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2026-09-26 — The SturdyBooks help center

This site is new. It covers everything in SturdyBooks today, role by role:

• Getting started — signing in with Sturdy ID, accepting an invite, your books at a glance and switching companies.
• For owners & admins — first-time setup, your team and their roles, closing the books, AI suggestions & rules and reports.
• For bookkeepers — customers and vendors, invoices, payments and credits, bills, expenses, the receipts inbox, category suggestions and rules, the journal and the chart of accounts.
• Reports — one page per report, including what accrual vs cash basis means in plain words.
• Support — every message SturdyBooks shows, what it means and what to do.

September 2026 — Receipts inbox, category suggestions and rules

• Receipts inbox. Take a photo of a receipt (or choose files), and record it as an expense; the receipt stays on file, linked to the expense. When AI reading is on for your company, SturdyBooks reads the store, date and total for you in the background, warns you when a receipt looks like an expense you’ve already entered, and tells iPhone users how to send a photo it can read. See The receipts inbox.
• Suggest accounts. On bills, expenses and receipts, one click suggests the account for each line — from your rules first, then from AI when it’s on. See Use category suggestions.
• Categorization rules. “This vendor always goes to that account.” Rules work for every company, with or without AI, and SturdyBooks offers to make one when you’ve filed the same vendor the same way three times. See Make a categorization rule.

AI suggestions and receipt reading are switched on per company by Sturdy Bid; everything else is on for everyone.

September 2026 — SturdyBooks opens

Double-entry bookkeeping for trades contractors: a chart of accounts built for HVAC, plumbing and electrical businesses; invoices, payments and customer credits; bills and bill payments; expenses; the journal; closing and locking months; and seven reports — profit & loss (accrual or cash), balance sheet, cash flow, trial balance, general ledger, and A/R and A/P aging. Companies are set up by Sturdy Bid; you sign in with Sturdy ID and invite your team from the Team page.