Open Accounting Software free. No card until you pick a plan
Scott Apps · Accounting Software
The subscription is the software. Invoice money stays on your Stripe or your PayPal. Full books start at $19/mo. Free covers a few documents, with no ledger and no card payments.
A buyer should be able to say this after one reading: I pay Scott Apps for the software. My customer pays me. The books are mine. Tax screens are a draft for my CPA.
The plan
Scott Applications LLC bills the subscription through Stripe. The charge is the plan price on this page, and that price includes Texas sales tax. Within 14 days the charge is refunded in full. After that, unused days are refunded by the day.
The invoice
They pay on your Stripe or your PayPal. Scott Apps does not add a fee and does not hold that money. You choose cards, bank debit, PayPal, and the wallets those providers allow.
Send a few invoices, estimates, quotes, contracts, and bills, and share one portal link. No ledger. No card or PayPal collection. Just you.
The ledger under those documents, statements, a month-end packet, opening balances, a CSV import, a tax-center draft, and a receipt photo that stays a draft until you save it. One set of colors for documents and email. Customer payments on your own Stripe or PayPal. Up to 25 clients.
Everything in Books, plus jobs. Budget against actual cost while the job is still open. Unlimited clients, and up to 5 people with the access you grant.
Close a month, match a statement file from your bank, and keep fixed assets. Up to 15 people. This plan starts with a walkthrough.
The Firm tools, with unlimited people and 250GB for files. Still one company. This plan starts with a walkthrough.
On any plan that can edit an invoice, you can split what is due now into steps, and you can repeat the document. Repeating it does not email the customer. An exemption certificate is a number, a file you already store, and an expiry date. Tax drops only while that date has not passed.
Applied on Stripe Checkout when sales are open. You can also enter a code on the next screen.
Plans
Paid plans do not meter how many documents you send. Free is capped. Books adds the ledger. Jobs, a closed month, and more people come on the plans above it.
Your customer pays you. The charge runs on your Stripe or your PayPal, and that money is not deposited to Scott Apps. The software plan is a separate charge to Scott Applications LLC.
No. Scott Apps does not add a platform fee and does not add a surcharge. Stripe or PayPal charge their own processing fee on the payment your customer makes to you.
No. A trial or a discount exists only while an admin promotion is turned on. The price on the card is the price, with no trial promised on the card itself.
Invoices, estimates, quotes, contracts, and bills. Paid plans do not cap how many of those you create. Free allows 3 invoices, 3 estimates, and 3 quotes a month, 1 contract a month, and 3 bills a month. You can download a PDF, print, email, and export.
From Books up, every invoice, bill, and payment posts to a double-entry ledger. You can open a profit and loss, a balance sheet, a cash flow, and a month-end packet. Free is documents and a shared portal link, with no ledger and no card or PayPal collection.
No. The tax center is a draft for your CPA. It groups sales tax by the jurisdiction you saved, lists 1099 candidates, and shows a Schedule C grouping. Book depreciation on that screen is the depreciation already posted in your books. It is not a tax form, and Scott Apps does not file it.
Yes. An invoice, quote, or estimate can carry two to twelve steps, all percents or all dollars. The customer pays what is due now. The invoice still posts once for the full total.
Yes. Repeat is turned on from the document. When the next invoice or bill is created, Scott Apps does not email your customer.
Job costing. An estimate, a bill, and the invoice can belong to the same job, with the budget next to the actual cost. Clients are not capped. You can add up to 5 people, and each person only opens the areas you turn on.
Firm adds closing a month so later edits are refused, matching a statement file you download from your bank, and a fixed-asset register, with up to 15 people. Unlimited is those same tools with unlimited people and more file storage. It is not a second company. Neither plan is a phone-support plan.
On a plan that includes team members, you can invite a person to this company. They see this company. They do not get a portal of many companies, and they do not get a company of their own from the invite. Books is owner only, so a helper starts at Books + Jobs.
Within 14 days of a software plan charge, that charge is refunded in full. After day 14, unused days left in that period are refunded by the day. This applies to plan fees paid to Scott Applications LLC. It does not refund a payment your customer made on an invoice.
No live bank connection, purchase orders, payroll, tax filing, bill pay, or inventory. Support is email, Monday through Friday, 7am to 7pm Central. The product is priced in US dollars for businesses in the United States.