Month-end matching for bookkeepers, in your browser.
Ledger Routine matches a client's bank and card lines to their receipts, bills and invoices, and lists the few lines it couldn't settle. You check those, then download a journal for QuickBooks or Xero.
Client files stay on your computer. The tool runs in your browser and never uploads anything.
How it works
- Add the client's bank and card exports, and their receipts, bills and invoices.
- Press "Match the month". It settles what it can and lists the rest as questions.
- Answer the questions, then download the journal for QuickBooks or Xero.
What it handles
- Bank and card exports (CSV) from most US banks, including card files that show purchases as positive.
- Receipts, bills and invoices exported from Dext, Hubdoc, QuickBooks or Xero.
- One payment covering several bills, invoices paid in two parts, and transfers between the client's own accounts.
- If two matches are equally likely, it asks you instead of picking one.
- It remembers each client's answers, so the next month has fewer questions.
You get a QuickBooks journal, a Xero journal, a one-page summary for the client, the list of questions, and the unpaid documents to carry into next month.
Who made this
I'm Howard Wood. A business I ran before had bad bookkeeping: receipts in one place, bills in another, and a bank feed nobody had matched for months. Catching up cost far more than keeping up would have.
Ledger Routine does the dull middle part of bookkeeping, the matching, and leaves anything uncertain to a person. It's built in the US. If you try it, I'd like to hear what it got wrong.
Free pilot for bookkeepers
Pick one client, run a month through the tool, and tell me how it compares with how you booked it. It's free.
Running a trades business?
If you'd rather have the month done for you, I'm taking a small number of contractors for a done-for-you monthly close, from $249 a month. Leave your email and I'll be in touch.