Why your shop needs real books, not a spreadsheet

A spreadsheet tells you what you typed. A general ledger tells you the truth — what each job made, what you owe, and what you're actually worth.

The spreadsheet trap

Spreadsheets are easy to start and hard to trust. One fat-fingered cell, one formula that didn't copy down, and the number you're betting the month on is quietly wrong. They don't reconcile, they don't tie to your bank, and they can't tell you the real cost of a repair.

What real books give you

Double-entry accounting forces every dollar to come from somewhere and go somewhere. That's not bureaucracy — it's the thing that lets you say, with confidence, what a job made and what the shop is worth. In LogMyRepair the ledger sits under every invoice and payment automatically, so your books are done when the work is done.