Every dollar, accounted for.
Summely is double-entry accounting built for small business. Invoices, bills, bank feeds, inventory, projects and reports — on a real ledger where debits always equal credits.
15 days free, no credit card. No payroll, no payment processing, no upsells. Just the books.
| Account | Debit | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| Accounts receivable | 4,820.00 | — |
| Consulting income | — | 4,400.00 |
| Reimbursed expenses | — | 420.00 |
| Balanced | 4,820.00 | 4,820.00 |
The ledger
Books that balance. Always.
Every transaction in Summely posts as balanced debits and credits to an immutable ledger. Posted entries are never edited and never deleted — corrections post as new entries, so your history is complete and your accountant can follow every step. You don't have to think in debits and credits. You just get books that stand up to anyone who does.
Three things you need it to do.
Get paid.
Send invoices as PDFs, by email, from your desk or your phone. Track what's outstanding and what's overdue at a glance.
Pay what you owe.
Enter bills and expenses, attach a receipt and have the details read off it for you to confirm, and see what's due before it's due.
Know where you stand.
Connect your bank, or import a statement, and transactions land in a review queue. Categorize once and Summely suggests it next time; reconciliation proves your books match the bank, to the penny.
Scope
Small business, full-size accounting.
The capabilities you would expect from software that costs several times as much — included, not upsold.
- Inventory. Quantities, FIFO costing and cost of goods sold.
- Projects and time. Track hours, put costs against a job, see its profit.
- Multi-currency ledger. Every posting carries its currency and rate, with exchange rates kept by day and foreign balances revalued at period end.
- Fixed assets. Register assets and post depreciation on schedule.
- Custom fields. As many as you need on invoices, bills, customers and vendors, printed on your PDFs.
- Sales tax liability. See what you owe each agency, straight from the ledger.
- 1099s. Track contractor payments for reporting season.
- Custom reports. Build the report you actually need, not only the ones we thought of.
Year end
Close the period with proof.
When you close a period, Summely audits its own books first: it re-checks that every entry balances, that the control accounts agree with their subledgers, and that closed periods stay closed. Every change to your data is written to an audit log. Year end stops being an act of faith.
Everywhere
Your books, wherever you are.
Summely runs in the browser, on iPhone and on Android. Record expenses and invoices without a signal: entries queue on the device and sync when you are back online.
Coming from QuickBooks
A QuickBooks alternative that brings your books along.
Connect QuickBooks Online and Summely imports your accounts, customers, vendors, products and transactions, then compares its trial balance with QuickBooks', account by account. Every plan has every accounting feature, so there is no tier to climb afterward.
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What Summely doesn't do.
No payroll.
Run the payroll provider you already trust alongside Summely.
No payment processing.
Your invoices state how you get paid. You keep your existing arrangements.
New, and not pretending otherwise.
We have no decade of customers to point at. We would rather tell you what is missing than surprise you after you have switched.
It all adds up.
Books that balance, on a system you can leave with everything. Your financial statements export to CSV, Excel or PDF, and the API is yours.
15 days free on every plan. No credit card to sign up.