What $600/Month Buys (and What It Doesn’t)
Last updated: November 11, 2026
$600/month includes the governed accrual engine, per-entry audit documentation, structured close support, and founding-team access for the first 90 days. It does not include ERP integration services, CPA services, multi-entity intercompany consolidation, or vendor management. One price, one standard.
The pricing page shows one number: $600/month. No tiers. No “contact us for pricing.” No negotiation. This article is for the person who wants to understand what that number covers before the diagnostic conversation — not because there’s a hidden catch, but because the question is a reasonable one and deserves a direct answer.
If you’ve already done the ERP rebate gap assessment and read the methodology, you know what we build toward. This article completes the picture: exactly what $600/month includes, exactly what it doesn’t, and why the price is a single number.
What $600/Month Includes
The governed accrual calculation engine. Every rebate accrual runs through a rules-based calculation engine applied against your active program terms. That means accrual estimates are built from the program conditions themselves — volume thresholds, applicable rate tiers, effective date windows — rather than from a spreadsheet approximation that someone updates when they remember. When program terms change mid-period, those adjustments are logged as discrete events in the calculation ledger; prior estimates are not silently overwritten. Settlement reconciliation runs through the same workflow: when the vendor payment arrives, the variance between the accrued amount and the settled amount is surfaced against the original calculation trace, not reconstructed manually after the fact.
Audit documentation on every entry. This is the core of what “governed” means in practice. Each accrual calculation produces a documented trace: the volume assumption used, the applicable rate tier at calculation date, the program terms in effect, and the source data the estimate drew from. If an auditor questions an accrual entry a year from now, you do not have to reconstruct why that number was what it was. The documentation is generated at calculation time, not assembled under pressure. The difference between a defensible accrual and a reconstructed one is the difference between a one-day audit response and a three-week scramble — and that difference is what $600/month is designed to close.
Structured close support. Each monthly and quarterly close cycle for the rebate accounting function includes structured assistance from Aurgus. This is not a knowledge base article pointing you to documentation that may or may not answer your question. It is hands-on support through the close: reviewing accrual estimates against actuals, flagging variance patterns, ensuring the settlement reconciliation is clean before entries post. If the close process is where the gap lives — and in most wholesale distributor environments it is — this is where the work happens.
Direct access to the founding team for the first 90 days. This is not standard SaaS support. During the first 90 days, your questions go to the people who built the product and designed the methodology. Not a support ticket queue. Not a tier-two escalation. If something in the accrual methodology doesn’t map cleanly to your program structure, the founding team handles it directly. This is a deliberate choice for the early period: we learn more from early clients than from any other source, and direct access is the mechanism for that learning.
What $600/Month Doesn’t Include
We want to be as specific here as we are about what’s included, because the exclusions are as important as the inclusions.
ERP integration or migration services. Aurgus works with your existing ERP data exports. It does not connect to your ERP via an API, perform an integration build, or manage a data migration project. Your ERP keeps the general ledger; Aurgus computes the rebate accrual math and stops at the calculation boundary. If you need a formal ERP integration engagement, that is a separate project outside the scope of what $600/month covers.
CPA or audit services. Aurgus produces the documentation — the accrual traces, the settlement reconciliation records, the program-term snapshots at calculation date. Your CPA uses that documentation in the course of their review. We are not an accounting firm, and $600/month does not include CPA services, audit representation, or any professional services regulated by state accounting boards. The relationship is clear: Aurgus gives your CPA evidence to work from; your CPA does the accounting work.
Multi-entity consolidation for complex intercompany rebate structures. If your organization has intercompany rebate arrangements that require consolidated accounting across multiple legal entities — where the rebate program spans the relationship between affiliates — this may not be the right tool yet. Aurgus is built for the single-entity distributor or manufacturer running multiple vendor rebate programs. Complex intercompany structures are outside the current scope.
Rebate program negotiation or vendor management. Aurgus governs the accounting side of the rebate relationship: accrual estimation, settlement reconciliation, audit documentation. It does not manage vendor relationships, participate in program renegotiations, or advise on program structure. Those activities sit upstream of what Aurgus does and are out of scope.
Why One Price
There is no enterprise tier. There is no “let’s talk about what makes sense for your situation.” The price is $600/month because governance is governance — the documentation standard for a 3-program distributor is the same as for a 15-program distributor. The accrual trace that makes an entry defensible to an auditor does not change based on how many programs generate entries.
Complexity changes the volume of work, not the standard. A distributor running fifteen rebate programs will have more accrual events per month than one running three. The calculation engine handles both. What doesn’t change is the requirement that each calculation be traceable from input assumptions to journal entry, defensible without reconstruction, and documented at the time of calculation rather than assembled after the fact. That standard applies everywhere, so the price is the same everywhere.
We also don’t negotiate because negotiated pricing creates negotiated expectations. If $600/month is what it costs, we want that to be the number before the conversation, not a floor from which something else is derived.
One thing worth stating directly: if the diagnostic conversation reveals a gap that Aurgus cannot close at $600/month — if your situation falls into one of the exclusions above, or if the program complexity genuinely exceeds what the current tool handles — we will tell you that in the conversation, not after you’ve started an engagement. The methodology page describes why we’re willing to have that conversation honestly.
The Comparison That Matters
The question is not “is $600/month cheap?” compared to some abstract market price for rebate accounting software. That framing is not useful because there is no standard comparator — the competitive field for governed rebate accounting at the distributor level is sparse, and the pricing structures are not comparable.
The comparison that matters is a different one: what does the gap cost when it isn’t closed?
You don’t need our numbers for that calculation. You have your own. If the gap assessment surfaced an accrual methodology problem — estimates built from memory rather than program terms, mid-period adjustments that don’t update the original estimate, settlements that don’t reconcile to anything — there is a cost attached to that. It might be a settlement variance that went undetected for two years. It might be a close process that takes three weeks because the accrual methodology has to be reconstructed before the entries can post. It might be an audit inquiry that required sixty hours of response work because the original documentation didn’t exist.
We don’t have numbers for your situation. You do. The question the gap assessment is designed to surface is whether the gap has a cost that makes $600/month the obvious answer. If it does, the diagnostic conversation is worth forty-five minutes. If it doesn’t, you should not engage Aurgus. That is the frame we’re asking you to bring.
Where to Go From Here
If you’ve read the methodology, reviewed the pricing page, and you’re ready for the diagnostic conversation — the full process is documented at What happens after you reply. That page describes what happens from the moment you reply to what you leave with regardless of outcome.
To check whether your program structure fits, see Which Rebate Structures Aurgus Is Built For.
If you want to evaluate further before the conversation — running your own assessment of whether the tool fits, checking the methodology against your program structure — the framework for doing that is at How to evaluate Aurgus.
The rebate accounting diagnostic describes the specific questions the first conversation covers, so you can prepare for it or decide it’s not worth your time before you schedule it.
For language to use when presenting this internally, see How to Make the Internal Case for Governed Rebate Accounting.
Pricing is at /pricing/.