Campfire ERP Migration Success in 7 Weeks

We replaced Intuit QuickBooks with Campfire and went live August 1 after a short implementation. Seven weeks into go-live, here's the honest version 🏕️🔥 The evaluation: Campfire over others. Not because it was cheaper — because it was built for a finance and accounting team that wanted to work inside the system instead of around it. Assort Health is AI native, so our ERP is now as well. The migration: → Chart of accounts rebuilt from scratch, not lifted from QBO → Full tie-out, balance by balance, done by us and their team → Ramp, Rippling, and J.P. Morgan wired in before go-live, not after. Tabs is almost done… aiming for October 1! The result: our first full close originated end-to-end in the new system, and the financial package came out of Campfire instead of getting assembled around it. ERP migrations have a reputation — nine months, a systems integrator, and a finance team that stops closing the books while it happens. That's not what this was. The tooling changed. The discipline didn't. You still tie out every balance yourself. This time with Ember, custom AI agents, MCP connectors… accounting has been fun the last few years, and it’s only getting better! 🎉

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Awesome stack Mark Longiaru, CPA! Congrats on building for scale and full on agentic automation!

Would love to chat with you about this

hey! how long did implementation take?

Congratulations Mark, sounds like some great progress

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Mark, I loved reading this. So much that I'm commenting on a Saturday. 🤣 I've experienced the legacy system approach firsthand, on-prem and cloud. We made some progress over the years, vendors and customers alike, but this new paradigm with AI-native capabilities is different. Businesses can have all of the best solutions up and running very rapidly with considerably fewer resources. It almost seems more like fun because you can actually have what you have been imagining.

Rebuilding the chart instead of lifting it keeps old workarounds from following you into the new system. Seven weeks to a full close inside it says the prep work did its job.

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Nice one Mark! Looks like a solid setup for an efficient close. One question though - the CoA rebuild, I assume that was largely on you rather than imp team. What was key change there? Adding more dimensions? Or adjusting how the business changed?!

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Really useful honest-verdict format. The part that resonates most is that you rebuilt the chart of accounts from scratch rather than lifting the QBO mess into a new system — that's the step teams are most tempted to skip, and it's usually the one that determines whether the new ERP gets trusted. The discipline point at the end is the real takeaway: tooling changed, accountability didn't.

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