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Kept books, calmer owners.

Three businesses, three very different ledgers, one thing in common: nobody spends Sunday evening on bookkeeping any more.

Elin Marsh planing an oak board at her workbench in the Marsh & Co joinery workshop, with a laptop nearby

14 hrsback every month

Marsh & Co Joinery · Cardiff

The workshop that stopped taking its books home

“The books used to follow me home. They don’t any more.”

Elin Marsh runs a four-person workshop making staircases and fitted oak furniture. Materials went on three different cards, invoices went out from a template, and every receipt went in a tin until the end of the month. Bookkeeping ate two evenings a week.

Now the card payments arrive categorised — timber merchants, fixings, fuel — and the tin is gone: receipts are photographed at the counter. Month-end is about forty minutes with a cup of tea, and her accountant checks the same live ledger she does. Elin reckons she has fourteen hours a month back, most of them evenings.

Elin Marsh · Owner, Marsh & Co Joinery · Studio plan since 2023

Two designers at Studio Ferrow reviewing layout work together on a desktop monitor

£8,200late invoices recovered

Studio Ferrow · Manchester

The studio that let the software do the chasing

“The reminders are firmer than we’d ever be — and clients thank us for them.”

Studio Ferrow is a six-person brand studio billing a mix of retainers and project work. The work was never the problem; the chasing was. Awkward emails got postponed, and at one point £11,000 sat overdue while the studio quietly worried about payroll.

They switched the chasing on and left the wording alone. Ledgerly’s reminders went out at 7, 14 and 21 days — polite, specific, with a payment link — and £8,200 of late invoices cleared in the first quarter. Since then, average time-to-payment has dropped from 41 days to 19, and nobody has had to write the awkward email.

Daniel Ferrow · Co-founder, Studio Ferrow · Studio plan since 2024

Priya Chandran behind the counter of her café Copper Fern, checking the day's takings on a tablet in morning light

11 minfor the quarterly VAT return

Copper Fern · Leeds

The café that files VAT before the milk delivery

“I checked the numbers, pressed approve, and made a coffee. That was the VAT done.”

Priya Chandran’s twelve-table café takes six hundred card payments a week. VAT used to mean a weekend at the kitchen table with a shoebox of supplier invoices and a spreadsheet that almost balanced.

Ledgerly pulls the daily card-terminal payouts and the supplier direct debits straight from the bank, splits standard-rated and zero-rated sales, and builds the return as the quarter goes. Last period, the whole filing — review, one query on a coffee-machine repair, approve — took eleven minutes on a Tuesday morning, before the milk delivery arrived.

Priya Chandran · Owner, Copper Fern · Solo plan since 2022

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