Small Business Books Without the Subscription Treadmill
Real double entry books, the reports your accountant expects, one-click invites for your whole team, and every byte in your own Google Drive. Free forever, open source, with AI as the front door.
Small business accounting software is priced like your books get more valuable to the vendor as they grow. More seats, higher tiers, and the quiet knowledge that leaving means a migration project, so most owners just keep paying.
The Bookkeeper is built to make leaving trivial, which is exactly why you can trust it. Books as plain text in your Drive, open source software, and reports your accountant recognizes on sight. The switching cost points the other way for once.
Built for More Than One Person
- Invites are one click. Type an email, they get a link, they sign in with Google, they are in the books. The invite suggests viewer access when the email looks like an accountant and editor when it looks like your team.
- Every change carries its author. The audit trail always answers who changed what, when. Not as an enterprise add-on, as the default.
- Two people editing never corrupts a ledger. Each device writes its own append-only log and the books rebuild deterministically. This is tested by shuffling edit histories thousands of ways in CI.
The Reports Are the Product
Profit and Loss by month or quarter, Balance Sheet that provably balances, Cash Flow reconciled to the bank, receivables and payables aging by customer. Click any total and the transactions behind it open. Click a transaction and you land on the actual entry. Every report state is a URL you can send to your accountant, and the same numbers come back through Claude when you just want to ask.
Migration Is One Click, Not One Quarter
Connect QuickBooks Online and your chart of accounts, invoices, bills, payments, journal entries, and transfers come across in one click. Run both side by side for a month if you like. QuickBooks is never modified, so there is nothing to lose but the subscription.
Questions
We have a bakery with wholesale customers, payroll, and a loan. Is this enough bookkeeping?
Yes. The demo books are literally a bakery with wholesale receivables that age, payroll with withholding, an amortizing equipment loan, and quarterly sales tax. Explore them before you commit to anything.
Can several people work in the books at once?
Yes. Invites are one click, sharing rides on Google Drive's own permission system, and every change records who made it. Two people editing at once never corrupts anything, by design.
How do receivables work?
Invoices age automatically into current, 30, 60, and 90 day buckets by customer. Ask your AI who owes you money and you get the aging table with the most overdue at the top.
What does it cost as we add people?
Nothing. There is no seat pricing. Owner, partner, bookkeeper, accountant, they all sign in free with Google.
Feel It Before You Trust It
Open the demo books right now. No sign up, no card, nothing to undo. Free forever.
Play With the Demo Books