Features

What Solid Accounting does, job by job.

A double-entry ledger with invoicing, bills, reports and accountant review built in. Find your work below and check that it’s covered.

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Keep the books

Keep the books accurate.

A double-entry general ledger underneath everything. Debits and credits must balance before an entry posts.

Chart of accounts. Start from a standard template and change it to fit.
Journal entries. Manual, recurring and adjusting.
Bank feeds. Included with Updates & Cloud Services. You can also import statement files.
Bank reconciliation. Finish only when the difference is zero. Reconciled transactions can’t be edited.
Cash and accrual. Switch the basis on reports.
Audit trail. Who changed what, and when. Posted entries are reversed, not deleted.
Classes on every tier. Locations and projectsProfessional+

Solid Accounting Desktop

Enter the statement balance, tick what cleared, and finish when the difference is zero.

The bank feed does the typing (14 s). Bank lines are matched to entries already in the books and added in one click.

Statement in, categories filled (21 s). A PDF card statement is read and tied out, and your rules fill in the categories.

Fiscal year 2026 in Solid Accounting with January to August locked and September to November open — Lock each month when it's finished. A locked month takes no new entries until someone unlocks it.

Get paid, pay bills

Get paid. Pay bills.

Invoices, payments and bills post straight to the ledger, so your agings and reports stay current.

Invoices and estimates. Print or email PDF invoices. Turn an estimate into an invoice in one step.
Receive payments. Apply payments and credits.
Cloud Invoicing. With Updates & Cloud Services the invoice email carries a link to view the invoice online. Customers will pay through your own PayPal, Stripe or Square account.Card payments coming soon
Bills and bill pay. Enter bills, schedule payments, see what you owe.
Checks, deposits and transfers.
Sales tax. Tax codes and groups on every tier. Sales tax by stateProfessional+
1099s. W-9 tracking, Copy B PDFs and a CSV for e-file.
Online store orders. Import Shopify and WooCommerce order exports, or connect a Shopify store.Professional+

Solid Accounting Desktop

Invoice list with due dates, totals, balances and draft, paid and open status for each customer

Invoices, payments and what's still open, in one list.

Sales channels (27 s). Shopify orders and a Stripe payout, matched to the deposit.

Close and report

Close the month and report.

Every report is recomputed from the ledger each time you run it. Click any line to see the transactions behind it.

Profit and loss. Comparatives, budget variance and percentages.
Balance sheet. As of any date, comparative.
Cash flow. Operating, investing and financing.
Trial balance. With adjusting entries, before and after close.
Period close. Close a month or a year and lock it.
Tax reports and TXF export for tax software.
PDF and CSV export of any report. Custom reportsProfessional+

Solid Accounting Desktop

Click any line on the profit and loss to see the invoices and entries behind it.

Balance sheet for Prestige Plumbing & HVAC with total assets, liabilities and equity, a Balanced status, and each account compared with the same date last year — Assets, liabilities and equity as of any date, compared with the same date last year.

Statement of cash flows for Prestige Plumbing & HVAC with operating cash, net change in cash, and beginning and ending cash, and the operating activities that add up to it — The cash flow statement starts from net income and ends at the cash in the bank.

Inventory, assets, loans, payroll

Inventory, fixed assets and loans.

These are built in on every tier. The journal entries post for you.

Inventory. FIFO or weighted average. Purchase orders, receiving and adjustments.
Fixed assets. Straight-line, declining-balance and sum-of-years depreciation.
Loans. Amortization schedules with principal, interest and balloon payments.
Recurring transactions. Schedule them so you don’t retype entries at month-end.
Payroll. Solid Accounting doesn’t run payroll. Import your Gusto, OnPay or ADP export and it posts to your books.
Several companies. One company file per business. ConsolidationProfessional+

Solid Accounting Desktop

Depreciation schedule for a 2024 Ford F-250 service truck with monthly depreciation, accumulated depreciation, book value and posted status

Depreciation schedules post on their own, and Form 4562 exports at year end.

Payroll import (24 s). A payroll export is mapped and posted.

Your accountant

Work with your accountant.

Your accountant can review your books and send changes back while you keep working.

Accountant’s Copy. Every tier sends a copy and imports your accountant’s edits. Your accountant needs the Accountant tier.
Year-End Package. Statements, general ledger, agings, depreciation and the 1099 summary in one bundle, with an optional Accountant’s Workbook.
Roles. Admin, Bookkeeper, Accountant and Read Only.
Write-up mode and trial balance workpapers.Accountant tier

Services for accountants

Solid Accounting Desktop

Send your accountant a copy and keep working. Only dates on or before the dividing date are locked.

Year-End Package (15 s). The reports your accountant asks for at year end, in one export.

Several people

Several people, one company file.

Each named user has their own sign-in and role. On Professional and Accountant, other computers on your network work in the same company file through the computer that holds it.

Named users included3 · 5 · 10

Standard, Professional, Accountant. A user is a named user who signs in to the company file. Add more for $100 each, one time.

Roles

Admin, Bookkeeper, Accountant, Read Only

Every change is recorded under the person who made it.

On your network

One computer hosts the fileProfessional+

Professional and Accountant: share the company file with other computers on your network (up to 5 / 10 named users). Standard: up to 3 named users on one computer, each with their own sign-in.

How multi-user works and how to set it up

AI and guards

Automation that can't unbalance the books.

AI and connected apps are optional helpers. They can’t post an unbalanced entry or write into a closed period.

Optional AI, every tier

On-device AI (coming soon): a built-in model that will run on your computer
Your own AI assistant through the local gateway you switch on: Claude or ChatGPT on every tier, Gemini and other MCP apps on Professional and up
Not needed for bookkeeping

Guards that always apply

Entries must balance to post
Closed periods stay closed
AI and app changes are attributed in the Activity Log
Approval before changes post, when you want it

How AI works in Solid Accounting

Bring your history

Bring your history with you.

Move your existing books in from the software you use today.

From accounting software

QuickBooks® Desktop. 1-click migration: File → Import → QuickBooks Migration reads your .QBW company file without writing to it.
QuickBooks on another computer? Run the standalone importer there and open its file in Solid Accounting.
QuickBooks Online, Xero®, FreshBooks®, Wave. Export to CSV, then use the import wizard.

From banks and payroll

Bank and card files. CSV, OFX, QFX and IIF files and PDF statements, with mapping and duplicate detection.
PDF statements. Each import is checked against the statement’s own balances.
Payroll exports. Gusto, OnPay and ADP formats are detected automatically.

Switch from QuickBooks® Desktop (18 s). A QuickBooks® Desktop file comes in, and every balance matches.

Switching from QuickBooks Desktop

Buy once, keep using.

Buy Solid Accounting once from $349 and keep using the version you bought. Renew Updates & Cloud Services when you want new releases and connected services. 30-day free trial. 30-day money-back guarantee.

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One-time purchase · Optional Updates & Cloud Services · Company file on your computer