The books, and the way into your accounting system.
We simplify the conversation between you and your accounting system: book an expense, a receivable or a payable, or read the books, in one sentence instead of filling its forms. The desk turns that sentence into a double entry — money out of one account, into another — checks the two sides add up, and stops at a gate you press. Two records are on this page: the books this desk keeps while you work, and the accounting system they get handed to. Press an example below, or say it yourself.
Say it to the desk
Six things the office already says
Every card shows the words the desk is handed, exactly, and what they prove. Press one and the panel on the right shows the desk taking its own steps — starting, as every press does, from the books this session has already posted.
The desk is holding a proposal for your call, on the right. Pressing an event now replaces the one nobody answered — confirm or dismiss it first.
Or say it yourself
Paper goes elsewhere
This page reads the books and runs the hand-off. A scanned sheet is handed over on the invoice scan page — the only place paper arrives, and where a reading is checked against the copy the office filed.
Two sets of books, on purpose
The books are every dollar that moved, each one written down twice — out of one account, into another — so the two sides always add up to the same. That is what lets this desk say no before it records anything: the two halves a sentence just described do not add up to the same, and an entry like that never reaches a button. The list on the right, under The books, is what this desk has written down in this session; the table under it is the check that the two sides still agree.
Your accounting system is the record your accountant — or whoever files for you — actually reads. It is a separate record from the one above it, and it gets to say no as well: it refuses an entry it does not accept, and receipts the ones it does, one per entry. The two are kept apart here because that is the order the work goes in. An entry is checked before it leaves the desk, and anything the far side has not been offered yet shows as a gap you can look at rather than a figure both sides quietly agreed on.
In a real business, the second panel is not a stand-in. Behind it would sit a connector to the accounting system you already run, answering the same five calls this one answers: read the accounts, read the balance, list what is outstanding, take an entry, look a receipt up again. The gate, the checks and the receipts would not change — which is why they were written as a contract rather than as code for one product. What is not built in this demo is that connector and the log-in it would need, and that is what the labels on the panel beside it are for.