidated statement to journal detail.
Bunker cost allocation & voyage P&L
Bunker consumption from VOLAX Ops allocated by voyage. Off-hire cost separated. Voyage P&L reconciled automatically per completed voyage.
Finance closes the loop
Vessel P&L on-demand, at close
Book a walkthrough. Bring your worst-lag month-end — we’ll show you the platform view that closes vessels in hours, not weeks.