You became the accounting department — and you never applied for the job.
Daybook is a full accounting firm for your business. Forward what lands in your inbox and a real team turns it into books you can trust — no software to learn, no spreadsheet to maintain.
Real double-entry books, current to yesterday. Reviewed by your accounting team, signed off by a CPA.
You
Forwarded a receipt — from your phone, on the way out of the supply store.Daybook
Categorized: Office Supplies · Staples · $84.12 — matched to your card feed.
Reviewed & posted — a CPA on your team · June closed
The shoebox at the end of the year.
Receipts pile up in a drawer, an email folder, a wallet — until tax time turns into a scramble to reconstruct a year of spending. Entering them by hand was never actually the job you wanted.
The resolution
Forward it once. That's the whole job.
Forward a receipt from your phone, or hand your own Daybook address to a vendor as your billing email — we capture, extract, and file it against the transaction. Reviewed, never guessed.
- Captured the moment it lands
- Matched to the bank or card transaction
- Filed and ready — nothing to re-enter at tax time
You don't actually know your numbers.
Not sure what you made this month, what you owe, or what's coming due — because the only place that would tell you is three weeks out of date, if it's updated at all.
You
What's my profit so far this month?Daybook
$6,140.00 net, through yesterday — every entry behind it is one click away.
Cash on hand
$18,230.00Tax set aside
$4,220.00
Tax dread, all year round.
A surprise bill every spring, a scramble to find deductions after the fact, and a nagging feeling you're paying more than you should because nobody set anything aside.
Set aside, as you earn
Estimated taxes owed, computed from your real books — not guessed at once a year.
Categorized for the forms you'll actually file
Every deduction tagged as it happens, not reconstructed in April.
A chart of accounts you never finished setting up.
Software promised to make this easier and instead handed you a half-configured system, a pile of “uncategorized” transactions, and a login you dread opening.
Connect your accounts
Link your bank, card, and payroll once. We do the rest — no chart of accounts to build.
Forward what lands elsewhere
Receipts, invoices, that one weird expense — send it any way. We book it correctly.
Ask us anything
Plain-English questions, real answers from your team — books always current to yesterday.
c/fNo new system, no half-finished setup — three things, and we handle the rest.
b/fNow, who's actually accountable for it.
An unreliable bookkeeper — or no bookkeeper at all.
A rotating cast, a slow reply, a book that goes quiet for a quarter. When something looks wrong, there's no one clearly on the hook to fix it.
Bookkeeping
Daily, not monthly
Keeps transactions categorized and reconciled, daily — the grind so you never see it.
Posts the drafts
CPA review
Judgment calls
Signs off on what matters — judgment calls, deductibility, anything the AI flags for review.
Authorized signer
Your point of contact
One person, always
Owns the relationship end to end — the person to call when something doesn't look right.
Owns the relationship
The hours back, and the peace of mind.
Books current to yesterday
Current every morning — not weeks later.
Back each month
The bookkeeping you no longer touch.
All year, not just April
Set aside and filed, no spring scramble.
Not another app. Not a slow bookkeeper.
DIY software still leaves the work to you. A traditional or outsourced bookkeeper is slower and less visible. Daybook is a firm that's AI-fast and always explainable.
| Feature | DIY softwareYou do the books yourself, in an app. | Traditional bookkeeperOne person, working on their own schedule. | Our approachDaybookAI does the grind, people own the result. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | You do | They do, on their schedule | AI drafts, your team reviews |
| How current the books are | As current as you keep it | Monthly, often late | Current to yesterday |
| Someone accountable if it's wrong | Just you | Usually | A CPA, always |
| How price is set | Per seat / feature tier | Hourly or flat retainer | By book complexity, everything included |
- Our approachDaybookAI does the grind, people own the result.
- Who does the work
- AI drafts, your team reviews
- How current the books are
- Current to yesterday
- Someone accountable if it's wrong
- A CPA, always
- How price is set
- By book complexity, everything included
- DIY softwareYou do the books yourself, in an app.
- Who does the work
- You do
- How current the books are
- As current as you keep it
- Someone accountable if it's wrong
- Just you
- How price is set
- Per seat / feature tier
- Traditional bookkeeperOne person, working on their own schedule.
- Who does the work
- They do, on their schedule
- How current the books are
- Monthly, often late
- Someone accountable if it's wrong
- Usually
- How price is set
- Hourly or flat retainer
c/fA firm that's fast and explainable, not one or the other.
b/fNow, who this is actually built for.
Built for owner-run businesses with steady, recurring activity.
Roughly $500K–$3M in revenue, real monthly transaction volume, and straightforward books — no heavy inventory, no commingled personal spending. If that's not you, we'll say so honestly.
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What owners ask before switching.
Get the books off your plate for real.
Tell us about your business — we'll tell you honestly if we're the right fit. By invitation, a limited number of new businesses each quarter.