Bookkeeping and accounting In build
Pop Street Books is accounting software for Mac, Windows and the web, built for business owners who are not accountants and for the professionals who check their work. It is in build. The ledger underneath is running today, and the app screens are being built on it.
Who it is for
For business owners
For CPAs and bookkeepers
The screens
Screens from Juniper Lane, a sample company with made-up figures. They come from the web edition running on the same ledger the apps will use.
Working today
Each of these runs today in the ledger and the web edition. The demo replays what it did on a sample company, so you can see it and not just read about it.
Once an entry is posted, nobody can edit or delete it, including a program with direct access to the company file. A mistake is fixed with a new entry that cancels the old one and points back to it.
See it in the demo (opens in a new tab)An entry only posts when debits equal credits. The books check this again every time the file opens.
See it in the demo (opens in a new tab)Every change is written to a history where each record carries a fingerprint of the one before it. Altering a record breaks the chain, and the next check names the exact record.
See it in the demo (opens in a new tab)The engine signs the end of the history each day and saves a copy of the receipt outside the company file, in a folder you choose. If anyone later deletes the newest records, the check against a receipt names what is missing, even if they also clean up inside the file.
See it in the demo (opens in a new tab)Every edit lists the fields that changed with the value before and after, and the person, the computer and the sign-in session behind it. Tax and bank identifiers are masked, so a secret never appears in full in the history.
See it in the demo (opens in a new tab)Search the history by person, computer, session, kind of action, subject and date, and export it as a spreadsheet file for an accountant or auditor. Backups and repairs are written to the same history.
Send invoices with sales tax, enter bills, record payments and apply one payment to several invoices. Who owes you and what you owe update as you go, and a voided document leaves a visible reversal behind.
Bring in a statement from your bank as an OFX, QFX or CSV file. Each line is matched to an invoice or bill when the amount and name agree, or filed by a rule you set once. Lines you bring in twice are spotted and skipped.
Tick off what cleared and watch the difference fall to zero. A finished reconciliation is kept with its statement balance, and undoing one needs a reason that goes into the history.
Profit and loss, balance sheet, every account (trial balance), who owes you, what you owe, a single account in detail and sales tax, each with a CSV download and a print view.
Load a QuickBooks IIF export: accounts, customers, vendors and transactions come across, and a tie-out compares the totals with the file.
Lock a period and nothing can be posted into it. The lock can be extended and never lifted.
See it in the demo (opens in a new tab)Each company is one encrypted file on your computer. Account names and amounts are unreadable without the key.
The same books in two views. Plain mode says money in, money out, who owes you and what you owe. Accountant mode shows the chart of accounts, journal, edit history, month close and backups.
Seven checks, from drafts and earlier months to bank matching, odd balances, tax lines and backups, each say what they found and what to do next. When nothing blocks, the month closes with one click and the result is written to the history.
Test builds of both apps run today. Each opens the same screens in its own window, keeps your books on your computer with the key held by Windows or the Mac keychain, and checks your licence once before working without the internet. Signed installers are next.
The file checks itself when it opens. A damaged file is kept aside and the newest snapshot that passed every check is restored. With no good snapshot the file opens for reading only, so nothing gets worse.
See it in the demo (opens in a new tab)Where it is going
Why people switch
Export everything at any time. A licence that ends leaves the books open to read, export and back up.
A licence covers the computers and sign-ins you set up, so invoices, entries and companies are never counted. Contact us for pricing.
A mistake is fixed with a new entry that points at the old one, so the trail shows both.
Run it on the computer you own, or in the web edition. The numbers match, because the same ledger runs underneath.
For clients
The Windows and Mac apps are for licensed clients. Downloads unlock with the licence key we send when you become a client, so only people we have set up can get them. Nothing is published until each app is ready.
For Windows 10 and 11. The first version is being built for review by a CPA.
Unlock with your licence key for WindowsFor macOS. It follows the Windows app, and shares the same ledger.
Unlock with your licence key for MacPlain words first: money in, money out, who owes you and what you owe. A full accountant view of the same books is one switch away.
A complete ledger with an audit trail you can rely on, adjusting entries kept apart from the client's own, and exports that load into the tax software you already use.
Your books stay yours. You can export everything at any time, and a licence that ends leaves your books open to read, export and back up.
Questions
The ledger engine works today. The apps are in build, so there is nothing to install yet. Tell us you are interested and we will say when a first version is ready for you.
A made-up studio called Juniper Lane, kept by the real ledger. You can read its books, then open the cards that show what the ledger did when someone tried to post an unbalanced entry, change a posted one, add to a closed month, rewrite the history or damage the file.
Reading a QuickBooks Desktop company file, with a tie-out to the original for every month, is the first import being built. Other sources come after.
The United States, Canada and India first, with each country's tax rules added as its own pack. More countries follow one at a time.
That connection is planned. The aim is for every sale, fee, refund and payout to land in your books without retyping.
Preparing and e-filing tax returns is planned, and it needs approval from each tax authority before we can offer it. Until then Pop Street Books prepares the books and the year-end package your tax software loads. Tell us what you file and we will say when it is ready.
Yes. A licence does not count invoices, entries or companies. It covers the computers and sign-ins you set up, so a client can keep as many companies and as much history as they need.
Contact us for pricing. We plan yearly and one-time licences, and a licence that ends leaves your books open to read, export and back up.
Contact us for pricing. Yearly and one-time licences are planned, as with the rest of our products.
Open the demo, then tell us how you keep your books today and we will say when a first version suits you.