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Tallybook
Double-entry ledger API for fintech teams, multi-currency from day one
- Score
- 37
- confidence 42
- Evidence
- 2
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 0
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2018
- Established market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Finance and engineering teams review ledgers, trace balances, and design accounting systems at a desk using dense dashboards and API consoles. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
New transaction
Ready to postBalanced
About this appAI proposal
Tallybook is a hosted ledger for teams building payment, wallet or banking products. You post transactions through an API; it keeps balanced double-entry books across currencies and assets, so you don't design accounting tables yourself.
It is made for small fintech teams that today build a ledger in-house or bend a general-purpose database to do accounting. Every entry is immutable, every transaction must balance, and every balance can be traced back to the entries behind it.
A web console, installable as an app, lets finance and engineering look at the same books: accounts, entries, currencies and reconciliation checks. A self-hosted option is offered for teams that must keep data in their own cloud.
- Tagline
- Books that balance, from the first transaction.
- Voice
- PreciseCalmPlainDependable
- Why this name
- A tally is the oldest way to count what is owed; a book is where it is kept. Two plain words that say ledger without borrowing a known name.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Balanced transactions only
Every transaction must debit and credit to zero per asset. Unbalanced posts are rejected with a clear error before anything is written.
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Multi-currency and multi-asset
Define currencies, tokens or points with their own precision. Hold many assets in one account and see balances per asset.
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Immutable entries with reversals
Entries are append-only. Fix mistakes with linked reversal transactions, so the audit trail stays complete.
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Idempotent posting
Send an idempotency key with each request. Retries after a timeout never double-post money.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
#0F3D3AInk Green · primary#F6F3ECPaper · surface#1D2625Charcoal · text#C48A1BBrass · accent#B2492FClay · alert / debit#6E9C86Sage · data / credit
Typography
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Tallybook
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. Tiers follow the suggested model (volume, assets, API limits, free start) and are a starting point to test, not a market-based figure.
Sandbox
Free
- 1 test ledger
- Up to 10,000 entries a month
- 3 assets
- Community support
Launch
$99 a month
- 1 production ledger
- Up to 500,000 entries a month
- 20 assets
- Webhooks
- Email support
Scale
$499 a month
- Up to 10 million entries a month
- Unlimited assets
- Point-in-time balances
- Priority support
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Partners and integrations. Publish client libraries, an open example app and guides for common payment and wallet stacks, so engineers find Tallybook while wiring up payments, and ledger events feed the tools they already use.
- Do they become customers?
- Engineers who integrate are the buyers, so reach can become paying customers. Test whether a free sandbox user moves to a production plan within 60 days.
- First customers
- Seed-stage fintech startups of 3 to 15 engineers building wallets or payment products, where one engineer currently owns a home-built ledger.
- Where to reach them
- Developer communities: Write worked examples of double-entry for wallets and share them where fintech engineers discuss ledger design.
- Open-source ledger users: Reach people starring or asking questions in ledger repositories and offer a managed option with migration help.
- Founder outreach: Contact fintech founders directly and offer a free integration week in exchange for feedback.
- First milestone
- Five fintech teams post live transactions in production and three pay for a plan within 90 days.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 452 stars in 913 days
- Public claimThis is a source-available, cloud-native ledger platform designed for building financial infrastructure with multi-currency, multi-asset, and double-entry accounting capabilities.
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Ledger storePostgres with serializable transactions and append-only…Balanced posting and idempotency need strict transaction guarantees; Supabase Postgres can host this at first.
- This app · API gateway and keysScoped API keys with rate limitingThe product is used mainly through an API, so keys, quotas and usage metering drive billing.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialThe only evidence is a source-available repository with some stars. Willingness to pay for a hosted ledger is untested, and teams may prefer to keep building their own.
- TechnicalCorrectness under concurrency, idempotency and high throughput is hard. A single bug that mis-posts money would destroy trust, so testing must be extensive.
- RegulatoryCustomers handling client funds face their own licensing and audit rules. They may ask for certifications, data residency and retention that a small team cannot supply early.
- CommercialExisting source-available and open ledger projects can be self-run for free, so a paid service must clearly save operating time.
- DataStoring customers' financial records makes backups, encryption and tenant isolation critical. A breach or outage would be severe.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.