PRODUCT STUDIOLedgerline
The invoice is just one page of the ledger.
For one-person service businesses — piano teachers, landscapers, editors, consultants. Ledgerline keeps one running account per client, so the balance is always current, always agreed-upon, and never reconstructed from a scroll through last spring’s email.
- Customers
- Teams of one
- Core object
- The client ledger
- Retainers
- Burn down visibly, entry by entry
- Waitlist
- Open
What it does
One balance per client, always right
- One running balance per client Invoices, payments, deposits, credits, and write-offs are all just entries on the same ledger. The balance is always current, and — because both of you can see it — always agreed-upon.
- Retainers and deposits that burn down visibly A prepaid balance draws down entry by entry, in the open, so nobody is surprised when it runs out.
- A shareable client page Full history plus a pay button, one link. It ends the “did you get my check” genre of email entirely.
- Late nudges you don’t have to write Firm without being passive-aggressive. We drafted them so you don’t have to spend Tuesday night workshopping the tone.
- Tax-time export Clean enough that your accountant will describe it as “fine” — the highest compliment accountants give.
Why it exists
Clients are accounts, not invoices
Invoicing apps treat every invoice as an island: create it, send it, chase it, archive it, repeat. But a real client relationship is a running account. The piano student who prepaid ten lessons, the landscaping client with a spring deposit and a rain credit, the editing client who always pays half up front — none of them fit the one-invoice-at-a-time model, and all of them generate arithmetic that currently lives in someone’s head.
Ledgerline makes the ledger the core object and demotes the invoice to what it actually is: one page of it. Every charge, payment, deposit, and credit is an entry; the balance falls out for free. QuickBooks understands this perfectly well — it just requires you to attend a seminar before acting on it.
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The waitlist is open. Tell us what you run and mention Ledgerline in the message — we’ll be in touch when it’s your turn.