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Real books, freelancer-sized.
Invoice in a minute, watch expenses file themselves, and hand your tax preparer clean numbers — free to start, honest forever.
“Business and personal are the same account.”
The first year everything runs through one checking account — the client deposit, the grocery run, the laptop. The feed only suggests; nothing posts until you confirm, so the business half goes into the books and the personal half never does. Money you took out for yourself books to owner’s draw instead of pretending to be an expense.
“Tax season is a shoebox of receipts.”
Expenses categorize from the bank feed every week, so April is a login for your preparer rather than a weekend spent reconstructing a year you already lived.
“Accounting software costs more than my software.”
Free covers 20 invoices and estimates a month with expense tracking, bank CSV import and real double-entry reports — no card, no expiry. Live bank feeds start on Starter at $29, when the volume justifies it, not when a trial clock runs out.
Friday, 4:55 PM
The whole week’s books in five minutes
Send the invoice for the project you shipped — $2,800, pay button on it. Confirm the six business transactions the feed already sorted, and leave out the three that were personal; nothing posts until you say so. Move 30% of what landed to the tax account, which is $840 this week and the entire reason next April is boring. Close the laptop: the ledger underneath is proper double-entry, balanced and traceable, and you never had to think about it.
- One invoice, sent in a minute, with a pay button
- Six business transactions confirmed, three personal ones left out
- 30% moved to the tax account while you’re thinking about it
- Cash on hand and what’s owed to you, at a glance
Built for the work
The parts of Bokeping you’ll lean on
Invoicing
Send the day you ship, with a pay button on it and a reminder behind it.
Learn moreExpense tracking
The laptop, the software, the co-working desk — sorted the week they happen.
Learn moreBank feeds
Confirm the business half of a shared account; the personal half never posts.
Learn moreFree accountant access
Your preparer gets a login in April instead of a folder of PDFs.
Learn moreThe second week of April
Tax season is one invitation, not one weekend
You know the April ritual: a shoebox, a bank export, and a preparer billing hours to rebuild a year you already lived. This time it’s an email — your preparer gets a free login, free on every plan including Free, and finds 482 categorized expenses, 61 invoices, four estimated payments of $4,050 already recorded, and books that balance to the penny. Profit came in at $54,000 and the 30% you moved every week added up to $16,200, so nobody is hunting for a number in April. They ask two questions, and that’s the whole season.
- Deductions sorted all year by the feed, not in April
- Your preparer gets their own free login on any plan
- They pull the P&L, Balance Sheet and expense detail themselves
- Estimated payments already recorded, quarter by quarter
In the field
Built for days like these.
From the books
“My tax preparer asked what bookkeeper I hired. It’s five minutes on Fridays and a free plan.”
FAQs
Fair questions
Open a business checking account — that’s the real answer, it’s free at most banks, and after that every transaction in it belongs in your books. Until you do: connect the shared account, confirm the business transactions, and leave the personal ones unposted. The feed only suggests; nothing enters the ledger without you. When you pay yourself, or when a personal charge lands on the business card, book it to owner’s draw rather than an expense category — that single habit is most of what separates books a preparer trusts from a spreadsheet they have to redo.
A login, not a folder. Free accountant access comes with every plan, so they open the year themselves: Profit & Loss on cash or accrual, Balance Sheet, expense detail by category, and the general ledger behind any number that looks strange. If they prefer files, export the same reports as PDF or CSV. What Bokeping doesn’t produce is the return — no Schedule C, no 1099s, no filing. It produces the numbers those forms are built from, which is the part that usually costs you billable hours.
No. Bokeping doesn’t calculate estimated tax and doesn’t file anything — we’re not going to guess at your bracket, your state, or your deductions. What it does: show your profit for the quarter on whichever basis you file on, so a set-aside is arithmetic instead of a feeling, and record the estimated payment when you make it so the year adds up. The percentage itself is a conversation with your preparer.
Actually free. Twenty invoices and estimates a month, expense tracking, real double-entry reports, and a free login for your accountant — no card required and no expiry date. The live bank feed is the one thing that waits for Starter; on Free you upload your bank’s CSV, and bringing your history over is free on every plan. Most solo businesses never reach the ceiling.
Starter is $29 a month, or $23 billed annually, and everything you have already entered comes with you — same books, same history, higher limits. You upgrade when the volume justifies it, not because a countdown ran out.
No. You work in plain English — send an invoice, confirm a transaction, move money to the tax account — and Bokeping writes the double-entry underneath, balanced, dated, and traceable back to the document that caused it. Your preparer sees proper books; you never have to see the jargon.
Bokeping for freelancers & contractors
Start free, bring your history over, and see your own numbers by this afternoon.
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