Fix hundreds of transactions
in one sentence.
Lou is an AI bookkeeper inside your QuickBooks Online. Ask for the cleanup in plain English; Lou drafts every change and waits for your approval before anything posts.
- You approve every change
- Connects securely to QuickBooks Online
- Free credit to start
The problem
Editing QuickBooks is death by a thousand clicks.
Recategorizing one transaction takes four clicks and a page load. Now do that three hundred times. Intuit’s answer for bulk edits is a spreadsheet add-on locked behind the Advanced plan — and a setup guide you’ll read twice.
Lou does the same batch from a sentence, then shows you each change before it lands.
The approval gate
Nothing touches your books without a yes.
Lou drafts. You decide. Each proposed change arrives as a plain preview — what’s changing, on which record, for how much — with one-click approve and a link straight to the record in QuickBooks.
- Lou reads first, and never writes on its own
- Approve or reject changes one by one, or all at once
- Every applied change links back to its QuickBooks record
Looks like a recurring software charge — moving it out of Office supplies so your software spend reports cleanly.
How it works
Three steps, and you hold the pen.
Connect QuickBooks
One authorization through Intuit — we never see your password. Lou reads your books to learn the lay of the land. At this point it can’t write a thing.
Say what you need
“Categorize March’s uncategorized expenses.” Lou digs through the records, works out what belongs where, and drafts each fix.
Approve
Every change is a plain preview: what moves, on which record, for how much. Yes posts it to QuickBooks. No discards it. That’s the whole deal.
What Lou handles
Everything you’d hand a sharp junior bookkeeper.
Minus the back-and-forth, plus a preview of every change. The judgment calls still come to you.
Try it on your books- Categorization
- Every charge filed where it belongs. When Lou isn’t sure, it asks instead of guessing.
- Reconciliation
- Bank and card statements matched to the books line by line, with the discrepancies flagged.
- Bulk cleanup
- A whole quarter corrected in one pass — recategorize, merge, fix — while you review the batch.
- Journal entries
- Describe the entry in words and get balanced debits and credits back, ready to check.
- Vendor hygiene
- “Amazon”, “AMAZON” and “amazon.com” become one vendor, and your reports finally tie out.
- Straight answers
- Ask what changed, what’s owed, or what looks off. Lou shows the numbers and where they came from.
Where it earns its keep
Wherever the work piles up.
Catch-up & cleanup
Six months behind? Fine.
Lou works through the backlog transaction by transaction and hands you the corrections in reviewable batches. Months of overdue books, current again — without the lost weekend.
Month-end close
Close the month in an afternoon.
Statements matched line by line, discrepancies surfaced with evidence, and a clean trail your accountant will actually thank you for.
Everyday categorization
Every charge in its right place.
Travel, Software, Meals, Office — Lou files each transaction to match how your books already work, and checks with you before it ever guesses.
Vendor cleanup
One vendor, not five spellings.
Duplicates get caught and merged into a single clean record. Your vendor reports stop lying to you.
One conversation, done
The cleanup that used to eat a Tuesday afternoon.
Ask once and Lou lines up the whole batch — every transaction, every match, every category — so you can scan it, approve it, and get back to work. Review takes a minute. The clicking takes zero.
See common questions- UberUncategorizedTravel$42.10
- NotionUncategorizedSoftware$16.00
- StaplesMealsOffice supplies$88.34
- DeltaUncategorizedTravel$311.20
- + 10 more transactions…
Fair questions
“Can I trust an AI with my books?”
The three things everyone asks before letting Lou anywhere near their QuickBooks — answered straight.
What if it miscategorizes something?
Then you decline it. Lou never posts on its own — a wrong guess is a suggestion you reject in one click, not a mess to unwind in your books.
Is my financial data safe?
You authorize through QuickBooks itself; we never see your password and you can disconnect anytime. Lou reads what the task in front of it needs, and writes only what you approve.
Don’t I still need a human?
Yes, and that’s by design. Lou does the repetitive digging; the judgment stays with you or your accountant. It’s leverage for a bookkeeper, not a replacement for one.
Who it’s for
Built for the people who own the books.
Business owners
You didn’t start a company to babysit a chart of accounts. Hand Lou the tedious part and keep your attention on the business itself.
- Stay caught up without learning QuickBooks inside out
- Books that are ready when your accountant asks
- Review and approve from your phone
Bookkeepers & accountants
Take on more clients without taking on more clicks. The cleanup gets faster; the sign-off stays yours.
- Clear categorization and reconciliation backlogs in bulk
- A reviewable trail for every change you approve
- Move quickly through messy books without cutting corners
“Bookkeeping software makes you do the software’s job. Lou flips that: you say what you want, the tool does the clicking, and nothing happens without your say-so. That last part isn’t a feature — it’s the whole point.”
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Yes. You connect through QuickBooks' own secure authorization — we never see your QuickBooks password, and you can disconnect anytime. LedgerLou reads your books to understand the work, and never writes anything without your explicit approval.
Never. Every change — a category, a reconciliation, a journal entry — is drafted as a clear preview and waits for you. Nothing posts to QuickBooks until you click Approve. Reject it and it simply disappears.
Categorize and re-categorize transactions, reconcile accounts, clean up duplicate vendors, draft journal entries, fix miscategorized income and expenses, and answer questions about your books — all in plain English, no menus or rule-builders.
For now, yes — LedgerLou is built specifically for QuickBooks Online. Desktop and other platforms aren't supported today.
A flat monthly base that includes a usage allowance, plus prepaid credits if you go beyond it — no surprise overages. See the pricing page for current plans in USD or CAD.
Create a free account, connect your QuickBooks company, and ask Lou for your first cleanup. You start with free credit to try Lou on your real books; when you're ready for more, start the 14-day trial — that's when we ask for a card.
Your books, current by Friday.
Create a free account, connect QuickBooks, and hand Lou your first cleanup. You approve everything before it posts.
Free credit to try Lou on your real books — upgrade when you’re ready.