You do not get a system
to figure out. You get the work done
Bookkeeping software sells you a tool and leaves the job to you. We sell the job. The machine does the part that is mechanical and a person does the part that needs judgement, so the work is priced at about 30% of what a bookkeeper charges for it. That is the model. What it covers in the United States today is the invoice and the payment; the books are what we are building next.
Live today: invoices, payments, customers, products, reports · The books: next
- No monthly fee
- Paid out to your own bank
- Cancel by walking away
The machine does the mechanical part. A person does the part that needs one.
A bookkeeper's bill is mostly hours, and most of those hours go on work that is mechanical: matching payments to invoices, chasing receipts, keying the same number into two places, and checking that it balances. None of that needs professional judgement — it needs doing, correctly, every month. Take those hours away and the bill should follow them down. That is the whole basis for the share, and it is why it is a share and not a subscription.
The machine does the mechanical part
Payments match themselves, recurring work recurs, entries post themselves, and the review runs every night whether or not anybody remembers it.
A person does the judgement
What something is, how it should be treated, what to do about the thing that does not fit. That is the work you are paying for, and it stays with a person.
You get a result, not a login
The deliverable is books that are right and figures you can act on — not a screen you have to learn first.
Where the CPA fits
Our aim is to get the licensed work inside the same price, or close enough to it that the comparison is not a contest. We are not there, and until we are we will say what is included rather than what we intend.
Worked through on published prices for the same work, it comes to $1,008 a year against $3,388 — you keep $2,380, which is 70% of the bill. The arithmetic, with the sources it came from.
There is no US price for bookkeeping yet. The books themselves are American now, and the section below says plainly what is still missing. This is the rule the price will follow, and you can check it before you ever have to trust us on it.
0.9% to us. Stripe's fee to Stripe
Not a tier and not a starting-from. Nine dollars on a thousand-dollar invoice, and separately whatever Stripe charges for the card or the bank transfer. We publish both, because one number that quietly contains the other is how you end up surprised.
The money is yours, directly
Payouts land in your own account, not in ours first. Stripe verifies your identity and bank details once, and after that it runs by itself.
Nothing until you are paid
No monthly fee, no minimum, no per-user seat. An invoice that is never paid costs you nothing, and a refund takes our share back with it.
Paid, posted, done
The payment matches itself to the invoice and posts itself. You are not reconciling one Stripe payout against seven invoices at the end of the month.
One button on the invoice. That is the whole mechanism.
There is no payment link to build, no checkout page to host and no deposit to hunt for at month end. The invoice carries the button, your customer taps it, and the money goes where your money goes.
- Connect your account onceStripe verifies who you are and which bank account is yours. It takes a few minutes and it happens once.
- Card, wallet or bank transferYour customer chooses. Apple Pay and Google Pay work without you setting anything up.
- The price, said plainly0.9% of each amount paid, plus Stripe's card fee. No fixed monthly fee, no minimum, no lock-in.
- Payouts in 45 countriesIf you invoice abroad, the money still settles into your own account.
What else works, the day you create a company
These run now, in the United States, with no waiting list and no pilot. They are not the whole platform — the rest is further down, with an honest account of where it stands.
- Customers and contactsA real CRM underneath the invoicing: leads, accounts, a pipeline with deal values and win/loss, activity history, duplicate detection. The customer you invoice is the customer in the pipeline, not a copy of them.
- Quotes, invoices, credit notesIncluding recurring billing for work that repeats, and automatic chasing for invoices that have gone quiet.
- Products and servicesA catalog the quote and the invoice both draw from, so a price change happens in one place.
- ReportsSales, customers and collections, built from the same records the invoices came from — so a number can be traced back to the document that produced it.
- One login, several companiesRun or advise more than one company without a second login or a second subscription. Roles and permissions are per company; the books stay separate.
Bring your clients. Keep the relationship.
If you keep books for other people, LegaSum is the machine underneath your practice rather than a competitor to it. One login, every client separate, and the mechanical hours taken off your desk so the hours you bill are the ones worth billing. Where we are going is to have the licensed work inside the client's price — and the practice that gets there with us is the one we want to build it with.
- Several companies, one loginRoles and permissions per client. The books stay separate; the login does not.
- The client sees what you want them to seeOr nothing at all. It is your practice and your relationship.
- We do not sign anythingWe are not a CPA firm, we issue no assurance, and we do not file on anyone's behalf. Those acts are yours, and we have no interest in them.
Building Your books can live here. Four things around them cannot yet
This is the part most platforms leave to a footnote, so here it is in body type, above the sign-up button. Create a company in the United States today and you get an American chart of accounts in dollars — assets in the 1000s, accounts receivable, retained earnings, sales tax payable, FICA lines for payroll. Your EIN goes on the company and onto every invoice. What is not there yet: sales tax is not calculated for your jurisdictions, there is no bank feed — you import the statement file your bank exports — payroll does not run a US pay cycle, and there is no US price for bookkeeping. The books are yours. Four things around them are not.
