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Built so far, and what is coming next

TheGuyBooks is built out in the open, one month at a time. This page shows what is already live, what is being worked on right now, and what may come later.

Already live, still being built

TheGuyBooks is in beta, and it is live — real businesses run their books on it today: it is still being built in the open. Fixes and new features go live most days, and every update reaches everyone at once, so what you signed up for keeps getting better without you lifting a finger.

The number is live. It comes from our own record of what reached the live site — nobody types it in, and it drops on a quiet month.

17days out of the last 30, we shipped something to the live siteLive number

Where things stand

Now

We are here

The books are in beta and open for business: real businesses and real people keep their own books here today, and everything listed month by month below is already live.

Next

The problems being worked on right now.

  • Typing a bill or a receipt in by hand when a photo or a file of it is already sitting right there.
  • One bank account and one card paying for both your life and your work, with no easy way to keep the two apart at tax time.
  • Money a supplier owes you back, with nowhere to put it until their next bill turns up.

In design, not yet promised.

Later

Maybe, and only when it is true.

  • Closing your account yourself, from inside the app, without having to ask anyone.
  • Reports that follow your own business year, for the people whose year does not run with the calendar.
  • Someone who works for you needs to change a count out in the field, without being handed the keys to your books.

Before the beta label comes off, every user hears from us first, and nothing you have set up changes.

Plans change, and some of this may never get built. We update this page when they do.

Get a heads-up when something new goes live

You do not have to keep checking this page: a free reader app on your phone can tell you the moment a new update lands here.

  1. Get a free reader app on your phone from your app store.
  2. In the app, tap Add (or the plus sign) and paste the address below.
  3. That is it: every new update shows up in the app on its own.

The address to paste

https://theguybooks.com/progress/feed.xml

This is called an RSS feed, and any reader app that says RSS will work.

Every month so far

  1. May 2026

    • First line of code.

  2. June 2026

    • Write an invoice and see at a glance who still owes you money.
    • Enter a bill, pay it, and see what you owe and when it is due.
    • Record a sale, a deposit, an expense or a check, and the bookkeeping behind it is done for you.
    • Tie your books out against your bank statement, and lock the month once the two agree.
    • The reports a business actually gets asked for: profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, and who owes what.
    • Attach a photo of a receipt to the record it belongs to, so the paper stays with the money.
    • Your own sign-in and password, on a screen that carries the brand you signed up with.
    • Two-step sign-in: a code from the authenticator app on your phone, on top of your password.

  3. July 2026

    • A whole library of reports instead of a handful: by customer, by supplier, by part of the business, and a one-page picture of the whole thing.
    • Set a report up the way you like it, save it, and open it that way every time after.
    • Turn any report into a PDF to send, or a spreadsheet file to work in.
    • Post a correction by hand when none of the ordinary forms fit, and fix one that was entered wrong.
    • A business that puts its own name on the books gets its own console to set them up and run them.
    • A call list of the customers who are due to hear from you, built out of what they already bought.
    • Tell us what is broken from inside the app, without hunting for an email address.

  4. August 2026

    • Connect your bank and the transactions arrive on their own, waiting to be filed.
    • Snap a receipt with your phone, and the date, the amount and who you paid come off the picture and onto the form.
    • Track your miles from your phone, and the deduction posts at the rate you set.
    • What is on the shelf: what you paid for it, what it is worth now, and what it cost you the day it sold.
    • People who work for themselves can sign up on their own, and the first thirty days are a trial.
    • Reports that email themselves on the day and the time you pick, with a one-click stop link on every one.
    • Type a sum straight into any amount box and it works the answer out for you.

  5. September 2026

    • A credit you enter by hand now pays down a customer's invoice and shows up in what they still owe.
    • See a report split into columns by month, by quarter or by year, side by side.
    • Print your call list and take it with you.
    • Mark a customer do not call, and they stay off every list, on the phone as well as on the laptop.
    • Amount boxes on a phone open the keyboard that actually has the symbols you need.
    • A plain count of the things you just use up, like grease or gloves, that changes nothing on your books.
    • Your low-stock list says how many of each thing to buy, and the emailed copy only turns up on a day something is actually low.
    • Set when to buy more of each thing, see how fast you really use it, and get one list of what to buy now, with a better rule suggested when yours cannot keep up.

  6. October 2026

    • A business that puts its own name on the books can connect its own software, so what its clients buy there lands in their books on its own — matched to their items once, with a check before anything is counted twice.
    • See the balance sheet in columns by month, by quarter or by year, side by side, the way the profit and loss already can.
    • A business that puts its own name on the books gets a welcome kit with everything needed to add the books to its own software, and from that software can set up a client's books and hand the client a sign-in link that works once.
    • A record whose money is already in a bank deposit is locked, so the deposit cannot change behind your back, and the screen says so before you try.
    • Someone signed in to books they no longer have access to gets a plain page saying so, instead of being sent back to the sign-in screen over and over.
    • When a save cannot go through, the screen says why in plain words, and never asks you to try again when trying again would not help.
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