Double-entry accounting
A real general ledger with a full chart of accounts seeded for your type of business — assets, liabilities, income, expenses, cost of goods sold. Every transaction posts correctly, every time.
Daygig is a complete local-first business system for artists, makers, filmmakers, bands, and indie sellers. Accounting, inventory, materials costing, orders, receipts, tax tracking, and campaigns — one app, one price, your data never leaves your computer.
Beta price $99 · Launches at $199 · One-time, yours forever
It has no concept of raw materials, bill of materials, or finished goods. Getting it to track your button stock, fabric costs, or print run COGS requires workarounds that break the next time you update something.
They'll track what you have, but not what you spent, what the booth cost, or whether the project made money. So you end up with two apps, two logins, two monthly fees, and numbers that don't match.
$35/month is $420/year, every year, forever — just to keep your records in a cloud dashboard you don't control. Lean months hit doubly hard when the software bill doesn't flex with your income.
A folder of photos. A note about the booth fee. A mental note about the Q4 estimated tax date. A spreadsheet that's six months behind. It's not that you're bad at business — the tools just weren't built for how you work.
Not a feature list built for a pitch deck — this is what's running right now in the beta, ready to use on day one.
A real general ledger with a full chart of accounts seeded for your type of business — assets, liabilities, income, expenses, cost of goods sold. Every transaction posts correctly, every time.
Track raw materials, finished products, and the bill of materials connecting them. Weighted-average costing. Stock movements. Low-stock alerts. COGS calculated automatically when you make a sale.
Import your bank export, map the columns once, review the queue, and post. Every row becomes a balanced ledger entry. No manual journal entries. No reconciliation mystery.
Drop a receipt image or PDF. Daygig reads the vendor, date, line items, totals, and suggests the right expense accounts — then posts the transaction. Bring your own Anthropic API key, no cost beyond what you use.
Log orders, assign products, track shipments, and let Daygig handle the accounting: revenue, sales tax payable, shipping income, cost of goods — all posted automatically on every sale.
Track Kickstarters, grants, preorders, crowdfunding contributors, obligations, and milestones alongside your regular books. Know exactly how much campaign cash has come in and what's still owed.
P&L, balance sheet, trial balance, sales tax worksheet, expense breakdowns, and year-end export packages. Hand these to your accountant in April without a three-hour prep session.
Sales tax, estimated quarterly taxes, LLC renewals, filing dates — seeded for your state, tracked in one place, never a surprise. No more sticky notes on the monitor.
Your database is on your machine. Daygig backs it up automatically before every write so you're never one bad entry away from losing months of records.
Most tools are great at one slice of the job. Daygig covers the whole thing — because indie creative businesses don't have an accounting team, an inventory manager, and an ops coordinator. It's just you.
| What you need | Accounting software | Inventory / maker tools | Daygig |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double-entry accounting | Yes — usually $30–50/mo subscription | Rarely included | ✓ Built in, one-time price |
| Materials + BOM + COGS | Usually a higher-tier add-on | Often yes, but separate from books | ✓ Built in, auto-posts on every sale |
| Orders + fulfillment | Available, requires setup | Sometimes, rarely linked to ledger | ✓ Built in, revenue + tax + COGS automatic |
| Receipt AI parsing | Not standard | Not standard | ✓ Built in, bring your own key |
| Your data, your machine | Cloud-hosted, vendor owns your access | Cloud-hosted, vendor owns your access | ✓ Local-first, SQLite on your computer |
| Price | $35–60/month, forever | $20–40/month, forever | ✓ $99 once, $199 at launch |
Daygig runs locally at 127.0.0.1. Your database is a single SQLite file on your machine — not in a data center, not tied to a subscription, not at risk the moment you miss a payment or a startup shuts down.
That's what you're paying to keep your own business records in someone else's cloud — and it doesn't even include inventory or materials costing. You'd need to upgrade for that.
Daygig is $99 once during beta. That's less than three months of the alternative, and it includes everything — accounting, inventory, BOM, orders, receipts, campaigns, and tax tracking — without a renewal notice in your inbox every January.
Full access to everything Daygig has now, plus all updates through the v1.0 launch. Beta users shape what gets built next — integrations, reports, workflows.
Same app, same features, same local-first philosophy. The beta price is a thank-you to early users who help shape the product.
Beta access is $99 — one payment, yours forever. When Daygig launches publicly, it goes to $199. Join the waitlist now and lock in the beta price.