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LedgerBook

Overview

All companies at a glance

By company
Large transactions
Job profitability

Dashboard

Balance by account
Last 12 months — income vs expenses
Ask the books
Ask me anything about the books — "how much has Madison Ave spent on materials this year?", "what checks are still drafts?", "which subscription charges do we have?"
Recent activity
Spending this month by category

Transactions

All money in and money out

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Receipts

Snap or upload a receipt — it gets read automatically and turned into an expense

Add receipts — photos or PDFs
Pick as many as you like; they're read one after another. The vendor, date, total and receipt number are filled in for you, and a copy is filed in Documents.
On iPhone the picker returns one photo at a time — tap Photo library again for each receipt. They collect below, then scan as a batch.
Reading receipt…

Statements

Upload a bank or credit card statement — every transaction gets read and categorized for your review

Drop a statement here — CSV, QFX, PDF or photo
CSV or QFX downloaded from your bank is best — exact data, imports instantly, nothing to read wrong. PDFs and photos are read page by page with AI instead. Either way you review everything before it's added.
Reading statement…
The original file is saved to Documents automatically (files up to ~3 MB). Transactions are only added to the books after your review. Card payments and transfers are detected and left unchecked so they don't double-count.

Checks

Write, print, and track checks paid from company funds

Checks received — money in
Add received checks — photos or PDFs — to record them as income
The payer, amount, date, and check number are read for you. The image is archived with the transaction.
On iPhone the picker returns one at a time — tap again for each check. They collect below, then scan as a batch.
Reading check…
Checks written — money out
Add checks you wrote by hand — photos, stubs, or PDFs — to record them as expenses
The payee, amount, date, and check number are read for you. Each one joins the check register and books an expense.
Checks printed from LedgerBook are already in the books — this is for the ones written out of the paper checkbook.
Reading check…
Check #DatePay toMemoStatusAmount

Reports

Pick a report, set the period, then generate a PDF for your records or your accountant

⬇ Download ▾
1Choose a report
2Set it up
3Preview

Documents

A filing cabinet for this company — statements, contracts, insurance, anything worth keeping

Add documents
PDFs and images up to ~3 MB each; several at once is fine. Statements and scanned receipts are filed here automatically.
Saving document…

Import a transaction sheet

An Excel or CSV sheet of transactions carrying claim numbers. Rows already in your books are matched and simply tagged with their claim — not entered twice. Any claim number it has never seen is created for you. Nothing is written until you approve it.

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Claims

Each claim collects its own transactions and paperwork, across every company that worked it.

Open a claim

A claim behaves like a job, so anything already tagged to it — receipts, checks, imported bank lines — shows up here automatically.

Import a master claim list

Drop in the claim list PDF and it reads every row — insured, address, loss, carrier and claim number — then shows you what it found before anything is created. Nothing is added until you say so.

This claim

Every company can bill against a claim — there is nothing to set. This lists the books that actually have something booked to it.

Profit & loss

Transactions

Everything booked to this claim, from every company.

Documents

Scan or upload the paperwork — estimates, scopes, adjuster letters, proof of loss, photos. Filed against this claim, not turned into transactions.

Properties

Everything a property needs before its packet goes out.

Add a property

Its money stays in whichever book already pays for it — nothing moves, nothing is re-entered.

Summary

Documents for this property

These go in the packet. Upload here and the label is set for you, so a required document actually counts.

Saving document…

Property details

Dates and sale figures. Everything else about this book — check details, jobs — is in Settings as usual.

Tax details

What an accountant needs beyond the ledger. The land and building split comes off the closing statement or an appraisal — land is not depreciable, so it has to be separated.

Contractors & 1099s

Everyone paid from this property, and whether a 1099-NEC is due. Fill in a W-9's details once and they apply everywhere that vendor appears.

What this property must have

Anything listed here that isn't recorded shows in red above and in the monthly email. Nothing is ever posted automatically — these are checked, not created.

Settings

Companies and check printing details

QuickBooks

Checking connection…

Companies

Check details (per company)

Bank line — printed in the MICR band

Blank stock has no routing line on it, so the app prints one. Copy these from an existing check for this account, digit for digit.

Only needed if the installed font isn’t detected automatically. Type the family name exactly as this computer reports it (the name shown in its font list). Applies to this computer only.

Paper & alignment

Print the alignment sheet on plain paper, hold it against a blank check at a window, and nudge until they line up. You only do this once per printer. In the print dialog always set Scale to 100% and Margins to None — a scaled page is the most common reason checks never line up.

Only if the routing line sits too high or too low in the clear band. The band is the bottom 5/8 inch of the check.

Jobs

For the company selected in the sidebar. Tag transactions to a job to see per-job profit in Reports.

Recurring transactions

Post automatically each month on the chosen day — rent, insurance, subscriptions.

History

Every add, edit, and delete — who did it and when. Recorded on the server, so it can't be altered from the app.

Recover orphaned files

Finds receipt and statement images sitting in storage with no matching entry in the books — usually from a save that got overwritten. Recovering one re-creates it as an entry you can fill in.

Trades

Which part of the work a cost belongs to. Shared across all companies and applied to expenses only. Imports tag themselves from the keywords and vendor lists below; assigning one by hand teaches it that vendor for next time.

Report layout

Where each category sits on the profit and loss statement. Cost of goods sold is subtracted from income to give gross profit; operating expenses come after it; "other" sits below net operating income. This applies to every company.

Account balances

For the company selected in the sidebar. Importing an OFX or CSV that includes a balance fills these in automatically — otherwise enter what the bank shows and the date it was accurate.

Automatic backups

The books are snapshotted on the server every night (3am ET). Every day for the last 30 days is kept, plus the 1st of each month for a year. Restoring saves a safety copy first, so it's undoable.

Backup

Downloads the entire books — companies, transactions, checks, jobs, recurring rules — as one file. Keep one before big changes. (Receipt and document images stay in cloud storage and aren't in the file.)

Bank feeds (Plaid)

Connect a bank once and new transactions flow in daily for review — no more statement uploads for connected accounts.

Danger zone

Erases every company, transaction, receipt, and check for everyone — a completely fresh start. This cannot be undone.