Instead of living in the bank feed
Familiar activity is already coded when you arrive.
Repeat vendors post on rules and AI. New vendors, transfers, and anything missing a detail stay in front of you with the reason attached.
Bookkeeping software with a bookkeeper in itYour AI BookkeeperFor Only $20/mo
LedgerHQ is a real double-entry ledger with Tally, an AI bookkeeper, working inside it. Tally codes the bank activity, works the reconciliations, asks for what it is missing, and produces the financial statements. Same software whether you keep one company's books or forty.
Start with a card today and pay nothing until September 1, 2026. Priced per active company either way, so trying one company costs one company.
Firm workspace
Be honest about what QuickBooks automates
QuickBooks automates one thing: putting transactions on a screen for you to code.
That is the entire automation story. After the feed lands, a person codes it. A person handles the odd ones. A person emails the client. A person posts the accruals. A person reconciles. A person checks the work. A person builds the report. You bought software and you still staffed the month.
LedgerHQ automates the rest of the list. Not as suggestions in a sidebar — Tally posts to the real ledger, under the same period locks and balance rules your staff work under, and leaves a record of every entry it made. Your people review exceptions and make the calls that need judgment.
The full side-by-sideOne company. One month of books.
Who does itQuickBooksLedgerHQ
Get bank and card activity inAutomatedAutomated
Code the transactionsDone by a personAutomated
Work the ones that aren't obviousDone by a personAutomated
Chase the client for missing infoDone by a personAutomated
Post accruals, payroll, depreciationDone by a personAutomated
Reconcile every account to the statementDone by a personAutomated
Check the workDone by a personReview
Produce and send the financialsDone by a personAutomated
1 of 8 automated7 of 8 automated
What changes on an ordinary Tuesday
Same clients. Same close. A different day.
On QuickBooksOn LedgerHQ
Open twelve company files to find out who is behind.
One screen ranks every company by what is actually unfinished.
Code 400 rows, most of them the same vendors as last month.
Tally coded them overnight. You look at the 11 it flagged.
Email a client for the third time about a $4,200 transfer.
Tally already asked. The reply came in and the coding resumed.
Tick and tie a reconciliation against a statement PDF.
The statement was read, the worksheet is built, the difference is $0.00.
Rebuild the same three reports in Excel because the client wants a comparison.
Ask for it in plain English. It comes out of the same books your team reviewed.
The thing a company file can never do
Ask one question. Get an answer across every client.
QuickBooks is built around one company at a time. There is no screen, no report, and no realistic export that answers a question about your whole book of business. Firms solve it with spreadsheets, checklists, and someone opening files one by one.
In LedgerHQ every company you manage lives under one firm workspace — separate ledgers, one place to ask. Tally answers across all of them.
Tally
Firm-wide · every company
- Which companies still have uncoded transactions over $1,000?
- Show me every meals charge over $500 across all my companies this quarter.
- Which books are actually ready to close?
- Which bank connections broke this week, and did anyone tell the owner?
- Which companies am I spending the most staff hours on?
Ask in the firm chat, or pull the same data through the REST API.
Four minutes
Watch Tally work a month.
Not a demo of buttons. Actual coding, reconciling, asking the client, and reporting inside the books.
What replaces what
Four screens that take over four parts of your month.
Instead of a second set of books
One chart of accounts. Real double-entry underneath.
Tally and your staff post to the same accounts and registers, under the same period locks and balance rules. Automation does not create a shadow ledger you have to reconcile later.
Instead of month-end archaeology
Start the day on the work, not on figuring out the work.
Bank activity, entries, statements, reconciliations, client questions, and reports in one place, with a clear record of what Tally did and what a person did.
LedgerHQ on iPhone
The firm in your pocket. The client’s books in theirs.
Not a cut-down companion app. Ask Tally what needs doing across every company, open a client’s workspace, code transactions, pull statements and reports, and answer requests — from your phone.
Your clients get their own view: their accounts, their reports, and the questions you asked them. They never see your firm workspace.
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Your firm
Your whole firm, opened from your pocket.
Your firm
Ask Tally what needs doing. Out loud, if you want.
Your firm
Pick a company and go straight to the work.
Your firm
Statements and workpapers, wherever you are.
Your client
Your client sees their accounts, not your workspace.
Your client
And answers your questions without an email thread.
Your own tools, and your own AI
Everything Tally can do, your systems can do too.
QuickBooks has an API, but production access means an app review, a partner process, and a maintained integration — and there is no practical path for the AI assistant your firm already uses to simply connect and work.
LedgerHQ ships a documented REST API and an MCP server as part of the product. Point Claude, an internal script, or your practice management system at the same books your staff use. Nothing is held back for a partner tier.
REST API
Documented under an OpenAPI spec. Every agent-accessible capability has a route.
MCP server
Connect an AI agent directly to the books, scoped to your firm.
