Books that read like QuickBooks

Most of the people using Zeno’s books spent fifteen years in QuickBooks. That is not a preference to be trained out of them. Someone who can find a number in QuickBooks in four seconds should be able to find it here in four seconds, and for the last few months they couldn’t. Nothing was missing. The reports were laid out like a modern web app: airy, padded, forty rows on a screen where QuickBooks shows a hundred and fifty.

We rebuilt the density.

The chart of accounts

Balances show on the chart of accounts itself, at QuickBooks density, with the export the old page didn’t have. Breadcrumbs and decorative chrome are gone. From any account you can open an Account QuickReport, the same one-click drill QuickBooks gives you, listing every transaction that hit that account in the period at the same density.

Statements you can scan

Balance Sheet and P&L render as a collapsible account tree. Expand a parent to see its children, collapse it to see the roll-up, and the state stays where you put it. Column headers stick as you scroll. The explanatory blurb under each report title is gone, because anyone reading a trial balance knows what one is.

The register got the same treatment: a denser header, plus Number and Description columns with full-text search across them.

Statement of Cash Flows

New this week, indirect method, in the books and on shared statement links. That completes the three primary statements.

Recurring invoices

Recurring invoices exist now, and they run on the same billing-subscription engine that generates our own subscription invoices. Folding them onto one code path turned up a total-denormalization bug on invoice creation that had been wrong in both schedulers.

The side navigation collapses

Because when you’re reading a hundred-and-fifty-row register, you want the hundred and fifty rows.

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