Your govcon accounting growth platform
Pound for pound Aspire is simply the most feature-rich and cost-effective project accounting solution for emerging businesses serving the federal government’s defense, intelligence, health, energy and other critical agencies.
A truly modern, purpose-built platform for growth, Aspire is fully compliant and cloud-native – born from the powerful collaboration of visionary cloud leaders and beloved developers of the very first project accounting system for government contractors.
Aspire delivers the ease of use and flexibility of small-business desktop accounting with powerful prime features like Daily Job Cost Reports, Integrated Cost Pools, Automatic Rate Calculations and Labor Distribution, A/P Workflows, Mobile Timekeeping and preconfigured GovCon invoices.
Aspire is nimble and scalable, created for today’s flexible work environment and cybersecurity landscape. Aspire grows along with you with efficient add-ons for back-office accounting, content workflows and records management, and CMMC enclaves.
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POWERFUL AND COST-EFFECTIVE.
Make bank.
Don’t break it.
General & Project Ledgers
Reduce monthly closing time by 80% with three simple steps.
Aspire's General Ledger set-up is simplified, streamlined and smart, enabling you to get started in a matter of minutes. Import your existing Chart of Accounts or use Aspire's smartly flexible templates. Build multi-level accounts to support your business practices and reporting requirements. Create as many cost pools you need for fringe, overhead, G&A and more.
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GovCon, Commercial, Regional
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Use your own or choose preconfigured options
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Powerful and flexible set-up is easily configured and maintained
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for GAAP, CAS, and DFARS accounting standards
GovCon Workforce Controls
Flexible configuration supports DCAA timekeeping and labor distribution.
The key driver of project profitability, Aspire’s seamless labor admin features ensure the proper allocation of both costs and revenue for your resources. Fully integrated and intuitive controls thread together your cost pools, labor rates, timesheets, A/P and payroll, so every hour is accurately and efficiently captured with complete compliance.
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to their projects and charge categories
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ensures compliant cost segregation
Works with any Payroll Provider
Keep your favorite payroll provider. Sync with easy data mapping.
Aspire is purpose-built to work with any payroll provider so there’s no transition or downtime for accounting and employees during migration. Aspire supports universal file exports that work with any payroll provider and features a robust open API for those seeking true interoperability with a broader HR suite.
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with an easy universal payroll export file
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for third-party HR systems as desired
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ensures accurate employee and subcontractor costs and pay
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and all reporting and disclosure requirements
Dynamic Project Reports
Personalized fully-compliant mobile timesheets eliminate errors.
Aspire’s Daily Job Cost Reports eliminate the need for report writing and distribution. Every day, PMs and business leaders see their reports with fully-burdened labor on their desktop and tablet devices, without tasking the accounting team or waiting for the month to close. Top-line reports may be grouped by business units, customers, sites and more, then easily traversed for single project analysis including granular transaction details and documentation.
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Supports tiered Accounts and Projects breakdowns
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update your projects every day automatically
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for Top-Level Totals and Analysis
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Time & Materials, Cost-Plus and Fixed-Fee
Project Budgets & Forecasts
Easy-to-use project planning instantly syncs with cost reports and eliminates spreadsheets.
Aspire’s Project-level Budgeting and Forecasting gives PMs the power to plan employee and subcontractor hours by project and labor category, along with ODCs. Baseline projects budgets may be directly entered into Aspire or loaded from preferred spreadsheet formats. Budgets and forecasts seamlessly flow to project reports, while real-time project labor and expenses sync back to planning for comparisons and calibration.
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convert to baseline budget as desired
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supports all project types
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hourly employee labor costs
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project forecasts in real time
Back-Office Accounting (add-on)
Whenever you need, add help for seasonal processing, staff transitions or longer term capacity.
Though Aspire’s modern user experience and built-in automations save hours of processing time each week, sometimes the most efficient accounting departments need a little help. Aspire’s team of back-office experts is ready to support occasional processing workloads, month-end closes, custom reporting packages, and even ongoing staff augmentation. Whatever the need, we’ll tailor our team for you.
