Upload a CSV from any system — payroll, payment processors, banks. LedgerSkill applies accounting-aware recipes and exports import-ready files for QuickBooks, Xero, or Sage.
Built by an accountant. Inspectable recipes. Every entry validated for balance.
Request Beta AccessEvery business is unique. But the tools you're stuck with pretend they aren't.
You downloaded the CSV. You reformatted the columns. You mapped accounts by hand. You checked the debits and credits. You did it again next month. And the month after that — until someone's out sick, or the vendor changes their export format.
The macro that "just works"? Someone built it two years ago. Nobody fully understands it. When it breaks — and it will — you'll spend more time debugging than the manual process ever took.
It shouldn't take a spreadsheet wizard to turn a payroll export into journal entries.
LedgerSkill is a recipe engine that understands accounting. Tell it your chart of accounts once — your accounts, your rules. It handles the translation from any data source to balanced, import-ready journal entries.
Your CSV from any system — payroll, payment processor, bank, or custom export. Whatever format your vendor gives you.
LedgerSkill matches your data to a recipe built around your chart of accounts. Visible, editable — it's your recipe, not a black box.
Download balanced journal entries formatted for your accounting software — QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, or any GL that accepts imports.
But why trust a tool with your journal entries? Here's who built it — and why.
I spent years as the person who "knew the spreadsheet." Every month, the same ritual: download the CSV, reformat the columns, map the accounts, check the totals, fix the errors. Rinse and repeat for every data source.
I was the macro person, too. I built the clever workarounds that saved the team hours — until they didn't. Until the vendor changed their export, or a new account got added, or I went on vacation and nobody could run month-end.
Every tool I tried assumed every business works the same way. Rigid connectors that couldn't handle our chart of accounts, our department structure, our edge cases. So I kept going back to the spreadsheet.
LedgerSkill started with a simple question: why does every tool assume every business works the same way? Every business is unique. Your chart of accounts is yours. Your workflows are yours. The tool should adapt to you — not the other way around.
— Brian, Founder
Your macro is a black box. LedgerSkill recipes are knowledge-graph pipelines you can inspect, modify, and understand — every mapping rule visible, every account code traceable.
Generic tools guess at categories. LedgerSkill reasons about debits, credits, multi-line entries, and accounting semantics — because it was built by someone who knows the difference.
Every month you spend reformatting CSVs is time you're not spending on analysis, advising clients, or closing the books faster. That time compounds.
Every business is unique. Rigid connectors force you into their workflow. LedgerSkill adapts to your chart of accounts, your data sources, your rules.
Two recipes available now in beta. More built every week based on what beta users need.
Stripe, Square, PayPal, Shopify, Amazon — turn daily payouts into balanced journal entries with fees, refunds, and disputes broken out.
ADP, Gusto, Paychex — map gross pay, taxes, benefits, and net pay to your GL accounts automatically.
Subscription accruals, deferred revenue schedules, and ASC 606 compliance — automated from your billing data.
Categorize and post corporate card transactions with proper GL coding and receipt matching.
Automatically categorize and post bank transactions using learned patterns and accounting rules.
Consolidate journal entries across locations, subsidiaries, or departments with intercompany eliminations.
Don't see your workflow? Tell us about it — we build recipes based on real user needs.
Tell us your biggest pain point. We'll build a recipe for your specific workflow and get you set up with early access. Takes 60 seconds.
Synder, A2X, and similar tools are rigid connectors — they support specific platforms with fixed mappings. If your workflow doesn't fit their template, you're out of luck. LedgerSkill is a flexible recipe engine: it works with any CSV from any source and adapts to your chart of accounts, your account codes, and your multi-line journal entry structure. You're not locked into a connector's assumptions about how your books should work.
During beta, we support CSV exports from any system. We have pre-built recipes for common payment processors (Stripe, Square, PayPal) and payroll providers (ADP, Gusto). Custom recipes can be built for any data source.
LedgerSkill generates import-ready files for QuickBooks (IIF and CSV), Xero, Sage, and generic journal entry CSV. We're adding more formats based on beta feedback.
Built-in importers handle one-line-per-transaction mappings. LedgerSkill handles the entries your GL import can't — like a payroll run that needs to split into gross wages, employer taxes, benefits withholdings, net pay, and accruals across 10+ accounts, all in a single balanced journal entry. That's the kind of multi-line complexity that sends people back to spreadsheets.
Yes — recipes support condition rules that route transactions to different accounts based on column values (e.g., regular hours to Salary Expense but overtime hours to a separate Overtime Expense account). Each rule can also carry its own memo template so your GL shows meaningful descriptions on every line, and you can leave columns blank when they don't apply to a particular journal entry line. It's your payroll logic, encoded once and applied every period.
LedgerSkill is an MCP server — we never touch your data. Your transactions are processed through your own Claude.ai subscription on Anthropic's servers; we just provide the recipes and tools. Recipes stored in our knowledge graph contain no transaction data, only your account mapping rules. You can also opt out of Anthropic using your data to train future models.
Free access to the recipe engine, and we'll personally build a custom recipe for your specific workflow. Tell us your data source, your chart of accounts, and your accounting software — we'll handle the rest. No credit card, no commitment. We're looking for accountants with real workflows to shape the product.
We're building in public. Every feature shaped by what beta users actually need.
Browse and share recipes built by other accountants for niche workflows and industry-specific data sources.
Connect directly to QuickBooks, Xero, and Sage — post journal entries without manual file import.
Set up recurring recipes that run automatically — daily payroll posts, weekly bank reconciliation, monthly revenue recognition.
Consolidation recipes that handle intercompany eliminations, currency translation, and multi-location reporting.