Candis vs Runway
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Candis extends from AP into procurement — purchase requisitions, auto-tax, and a mobile expense app land together.
Candis is shipping aggressively at the procure-to-pay seam for DACH finance teams. The May releases bring purchase requisitions inside Candis with auto-matching against incoming invoices, automatic tax calculation derived from account tax keys, DATEV-style Automatikkonten support, and a Mobile App 2.0 that lets approvers handle expenses from a phone. The credit-card transaction surface is also being tightened — faster table, better automatching against invoices.
Candis is broadening from 'AP automation for DACH SMBs' into a fuller P2P stack: requisition through invoice through expense, with DATEV at the core of the accounting integration. The DATEV-flavored features (Automatikkonten, account-derived tax rates) signal a deliberate optimization for the German accounting workflow rather than a generic European AP tool. Mobile expense approvals plus central user management across multiple Gesellschaften suggest mid-market multi-entity customers are now the target.
Expect a tighter Bestellanforderungen + budget approval workflow next, with vendor-level controls on top of the new requisitions surface. The DATEV-specific tax automation will likely roll out to all eligible customers within weeks, and at least one more accounting connector (likely an ERP, after Microsoft Business Central and Sage earlier this quarter) should land.
Steady polish for collaborative financial planning — chart clarity, scenario branching, layout control.
Runway is in steady incremental mode for its collaborative financial planning canvas. Recent work focuses on the everyday ergonomics: 100% stacked charts now consistently display percentages, scenarios can be duplicated or locked as point-in-time versions from Activity History, table and database blocks are resizable per page, and formula editing has gotten cleaner (context menus, an 'f' indicator, sturdier draft history). Earlier entries added customizable fiscal year labels and Last close in formulas.
The cadence is small, focused improvements across the modeling and presentation surfaces — no directional pivot visible. The duplicate-and-lock-scenario primitive is the most strategically interesting recent addition; it suggests Runway is investing in version-control-style collaboration patterns familiar to engineers, not just spreadsheet users. Formula editing depth keeps getting attention, signalling power-user retention is a priority.
Expect continued refinement of scenario management (likely scenario comparison views or merge-style workflows), more chart-type polish, and probably an AI-assisted formula or modeling helper in the next quarter or two given how much editor surface area is being polished.
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