STINGER BOUND

Bookkeeping for any business, included with every tier.

Bookkeeping included with every tier. Keep QuickBooks Online and run Bound beside it, or switch when Bound does the job. Annabelle reads the job, the invoice, the receipt, and drafts the entry; you confirm from the desk or the phone, and each business keeps its own name on the door.

Live

Onboarding.

Bound onboarding screen: 'Annabelle proposes. You post.' with a business-type picker (Venue: rooms, tabs, distributors. Trades: draws, retainage, jobs. Shop: chairs, booth, retail), a business name and city field, an Open the Books button, and example businesses The Marlin and The Yard

The onboarding screen: pick a business type, name it and its city, then Open the Books. This is the setup step before invoices, bills and journal entries, showing where a new set of books begins.

See it in action

Annabelle proposes each entry and nothing posts to your books until you tap confirm. Review the proposed entry at the approval step, with posting left as a separate decision.
Annabelle proposes each entry and nothing posts to your books until you tap confirm. Review the proposed entry at the approval step, with posting left as a separate decision.
Bound's Blue Water desk shows $125 owed on one open invoice, with cash at zero and the bank not connected. Review the outstanding invoice before the next bookkeeping action, keeping money owed separate from money received.
Bound's Blue Water desk shows $125 owed on one open invoice, with cash at zero and the bank not connected. Review the outstanding invoice before the next bookkeeping action, keeping money owed separate from money received.
Match a bank statement line by line from a spreadsheet, and unmatched rows stay flagged until you clear them. Work through the statement during reconciliation, checking each unmatched line before clearing it.
Match a bank statement line by line from a spreadsheet, and unmatched rows stay flagged until you clear them. Work through the statement during reconciliation, checking each unmatched line before clearing it.
Bound's journal form contains the prepared debit and credit lines for the Blue Water demo. Review the balancing entries before posting; the captured form has not been posted to the books.
Bound's journal form contains the prepared debit and credit lines for the Blue Water demo. Review the balancing entries before posting; the captured form has not been posted to the books.
See your profit and loss, balance sheet, and receivables aging. Review these statements after entries are posted, making the financial results available for inspection.
See your profit and loss, balance sheet, and receivables aging. Review these statements after entries are posted, making the financial results available for inspection.

A closer look

Import a QuickBooks file and Annabelle reads the accounts and transactions out of it. Review the imported records before using them in the books, keeping migration separate from posting.
Import a QuickBooks file and Annabelle reads the accounts and transactions out of it. Review the imported records before using them in the books, keeping migration separate from posting.
Bring in invoices and bills from a CSV or Excel file; they arrive as drafts and nothing posts until you confirm. Check the imported drafts at the review step before confirming a change to the books.
Bring in invoices and bills from a CSV or Excel file; they arrive as drafts and nothing posts until you confirm. Check the imported drafts at the review step before confirming a change to the books.
Map a journal import line by line before anything posts to your books. Check the column mapping during import, so each journal line can be reviewed before posting.
Map a journal import line by line before anything posts to your books. Check the column mapping during import, so each journal line can be reviewed before posting.

The full books, room by room

Check her work: Annabelle drafts each entry with the debit, the credit, and 'in balance', and you confirm and post, edit, or reject. Nothing posts on her authority alone.
Check her work: Annabelle drafts each entry with the debit, the credit, and 'in balance', and you confirm and post, edit, or reject. Nothing posts on her authority alone.
Bound's journal form contains the prepared debit and credit lines for the Blue Water demo. Review the balancing entries before posting; the captured form has not been posted to the books.
Bound's journal form contains the prepared debit and credit lines for the Blue Water demo. Review the balancing entries before posting; the captured form has not been posted to the books.
What you made: posted journals only, with in, out, and kept, a balance sheet that balances, and AR aging. Review these statements after entries are posted, making the financial results available for inspection.
What you made: posted journals only, with in, out, and kept, a balance sheet that balances, and AR aging. Review these statements after entries are posted, making the financial results available for inspection.
Bound's Blue Water chart of accounts shows the account setup and its asset and income categories. Review the accounts before entering a journal, with balances reflecting posted entries rather than the unposted form.
Bound's Blue Water chart of accounts shows the account setup and its asset and income categories. Review the accounts before entering a journal, with balances reflecting posted entries rather than the unposted form.
Bound's invoice view shows the Blue Water Demo Customer's open $125 pool-inspection invoice. Review the invoice before recording payment; the capture does not show a collected payment.
Bound's invoice view shows the Blue Water Demo Customer's open $125 pool-inspection invoice. Review the invoice before recording payment; the capture does not show a collected payment.
Draft a payroll entry: enter the wages for the run and Draft payroll stages an entry you confirm on the queue. It says plainly this is a bookkeeping entry, not a tax file. Bound does not pull, hold, or file tax, and ACH is unconnected.
Draft a payroll entry: enter the wages for the run and Draft payroll stages an entry you confirm on the queue. It says plainly this is a bookkeeping entry, not a tax file. Bound does not pull, hold, or file tax, and ACH is unconnected.
Bound's More screen lists the bookkeeping tasks available from the Blue Water account. Choose the next task here before opening its form, keeping navigation separate from confirming a financial entry.
Bound's More screen lists the bookkeeping tasks available from the Blue Water account. Choose the next task here before opening its form, keeping navigation separate from confirming a financial entry.

