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Real double-entry books, in the same workspace as the work that generates them.

Your accounting package knows the numbers and nothing about where they came from. WorkBOS keeps the ledger next to the projects, the invoices, the bills and the people, so a figure can be traced back to the thing that caused it without leaving the workspace.

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What usually goes wrong

The books are accurate and completely disconnected from the operational detail behind them.

Multi-entity reporting means running the same report several times and adding it up by hand.

Month end is a scavenger hunt across four systems and somebody’s inbox.

What you get, by name

Every capability below is enforced on the server, not a demo screenshot. Anything that needs a paid plan says so on the card rather than leaving you to find out at checkout.

A general ledger, not a bolt-onPro and up

Chart of accounts, journals, trial balance, fiscal periods and tax rates, with every invoice, bill and expense claim posting automatically.

Invoicing, bills and expense claimsPro and up

Server-computed totals so figures cannot be tampered with in the browser, branded invoices and receipts, credit notes that actually reduce what a client owes, and payment receipts that settle several invoices at once. Invoicing is on every plan; bills and expense claims come with Pro.

Per-company books for a groupPro and up

Tag transactions to a company and every ledger report filters or consolidates, with each entity invoicing under its own name, logo and tax ID.

Bank statement import and reconciliation

Import a statement CSV, map the columns, and work the unmatched queue with categorisation rules that suggest and never post on their own. There is no live bank feed, and the import is CSV rather than OFX.

Revenue recognition, budgets and multi-currencyPro and up

Scheduled recognition, recurring expenses, budget versus actual, and stored FX on multi-currency transactions.

Approve-first AI agents

An approve-first AI Chief of Staff that proposes the work and waits for a person to say yes. Every action it takes runs through the same permission checks a human would hit, is recorded against the person who approved it, and can be rolled back in one click. The full append-only audit log you can read back and export is an Enterprise capability.

Your first week

1
Set your chart of accounts, fiscal periods and tax rates, and bring in outstanding invoices and bills.
2
Import one bank statement and work the reconciliation queue to see how the rules behave.
3
Run a trial balance and a P&L against your current books and compare them line by line.

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What you are probably weighing this against

Each comparison opens by saying where the other product is the better choice, because that is the half of a comparison worth reading.

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Questions finance teams ask

Is this really double-entry?

Yes. Every posting has a debit and a credit, the trial balance balances or the system tells you, and the reports are produced from the journal rather than from a summary table.

Can I connect my bank?

Not as a live feed. You import a bank statement CSV, map the columns, and reconcile against the ledger, with duplicate detection so re-importing the same file is safe and rules that pre-fill suggestions for you to confirm.

What about consolidation across entities?

Multi-entity is included from the Pro plan. Each company keeps its own books and its own branded invoices, and the group consolidates on top with one filter. The Entities board rolls up revenue, expenses and net across every company with drill-down.

Set it up the way finance teams actually work.

Start free for up to five seats, or let the Business Architect lay out the whole workspace from a short conversation and show you the blueprint before anything is created.

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