Portfolio management systems are data hubs, importing data from a variety of different custodians and pricing services; they can exchange data with other financial software in your office and online. FinFolio does this in a highly automated fashion, with numerous power tools that aren't found in other systems.
Your imports run as background processes that you can monitor in the process manager. If your custodian sends you incorrect prices or bad dividends, you can simply back out the prices or dividends and wait for a new file.
An import blotter acts as a holding queue for your transactions, prices, FX rates, and custodian share/value balances. Your balance checks and other CleanData™ tools monitor the data in your Import Blotter, allowing you to see any problems before your data is posted to the live database.
You can automate your imports with macros written in Visual Studio. Do it yourself or have FinFolio's customization team script your daily downloads and imports, so they happen in the early hours of the morning, before you arrive at the office.