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Not an accountant. Just someone who got tired of guessing.

Short, honest walkthroughs of the software your business actually runs on. Where to click — and what it costs you when you click the wrong thing.

Free · No signup · No accounting degree required

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This screen is where most owners quietly lose money.

Bookkeeping software is built by accountants, for accountants.

If you’re the owner sitting down to do your own books at 11pm, that’s a problem. The software assumes you already know what a chart of accounts is, why a deposit needs matching rather than adding, and which of the two buttons in front of you is the one you’ll regret.

This site exists to close that gap. Not by teaching you accounting — by showing you the actual screen, the actual steps, and what each choice does to your numbers.

I’m not a bookkeeper and I’ve never pretended to be. What I do is make tutorials, and I’ve spent years explaining software to people who just want the thing to work. Same job here.

What you won’t find.

Tax advice

I’m not an accountant. What’s deductible for your business is a conversation with a professional, and a worthwhile one.

Jargon for its own sake

If a word needs explaining, it gets explained. If it doesn’t need saying at all, it doesn’t get said.

Twenty-minute preambles

Most tutorials here are under five minutes and get to the first useful step in the first fifteen seconds.

New tutorial every week.

Stuck on something? Leave a comment — most of these start out as somebody’s question.

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