Hosting Books
Double-entry books,
audit-ready by design
Accounting for regulated small business: a full accounts-payable workflow — purchase orders, vendor bills, vendor credits, 1099s — a tamper-evident audit trail, and Plaid bank feeds. The parts competitors reserve for their top tiers, on every plan. Without the QuickBooks tax.
Features
Everything you need to run real books
Invoicing & Estimates
Line-item invoices with auto-numbering, per-customer payment terms (Net 7–90), recurring schedules, email sending, and estimates that convert in one click.
02Purchase Orders
Authorize vendor spend up front and convert the received PO into a bill in one click — procure-to-pay with no re-keying.
03Vendor Bills & A/P
Track what you owe with due dates and open balances. Bills flip open → partial → paid, and A/P aging shows who to pay first.
04Credit Notes & Vendor Credits
Credit memos on both sides of the ledger — reduce what a customer owes, or apply a supplier credit to open bills, without touching cash.
05Vendors, W-9s & 1099s
Vendor master records with masked TINs and 1099-eligibility flags, plus a filing-ready 1099-NEC report that counts expenses and paid bills alike.
06Plaid Bank Sync & Rules
Transactions arrive via webhooks; bank rules auto-categorize the recurring ones or ignore transfers, so the review queue clears itself.
07Get Paid Online
Hosted Stripe payment pages on your own connected account. Payments record themselves; payouts match to bank deposits in one click.
08Manual Journal Entries
Real adjusting and opening-balance journals — depreciation, accruals, owner equity — that cannot post until debits equal credits.
0915+ Financial Reports
Cash & accrual P&L, balance sheet, trial balance, general ledger, cash flow, runway & burn, A/R + A/P aging, sales tax — with CSV export.
Double-Entry Rigor
Books you can prove, not just print
Most small-business tools stop at invoices and a P&L chart. Hitt Books is built on the accounting underneath: a trial balance that must net to zero, a general ledger you can drill into, journal entries that refuse to post unbalanced, and an audit log you can cryptographically verify — the controls auditors actually ask about.
Trial balance
One report that proves your books add up — every account in a two-column debit / credit ledger that must net to zero, at any date, on a cash or accrual basis.
General ledger drill-down
Drill from any account total straight to the invoices, payments, expenses, and bills behind it — running balance, per-account subtotals, and totals that tie out to the trial balance.
Balanced journal entries
A live balance indicator turns green only when debits equal credits — an unbalanced entry cannot post. Adjusting, opening-balance, reclass, and general types.
Hash-chained audit log
Every change is cryptographically sealed against the one before it. One click verifies the entire history is unaltered — tamper-evident, not just append-only.
Period locks
Close an accounting period and backdated edits are blocked server-side — a finalized month stays finalized, for payments, bills, credits, and journals alike.
Reconciliation that ties out
Tie cash to the penny against your statement — cleared balance, outstanding items, and a difference that must be $0.00, with a transposition-error hint when it is not.
Accounts Payable
The full A/P workflow, end to end
Tracking what you spent is easy. Tracking what you owe — from the purchase order that authorized it, through the bill and its partial payments, past the supplier credit for the goods you returned, to the 1099 your accountant files — is the part most competitors gate behind their top tier. Books ships the whole procure-to-pay cycle on both plans, and every step lands in the hash-chained audit log.
1. Purchase order
Authorize the spend before it happens. Draft → sent → received, with the same line items and totals as the bill it will become.
2. Vendor bill
Convert the PO in one click. The bill carries a due date and open balance, pays in full or in part, and feeds A/P aging.
3. Vendor credit
Returned goods or an overbilling? Apply a supplier credit memo to open bills — payables drop without cash moving or 1099 totals inflating.
4. 1099-NEC
Year-end totals per 1099-eligible vendor count expenses and paid bills by payment date — threshold and missing-W-9 flags included.
How It Works
From first invoice to a closed period
Connect & invoice
Link your banks through Plaid, add customers and vendors, and send your first invoice — or a Stripe pay link.
Capture both sides
Expenses, purchase orders, vendor bills, and credits on the payables side; estimates, invoices, and payments on receivables.
Reconcile on autopilot
Bank rules categorize recurring transactions as they sync; match the rest to invoices and expenses with suggestions.
Close & prove it
Lock the period, run the trial balance, and verify the audit chain — books that hold up when someone looks closely.
Books that hold up when someone looks closely
Start a 14-day free trial — send an invoice, connect a bank, run a trial balance. No charge today.