The books
A journal entry your bookkeeper accepts.
Give your bookkeeper debits and credits that already balance instead of another sales list they have to translate. Anything that does not reconcile is held back with a reason.
The result
Your bookkeeper gets a file ready to import, plus a clear list of anything held back and why.
Where this helps
Anyone whose books are done by somebody else — a bookkeeper, an accountant, a spouse on a Sunday — and who is tired of being asked what a column means.
What you can stop doing
A CSV of sales and a phone call about it
A sales list still leaves your bookkeeper to separate revenue, tax, inventory, and cost of goods. Tare7 prepares the balanced journal first, so you are paying for bookkeeping—not data cleanup.
Why it matters
An unbalanced journal is not a slightly-wrong journal. It is either a rejected import or, worse, a set of books that accepted it.
A worked example
Watch the loose ends disappear, step by step.
One invoice from the counter: subtotal $50.00, no discount, sales tax $3.13, no shipping, total $53.13, paid by card. The goods released against it captured $17.70 of cost.
- 1
The header is checked before anything is built
Tare7 checks that subtotal, discounts, tax, shipping, and total agree. If they do not, the invoice is held back with a reason instead of forcing a bad number into the books.
- 2
The money side is posted
Paid, so Cash is debited $53.13. On an unpaid invoice it would be Accounts receivable instead — the same entry, a different debit account.
- 3
Revenue is credited gross
Sales $50.00 and Sales tax payable $3.13. Discounts are booked the standard contra-revenue way: Sales credited at the gross subtotal, Discounts given debited separately, so the discount stays visible as its own account instead of disappearing into net revenue.
- 4
The goods side is posted from captured cost
COGS debited $17.70, Inventory credited $17.70. That figure is the cost stamped on the release rows when the goods left, not a current price looked up at export time.
- 5
It is re-added before it leaves
The entry totals $70.83 on both sides. If debits and credits do not match, it never reaches the export.
- 6
What could not be costed is reported, not invented
Where no cost was captured, the COGS and Inventory pair is omitted entirely — a zero pair would tell the package the goods were free — and the invoice is listed as missing cost. Where only some lines were costed, the captured part posts and the invoice is listed as partial.
Your bookkeeper gets a file ready to import, plus a clear list of anything held back and why.
In the app
What you will actually tap, scan, and see.
INV-1184 · paid by card
Balanced- Cash1000$53.13—
- Cost of goods sold5000$17.70—
- Sales4000—$50.00
- Sales tax payable2200—$3.13
- Inventory1300—$17.70
An unpaid invoice debits Accounts receivable instead of Cash. Where no cost was captured, the COGS and Inventory pair is omitted rather than posted at zero, and the invoice is reported as missing cost.
INV-1190 · $5.00 discount, unpaid
Balanced- Accounts receivable1100$48.13—
- Discounts given4900$5.00—
- Cost of goods sold5000$17.70—
- Sales4000—$50.00
- Sales tax payable2200—$3.13
- Inventory1300—$17.70
Subtotal $50.00 less a $5.00 discount plus $3.13 of tax is $48.13 owed. The discount keeps its own account rather than vanishing into net revenue.
What it means for your day
The same tool solves a different headache in each business.
Retail store
A week of counter sales arrives as journal entries rather than a till report somebody has to translate into accounts.
How Tare7 fits this business
Food truck / market stall
Cash and card takings land in different debit accounts because the tender was recorded at the point of sale, not reconstructed from a bank statement.
How Tare7 fits this business
Warehouse
Inventory and COGS move together against the same entry, so the balance sheet and the P&L are consistent without a month-end adjustment.
How Tare7 fits this business
Plumber / painter / HVAC
Service lines credit revenue without touching inventory, so labor and materials stay separated in the accounts exactly as they were on the ticket.
How Tare7 fits this business
Before you rely on it
What this feature does not try to do.
If one of these limits matters to your business, it is better to know before you move the work—not after.
- This is a CSV export, not a live accounting connection. You download the journal and import it into your accounting software.
- It is a sales journal. Purchases, vendor bills, payroll, bank feeds and fixed assets are not part of it.
- Account codes are yours to override, but they are labels on the export. Tare7 does not hold a chart of accounts or validate a code against one.
- Anything that does not balance to the cent is excluded with a reason rather than adjusted. That is deliberate, and it means the export can legitimately be incomplete.
- Entries are in your workspace's single currency, with no conversion or rate handling.
The books
Give your bookkeeper balanced entries—and a clear list of anything that needs attention.
Hand it to your bookkeeper is included from Mobile at $19/month. Change plan whenever you like.