Bank feeds and emailed statements switch on when you add your keys. Until then everything here runs from imports and your own mail client, and no entry posts without a human confirm.

The problem

A venue's books, a trade's books, and a shop's books aren't the same book. Until Bound.

One set of books. Three kinds of business.

A venue thinks in rooms, tabs, and distributors. A trade thinks in draws, retainage, and jobs. A shop thinks in booths, chairs, and retail. Bound asks which business you're running once, at setup, then speaks that language everywhere else. Underneath, it's one set of books.

Annabelle drafts, you post

She reads the job, the invoice, the receipt, and writes the entry. It sits as a proposal until a human approves it. Nothing posts to the books on her authority alone.

Several businesses, one login

Run The Marlin and The Yard (two example businesses) out of the same account. Each keeps its own books, its own name on the door. Bound doesn't blend them.

What Annabelle actually does

What does AI bookkeeping software actually draft for you?

Entry drafting from receipts and invoices

Every entry drafted straight from the receipt, invoice or job, ready to review, not a template with blanks, an actual draft built from the source document.

Month-end & close checklists

Reads the month, categorizes the expenses, runs the close checklist. The tedious first pass is done before you sit down.

Live finance snapshots

Revenue, expenses, cash, AR and AP on a running snapshot, not a report you have to remember to pull.

Invoicing & expense tracking

Invoice creation, expense tracking, P&L and balance sheet, its own set of books. QuickBooks Online sync lives in Command Center, not in Bound standalone.

Camera document ingestion

Photograph a receipt, a full bank statement, or a prior accountant's chart of accounts with your phone camera. Annabelle reads it into the review grid instead of you typing it in by hand.

1099 prep

Bound has its own 1099 screen, so contractor payments are tracked toward filing season instead of getting reconstructed from a year of invoices in December.

Invite your accountant in

An accountant-portal screen lets you bring an outside accountant into the books without handing over your whole login.

Mileage & time

Mileage and time both have their own screens in Bound, so job costs and vehicle expense aren't tracked in a separate spreadsheet next to the books.

Recurring invoices & bills

Set an invoice or a bill to repeat and Bound keeps issuing it on schedule instead of you rebuilding it from scratch every month.

Opening balances & contacts import

An opening-balance screen sets the books' starting point, and a parties import brings your customer and vendor list in alongside your chart of accounts and journal history.

The confirm gate

How does Bound keep bookkeeping approvals human?

An approval queue, not a suggestion

Anything that touches money or the books sits behind an approval queue before it's final: a rule enforced on the tools themselves, not a suggestion in a prompt.

A second read before it's irreversible

A quality gate reviews proposals before anything gets sent or posted: a second look before the door closes on an entry.

An audit trail, not a black box

Every approval, every post, every close: logged with who and when. The books stay yours to defend.

How it compares

Bound against QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Wave.

Bound doesn't beat a dedicated accounting platform on every row. The Plaid bank feed and payroll drafting are built; they switch on when you sign up and connect your bank and payroll. Until your bank is connected, you can import statements. What it does that none of the three do: a mandatory draft-then-approve gate on every entry, and multiple full businesses under one account without a second subscription.

Feature Bound A typical cloud bookkeeping toolXeroWave
AI drafts entries from job/invoice/receipt; a human must approve before anything posts Yes Partial: some tools draft entries for reviewPartial: Smart Document Capture drafts a bill for reviewno: auto-categorization only, no draft-and-approve step
One account runs multiple full businesses, each with its own separate books Yes Separate paid subscription per companyno: each org is its own paid plan (multi-org discount being phased out 1 Oct 2026)Separate paid subscription per business (Pro tier)
Invoicing Yes YesYesYes
Expense tracking Yes Yesyes: bank reconciliation/reports from Early; employee expense claims are Established-onlyYes
P&L and Balance Sheet reports yes: reports in the product, not a filed return YesYesYes
Automatic bank feed & reconciliation Plaid bank feed built; switches on when you sign up and connect your bank YesYesPro tier only, not on free Starter
Payroll drafting included (not a paid add-on) Built; switches on when you sign up and connect your payroll no: separate paid add-onno: via Gusto add-onno: separate paid add-on
Extra monthly fee for the bookkeeping itself Included with every Command Center tier, no per-seat charges $38 to 340/mo (Simple Start/Essentials/Plus/Advanced)$25 to 90/mo (Early/Growing/Established)Free to $19/mo

Competitor figures pulled from each vendor's own pricing/feature pages, 2026-09-03. Bound features drawn from what's live today per this page and the internal capability catalog.

Works with the internet off

Your books keep working if the internet drops.

Bound's ledger and reports all work with no internet connection, the same as Cage.

In House

How Bound runs inside House.

