Receipts & Payments

The first in a line of accounting solutions from Daybooks.

The Receipts & Payments spreadsheet is a simple tool providing a clear, single‑entry record of actual money received and money paid out, with full bank reconciliation. It is suitable for sole traders, clubs, associations, and charities that are eligible to prepare Receipts & Payments Accounts. It acts as a structured book of prime entry for cash movements.

Transactions can be analysed by account code, project code, organisation code, and associate — all fully user‑configurable — giving you clear visibility over where money is coming from and where it is going.

It is not a double‑entry cash book and not a substitute for the accruals‑based accounting records required where statutory accounts must be prepared.

Companies and other accruals‑based entities may use this workbook as part of their accounting system, but only when it is used as the book of prime entry for cash movements and the information is subsequently incorporated into a full double‑entry system to meet Companies Act requirements. This workbook provides a far more structured and reconciled cash record than the unclassified bank‑transaction CSV files that many companies currently rely on.

Subject to availability, the cost of this software may be offset against the fee for preparing your statutory accounts where its use reduces the work required at year‑end.