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Correct books should not be the paid upgrade
The double-entry accounting is the same on the free plan as on the most expensive one. Charging more for books that are actually right would be charging for the part that is not optional.
About
Small businesses deserve the system the big ones get.
Invoicing, stock, projects and real double-entry accounting, in one place. Free to start, and $4.99 a person a month when you outgrow that. Not a cut-down version of a serious system. The serious system, priced for a business with no finance department.
Why we built it
The software a small business ends up with is usually four things: something that raises invoices, a spreadsheet for stock, a folder of timesheets, and a bookkeeper who reconciles the lot a few weeks later. Each one is fine. Together they are a job nobody was hired to do, and it grows at exactly the same rate as the revenue.
The systems that solve this properly exist. They are called ERPs, they cost more than the business makes in a quarter, and they arrive with consultants. So the small end of the market gets told to manage the chore instead, and to buy a bigger spreadsheet.
We did not think that was a real answer. ObraLedger is one system where the invoice you send is the entry in your books, the stock moves when the goods do, and the hours on a job are the hours on its bill. You can be running it this afternoon.
What we believe
These shaped the product. Hold us to them.
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You should not have to trust us
Read the whole manual before you sign up. Take your data out on any plan, in a format your accountant already opens. Open any figure and see the document that made it. Trust is what you need when you cannot check.
03
Software should be boring where your money is
Nothing in your accounts moves without a document behind it, and nothing happens because the software decided to be helpful. Clever belongs in the parts that do not have to balance.
How we fit around you
Better to know now than in week three.
Your accountant stays your accountant
We write the entries and produce the figures for your return. The judgment calls - what to claim, how to treat something, when to sign it off - stay with the person who knows your business.
You only see what you switch on
Manufacturing, payroll, fixed assets and the rest start off. A company that holds no stock never sees a warehouse menu, and an extension you have turned off is gone rather than greyed out.
Everything here is built
If it is on the features page you can use it today, with whatever it needs named on the same card. There is no roadmap on this site dressed up as a feature list.
Who we built this for
You are past the spreadsheet, and not about to spend a quarter's revenue on an ERP rollout. You invoice, you might hold a little stock or sell time, and you have reached the point where the books being right matters more than the invoice looking nice.
You can run several companies under one login, with a separate set of roles in each, so an accountant looking after twelve of them signs in once. A client who wants their own access can have it, limited to their own company and nothing else.
Check us on this
Everything on this page can be checked before you give us anything. The guide is public, the limits are on the page beside the feature, and the product is free to start. If you find a guide page that has drifted from what the product actually does, that is a bug, and we would like to hear about it.