nadima

Can someone explain the revenue model and the problem being solved? Also, why would I, as a Melio user and bill payer, make a bank transfer to Melio instead of my supplier directly?

Thanks for these resources. It looks like all of them are for frontend-only cases though?

Interesting, particularly useful for power users and high frequency usage products.

Have you researched which applications have the highest penetration of keyboard usage and why? Afaik most users even on desktop apps (e.g MS office suite) can only retain a handful of shortcuts. What's your strategy to train users to have a fully keyboard based navigation?

Btw did you use any open source library to manage keyboard shortcuts?

For thousands of transactions per month yes, API would probably be the way to go, but for up to a few hundreds we found spreadsheets work well and allow for easier bulk changes than other accounting softwares.

Couldn't catch the reason behind the "one column per account" layout – you mention it's to show splits, can you elaborate on this?

In WeKeep all general ledger transactions can be looked up under Reports > Account Transactions, laid out in as a spreadsheet https://www.wekeep.co/c/dashboard/account-transactions/ Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/6eKNgKr

I personally also like software that allows you to become a power user. GnuCash is one of them, but unfortunately not accessible to the vast majority of people –- too nerdy :P (not a criticism!).

Most people don't want to learn accounting tbh, not even that – they hate doing it.

I think the limiting factor on my side is the complexity of the DOM – each cell contains a few more nodes, as opposed to most of the demos you will find which usually contains a simple node. Also, I'm not virtualizing horizontally yet, that's another potential perf booster as some of my sheets have lots of columns. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll hit you up to discuss more.

Hi – Our target market is small companies who need to move to a double-entry accounting software, typically because they need to start doing accrual accounting, or because they got investors on board, or e.g. they need to start filing VAT; so I'd like to see WeKeep as an alternative to Quickbooks and Xero.

As a solo founder you might not get extra value over Excel – but I hope that would change once we add integrations like Stripe.

Is there anything Excel doesn't do that you'd like to see in WeKeep?

I'm running Django in the backend with Postgres.

That's right, I'm using react-virtualized right now with a customized react-datasheet. I found it's a good first iteration, as even fully rendering 100 rows will result in pretty poor performance, so the windowing technique is definitely a must.

That said I'd really like to reach Google Sheets-like performance. Do you know how it's built?

Haven't looked at Handsontable or agGrid, will check them out.

Got it. If I may ask, when you say not in target market, meaning you're not a startup, or prefer non cloud solutions, or something else?

Arf... screwed this one up. :/

Hi Emile(?),

I have the i18n feature but haven't included French (yet). Language switch is only visible in countries where I've enabled it and where there are more than one language. Besides sending out invoices to customers in French, which other elements are critical for you to be i18n'ed?

I can add support for French in a few days – if you sign up :)

Hey – thanks for this. That's exactly right, the phase of switching from spreadsheets to a double-entry accounting software should not be painful.

With WeKeep you can continue recording stuff as you were doing in a spreadsheet, but your accountant can also do more advanced journal entries where needed (e.g. record equity, accrue expenses, write off bad debt, ...).

Great to hear! Yes a Stripe integration is the next obvious thing. Do you use anything to track your financials right now?

Thanks for the feedback! That's right, this is a cloud-based app. Mind if I ask, why was your experience poor with Quickbooks?

Hey, thanks for the feedback! The homepage definitely needs work with more screenshots of the invoicing / recording payment process. I've added this to the pipeline.

Thanks for taking the time to test it out and write this feedback! Definitely one of the main hurdles to overcome is gaining trust from users. Right now the approach is to take it slow and gain users one by one, starting with the ones who are the most comfortable with cloud software.

Great point about making it easy to export your data. Would an "export to google sheets" work for you, or is there any specific format you have in mind?

Hey all,

Nadim here, I'm the founder of WeKeep.

In my previous startup I found that Xero and Quickbooks are not suited for our needs; that they are more geared toward small businesses that need to issue invoices to customers and for typically low volume transactions. You can use their APIs and build an integration, but I found that most startups are not willing to put their engineers' precious hours into this at the early stage – so they end up tracking their financials in a spreadsheet.

So I built an accounting software with a spreadsheets-first approach. WeKeep is a double-entry accounting software with in-browser spreadsheets (for the most part) to serve some common use cases, but also has all the advanced features an accountant needs for when you're ready to hand over.

A typical use case of early stage startups that we've used WeKeep with: They don't send out invoices (no accounts receivable), so instead we created simplified invoices - these are invoices paid in cash (typically through a payment gateway or a POS). So they can export data from their backend and paste into the simplified invoice sheet. Same for expenses – typically no accounts payable, just expenses paid for through a company card or a founder's personal card.

Right now the product isn't tailored for any geography, so you'll probably find several features lacking (e.g. Stripe integration, bank feeds). I'll surely get these going at some point if I see traction.

Would love to know whether this is something you would find useful, and if there are any hard requirements for your geography I would love to hear them too.