shorestack Books for Mac
The desktop bookkeeping app for freelancers, founders, and small agencies. You pay $79 once, it runs on your Mac, and your books live in a local file that belongs to you. There is no subscription to keep up.
Built for people who remember when the software you bought was yours. Every license carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.
But tax season comes every year, and every year it brings the same scramble: a shoebox of receipts, spreadsheet chaos, and expensive CPA hours spent just organizing your data. The whole job reduces to three steps.
Imported rows arrive already categorized by your rules and learned patterns. You confirm the suggestions, fill in the stragglers, and approve. Behind every approval, the app posts a balanced journal entry.
Switch between businesses from the sidebar, and each keeps its own accounts, transactions, and reports. The Consolidated report combines whichever ones you pick: a column per business and a total that foots.
Tax Handoff builds it in one click: the P&L, approved-transaction detail with transfers separated out, 1099 vendor totals, and every report as CSV.
Six things it does well, on top of real double-entry accounting.
Connect live bank feeds through SimpleFIN, or import CSV, Excel, OFX, and QFX statements straight from your bank.
Rules, learned patterns, and smart matching categorize transactions for you. The longer you use it, the less you type.
Generate a complete CPA package in one click: P&L, transaction detail, and 1099 vendor totals.
P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and General Ledger, all computed from real double-entry books. Print them or export as PDF.
Keep multiple businesses (or a side project, or a spouse's company) in one file. Switch with one click, and combine any of them into consolidated reports.
Your company file is a local SQLite database that works fully offline. Export to CSV anytime, with automatic snapshot backups and optional AES-256 encrypted exports.
Track income and expenses, send invoices, and hand your CPA a clean year-end package.
Bank imports, automatic categorization, invoicing, and reports. Everything your spreadsheet was straining to do.
Invoicing, vendor management, 1099 generation, and consolidated reports across clients.
Per-property P&L and reporting, plus a year-end handoff your CPA can build a Schedule E from.
Every feature is included. Backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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$79
one-time · 1 user
Your license never expires. When a major new version ships, the upgrade is optional and discounted for existing customers. Skip as many as you like; the version you bought keeps running.
Runs on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and newer), macOS 11 or later. Not compatible with Intel Macs.