The Envytory blog

Oil and gas accounting, for the operator who does the work.

Plain answers on the questions small operators ask us: whether thirty-year-old software is costing you, why month-end is slow, what software that reads your check stubs and vendor bills actually does, and how to know what you owe every owner today.

Thirty years old · September 15, 2026

Is your oil and gas accounting software thirty years old?

How to tell if your oil and gas accounting software was built in the 1990s, what it costs a small operator in hours and owner calls, and what modern software does instead.

Is it slow · September 15, 2026

Why is oil and gas accounting software so slow?

Three reasons oil and gas accounting software feels slow at a small operator: remote desktop delivery, monthly batch cycles, and report-driven answers. And what fast looks like.

Work smarter · September 15, 2026

Software that reads your check stubs and vendor bills for you

What happens when accounting software reads a revenue check stub or a vendor bill: staged entries matched to purchaser, wells and vendor, master-meter splits, Texas severance computed, and you review instead of retype.

Is it slow · September 15, 2026

What do you owe your owners today?

What joint interest billing is, why most small operators cannot answer an owner until the cycle runs, and what JIB Live changes: every owner balance live as of the last posted check or bill.

Work smarter · September 15, 2026

Two free weeks on your own books: how a parallel run works

How Envytory's two free weeks work for a small oil and gas operator: your data loaded first, your month run alongside your current system, a card held and nothing charged, the year invoiced after.