Bookkeeping · business and household
Move off QuickBooks without losing a cent.
Due North is double-entry bookkeeping for people who run a few things at once. Bring your whole QuickBooks or Quicken history, prove it matches the reports you already trust, and keep books your accountant can actually use.
No card to start. Free read-only seat for your accountant.
Verify import
Balance sheet + P&L by class · all dates
| Line | QuickBooks | Due North | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 184,309.17 | 184,309.17 | 0.00 |
| Total liabilities | 96,742.08 | 96,742.08 | 0.00 |
| Net income | 41,196.55 | 41,196.55 | 0.00 |
| Rental income · Unit A | 18,600.00 | 18,600.00 | 0.00 |
| Repairs · Unit B | 3,417.92 | 3,417.92 | 0.00 |
Every account and every class is compared, not just the totals. One cent of difference and the import refuses to finish.Illustrative figures.
2,676
rows in the QuickBooks export that ships as a test. Every build re-imports it and re-checks it against QuickBooks’ own reports.
21 / 21
accounts matching exactly on a real 8,320-record Quicken file, mortgages and paycheck splits included.
$0.00
tolerance. Money is stored as whole cents end to end, so there is no rounding drift to explain away.
Why people leave
The subscription goes up. The software doesn't get better.
Most small-business books don't need a platform. They need a correct ledger, reports that tie out, and a clean handoff at year end.
Your history comes with you
Not opening balances — the actual transactions, classes and names, verified against your existing reports before anything is saved.
Every entity in one login
Each business gets its own set of books with its own chart of accounts. Switch between them without signing out.
Household books too
The same ledger handles personal finances, so your Quicken file has somewhere to land instead of being abandoned.
Balanced by the database
An unbalanced entry cannot be committed — the constraint is enforced in Postgres at commit time, not by hopeful application code.
Reports that tie out
P&L, balance sheet, trial balance, general ledger and P&L by class. Assets always equal liabilities plus equity, by construction.
Free seat for your accountant
A read-only role that can see and export everything and change nothing. No shared passwords, no emailed backup files.
Reconcile to the cent
Import a CSV or OFX statement, auto-match the unambiguous lines, review the rest, and close the month only when it balances exactly.
Nothing quietly changes
Transactions are voided, never deleted. Every edit lands in an append-only audit log, and closed periods lock.
Entry that fits in a pocket
Install it to your home screen and log an expense at the counter in about ten seconds.
No hostages
You can always get your books back out.
Every report exports to CSV, and the general ledger exports in full. If you outgrow Due North you leave with the same completeness you arrived with — that's the deal, and it's why the importer had to be this good in the first place.
- Full general-ledger and trial-balance exports, any date range
- Every report downloadable as CSV, including P&L by class
- Lapsed subscriptions go read-only — never locked out, never deleted
- Your accountant can pull what they need without your password
Questions
The things people ask first
- Will my QuickBooks history really come across?
- Yes — accounts, transactions, classes, customers and vendors, with the full transaction history rather than opening balances. The import is checked against your own QuickBooks balance sheet and P&L before you commit it, and it only reports success when every figure matches to the cent.
- What if the import doesn't match?
- Then it says so, tells you which accounts differ and by how much, and you throw the batch away. Nothing is committed on a mismatch. Re-importing the same file twice never double-counts it.
- Is this cash basis or accrual?
- Cash basis today. The ledger itself is full double-entry, so accrual reporting is a reporting change rather than a rebuild — it's on the roadmap, not in the product yet.
- Can my accountant get in?
- Yes, on a free read-only seat. They see every report and register and can export anything, but cannot change a number. You never have to hand over your password or ship a backup file.
- What happens if I stop paying?
- Your books go read-only. You keep full access to read and export everything — you are never locked out of your own records, and nothing is deleted.
- Does it connect to my bank automatically?
- Not yet. Today you import a CSV or OFX/QFX statement — every bank offers one — and Due North matches it against what you've entered, queues anything ambiguous for review, and reconciles to the exact cent. Direct bank connections are next on the roadmap.
Start with your real books.
Import your QuickBooks or Quicken history, check it against the reports you already trust, and only keep going if it matches.