Accounting for your business and your life
You run a business. Maybe two, three, or four. Plus everything personal. RealBooks puts it all in one place, so you finally see how it works together: today, next week, three months from now, a year out.
$59.99/month for your first business. $29.99 for each additional. Cancel anytime.
Owning your own business is supposed to feel like progress. Most nights it feels like this instead.
You moved $2,000 from your personal account to cover the shop's payroll and made a mental note you will definitely remember in April. You will not.
Even when one login reaches every business, the books stay in separate silos, and none of them touch your personal finances. The only place it all comes together, how each business and your personal money affect each other, is your head, usually at 2 a.m.
Am I actually okay? Today, next week, in three months, next year. Your gut says probably. Your books should say exactly.
What we actually sell
Three words we chose carefully. They are a promise about how running your businesses should feel, in order, because each one makes the next one possible.
One picture instead of four guesses.
Clarity means every business and your personal life in one login and one honest picture. Pay yourself a draw from the coffee shop and it can land in your personal books automatically. You stop reconciling four tools in your head and start seeing what is actually happening across everything you own.
Know what happens next, then decide.
Control means the future stops being a mystery. Cash flow forecasts and a runway timeline show what today's decisions do to next week, the next quarter, and the year. Budgets, bill approvals, and project margins put your hands back on the levers: can the shop afford the new machine, can you pay yourself this month, which business needs you first.
What is left when the dread is gone.
Calm is not a feature we built. It is what shows up when clarity and control are there every day. Sunday night stops being spreadsheet night. Tax season becomes a download instead of a panic. You think about growing your businesses instead of wondering whether one is quietly sinking.
Other accounting tools lock the one feature you actually need behind a higher tier, then charge you several times as much to unlock it. We never do that. Every business on your account gets every feature we build, included. No tiers to decode, no per-feature upsells, no holding your own work hostage.
Switch between your companies in one click. One subscription, one bill, zero silos.
See your personal finances right beside every business. Money you move between them, owner draws out and funding in, shows up in one connected view instead of two systems that never talk.
See projected balances day by day, with every upcoming bill and invoice on the line.
Send invoices, track who owes you, and watch receivables age before they become problems.
Vendor bills route through approval, so nothing gets paid twice or by surprise. Let staff enter bills and invoices without seeing your revenue or what anyone earns, so you can offload the grunt work without exposing your finances or inviting fraud.
Plan the year, then watch reality against the plan instead of discovering it in December.
Know which jobs actually make money, with revenue and cost side by side.
Connect accounts and let transactions flow in instead of typing them at midnight.
P&L, AR and AP aging, and cash reports across any business, any date range.
Recurring bills and invoices generate themselves on schedule.
Log trips and turn business miles into deductions without a shoebox of receipts.
Verified nonprofits under $75,000 per year of income use RealBooks free.
Good tools for recording one set of books. What they do not show, with one business or five, is where your business and personal finances are actually headed. RealBooks starts where they stop: with you, looking forward.
See the full comparison| RealBooks | The others | |
|---|---|---|
| Personal and business together | One connected picture, with owner draws and funding mirrored | Business only; personal lives somewhere else |
| The forward view | Cash forecast and runway: this week, next month, a year out | Mostly a record of what already happened |
| Built around | You and your whole financial picture | One company's books at a time |
| Adding a business | One bill: $59.99 first, $29.99 each additional | Another full-price subscription each |