Recordkeeping software

Recordkeeping software

Participant ledgers, contribution posting, loans, distributions and reconciliation for US 401(k) recordkeepers and TPAs.

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At a glance

What it is
Custom development of 401(k) recordkeeping systems: participant, source and fund ledgers and everything that posts to them.
Who it is for
Recordkeepers, TPAs that keep their own books, and fintechs building retirement products.
Design principle
Balances move only through posted, reviewable transactions, so every number can be traced and reconciled.
Integrations
Payroll files, custodian and trading files, SFTP and REST APIs, with validation before posting.
Proof
Revenue management software used by recordkeepers and the recordkeeping ledger in KinetiPlan.
Limits
Money movement stays with your custodian or bank. We integrate with them; we do not hold or move funds.
What we build

The ledger and everything around it

Participant, source and fund ledgers

Pre-tax, Roth, match, profit sharing and rollover sources, by fund, with full history.

Contribution posting

Per-payroll posting by money source, with late-deposit and limit flags.

Loans

Loan set-up, amortization schedules, repayments from payroll and default tracking.

Distributions

Distribution requests, approvals and posting, with withholding data captured for reporting.

Vesting and forfeitures

Vesting schedules applied by source, and forfeiture accounts tracked and used.

Reconciliation

Reconciliation to payroll and to custodian or trust records, with variances listed for review.

Fees

Plan and participant fee deduction, fee schedules and revenue reporting.

Statements and disclosures

Participant and sponsor statements and fee disclosure data generated from the same ledger.

Plan conversions

Loading plans from another platform with reconciled opening balances.

Design choices that keep auditors comfortable

  • Posted, append-only transactions. Corrections are new entries that reverse or adjust, never edits to history.
  • As-of reporting. Balances can be rebuilt as of any date, which makes year-end and audit requests routine.
  • Every balance traced. From a participant balance down to the payroll row or file that produced it.
  • Reconciliation built in. Ledger totals are checked against payroll and custodian records, and differences go to an exception queue.
  • Role-based approvals. Who approved a distribution, correction or adjustment is recorded with the entry.
Proof

Work you can check

A US TPA: key financial process automated

A six-month build of a complex financial application for The Retirement Advantage, Inc. (TRA), which in the client's words drastically reduced the manual effort in a key financial process.

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Revenue management software for 401(k) firms

Development of Expand Financial's software that automates revenue management for recordkeepers, TPAs and payroll processors.

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KinetiPlan, our own TPA operating system

Plans, census, annual projects, compliance testing, a recordkeeping ledger, payroll intake and billing in one product. Working pilot build with synthetic data.

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Recordkeeping FAQ

Recordkeeping questions

Something else on your mind? Ask us directly.

It keeps each participant's account: contributions by source, investments by fund, loans, distributions, vesting and fees, and reconciles those balances to payroll and to the custodian or trust.

Balances only change through posted transactions that keep their history. Nothing is overwritten, so every balance can be traced back to the payroll file or entry that produced it, and reconciliation can be run as of any date.

Yes. We map the source data, load it into the new model, and reconcile participant and plan totals by source and fund before cut-over, with a parallel period where both systems run.

We build the recordkeeping, posting and reconciliation side. Money movement itself stays with your custodian, bank or trading partner; we integrate with their files and APIs.

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