Same permissions
Agents work under the same organization scoping and period locks as people.
Full audit trail
Every entry records who or what made it, so review still works.
The part nobody wants to talk about
What moving actually costs you.
Switching accounting systems for a book of clients is real work, and any vendor who tells you it is one click is lying to you. Here is the honest shape of it.
Move one company, not forty.
Pick the client whose books annoy you most. Run it here for a month while everything else stays exactly where it is. You are billed per active company, so one company costs one company.
The chart and the history come with you.
Export the chart of accounts and journals from QuickBooks as CSV — the standard export your team already knows. LedgerHQ previews and validates the import before anything posts, so you see what lands before you commit.
Bank connections get reconnected, not copied.
No software can move a bank login. You reconnect the accounts through Plaid at the cutoff date. That is the honest part of the work, and it is the same step you would do at any new system.
Nothing forces you off QuickBooks.
Keep the QBO subscription running as long as you want. Read-only history stays where it is. Firms that switch usually run parallel for one close and then stop paying for the old file.
1
Export the chart and journals
The standard QuickBooks CSV export.
2
Preview and validate the import
See exactly what posts before anything does.
3
Reconnect the banks, start Tally
The queue lights up on day one.
Or just watch one move
A QuickBooks company brought across, start to finish.
The exports, the preview, the verification. Judge the switching cost by watching it instead of by taking our word.
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Pricing
Trying this costs $20 a month.
You are billed per active company, so moving one client to LedgerHQ + Tally is $20/month — less than an hour of a bookkeeper’s time, for a client whose coding and reconciliation stop being your problem. Without Tally, LedgerHQ Core is $9/month per company. The firm workspace and the first 6 mapped bank accounts are included either way; extra mapped accounts are $1/month. Start with a card today and pay nothing until September 1, 2026.
Questions
What firms ask before they switch.
What is LedgerHQ?
LedgerHQ is bookkeeping software for anyone keeping a set of company books — a business owner keeping their own, or an accounting firm keeping books for many client companies. It combines a real double-entry general ledger — chart of accounts, journal entries, registers, reconciliations, period locks, and financial statements — with Tally, an AI bookkeeper that performs the routine work inside those books rather than suggesting it from a chat panel.
Can a business owner use LedgerHQ, or is it only for firms?
Both. It is the same software, the same ledger, and the same price either way: $9 a month per company for LedgerHQ Core and $20 with Tally. A business owner signs up for their own books and adds a company for each business they own. An accounting firm signs up for a firm workspace and manages client companies from it. If a business owner later wants a professional, a LedgerHQ accounting firm can pick up their books in place — same platform, same history, nothing to migrate.
How is LedgerHQ different from QuickBooks Online?
QuickBooks automates one step of the bookkeeping month: delivering bank transactions to a screen. Coding, exceptions, client follow-up, journal entries, reconciliation, review, and reporting are all still performed by a person. LedgerHQ automates those steps through Tally and keeps humans on exceptions and judgment. LedgerHQ is also firm-first — one workspace across every client company, with questions answerable across the entire book of business — where QuickBooks is organized around one company file at a time.
What is the best bookkeeping software for an accounting firm?
For a firm managing many client companies, the deciding factors are whether the product is firm-first rather than company-file-first, whether automation completes work or only suggests it, whether you can ask a question spanning all clients, and whether your own tools and AI agents can reach the data. LedgerHQ is built for exactly that profile. Firms needing payroll, inventory, or tax preparation inside the same product will still run dedicated systems alongside it.
Can I switch from QuickBooks to LedgerHQ without moving every client?
Yes, and that is the recommended path. LedgerHQ bills per active company, so you can move a single client, run it in parallel with QuickBooks for a close, and decide from there. Moving a company means importing its chart of accounts and journal CSV exports with a validation preview, then reconnecting its bank accounts through Plaid at a cutoff date you choose.
Does an AI bookkeeper actually post to the general ledger?
In LedgerHQ, yes. Tally posts through the same accounting services your staff use, which means balanced entries, enforced period locks, company-scoped access, and a record showing that Tally rather than a person made the entry. Familiar activity can move automatically while new vendors, ambiguous transfers, and incomplete evidence stay queued for review.
Can our own software or AI agents connect to LedgerHQ?
Yes. LedgerHQ ships a documented REST API under an OpenAPI specification and an MCP server, so internal scripts, practice-management systems, and AI assistants can work with the same books your staff use, under the same permissions. There is no partner program or app review to clear first.
How much does LedgerHQ cost?
Pricing is per active company per month, with two packages: LedgerHQ Core for the bookkeeping system, and LedgerHQ + Tally which adds the AI bookkeeper with an included AI allowance. The firm workspace and the first mapped bank accounts are included with either package. Current figures are on the pricing page.
Pick one set of books. Give them to Tally for a month.
Your own business, or the client company you least want to open. Everything else stays exactly where it is while you watch the close come out.
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