General ledger

Real books from the first transaction

Start a new business with accrual, double-entry books. Your agent records activity through controlled commands; you can inspect the entries and reports it creates.

A bank balance is not the whole business

Cash tells you what cleared. It does not, by itself, tell you what customers owe, what you owe vendors or when revenue was earned. Those differences matter when you set a price, plan spending or answer an investor. Economico gives a new business a ledger where those facts can be recorded separately.

In plain words

Double-entry: Every transaction is written twice: the amount leaves one account and arrives in another, so the books always balance. Like a transfer between two balances, nothing appears or vanishes, which makes a mistake show up as a difference.
Debits and credits: The two sides of every entry. They are directions, not good or bad news: a debit increases what you have or spend (cash, an expense); a credit increases what you owe or earn (a loan, revenue). Each entry's debits equal its credits.
Ledger: The full record of every entry, grouped by account: cash, what customers owe, revenue, and so on. Economico's is append-only. A correction is a new entry that reverses the old one, like a revert commit, never an edit.
Journal entry: One transaction as the books see it: the date, which accounts went up or down, and by how much.

Record the work, then read the books

Your agent can create parties and contracts, record billing and expense activity, and record completed payments. Each accepted command has a receipt; its financial effects post in one transaction. Read balances, the income statement and balance sheet from that same history. Corrections append new events rather than silently replacing the old ones.

Inspect a transaction

Show the statement and ledger entries for Acme's invoice. Which contract and source document back it?

Know what the ledger has not seen

Economico does not connect to a bank or payment processor on its own. You or your agent must supply and check external facts before recording them. The portable export contains event history and exact source documents; practical accountant-ready report exports are planned. The read-only workspace lets you inspect the books while they are being built.

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Give your first transaction a real record

Approve your agent's connection and start with one customer, contract, invoice or bill.

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