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Aspire accountants typically get started next-day or sooner for emergencies
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Aspire back-office support may be priced by the hour, by volume, or fixed fee
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whatever your mix of monthly accounting, reporting, and other tasks, the Aspire team plugs right in
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for seasonal volume, staff transitions, or reliable capacity expansion
Universal Integration Engine
Open API model and powerful connector app available to support any data and system.
Aspire’s built-in integration engine may be leveraged to securely and efficiently sync data with any third-party system either on-premise or elsewhere in the cloud: HRMs, CRMs, EVMs, corporate solutions, and more. All data flowing to, from and within the Aspire platform is Encrypted In-Flight and Encrypted At-Rest, with built-in compliance for NIST, ITAR, CMS and more.
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Aspire handles the Extract, Transform, and Load
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most Aspire integrations take just a few weeks, including requirements, development, testing and launch
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every Aspire integration is maintained for a low monthly subscription fee and backed by SLAs
Ready to see more?
If Aspire’s simple sophistication — project ledgers, dynamic job cost reports, compliant timesheets, a/p workflows, govcon invoices, and more — feels like a good fit for your growing business, share your information below to access our Aspire deep-dive demo video.
CMMC Enclave (add-on)
Custom cloud for your people, projects and primes, with Level-2 CUI controls for Aspire and all your apps.
For defense contractors handling CUI – and therefore bound by CMMC level-2 IT mandates – Aspire’s delivery environment may be expanded as a scalable and flexible cloud enclave, spanning content storage, desktop applications, all devices, and every project site. Aspire CMMC enclaves may be tailored to cover specific staff and contracts, and to interact prime, sub, and customer systems as desired.
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Aspire CMMC enclaves may be priced per user or contract
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plus ITAR, DFARS, CMS and more
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to support your assessment readiness
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add any apps, people, sites, and storage you need
Compliant Timesheets
Daily project reports with real-time labor, costs and more, available on any device.
Aspire mobile timekeeping is built for busy doers in any work environment so it’s easy to use, set up, and maintain. Workforce, project and charging controls sync instantly from core accounting to the timesheet app ensuring error-free entry and real-time project reporting. Scalable DCAA compliance features ensure proper labor entries for both government contracting and commercial teams.
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smart phones, tablets, desktops
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with auditable approvals, corrections and processing
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eliminates errors for project staff and accounting
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includes all configuration, training and launch
Automated Accounts Payable
Cut A/P Entry by 70%. Speed Invoice Approvals by 100%.
Aspire A/P leverages underlying platform technologies to power special content automations that eliminate data entry and accelerate your processing. Aspire’s impressive document workflows and advanced OCR processing means your vendor and subcontractor invoices do the work for you — data entry, account coding, and project assignments begin automatically.
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when invoices are received by email or on-line
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as it learns over time, including multiple projects per invoice
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fire automatically including multi-step sign-offs as needed
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and simple expense tracking
GovCon Customer Invoicing
Includes all standard contract formats plus easy invoice customizations.
Purpose-built for government contractor cost accounting, Aspire preconfigured billing formats allow for quick and easy set-up for nearly all customer invoices even complex designs. As project costs and labor are captured day by day, Aspire queues entries for customer bills, populating all relevant schedules and attachments too. With daily timesheets and seamless A/P workflows, create precise customer invoice packages at any time.
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with preconfigured 1034 and 1035 invoice formats and more
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to match customer requirements and your brand standards
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with real-time Accounts Receivable tracking and reconciliation
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view by date, payment type, accounts and more
Aspire Content Connect
(add-on)
Seamless document and data flows across all your systems.
As Aspire incorporates a robust Enterprise Content Management engine (utilized for game-changing A/P automations), clients may optionally harness this ECM platform for use with any other business process and file storage or cloud repository solution. Scalable content automations and records management features are ready to support your entire business and may replace insufficient or aging servers and systems as needed.
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open-source engine with limitless flexibility
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or keep your own: OneDrive, Hyland, Box, Drive, and more
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with in-line version controls, approval automations, and distribution options
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for retention practices, hold and transfer schedules, and archive and destruction activities
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