Brindell Ledger integrations
Hub and spoke slide with one ledger at the centre
A hub and spoke slide shows one central system and the connections that feed it, so the audience sees that everything flows through a single place. This one puts Brindell Ledger, a fictional accounting platform, at the hub with six integrations around it, each saying what it posts.
What is on the slide
- Title
- One Ledger, Six Integrations. Brindell Ledger sits at the hub. Every integration posts into the same ledger, so bank, payroll and tax figures agree without exports.
- Ring
- Hub: Brindell Ledger. Pillars: money in, spend, tax. Enablers: feeds, payroll, GST.
- Bank Feeds
- Four banks sync every night, matched to invoices by amount and reference.
- Invoicing
- Invoices are raised in the ledger, so 92% match a deposit automatically.
- Payroll
- Pay runs for 38 staff post wages, super and tax withheld to the ledger.
- Receipts
- Staff photograph receipts, and each attaches to its card transaction.
- Tax
- GST collected and paid is worked out each quarter from the same entries.
- Reporting
- Profit and loss and cash flow update daily, with no spreadsheet export.
When this is the right slide
Choose this slide when one central system connects to several others as peers and the value is that everything meets in one place, with each connection stated as an outcome.
What to swap it for
Tree: Central Root, 6 Flanking Branches. Swap to the radial tree with six branches when the outer items form a hierarchy under the centre, with their own sub items, rather than equal connections.
What this slide shows
A title reads One Ledger, Six Integrations, underlined with an accent rule, followed by a framing paragraph: Brindell Ledger sits at the hub, and every integration posts into the same ledger, so bank, payroll and tax figures agree without exports. In the centre, a ring diagram shows the hub label Brindell Ledger in a white circle, an inner ring of three enablers, Feeds, Payroll and GST, a pale band with clockwise arrows, and an outer ring of three pillars, Money in at the top, Spend at the right and Tax at the left. Six callouts sit in two columns of three. On the left: Bank Feeds, four banks sync every night, matched to invoices by amount and reference; Payroll, pay runs for 38 staff post wages, super and tax withheld to the ledger; Tax, GST collected and paid is worked out each quarter from the same entries. On the right: Invoicing, invoices are raised in the ledger, so 92% match a deposit automatically; Receipts, staff photograph receipts and each attaches to its card transaction; Reporting, profit and loss and cash flow update daily, with no spreadsheet export.
When this is the right slide
Use it in a product overview, a sales deck, a partner pitch or an architecture review, whenever one central system connects to several others and the value lies in everything meeting in one place. Software platforms, shared service centres, logistics hubs and community programs with one coordinating body are typical cases. It is the wrong slide when the outer items have sub items or report to the centre in a hierarchy, which a radial tree with a root and branches shows better. It is also the wrong slide when the direction and order of data matter, such as an approval workflow, where a flowchart with arrows is needed.
How to adapt it
First, choose a hub that every spoke truly depends on, and state in the framing line what that dependence guarantees for the audience. Second, group the spokes into three pillars the audience already understands, such as money in, spending and tax, and give each pillar a one word enabler for the inner ring. Third, write each callout as an outcome with a number where one exists. For a logistics business, the hub might be a distribution centre with inbound freight, cross docking, storage, picking, last mile delivery and returns around it. For a community health service, the hub might be the intake team with referral sources as spokes. Keep pillar labels short, ideally a single word, because longer labels wrap and can be cut at the edges of the ring. Keep every callout to two lines so the two columns stay level and nothing pushes past the footer. Finally, keep the integration count honest: if a connector is planned rather than live, leave it off the slide or mark it as coming, because a buyer who finds a missing integration after signing will remember the slide that promised it.
What makes this slide work
The hub states the guarantee
Brindell Ledger sits in the white centre, and the framing line says why: every integration posts into the same ledger, so bank, payroll and tax figures agree without exports. The diagram's shape and the sentence make the same claim. A hub with no stated reason would show a logo surrounded by other logos, which proves nothing.
The ring groups six spokes into three flows
Money in, Spend and Tax form the outer ring, with Feeds, Payroll and GST as the inner enablers. Six integrations become three flows of money a business owner already thinks in. The callouts then sit on either side, so the reader sees both the grouping and the detail without a tangle of connecting lines.
Each callout has a measurable outcome
Four banks sync every night. 92% match a deposit automatically. Pay runs for 38 staff. Each callout states what the integration achieves, several with a figure. That turns a list of connectors into a set of promises, which is what a buyer comparing accounting tools needs from an integrations slide.
Questions people ask
What belongs at the hub of a hub and spoke slide?
The one system, team or asset that every spoke depends on and that would break all of them if it failed. For an accounting product, it is the ledger, because every integration writes to it. If two things compete for the centre, the diagram is really a network, and a flowchart with labelled connections will be more honest than forcing one of them into the hub.
How many spokes can a hub diagram hold?
Six is comfortable on a slide; this layout takes exactly six callouts in two columns of three. More than eight makes the labels small and the lines crowded. If a product has twenty integrations, group them into six families, such as banking or payroll, and list the individual connectors in a table in the appendix or on the product page.
Should the callouts describe features or outcomes?
Outcomes, with a number where possible. Four banks sync every night is a feature; matched to invoices by amount and reference is the outcome; 92% matched automatically is the evidence. Callouts that only name the integration tell the audience it exists, which a logo wall could do, without telling them why it matters.
When should a hub and spoke slide be split?
When one spoke needs to be explained in depth, for example how payroll posts journal entries, or when the audience needs a data flow with directions. A hub diagram shows that things connect; a flowchart shows how. Use this slide for the overview and a flow slide for the integration a buyer is most worried about.
How is a hub and spoke slide different from a radial tree?
A hub and spoke shows connections to a centre that are equal and two way. A radial tree shows a hierarchy that branches outward, with children under parents. If the outer items report to the centre, or have their own sub items, use a tree. If they all plug into the centre as peers, the hub is the right shape.
How should a hub and spoke slide be presented?
Start at the hub and say what it guarantees, here that every figure agrees because it comes from one ledger. Then pick the two callouts most relevant to the audience instead of reading all six. A small business owner cares most about bank feeds and GST; a payroll officer cares about the payroll line.
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