What shipped

The Ledger Posts Itself Now

Anyone who has actually closed a month knows the real work isn’t the accounting. It’s the re-keying.

You enter a bill over here. You enter it again over there. You export a spreadsheet, massage it, import it somewhere else, and then spend an afternoon finding out why the two numbers don’t agree. The software didn’t do the accounting. It made you do the accounting twice.

That’s the part we went after.

One entry, one ledger

Accounts payable, accounts receivable, and ledger entries all post to the general ledger. Not “export to.” Not “sync overnight.” Post.

  • Enter a bill in AP and the ledger already knows about it.
  • Invoice a customer in AR and the ledger already knows about that too.
  • No second step, no nightly job to babysit, and no window where the two halves of your books disagree.

If you’ve spent years reconciling a system against itself, that’s the whole pitch.

BasicBMS general ledger listing payable, bank reconciliation, and payment entries posting to a single ledger, with period debits and credits balanced at $16,207.50.
One ledger, three sources. The Operation column shows payables, bank reconciliations, and payments all posting to the same place — and every line names the record it came from.

Reconciliation, in one place

Reconciliation runs across all three — payables, receivables, and ledger entries. Same workflow, whichever side the transaction came from. You’re not learning three different screens to do one job.

We also fixed something small that was quietly wasting people’s time: after a reconciliation import, the bank account you selected now stays selected. It sounds trivial. It isn’t, when you’re importing a month of transactions and re-picking the account every time.

Closing a period

You can close a period by date. Pick your range, close it, and the entries in it stop being open items you have to think about.

Being precise, because accounting people deserve precision: this closes a period. Real locked postings and a proper year-end close are still on the bench — and we’ll tell you when they land rather than pretending they’re already here.

The boring part is the point

None of this is exciting. Nobody buys business software because the ledger posts correctly.

But everyone who has run a business on the wrong system knows exactly what it costs when it doesn’t — the reconciliation that takes three days, the month-end you dread, the quiet suspicion that a number somewhere is wrong and you’ll find out in an audit.

Fewer places for a number to go missing.

Still modular

Start with what you run. Six core modules — Customers, Employees, Suppliers, Payables, Invoices, and a full general ledger — for $150 a month. Add Work Orders, Communication, or Projects for $25 each. Every user included, no per-seat games, no forced bundles.

Implementation is a one-time build: we configure your modules around your workflow and load your data, so you don’t start on a blank screen.

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