AI bookkeeping for entertainment and gaming.
You sit between studios and audiences, or between venues, artists and the night. Development costs, publishing fees, ad networks and event invoices all have to land on the right title, campaign or show. Cortena codes them to your rules, and your phone captures the messy ones on the spot.
For gaming publishers, live events and music or video teams · DATEV, Exact Online and Twinfield
You connect both sides. Your books have to connect them too.
Entertainment finance is a network of counterparties: creators on one side, distribution and users on the other, and a pile of invoices in between.
A gaming publisher pays studios and contractors while buying users through Google Ads, Unity Ads and Meta. A live or music business pays venues, artists, tech crew and promoters, often from invoices handed over backstage. Margin only shows up when every euro is matched to the right title, campaign or event. Most teams still do that in spreadsheets after the fact.
| Supplier | Type | Account | Cost centre | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northline Studio GmbH | Studio | 4900 | TTL-ORBIT | 18.400,00 |
| Unity Technologies SF | UA | 6600 | UA-ORBIT | 9.640,00 |
| Columbiahalle Berlin | Venue | 6300 | EVT-0412 | 4.850,00 |
| A. Meier · Artist fee | Talent | 4900 | EVT-0412 | 2.200,00 |
Gaming publishers and live entertainment, same finance problem.
Different stages. Same need: every invoice matched to the right P&L line before the close.
Studios, titles and user acquisition in one P&L
You develop or publish, buy users, and sit between content providers and the audience. Studio invoices, contractor fees and ad spend have to align to titles and campaigns so COGS and UA cost stay comparable, not guesswork.
Venues, artists and events that never wait for accounting
Shows generate invoices on the floor: venue hire, artist fees, production, catering, travel. Paper and PDFs arrive late, incomplete or without a purchase order. Finance needs them coded to the event the same day, not three weeks later.
Complex processes. One set of books.
Cortena is built for the payables and matching work around publishing and events, not for replacing your ad accounts or ticketing tools.
Both sides of the deal hit your ledger
Development and content on one side, publishing and user delivery on the other. Cortena codes both streams to the same title or show keys so the middle of the stack stays reconciliable.
Google Ads, Unity Ads, Meta and the rest
UA and performance invoices arrive from many networks, often with fees and credit notes. Each line still needs campaign, title or channel coding so acquisition cost matches the revenue it bought.
COGS only works when the keys agree
Studio work, contractor bills and ad spend only become real unit economics when they share cost centres and cost carriers. Your controllers set that logic once. Cortena applies it every time.
Scan and upload from your phone in seconds
At a venue, festival or shoot, open Cortena on mobile, photograph the invoice and upload. Capture and coding start immediately, so the bill does not wait until someone is back at a desk.
From the venue floor to booking-ready in seconds.
Cortena's mobile web app lets anyone on site scan an invoice with their phone camera and send it for processing straight away. No shared mailbox backlog. No lost paper in a tour van.
Open on your phone
No special hardware. The same Cortena workspace in the browser, built for a quick capture on site.
Photograph the invoice
Venue, artist, production or catering. One photo or PDF upload is enough to start processing.
Coded while you are still there
Agents read the document in seconds, apply your event or title rules, and queue exceptions for review. Around 90% needs no human touch after setup.
Connected to the networks entertainment already buys.
Cortena sits next to your ad accounts, storefronts and event tools. Supplier and network invoices flow into booking-ready entries for DATEV, Exact Online or Twinfield.
- Google Ads
- Unity Ads
- Meta Ads
- App stores
- Venues & promoters
- DATEV · Exact · Twinfield
From studio bill and ad invoice to a clean title P&L.
Accounts payable built for publishers and live teams: capture on site or by inbox, code to title or event, approve, export.
Inbox, upload or phone scan
Forward network and studio invoices, or photograph them on the spot. Every document lands in one place with the file attached.
Titles, campaigns and events by your rules
Line-level coding to GL, cost centre and cost carrier. UA invoices follow campaign keys. Event invoices follow show keys. Same logic every time.
Keep COGS and acquisition cost comparable
When studio, contractor and ad costs share the keys your controllers defined, title and event margin stop being a monthly reconstruction.
Booking-ready batches for your accountant
Approved entries leave for DATEV, Exact Online or Twinfield with the source document on every posting. GoBD-aligned, archive where your accountant expects it.
Every process, adjustable in seconds.
Titles, campaigns and live events each need their own path. Cortena's visual Workflow Designer lets you redesign how invoices move, who approves, and which data from studios, ad networks and event tools connects where, without code.
Adopt in seconds
Change routing, approvals and handoffs on a canvas. Publish, and the next studio or venue invoice follows the new path.
Connect data where you need it
Decide which fields from Google Ads, Unity Ads, Meta, your titles or event keys feed each step. Rewire the mapping whenever the process changes.
Your flow, not a fixed template
UA thresholds, title splits and on-site review lanes: you draw them. Nothing posts until your steps say so.
Speed on site. Control in the ledger.
of invoices coded with no human touch. Your team reviews exceptions, not every ad or venue bill.
per invoice from capture to booking-ready, including phone scans taken on site.
to live, white-glove onboarding included. Title and event keys go in during setup.
Figures reflect typical results across Cortena teams. Onboarding sizes them on your own volume.
Straight answers on titles, ads and on-site capture.
Yes. You define title, campaign and event keys once. Studio invoices, contractor fees and Google Ads, Unity Ads or Meta invoices are coded line by line to those keys, so COGS and user-acquisition cost stay on the same P&L structure.
Cortena processes the invoices and credit notes those networks send, and codes them by your rules. You keep your ad accounts as they are. The finance work, coding, approval and export to your ledger, runs in Cortena.
Yes. Open Cortena's mobile web app, photograph the invoice and upload. Capture starts immediately and coding follows in seconds, so paper handed over backstage does not wait for someone to return to the office.
Every venue, artist, production and catering invoice is captured the same way, coded to the event cost centre you define, and queued for approval. High volume of small bills is exactly the work the agents take off your team.
It stops for a person. Ambiguous invoices go to review with the reason shown. Your team assigns the key once, and Cortena learns the precedent for next time. Nothing posts without sign-off.
DATEV via the official Rechnungsdatenservice 1.0, Exact Online and Twinfield. Batches arrive booking-ready with the source document attached. Your accountant keeps their tool and their process.
Give entertainment finance a clean close.
Book a demo and bring a week of studio, ad and event invoices. We will code them live, including a phone capture.