Real books, still in plain words

Papertools has always kept proper double-entry books underneath your invoices and receipts — every document you created was quietly writing real accounting entries the whole time. Over the past weeks, we've finished bringing all of it into your hands. Not a "lite" version of bookkeeping. The real thing, worded so you never need an accounting degree to use it.

Here's what's now yours to open:

The books themselves

• General ledger — every entry your documents ever wrote, openable line by line. Click any figure on a report and walk it back to the exact invoice, bill, or payment that wrote it.
• Balance sheet & trial balance — what your business owns, what it owes, and proof that it all adds up. Alongside the profit & loss, cash flow, and aging reports you already had.
• Journals — the entries behind everything, numbered and dated. And when something happens that no document covers, the Quick journal gives you plain-question cards — "I put my own money in", "I paid staff", "I settled sales tax" — that write the correct entry for you. You answer the question; the books get it right.

Your business didn't start the day you joined

The Starting position interview brings in what existed before Papertools — the money in your accounts, the loan you were paying off, the van, the stock on the shelf, your own money already in the business. One plain question at a time, and your reports start from the truth instead of from zero.

Close a month, and it stays closed

Finished months lets you lock a month once it's done. Nothing in a finished month can quietly change behind your back — the books you reported are the books that stay.

Stock that counts, in both senses

Track stock on your products and Papertools keeps the shelf and the books in step: sales carry their cost of goods, purchases fill the shelf, and returns — yours or your customers' — move both the units and the value, automatically.

Small print that isn't small

Write off an invoice you've given up on and, where your tax office allows it, Papertools can take the tax back too — pro-rated correctly if the invoice was partly paid. One tickbox, done right.

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Everything above is included on every plan, and none of it changes how you already work. Send invoices, record what you're paid — the books keep themselves. The difference is that now, when your accountant asks for the general ledger, you can hand it over with a straight face.