Own Your Bookkeeping Foundations

Own Your Bookkeeping Foundations is bookkeeping software being built for small business owners who want a simpler way to manage straightforward books themselves. It is designed to help you record transactions, keep accounts organized, reconcile your books, and understand what your numbers are telling you without turning bookkeeping into a second job.

Foundations is being built for small business owners with relatively straightforward bookkeeping needs who want to do their own bookkeeping and understand what is happening in their books. It may not be the right fit for businesses with complex inventory, detailed job costing, trust or escrow accounting, complicated accounts receivable or accounts payable, or other specialized accounting requirements.

complexity found in larger accounting platforms. It is not intended to duplicate every QuickBooks feature. The goal is straightforward small business bookkeeping, clear workflows, useful financial reports, and a system the owner can actually understand.

You do not need to be an accountant, but Foundations is being designed to help you understand the bookkeeping you are doing rather than hide everything behind automation. Plain-language workflows and guidance will help explain what is happening while the accounting happens underneath.

Your Foundations bookkeeping data is designed to live in a file in your own Google Drive. That means your business records are not trapped inside a proprietary bookkeeping platform. You keep access to your bookkeeping data even if you eventually stop using Foundations.

Your bookkeeping data stays in your Google Drive. Cancelling your Foundations subscription would end access to the Foundations software, but it would not take away the bookkeeping data file you own.

Foundations is being designed with migration in mind. The goal is to make it easier to bring over an existing chart of accounts, review what should be kept, simplify accounts that are no longer needed, and establish accurate opening balances rather than forcing you to rebuild everything manually.

Yes, bank transaction import and reconciliation are part of the core bookkeeping workflow being built for Foundations. The goal is to make it straightforward to bring in activity, categorize transactions, match what cleared the bank, and confirm that your books agree with your bank statement.

Collaborator access is part of the Foundations plan. The goal is to let a business owner work with a bookkeeper or accountant without charging for every professional who needs access to the books.

Foundations is currently in development and testing. Joining the Early Access List is the best way to hear about beta testing, product updates, and when early access becomes available.