For freelancers, sole traders and small businesses
Bring invoices, spending, projects, planning and useful financial insight together in one approachable place.
Start with the free plan. Explore a populated Demo first. Move to Pro only when the extra tools become useful.
How Simple Books helps
Simple Books focuses on the outcomes behind the admin, with deeper tools available when you need them.
Create invoices, follow due dates and keep track of what customers owe.
Record bills, expenses and mileage with the documents and details that support them.
Connect clients, projects, dates, budgets and related transactions.
Build budgets and use expected invoices and bills to look ahead at cashflow.
Start with a clear overview, then use Pro insights and accounting reports when useful.
Keep structured records and, with Pro, prepare reports and an Accountant Pack for handover.
Start where you are
There is no need to change everything at once. Begin with something familiar, bring records together for free, and add more capacity only when it helps.
Your own workbook
Familiar, flexible and useful when you want to organise things yourself first.
£0 / month
A free starting plan you don’t have to leave. There is currently no time limit and no card-entry step when creating a Starter account.
£15 / month
More Simple Books, not a different Simple Books. Keep the same core experience and add capacity, complete insights and reporting.
Pro reports include Trial Balance, General Ledger, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet. Compare the plans in full.
Data ownership
We think you should keep copies of your own business records—even if you have no intention of leaving Simple Books.
Trust the software. Keep your own copy anyway.
Use the supported workbook structure to prepare records, import them when appropriate, and export supported business records back to Excel. Keep those files on your own computer or storage as part of your normal routine.
One of the first things we’d encourage you to try: create a test invoice, export your workbook and open it yourself.
One record can do more
An invoice can contribute to a project, appear in cashflow and feed the financial view behind the business. Bills, expenses and mileage can add the cost context.
Deal with it while it is in front of you
Use Simple Books in a mobile browser and choose a JPG, PNG, WEBP or PDF bill or expense document from your device. AI scanning can suggest possible details for you to review.
You decide whether to use those suggestions. Saving the record remains a separate, deliberate action.
Don’t take our word for it
Explore the working product, start with a free account, or inspect the public workbook when it arrives. The decision can stay yours.
Where Simple Books fits
Simple Books is one option between managing everything manually and adopting a broader accounting ecosystem. It will not be the right fit for everyone.
Useful for direct control and a familiar start, but increasingly manual as records and relationships grow.
Connects business records, projects, planning and reporting in one approachable product.
May suit businesses that need a wider range of integrations, ecosystems or specialist functionality.
Two Simple Books plans
Both plans use the same core Simple Books experience. The detailed and authoritative comparison lives on the Pricing page.
View full Pricing details£0/month
£15/month
No pressure, no hidden clock
Explore the shared fictional Demo, start with the free plan, or read the detail first. We’d rather earn your reason to stay than make it difficult to leave.
