Real estate bookkeeping
Your books, kept all year, ready for tax time.
Connect your bank at its own sign-in, or drop in statements from the cards and banks Books reads, and every line is read, proved against the statement's own balances and sorted, with your personal money and each business you run on separate books. It asks only the questions it cannot answer alone. At year end you download a tax-ready package for your accountant, and Ezra, right inside Books, explains any number you ask about.
Rivera Homes LLC
PersonalRivera Homes LLCAugust: 94% finished
Reconciled to all 3 August statements. Three lines need a word from you before the month closes.
Money in and money out by month
Money inMoney out
Fixed each month
- MLS fees and lockbox$62 a month
- Photographer retainer$250 a month
- Phone$84 a month
- Car insurance$138 a month
Ezra, this morning
August's statements are in and they add up. Three lines need you.
The category
Books that know which deposit was a closing
Most agents keep their books in a shoebox, a spreadsheet and an app that guesses at categories, then spend March rebuilding the year for their accountant. None of it knows which deposit was a closing.
Books knows, because your closed deals come in from Ratifyly as expected income and count as income when the deposit lands. Your books are yours: your brokerage never sees inside them, and they stay yours if you change brokerages. See what it does for agents, for team leaders, or meet Ezra.
Needs you
Only the questions it can't answer
Books reads every line of every statement, proves each statement adds up to its own opening and closing balances before a line is used, and sorts every transaction. What it cannot decide alone, it asks: whether a deposit is a closing, who a check with no payee went to, whether a charge was personal or business, and how a loan payment splits into principal and interest. Tell Ezra “Home Depot is always the flip business” once and every line after follows it.
- Every statement proved against its own balances
- Personal and every business on separate books, nothing counted twice
- Only the questions it cannot answer alone
- Tell Ezra a rule once and he remembers it
Rivera Homes LLC
PersonalRivera Homes LLCEvery line that could be sorted is sorted. These three need you.
Deposit · Aug 21 · $11,529.00 · Ridgeline Realty
This looks like the closing on 48 Harborview Drive. Book it as income from that closing?
Check #1182 · Aug 9 · $400.00 · no payee
Who was this check to, and what was it for?
Home Depot · Aug 6 · $186.42
Personal or business?
Forecast and write-offs
Know what's coming, and keep your write-offs in order
The forecast works from your own pending closings and your fixed bills, and tells you which month you are covered through, or how much you will be short. A closing counts as income only when its deposit clears; until then it is expected. The write-offs log is where you enter mileage, a simplified home office, cash spending and gifts to charity, and it flags what your accountant will ask to see.
- A cash forecast from your pending closings
- A closing counts as income only when the deposit clears
- Mileage, home office, cash spending and gifts to charity, logged as you go
- What your accountant will ask to see, flagged
Rivera Homes LLC
PersonalRivera Homes LLCWhat is ahead
Covered through January
- In the account now$18,420
- Closings expected to pay$27,700 expected
- Fixed each month$4,310
Expected is not income. A closing counts when its deposit lands.
Rivera Homes LLC
PersonalRivera Homes LLCWrite-offs you enter yourself
- Mileage3,812 miles logged
- Home officeSimplified, 180 sq ft
- Charitable2 giftsReceipt needed for one
- Paid in cash3 entriesBusiness purpose missing on one
Year end
A tax-ready package your accountant files from.
At year end, download one package for your accountant: the reconciliation proof, profit and loss by month, vendors, owner transfers, loans and interest, open items, and a cover memo Ezra writes. Your accountant files the return; Books makes sure they start from clean, proved numbers.
Rivera Homes LLC
PersonalRivera Homes LLCIn the package
2025, for your accountant, in one download
- Reconciliation proof, every statement
- Profit and loss by month
- Vendors
- Owner transfers
- Loans, interest and fees
- Open items
- Cover memo
Cover memo
Written by Ezra · Edit the memo
Twelve statements, each proved against its own opening and closing balance. Closing income is booked from the closing deposits. One charitable gift still needs its receipt, and one check is waiting on its payee; both are under Open items.
- The package your accountant asks for, in one download
- Ezra explains every number and never guesses one
- Your books are yours, wherever you hang your license
Connections
Keep what already works
- Your bank, at the bank's own sign-in.
- Ratifyly never sees your bank password, and each account sorts itself onto the right books.
- QuickBooks, if you like it.
- Books fills in the detail behind its lump sums and checks the two agree.
See your own books kept for you
Bring a month of statements, or connect your bank, and we'll read, prove and sort them in front of you, then show you what your accountant would get at year end.