How Nani thinks about your books

Three ideas run through the whole app. Knowing them makes everything else obvious.

  • Your bank statements are the source of truth. Every bank and card transaction comes from a statement you import, and Nani checks each statement's opening and closing balance against the bank's own numbers.
  • Cash basis. Income counts when the money reaches your bank. Expenses count when they leave it. An invoice you sent is not income until it's paid, and a bill you received is not an expense until you pay it.
  • Nothing important happens behind your back. Nani suggests, you decide. Every change is recorded in an audit log that can't be edited, with who made it: you, an import, a rule, or which AI and model.

The five-minute version

  1. Buy a license, then paste the key from your email and choose Activate. (Install and updates)
  2. Create your company: a name, the kind of business, and a passphrase. Save the recovery key Nani shows you. (Your company file)
  3. Add your bank and card accounts. (Guided setup)
  4. Download a few months of statements from your bank (CSV or QFX, plus the PDF) and drop them in your Inbox. (Inbox)
  5. Accept Nani's suggestions on Transactions and answer the Interview's questions. (Transactions and Interview)
  6. Pick a backup folder. (Backup, security and your license)
  7. At year end, work down the Year-end list and make the CPA package. (Year-end and the CPA package)

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