In House, Bound is what got sold: the wedding, the room block, the banquet count. Change the guest count and the kitchen list follows. House opens from Command Center.

Back to the House door

Get started

Name the business. Annabelle opens the books.

Tell Bound whether you're running a venue, a trade, or a shop. It sets up the books to match. Add a second business whenever you're ready; the name on the door stays theirs.

Related: pair Bound with Cage to track inventory costs straight into the books, or see how it fits inside the full Stinger platform.

Talk to Vincent See the full lineup

On your phone and tablet

Bound's Blue Water desk shows $125 owed on one open invoice, with cash at zero and the bank not connected. Review the outstanding invoice before the next bookkeeping action, keeping money owed separate from money received.
Bound's Blue Water desk shows $125 owed on one open invoice, with cash at zero and the bank not connected. Review the outstanding invoice before the next bookkeeping action, keeping money owed separate from money received.
Bound's invoice view shows the Blue Water Demo Customer's open $125 pool-inspection invoice. Review the invoice before recording payment; the capture does not show a collected payment.
Bound's invoice view shows the Blue Water Demo Customer's open $125 pool-inspection invoice. Review the invoice before recording payment; the capture does not show a collected payment.
Bound's journal form contains the prepared debit and credit lines for the Blue Water demo. Review the balancing entries before posting; the captured form has not been posted to the books.
Bound's journal form contains the prepared debit and credit lines for the Blue Water demo. Review the balancing entries before posting; the captured form has not been posted to the books.
On your phone: draft a payroll entry, enter the wages, tap Draft payroll, confirm on the queue. Honest that it's a bookkeeping entry, not a tax file.
On your phone: draft a payroll entry, enter the wages, tap Draft payroll, confirm on the queue. Honest that it's a bookkeeping entry, not a tax file.
On your phone: More, every screen in Bound in one place, tap any tile to open it; nothing posts until you confirm. Choose the next bookkeeping task from this menu, with the confirmation rules visible before opening it.
On your phone: More, every screen in Bound in one place, tap any tile to open it; nothing posts until you confirm. Choose the next bookkeeping task from this menu, with the confirmation rules visible before opening it.
Bound's Blue Water desk shows $125 owed on one open invoice, with cash at zero and the bank not connected. Review the outstanding invoice before the next bookkeeping action, keeping money owed separate from money received.
Bound's Blue Water desk shows $125 owed on one open invoice, with cash at zero and the bank not connected. Review the outstanding invoice before the next bookkeeping action, keeping money owed separate from money received.

More in the books

Moving your books in.

QuickBooks preview and import

Pull QuickBooks records into a preview before importing, with duplicates and already-settled documents flagged; needs the QuickBooks connection.

QuickBooks IIF and CSV migration

Move over from QuickBooks with an IIF or journal CSV, mapping your columns first.

Merge duplicate customers and vendors

Import customer and vendor lists and merge duplicates.

Command Center and Cage sync

Finance data from Command Center and bills from Cage can flow into Bound once the companies are linked.

Running it day to day

The desk work behind the drafts.

Estimates, credit memos and voids

Turn an estimate into an invoice, issue a credit memo, or void a document, which drafts a reversal for you to approve.

Vendor bills with job references

Enter vendor bills with job references and get a payable entry drafted for your approval.

Bank rules and reconciliation

Save payee rules, review proposed matches, and reconcile the statement to the ledger including deposits in transit and outstanding checks.

Lock the books

After the close checklist, an authorized user can lock the books through a date; the lock records who did it and when.

Tax rates and reporting

Keep tax rates, compute tax on invoices, and total sales tax by rate.

Recurring documents

Save templates and schedule recurring invoices or bills, pause them, and run what is due.

Statements and reports

Issue statements and read profit and loss by class and location, with audit and close history.

What needs an account

Built, and honest about what it needs to switch on.

Plaid bank feed

The Plaid bank feed is built and switches on when you sign up and connect your bank; until then you import statements.

Payroll drafts

Payroll drafting is built and switches on when you sign up and connect your payroll. Bound drafts payroll entries and works out 941, 940 and W-2 figures from rates you can edit; it does not file or pay, and the rates are not verified for your state.

Stripe checkout

Card collection runs through Stripe once connected and counts as paid only after Stripe confirms.

Mileage trip helper

A trip helper can calculate distance for a mileage entry; location permission and live GPS use are not yet confirmed.

Export and correspondence

Export the books as bundles and PDFs; correspondence is queued or recorded, and sending needs mail set up.

On your machine

Get it on your desk

One click from the browser

Install it as an app

Install it straight from the browser in one click. It gets its own icon on your desktop and taskbar, and opens in its own window.

  • Chrome / Edge the Install icon in the address bar, or menu > Install (Apps > Install this site as an app).
  • Safari (Mac) File > Add to Dock.
  • Safari (iOS) Share > Add to Home Screen.

Android

Google Play

On Google Play, in review.

iOS

TestFlight

Via TestFlight, pending.

No app to install to see it, ask Vincent for the demo.

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