Beans does the books.
It only asks when it has to.

Not a bookkeeping app. A bookkeeper. Beans watches your accounts, keeps the books for every entity and your own money, and only taps you when the call is yours to make.

Read-only bank connections Clean books for your accountant

Bank lines, receipts and bills from every account land in a pile. Beans records each one in the right entity's books and matches the receipts to their payments, until one card payment is left that doesn't fit. Beans asks whether it was you. Sorting is only the start: the same books become the app, the profit and loss with its chart, a rental property's worth against its mortgage, and the BAS ready to lodge.

Your books, done.

You answered one question. I did the rest.

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A normal week

Your week's bookkeeping, already done.

Everything that came in, the job it would have left you, and what Beans did with it.

Your job, without BeansWhat Beans did

MondayThe plumber's invoice is in your email.Find it, record the bill, and match it to the payment when it goes out.Recorded the bill for 14 Smith Street, due 28 October.

TuesdayOne card paid for groceries and a printer cartridge.Split them between you and the business.Groceries to you, the cartridge to Harbour Café.

WednesdayThe rent for 14 Smith Street came in, less the agent's fee.Record both, against the right property.Recorded the rent and the agent's fee.

ThursdayA card payment you didn't make.Spot it, among a few hundred lines.Flagged it and asked you: was this you?

FridayThe week's bank lines and receipts.Code every one, to the right entity.All recorded, and the receipts matched to their payments.

End of the quarterThe BAS.A weekend of adding up.Worked up from the books, ready for your yes.

JulyYour accountant wants everything for year end.Statements, receipts, and every account squared with the bank.Handed over: the ledger, the reports and every receipt.

Underneath, a proper double-entry set of books for every entity and your own money. Everything Beans did is in Activity, and you can take any of it back.

Keeps watch

A second pair of eyes on every account.

Beans reads every line on every account and card, and knows how your money usually moves. When something's out of the ordinary, you hear about it that day.

Price went up

The Telstra plan on the Café account went from $65.00 to $89.00 a month. Did you know?

Yes, I knewNo, I'll look into it

Paid twice

Coastline Plumbing's $385.00 bill was paid twice, on 3 and 4 October. I've kept the second as money they owe you.

Good, thanksIt was two jobs

New subscription

A new $24.99 a month from StreamBox started on the Everyday card. Is it yours or the café's?

Yes, it's mineI didn't sign up

Never seen before

$1,240.00 at Electro World in London went through the Everyday card at 3:12 am. You've never shopped there. Was it you?

Yes, it was meNo, it wasn't me

Beans can't stop a payment, but it tells you the moment one lands, so you can call your bank.

Why Beans

You shouldn't have to run your own books.

There have only ever been two options. Beans is the third.

Bookkeeping software

Hands you a dashboard, a list of uncategorised transactions and a reconciliation screen. Powerful, if you have the time and know what you're doing.

You still do the work.

A human bookkeeper

Does the work properly. Costs hundreds a month, works to their schedule, and you wait for answers about your own money.

Done, but slow and pricey.

Does the work as it happens, across every entity and your own money. When something genuinely needs you, it asks one plain question you answer in a tap.

Done, and you barely notice.

How it works

A minute to connect. Beans starts that day.

Connect your banks

A minute for each, read-only. Beans sees every transaction and can never move money.

Everyday card Rental account Travel card Café account

Beans keeps the books

From day one, every line goes in the right books, for each entity and for you, with receipts matched as they arrive.

Council rates14 Smith Street

GroceriesPersonal

Plumber, receipt matched14 Smith Street

Accounting softwareHarbour Café

It learns how you like it

Each answer teaches Beans, so the questions thin out as the weeks go by.

Bunnings on the Everyday card is for 14 Smith Street, you said. I'll file the next ones there.

Hey Beans

Ask anything about your money.

Plain questions, straight answers, in seconds. No reports to build, no filters to fiddle with.

How much did we spend eating out this quarter? What's owed between Harbour Café and 14 Smith Street? Any new subscriptions this month?

What did 14 Smith Street cost me last year?

$21,380 last financial year. Interest and rates were most of it, then insurance and one plumbing job.Beans.

Hey Beans, ...

Thursday 8 October

Council rates for 14 Smith Street again. I've filed these the same way the last four times. Want me to just handle them from now on?

Yes, just do itKeep asking me

In Activity

Filed council rates to 14 Smith Street.Undo

Matched the plumber's receipt to its charge.Undo

You stay the boss

Beans earns your trust.

It starts by checking with you. Once it has seen how you like something done, it asks whether it can just handle it from now on. Nothing to set up, and everything it does is written down in Activity, so you can take any of it back.