Every dollar in your LLC
has a story.
Who, why, with what document. Your LLC's books aren't a tidy spreadsheet — they're your first line of defense in an audit. Manager builds them that way by default.
Why you need Advanced Bookkeeping
Basic Bookkeeping shows you the data. Advanced turns it into real audit defense.
Monthly reports with AI narrative
Each month, Lucy generates a PDF with bookkeeping + ledger + contextualized tax insights. Your local advisor reads it and understands your LLC in 5 minutes. No spreadsheets, no hour-long explainer calls.
Bank reconciliation validated by hand
Every Mercury and Wise transaction is categorized, validated against an invoice or contract, and closed. Nothing stays "uncategorized" at fiscal year-end — filing happens with data that's already curated.
Proactive tax analysis, not reactive
Lucy spots deductions you aren't using, oversized-spend alerts, and risk patterns before they show up in an audit. The old way was "we found out in March of the next year."
What Advanced adds on top of Basic
- Inline editing and reclassification — Basic shows transactions; Advanced lets you modify them.
- Professional PDF reports — Basic shows KPIs; Advanced exports them signed with narrative.
- Pre-filled tax data into Tax Filing — Basic gives you a read; Advanced feeds the 5472 + 1120 directly.
- Lucy AI on top of your books — Basic doesn't include Lucy; Advanced does.
in deductions recovered by a Manager client in year one, caught by Lucy in expenses their local advisor hadn't categorized correctly. They paid back the upgrade in 8 months.
The golden rule: every dollar, three things
Generic bookkeeping tells you how much came in and how much went out. Manager tells you from whom, why, and with what evidence. That difference is economic substance.
Who's on the other side
Not "Mercury transfer 1,240 USD." A client, vendor, or entity identified by name. If we don't know who, it's not bookkeeping — it's a dressed-up bank statement.
Why the money moves
Which economic activity justifies that transaction. "January consulting services," "Q1 hosting," "Distribution to owner." No purpose, no activity. No activity, no operating LLC.
The paper backing it up
Invoice, contract, receipt, delivery proof. Attached to the transaction and linked in the annual dossier. Not optional for material amounts — it's the only thing that turns a line item into defensible evidence.
These three rules are the Devil Club internal standard. Every month-end close validates that all three are met before it locks. Anything that doesn't comply doesn't close — it goes back to your queue with a reason.
Features exclusive to Manager
Everything in Basic Bookkeeping, plus the complete accounting management layer.
Inline editing & reclassification
Fix categories, amounts, or descriptions directly in the table — no separate forms.
Bank reconciliation
Mark transactions as reconciled and close each month with verifiable accounting certainty.
Professional PDF reports
Generate monthly, quarterly, or annual financial statements in one click. Ready to send.
Distribution analysis
Track owner distributions, capital contributions, and classified deductible expenses.
Pre-filled Tax Filing data
Revenue, expenses, and distributions flow directly into Form 5472 + Pro-forma 1120. Zero manual work.
Lucy reviews your books
Your LLC's AI catches anomalies, uncategorized movements, and flags issues before they become problems.
Bank connection, KPIs, charts, and automatic sync are available from the Basic Plan ($1,800/year). Manager adds the advanced layer — together with Ledger, Lucy, Dossier, and the Tax Presence Tracker.
What your generic bookkeeping does NOT do
Mainstream bookkeeping tools solve the "what" — but the auditor asks "why" and "with what evidence." That's where they fall short.
- ✗ Categorizes by statement keyword
- ✗ No structured counterparty — just a free-form memo
- ✗ No transaction → supporting document link
- ✗ Reports built for the owner, not for a tax authority
- ✗ No cross-read with your personal tax situation
- ✓ Counterparty as a required field, tied to the real client
- ✓ Explicit economic purpose per transaction
- ✓ Attached document linked, downloadable from the dossier
- ✓ Reports built to defend the LLC in an audit
- ✓ Lucy cross-references your books with your Tax Filing and residency
About Advanced Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping that holds up in an audit.
Activate Manager Plan and your accounting goes from operational convenience to defensible tax evidence.