- What you get todayInvoicing, payments, customers, products, reports and an American chart of accounts — all of it in English, all of it in dollars, all of it live.
- What is still missingSales tax by jurisdiction rather than a rate you type, a bank feed, a US pay cycle, and a US price for bookkeeping.
- Why it is not just a translationA ledger is a chart of accounts, a tax engine, a fiscal calendar and an identifier. Translating the words would give you an American-looking ledger that still thinks in someone else's rules, which is worse than saying it plainly.
So if your books depend on a bank feed, a sales tax engine or a US payroll run, keep them where they are for now, and come here to send invoices and collect the money, which works today. Each of the four will be on this page in the same plain words when it closes.
Where this is going, and how far along each part is
The plan is one platform for everything a business has to do, on one set of records. Three of these run today. Five are being built, and they say so. None of them carries a date, because a date we miss is worth less than an order we keep.
LiveStart your businessCompany profile, several companies and countries under one login, teams, roles, permissions, branches and locations.
LiveRun accounting & paymentsDouble-entry books, chart of accounts, P&L, balance sheet and cash flow. Quotes, invoices, credit notes and recurring billing. Payments recorded, matched and reconciled. Invoicing, payments and the books are live; a bank feed, sales tax by jurisdiction and a US price for bookkeeping are not — see above.
BuildingSell & manage inventoryProducts and services, stock across warehouses, movements, pricing, SKUs, stock reports — and a point of sale that draws on the same stock.
LiveManage customers with CRMLeads, contacts and accounts, qualification and scoring, a pipeline with deal values and win/loss, activity timelines, duplicate detection, custom fields and saved views.
BuildingAutomate marketingAudiences and segments, campaigns and email, a drag-and-drop journey builder with waits and branches, consent and suppression handled properly, and attribution you can read.
BuildingBuild your websiteA real site at company.legasum.com or your own domain: pages, blog, themes, media, menus, product catalog from your inventory, and forms that land in your CRM.
BuildingManage projects & teamsProjects with expenses, payments, change orders and profitability. Tasks, follow-ups and a calendar. Customer and vendor portals for the people outside your team.
LiveUnderstand everything with reportsSales, purchases, inventory, tax, CRM, marketing and profitability — by branch, by period, by whatever question you actually have.Running something that is not on a card? Tell us what it is — the answer is a plan, an honest "not yet", or a partner who does it today.
From nothing to a paid invoice
Three steps, and none of them is a migration project.
Create the company
Name, country and what you do. Free, and free to keep — you are not asked for a card.
Connect payouts
Stripe verifies your identity and your bank account. Once, in a few minutes.
Send the invoice
Your customer taps the button, the money lands in your account, and the invoice closes itself.
Before you start
Can I use this instead of QuickBooks?
Partly, and we would rather say which part than lose the argument later. The books can live here now: an American chart of accounts, in dollars. What QuickBooks does that we do not yet: there is no bank feed (you import your bank's statement file), sales tax is a rate you enter rather than one we look up, there are no 1099s, and there is no US price for bookkeeping. If any of that matters to you, keep your books where they are and send invoices and collect payment here. The full arithmetic — including the monthly volume above which QuickBooks Payments is the cheaper route — is on /quickbooks.
Does it handle US sales tax?
Not automatically. You can put a sales tax line on an invoice and it will bill and collect it correctly, and it lands on its own liability account in your books, so tax you collected is never counted as your income. We do not calculate the rate by jurisdiction and we do not track nexus.
What does it actually cost?
0.9% of each amount you collect, plus Stripe's card fee. Creating a company is free and stays free. No monthly fee, no per-user seat, no minimum.
Where does the money go?
Into your own bank account. Stripe verifies you once and pays out to you directly; the money does not sit with us on the way.
What happens if a customer never pays?
Nothing is charged. We take a share of money that moved, so an invoice that goes nowhere costs you our chasing rather than your cash.
Can we run more than one company?
Yes, and in more than one country, under one login, with roles and permissions per company and per branch. The books stay separate; the login does not.
Can I get my data out?
Yes, and without asking anyone: invoices, invoice lines, journal entries and customer and supplier records download as CSV from inside the product, for any date range you choose. Invoices come as PDFs too. Receipts and attachments are not part of the bulk download yet — that is the one piece still missing, and we would rather say so than let you find out on the day you leave. It is your ledger, not ours.
Send your first invoice today. Pay us when it is paid.
Creating a company is free, and nothing is charged until money actually moves.