Vizii, Fathom, Spotlight Reporting and Joiin
These tools get shortlisted together and they are built for different jobs. This page is about one axis in particular — getting a location or department manager a view of their own numbers — and about where Vizii is the wrong answer.
The short version
Fathom, Spotlight Reporting and Joiin all do consolidation: taking several companies and producing group figures, with eliminations and multi-currency handling. Two of them also do benchmarking across a group. Vizii does neither, and if either is what you need then one of them is your answer rather than this one.
What Vizii is built for is the other direction: taking one company and giving a particular person a live, read-only slice of it — their site, their department, their accounts — without a ledger login and without a seat in your accounting subscription. That is a different problem from consolidating a group, and most businesses with more than one site eventually have both.
What each one is built for
Every statement below is from the vendor's own public documentation, linked beside it, and read in November 2026. Products change — if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Fathom
PricingManagement reporting, analysis and consolidation for accounting firms and their clients, including benchmarking across a group of companies.
Access is granted per company and per group. Fathom's franchise documentation describes importing each franchise location as its own company, and says a franchisee can be given access to only their own location — with roles and advanced permissions deciding which reports and tools they get.
We could not establish from the public documentation whether a user can be restricted to a single division, tracking category or class WITHIN one company, as opposed to being given one company out of several. If you need that, ask Fathom directly rather than taking this page's word for it.
Spotlight Reporting
PricingManagement reporting and forecasting, with a multi-entity product aimed at franchises and groups: consolidation with intercompany eliminations, and benchmarking and rankings across a large number of entities.
The multi-entity product is presented around aggregating and ranking entities, including anonymised rankings intended for sharing with franchisees and branches so each one can see where it stands without identifying the others.
We did not find public documentation describing a per-user restriction to a single tracking category or class within one entity, and we are not claiming it is absent — only that we could not confirm it either way.
Joiin
PricingConsolidated group reporting across multiple entities and currencies, aimed at CFOs and finance teams running group reporting, and at advisors managing several clients.
Joiin describes adding teammates and setting permissions for collaborating across reports and clients.
The public site describes team permissions rather than scoped end-reader access, and we could not establish from it whether an individual branch manager or franchisee can be given a view limited to their own location.
Vizii
Live dashboards and a departmental Profit & Loss per company, and read-only access scoped to a slice of one company — for people who are not accountants and will never have a ledger login.
A viewer is scoped by account, by Xero tracking category, by QuickBooks class or location, by customer or by supplier — individually or combined — within a single company. Every total, chart and list they open is calculated only from records inside that scope. They sign in with a one-time email link and use up no Xero or QuickBooks seat.
- No consolidation. Figures are never combined across companies: there is no group Profit & Loss and no intercompany elimination.
- No benchmarking or league tables across a group of companies.
- No forecasting or cash-flow modelling.
- The Profit & Loss by department report is built from Xero tracking categories, so it is Xero only today. QuickBooks support is planned.
- The report covers the selected month and the year to date. There are no quarterly, annual or custom periods, and nothing is emailed on a schedule.
Which one fits your problem
You need a group P&L across separate companies
Several legal entities, intercompany transactions to eliminate, maybe several currencies. That is consolidation, and it is what Fathom, Spotlight Reporting and Joiin are built to do. Vizii will not do it.
You want to rank or benchmark companies against each other
League tables across a franchise network or a client base, anonymised or not. Vizii has no equivalent; Fathom and Spotlight Reporting both present benchmarking as a core feature.
One manager needs one slice of one company
A branch manager, a department head, a client contact who is not an accountant. Scoped to their tracking category, class, location or accounts, read-only, live, with no ledger login. That is what Vizii is for.
You are a practice doing this for many clients
Every client company in one login, the same reporting in each, and each client's own managers scoped to their part. Billed per client company with unlimited users.
The practice planHow this page was put together
- Every claim about another product comes from that vendor's own public documentation, linked beside the claim, read in November 2026.
- Where we could not establish something, the page says so rather than guessing. An absence from a vendor's documentation is not proof of an absence in their product.
- There are no competitor prices here. All three publish their own pricing and it changes; the links above go to the real thing rather than to a figure of ours that will age.
- No scores, no rankings and no overall winner. The tools do different jobs and the useful question is which job you have.
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Questions
Usually not. Those tools consolidate several companies into group figures and, in two cases, benchmark companies against each other. Vizii does neither. It reports each company on its own and gives individual managers a scoped, read-only view of part of one company. Plenty of groups run one of those alongside Vizii.
No. Figures are never combined across companies in Vizii — there is no group total and no intercompany elimination. If that is what you need, use a consolidation tool.
Vizii scopes a viewer to a Xero tracking category, a QuickBooks class or location, specific accounts, customers or suppliers within one company, and they see only records in that scope. For the others, their own documentation describes access granted per company or per group; we could not establish from public documentation whether they can restrict somebody to one division inside a single company, so ask them directly.
Because we could not verify them to a standard we would publish. All three vendors publish their own pricing and it changes, so this page links to each of their pricing pages rather than restating a figure that would go stale. Vizii's own prices are on our pricing page.
Vizii connects to Xero and QuickBooks Online. The Profit & Loss by department report is built from Xero tracking categories and is Xero only today; QuickBooks support is planned. Scoped access by class or location works on QuickBooks now.
Yes — tell us and we will correct it. Every competitor claim here is dated and linked to the vendor's own documentation precisely so that it can be checked and challenged.
More on what Vizii does: a P&L by location, reporting across several companies and scoped sharing.
See whether it fits your setup
If what you need is a group consolidation, one of the tools above will serve you better and we would rather say so now.