I built Billpal because every tool I tried wanted to turn me into an accountant.
I'm self-employed, I don't need much – no P&L, no balance sheet. Happy to pay a CPA for this and to file my taxes.
But I also didn't want to do bookkeeping myself either. It's a stupid task.
Was genuinely surprised how little automation these accounting tools have. Even when I upload a receipt, I still have to type most of the fields by hand.
So I built my own thing: grab invoices from my inbox, parse them, and match each one to the right bank transaction automatically.
Now all I do is export a CSV and send it to my tax advisor.
Curious what you think. And happy to get into the weeds on the matching logic.
Roman
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I built Billpal because every tool I tried wanted to turn me into an accountant.
I'm self-employed, I don't need much – no P&L, no balance sheet. Happy to pay a CPA for this and to file my taxes.
But I also didn't want to do bookkeeping myself either. It's a stupid task.
Was genuinely surprised how little automation these accounting tools have. Even when I upload a receipt, I still have to type most of the fields by hand.
So I built my own thing: grab invoices from my inbox, parse them, and match each one to the right bank transaction automatically.
Now all I do is export a CSV and send it to my tax advisor.
Curious what you think. And happy to get into the weeds on the matching logic.
Roman