About
A pile of paper is not a spreadsheet.
Invoices on paper, receipts photographed in a hurry, a statement the bank sends as forty pages of PDF. Somebody has to turn all of it into rows with a date, a supplier, an amount and a tax figure. Usually that somebody is you, on a Sunday.
The idea
Upload what you were given. Each page is read as it is printed: date, supplier, amount, tax. It becomes a row you can see beside the original page it came from. Correct anything that read wrong, then take the period as one Excel book.
Two tables, not one: a document is one file to one row, a bank statement is one file to dozens. Their columns do not match: a statement has no supplier and no tax, only a payment description, and forcing both into one table gives a sheet where half the columns are always empty. People stop trusting both halves of a table like that. So: two tables, one book, two sheets, because the accountant is handed one file.
A page is the unit of work and of price: 10 tokens a page, whatever the document. No subscription. Your original is deleted after 30 days, and whatever format it arrived in, it is prepared, and stripped of its location and camera data, in your own browser, before anything is sent anywhere.
Who this is for
Six kinds of person who lose evenings to other people's paperwork.
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You run a small company and keep your own books
Nobody was hired to do the paperwork, so it is done in the evening by whoever founded the place. The work is not hard; it is just long.
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You are a sole trader with a shoebox
Receipts in a drawer, a jacket pocket, the car. They have to become a list before the quarter closes, and the list is always made at the last moment.
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Your bank only gives you PDFs
A statement arrives as pages, not as something you can sort. Copying forty pages of operations by hand is a whole evening, and the mistakes are invisible.
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You get supplier invoices every week
A shop or a café takes deliveries constantly. The pile grows faster than anybody types, and it is always the oldest page that goes missing.
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You keep the books for several small clients
Each of them hands you a different kind of paper, and each wants their own columns. The typing is the same work six times over.
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You file a return every quarter
The figures have to add up and be defensible. A number typed wrong is worse than a number missing, because nothing draws attention to it.
And who it is not for
Said here rather than after you have paid, which is the wrong moment to find out.
Bring us
- Printed invoices, receipts and delivery notes
- Bank statements, however many pages
- A month or a quarter at a time, in one go
- Figures you intend to check yourself before filing
Look elsewhere
- Bookkeeping: ledgers, expense categories, reconciling against the bank
- Deciding your tax position: the tax here is a figure off the page, not advice
- Handwritten documents
- Anything that must be certified or audited as machine-read
The first one is deliberate and will not change. This turns documents into rows; what those rows mean for your accounts is a different trade, and not one to buy from a machine that has never seen your books.