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Double-entry accounting. Self Hosted. Free forever. Bring your AI.

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Joined February 2015
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No banner across the top of your books. No usage telemetry. No account to sign into. The software does not know you exist, which is the correct amount for accounting software to know about you.
A cream card reading 'Nobody is upselling you inside your own ledger.'

ALT A cream card reading 'Nobody is upselling you inside your own ledger.'

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Fixed assets have their own register in SlowBooks Pro: purchase, type, accumulated depreciation and book value per asset, with one button to run the period's depreciation across all of them. slowbookspro.com
The Fixed Assets register in SlowBooks Pro, listing four registered assets with cost, accumulated depreciation and book value columns.

ALT The Fixed Assets register in SlowBooks Pro, listing four registered assets with cost, accumulated depreciation and book value columns.

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The register now catches a payee you haven't entered as a customer or vendor and asks, right there, whether to add them — before you've even saved the entry. slowbookspro.com
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"Compare to same period last year" — one checkbox on the P&L and Balance Sheet adds a prior-year column with $ and % change, and a prior-year number still drills into its own transactions. slowbookspro.com
A Profit and Loss report in SlowBooks Pro with a prior-year comparison column showing dollar and percent change.

ALT A Profit and Loss report in SlowBooks Pro with a prior-year comparison column showing dollar and percent change.

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2.28.0: sub-accounts print under their parent on the P&L now — Hotel indented under Travel, with a family subtotal — instead of a flat list with no relationship between the lines. slowbookspro.com
A Profit and Loss report in SlowBooks Pro showing a sub-account indented under its parent account, with a family subtotal.

ALT A Profit and Loss report in SlowBooks Pro showing a sub-account indented under its parent account, with a family subtotal.

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SlowBooks Pro 2.28.0: every account now carries one of QuickBooks' own fifteen detail types, and your Balance Sheet groups by Current, Fixed and Other Assets automatically. Same chart, more structure. slowbookspro.com
The Balance Sheet in SlowBooks Pro, showing assets grouped under Current Assets and Fixed Assets headings, each with its own subtotal.

ALT The Balance Sheet in SlowBooks Pro, showing assets grouped under Current Assets and Fixed Assets headings, each with its own subtotal.

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2.25.0 also means an API call can now say which company it means. Point an agent at your install and it works on the right set of books, not whichever one happened to be open. slowbookspro.com
A navy card reading 'An API call can now say which company it means,' describing the X-SlowBooks-Company request header.

ALT A navy card reading 'An API call can now say which company it means,' describing the X-SlowBooks-Company request header.

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A safety rail for software an AI agent can operate. An invoice that would put a customer over their credit limit is refused outright, with the limit and balance named. Going over takes a second, explicit flag. Nothing quietly decides the limit didn't matter today.
A navy card describing API-enforced credit limits as a guardrail against unattended agent mistakes.

ALT A navy card describing API-enforced credit limits as a guardrail against unattended agent mistakes.

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The twelve-dollar balance nobody is ever going to collect, times forty customers, is a real chunk of a bookkeeper's afternoon. One number, one click: every open invoice under it is written off, each to its own credit memo, with a list of what was skipped and why.
The Accounts Receivable Aging report in SlowBooks Pro with a "Write off balances under" control set to $5.00.

ALT The Accounts Receivable Aging report in SlowBooks Pro with a "Write off balances under" control set to $5.00.

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What can we say When he’s right - he’s right 🤷‍♂️🤣 Thanks for the roast @joebenson
Joe Benson (@joebenson) profile pictureJoe Benson
@joebensonOct 27
Trent is building something awesome with SlowBooks Pro! Unfortunately, his website (and UI) don't match the quality of his software. Great websites are hard! He asked me for a roast, and a roast he got ;) Enjoy @308Greenfield
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A check that pays several things — or a loan payment that is principal and interest in one line on your statement — used to mean picking one category and living with it being wrong. Now it is one entry with several lines, and it tells you what is left to place as you go.
The New Register Entry dialog in SlowBooks Pro with 'Split across accounts' expanded, showing three account lines.

ALT The New Register Entry dialog in SlowBooks Pro with 'Split across accounts' expanded, showing three account lines.

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The bottom row of the register is always ready for the next entry. Date, payee, memo, category, amount — Enter posts it and the next row is waiting. No dialog to open first. The dialog is still there if you prefer it.
A bank register in SlowBooks Pro with a blank entry row at the bottom, mid-type: a payee, a memo and an amount already entered.

ALT A bank register in SlowBooks Pro with a blank entry row at the bottom, mid-type: a payee, a memo and an amount already entered.

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Monday morning, two reports. Who owes you and how long they have owed it. Then the same thing pointed at your suppliers, which is the one people skip.
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Dark theme is one click and it sticks. Both themes are checked for contrast, so working at eleven at night does not mean working with worse software.
The SlowBooks Pro dashboard side by side in light and dark themes.

ALT The SlowBooks Pro dashboard side by side in light and dark themes.

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Perpetual inventory: the count on this page is the count on the shelf. An inventory item carries two accounts — what it credits when sold, what it debits as cost — which is the difference between a real gross margin and a guess.
The Items and Services list in SlowBooks Pro with inventory and service items.

ALT The Items and Services list in SlowBooks Pro with inventory and service items.

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Taxable labour and an untaxed part on the same invoice, because the flag is per line. And the money you collect sits in a liability account, where it belongs. It was never yours.
The Sales Tax report in SlowBooks Pro showing taxable base and tax collected.

ALT The Sales Tax report in SlowBooks Pro showing taxable base and tax collected.

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Net income from the profit and loss shows up inside equity on the balance sheet. Same number, two reports. If they ever disagree you have found something real.
The Balance Sheet report in SlowBooks Pro showing assets, liabilities and equity.

ALT The Balance Sheet report in SlowBooks Pro showing assets, liabilities and equity.

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This is an independent reimplementation, built from published SDK documentation and fourteen years of using the thing. No Intuit source, no affiliation. Just a strong opinion about what should happen to software you bought.
A navy card reading 'Fourteen years a paying customer. One dead server.'

ALT A navy card reading 'Fourteen years a paying customer. One dead server.'

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P&L by Class scrolls sideways with the account column frozen, and you can jump straight to a department by typing its name. Keyboard: ‹ Prev, Next ›, Home, End.
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Nineteen reports, no upgrade prompt in any of them.
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Sort your jobs by margin and read the bottom three. It is almost always the small ones, because the overhead of starting anything is fixed and everybody underestimates it. That is a pricing decision, and this is the only place it shows up.
The Job Profitability report in SlowBooks Pro showing revenue, cost and margin per job.

ALT The Job Profitability report in SlowBooks Pro showing revenue, cost and margin per job.

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