Runato Books

Know where
you stand.

The week you run out of cash. Who owes you, and how late. Whether you're on budget — and what to charge. Thirteen weeks ahead, not last month's rear-view.

14 days · no card · nothing you enter is ever deleted
Why this exists

QuickBooks tells you what happened.
Books tells you what's coming.

Your accounting software is a rear-view mirror — transactions, categories, last month. None of it answers the questions that keep an owner up at night.

The rear-view
what accounting software reports
  • Transactions after they clear
  • Last month's profit & loss
  • A balance from yesterday
  • Reports an accountant reads
The windshield
what Runato Books answers
  • Which week you run out of cash — 13 weeks out
  • Who owes you, and how late
  • Whether this month is on budget
  • What to charge so the job actually profits

Alongside your accounting, never instead of it. Keep QuickBooks. Books reads the reports it already exports.

How you start

Two ways in. Both fast.

Path one — have QuickBooks?

Ten minutes of uploads.

No connection to set up, no permissions to grant. Export the reports QuickBooks already makes, upload them, done.

  1. Upload your Balance Sheet — your starting cash and opening balances post themselves
  2. Upload who owes you / who you owe — every open invoice and bill lands in its forecast week
  3. Re-import at month-end — Books stays in step with your accountant
Path two — no QuickBooks?

Start fresh in minutes.

Books is a complete set of books on its own — nothing about it requires other software.

  1. Name your company — a standard chart of accounts is set up for you
  2. Answer one question: cash in the bank right now
  3. Add who owes you and who you owe — your 13 weeks light up
What's inside

Every screen answers one question.

Today

What needs me? Cash today, the low week, overdue invoices, bills due — ranked, in plain words, one action each.

Cash Flow

See the week you run out of cash while you can still fix it. Thirteen weeks, the red week flagged from across the room.

Owed to You / You Owe

Who owes you, who you owe, and what that does to the next 13 weeks. Send invoices, juggle pay weeks, mark things paid.

Books & Reports

A real double-entry ledger with the report set — balance sheet, income statement, who's late and how late.

Budget

A plan for the year, and whether this month is on it — seeded from your own P&L in one click.

Pricing & Margins

Set your markup before you bid — margin, markup, breakeven, and your real overhead, in plain trade language.

Who it's for

Built for the owner who does all of it.

If you can read a bank balance, you can read Books. No accounting degree required — it speaks plain trade language, not debits-and-credits jargon.

Contractors & trades — HVAC, electrical, plumbing, roofing Restaurants — where the margin lives week to week Professional services — agencies, consultants, firms Any owner-operator who wants to know where they stand
Running books for more than one company? Books is multi-company under one login — built for owners with several entities and for fractional CFOs running client books side by side.
Your data

Serious about your books’ safety.

Financial data deserves plain answers, not badge walls. Here is exactly how yours is handled.

Encrypted in transit, on managed infrastructure

Every connection runs over HTTPS. Your books sit on managed cloud infrastructure in the United States — we run no servers of our own and keep no copy anywhere else.

Your books are isolated

Every record is scoped to your organization and enforced at the database layer — not just hidden in the interface.

We never touch your bank login

Most people never connect anything — you upload reports you export yourself. If you do link a bank, it runs through Plaid: you sign in inside Plaid’s own window, and all we ever receive back is a read-only list of transactions.

Your data is yours

Export your reports anytime. Downgrading never deletes anything — your books wait for you.

And what we don’t claim: Runato Books has not completed a SOC 2 audit, and we don’t publish an uptime guarantee. When either changes you’ll read it here, with the date on it.

Security questions or reports: [email protected]

Questions

Straight answers.

Does it replace QuickBooks?

No — it runs alongside it. QuickBooks stays your system of record for what happened. Books reads the reports it already exports and shows you what's coming.

Do I need QuickBooks?

No. Start fresh in minutes: name your company, enter your cash balance, and a standard chart of accounts is set up for you. The import is just the fastest way in for people who already have QuickBooks.

What happens when the trial ends?

After 14 days your account moves to the free plan, which keeps your Cash Flow view. Nothing you've entered is ever deleted — everything comes back if you upgrade.

What does it cost?

The trial is free — 14 days, no card. Plan pricing is being finalized for launch; whatever you enter during the trial stays yours either way.

Stop guessing.
Know where you stand.

Fourteen days free. No card. Ten minutes to your first forecast.

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