Books ThatKeep Themselves.

Real double-entry accounting for contractors, downstream of the money itself: a payment lands and the entry appears; the queue asks one question; the P&L is ready.

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Double entry · integer centsAppend-only journalNothing posts without you
Deposit received — Q-2C4298 · J. BrooksPOSTED BY MELO · MELOPAY
ACCOUNTDEBITCREDIT
1100 · MeloPay clearing1,498.81
4000 · Income — contract revenue1,498.81
Balanced1,498.811,498.81
SOURCE · MELOPAYJOB · BROOKS PAINTIMMUTABLE · REVERSE TO UNDO
Northline Builders LLCLEDGER BALANCED ✓
Cash
$48,210
You're owed
$23,450
from accepted quotes
Income · month
$61,800
Job costs
$38,900
Overhead
$9,140
Net
$13,760
22.3% of income
Profit & loss — AugustFROM THE LEDGER
Income61,800.00
Job costs38,900.00
Gross profit37.1%22,900.00
Overhead9,140.00
Net income22.3%13,760.00
Trial balance: debits 184,320.00 · credits 184,320.00 ✓

Process

Money moves, the ledger follows. What the AI can't be sure of, it asks about — one closed question, under two minutes of your week.

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Deposit received — Q-2C4298 · J. BrooksPOSTED BY MELO · MELOPAY
ACCOUNTDEBITCREDIT
1100 · MeloPay clearing1,498.81
4000 · Income — contract revenue1,498.81
Balanced1,498.811,498.81
SOURCE · MELOPAYJOB · BROOKS PAINTIMMUTABLE · REVERSE TO UNDO

Enforced

Not policies — constraints the database holds, so the books can't drift from the discipline the big suites charge for.

BalanceDr = CrAn entry that doesn't balance is refused by the composer and again by the server.
MoneyCentsintegerEvery amount is a whole number of cents; every rounding is banker's, in one place.
JournalAppendonlyPosted entries never change. The undo is a reversing entry, and both stay on the books.
Attribution0direct postsRules and evidence write proposals. A person, or a rule a person set, posts — through the same RPC.

Features

Everything you'd run QuickBooks for, tailored to a contractor and wired to the tools you already quote and collect with.

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The money dashboardCash, what you're owed, this month's income, job costs, overhead and net — the numbers an owner checks, on one screen, with the latest entries and where they came from.
Northline Builders LLCLEDGER BALANCED ✓
Cash
$48,210
You're owed
$23,450
from accepted quotes
Income · month
$61,800
Job costs
$38,900
Overhead
$9,140
Net
$13,760
22.3% of income
The journalEvery entry with its debit and credit lines, newest first, and provenance on every row: source, who posted it, its reversal chain.
PERSONMELOSYSTEM
ExpensesFive fields and it posts a balanced entry against the right category and the account it was paid from, with a job if you want one.
MATERIALSJOB 1042REVERSIBLE
Chart of accountsA contractor's chart on day one, grouped by type with live balances, yours to extend.
1010 BANK1200 A/R6210 FEES
PeriodsClose, reopen and lock accounting periods; a closed one rejects writes at the database.
AUG · CLOSEDSEP · OPEN

Part of MeloSuite

The books are downstream of the documents that produced them: the accepted quote seeds the job budget, the payment lands against the job that caused it.

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  1. 01 · CAPTUREMeloScanLiDAR room scans become measured quotes
  2. 02 · TAKEOFFMeloBidsTakeoffs from commercial plan sets
  3. 03 · DOCUMENTSMeloDocsAn accepted quote becomes the job's budget in the ledger.
  4. 04 · CLIENTS & JOBSMeloJobsThe job is a dimension on every line — costing reads it.
  5. 05 · PAYMENTSMeloPayA payment posts itself: clearing against income, on its job.
  6. 06 · LEDGERMeloBooksThe ledger, the queue, the reports, the WIP.

Questions

Books,
Kept

Turn on MeloBooks and the ledger already knows about every payment you've collected. Bring a bank file for the rest.

Profit & loss — AugustFROM THE LEDGER
Income61,800.00
Job costs38,900.00
Gross profit37.1%22,900.00
Overhead9,140.00
Net income22.3%13,760.00
Trial balance: debits 184,320.00 · credits 184,320.00 ✓