Expert guides, product updates, and industry trends from HelloBooks — the AI bookkeeping software for small and midsize businesses, ecommerce sellers, startups, and accounting firms. Articles cover automated transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, invoicing, expense management, GST and US sales tax compliance, financial reporting, and migrating from QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks, or Tally.
New posts are published weekly. Topics are written by chartered accountants, bookkeepers, and the HelloBooks product team — grounded in real client data from over 11,000 US banks via Plaid, the guided QuickBooks USA migration (a one-time company-file import that completes in a single pass), and the HelloBooks mobile, web, and desktop apps. While the article list loads, you can browse popular topics below.
Technology
How AI is reshaping bookkeeping — automated categorization, document extraction, and what changing tax technology means for small business.
Accounting
Double-entry fundamentals, P&L vs balance sheet, cash vs accrual, depreciation, and the day-to-day mechanics of keeping books that reconcile.
Automation
Bank feeds, rules, recurring invoices and reconciliation workflows — the parts of the month-end close that no longer need a human.
Bookkeeping
Practical guides for bookkeepers and owners: vendor records, bills and approvals, expense capture, and audit-ready record keeping.
Finance
Cash flow, working capital, receivables and payables — reading the numbers a small business actually runs on.
GST compliance
GSTR filings, input tax credit, e-invoicing and e-way bills for Indian businesses, written against the current rules.
HelloBooks publishes practical articles for business owners and the accountants who serve them. Each post is written to be immediately useful: when to use cash vs accrual accounting, how to reconcile bank statements in one click, how AI categorization compares to manual data entry, what changes when you switch from QuickBooks to HelloBooks, and how to file GST, sales tax, VAT, and 1099 forms straight from your books.
Articles also cover industry-specific accounting — for retail, manufacturing, construction, restaurants, healthcare, SaaS, ecommerce / Amazon sellers, non-profits, professional services, and accounting firms managing multiple clients. Every post is tagged by category, sub-category, and geography (India, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Singapore, and UAE) so you can filter to exactly what applies to your business.
Expert guides, product updates, and industry trends.
Key compliance takeaways and next-step guidance for ERC-related relief updates.
Accounting fundamentals & best practice
The Accounting category covers the core mechanics of bookkeeping — journal entries, the chart of accounts, debits and credits, period-end close, and the financial statements that fall out at the end. Whether you run a single-entity SaaS or a multi-branch retail business, the principles are the same: keep the books clean, post transactions in the right period, and tie everything back to the underlying source documents.
HelloBooks automates most of the repetitive parts of accounting — categorisation, reconciliation, reports — but understanding why an entry lands where it does still pays dividends when you talk to your accountant or auditor. Articles in this category explain the concepts in plain English with worked examples.
