Elian Book
◆ The single-digit QuickBooks killer

Your whole back office. Nine dollars a month.

Bookkeeping, AI-categorized bank import, invoicing, a client CRM, projects & job costing, payroll-tax tracking, and tax-ready reports: the full suite. No tiers. No per-employee fees. No add-ons. No lock-in.

$9/ month · everything included
Start free → See pricing

or $89/year (2 months free) · export all your data anytime

QuickBooks Online
$38-$275/mo
+ $50-80 payroll · + per-user · + project tracking on higher tiers
VS
Elian Book
$9/mo flat
everything above, included, for every business type
The full suite

Everything a small business needs to stay tax-ready, in one place.

Built AI-native on Cloudflare's edge, so it's fast, and priced like software should be.

Income & expenses

A blazing ledger with bank/card CSV import, dedupe preview, splits, recurring entries, reconciliation, and multi-account tracking.

AI categorization

Claude proposes a category for every uncategorized transaction, with reasons you review before applying. Plus auto-rules and payee cleanup.

Invoicing

Live-preview editor, saved clients, partial payments, status badges, PDF export, and deposit-to-invoice matching.

Clients & CRM

Client records with a call/email/meeting activity log, next-action follow-up reminders, and each customer's projects, invoices, and outstanding balance in one place.

Projects & pipeline

A drag-and-drop deal board (lead → won → done), materials, labor, tasks, milestones, a built-in time-tracking timer, and real profit vs. target - job costing QuickBooks gates behind Plus.

To-dos & reminders

Keep a shared to-do list with due dates, and get amber/red warnings at the top of every page when a task or client follow-up is coming due or overdue.

Payroll-tax figures

Record paychecks or import a Gusto/ADP/QuickBooks CSV; get 941, 940, and W-2 totals plus employer-liability summaries automatically. Employees can clock in by magic link or kiosk PIN.

Reports hub

P&L with prior-period comparison, cash flow, A/R aging, a simplified balance sheet, and a custom builder with drill-down and CSV.

Tax-ready output

Group by tax line for a live Schedule C / 1120 pro-forma, download filled Form 941, and export TXF for TurboTax. Store receipts & 1099s and link them to transactions.

Open API

A simple read-only REST API with per-workspace keys. Pull your transactions, invoices, clients, projects, payroll and reports straight into your own dashboards, scripts, and tools. Read the docs →

No paywalls

One price. All of it. For everyone.

QuickBooks charges more the moment you hire, add a card, or want a report. We don't.

  • Unlimited transactions, invoices & clients
  • Unlimited employees, no per-seat fee
  • Bank & card CSV import with duplicate protection
  • AI categorization, rules & receipt linking
  • Client CRM: activity log & follow-up reminders
  • Projects & pipeline board + job costing
  • Time tracking timer, billable to invoices
  • To-dos with due-date reminders
  • Payroll-tax tracking: 941, 940, W-2, 1120
  • Full reports hub + custom builder + CSV export
  • Schedule C / 1120 pro-forma & TXF export
  • Multiple accounts & transfers
  • Sales-tax tracking & a simplified balance sheet
  • Two-factor security + backup codes
  • Full data export (JSON + CSV), always free
  • Read-only REST API with per-workspace keys
You own your data

It's your data. Take it anywhere, build anything on it.

Every transaction, invoice, paycheck, and filing belongs to you and stays within reach - never trapped in a proprietary format. One click downloads a complete JSON backup, and every report exports to clean CSV. No export fee, no gatekeeping, no "please contact sales."

Need programmatic access? A read-only REST API serves your books live, so you can migrate to another platform or wire Elian Book into a data warehouse, a custom dashboard, or your own internal tools. Mint a key in seconds. See the API docs →

⤓ backup.json
  company · transactions
  invoices · payroll · filings
+ CSV from every report
+ read-only REST API
Pricing

Pick a number. It's the same tiny one.

No tiers to decode. No "starting at." Just $9.

Monthly
$9
per month · cancel anytime
  • The entire suite
  • Unlimited everything
  • Full data export
Start free
2 months free
Annual
$89
per year · ~$7.42/mo
  • Everything in Monthly
  • Two months on the house
  • Lock in the price for a year
Get the annual deal
Head to head

Elian Book vs. QuickBooks Online

FeatureQuickBooks OnlineElian Book
Starting price$38/mo$9/mo flat
Payroll add-on+$50-80/moIncluded (tax figures)
Projects, pipeline & job costingPlus tier & upIncluded
Client CRM & follow-upsAdd-on / limitedBuilt-in
Per-employee / per-user feesYesNone
AI categorizationLimitedBuilt-in, reviewable
Schedule C / 1120 pro-forma + TXFPush to TurboTaxBuilt-in
Full one-click data exportClunkyJSON + CSV, free

QuickBooks pricing and tiers per Intuit's published plans; comparison for positioning. QuickBooks is a trademark of Intuit Inc. Elian Book is not affiliated with Intuit.

Make QuickBooks look like a dinosaur.

The full back office, AI-native and tax-ready, for less than a couple of coffees a month.

Start free, then $9/mo →