Mostly about bookkeeping workflows, privacy-first software, and the economics of one-time pricing. Occasionally about whatever I've been thinking about that week.
By Dinesh Pareek · Sirsa, India
A few months into bookkeeping my own two companies, I realised I was paying $40 a month for a tool I opened twice a week. That's about $5 per use, which is fine if the alternative is catastrophic data loss — but it wasn't. It was just a spreadsheet at the end.
Read full postYou've got 27 PDF invoices and your accounting system wants them in Excel. You have five real options, ranging from "type them in yourself" to "pay a subscription forever." Here's the honest breakdown of what each one actually costs in time and money, with screenshots.
Read full postMost bookkeepers I know pay somewhere between $30 and $50 a month to extract data from PDF invoices. They use the tool maybe six or eight times a month. That works out to $5-7 per extraction, with a spreadsheet at the end. Here's what else exists, fairly compared.
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