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Why we built Ledgerly
Three freelancers, one shared spreadsheet and a tax bill nobody saw coming.
The Ledgerly teamTeam · 4 min read
Ledgerly started as a spreadsheet three of us shared while freelancing for clients in the US, Germany and Japan. It tracked who owed what, in which currency, and how much we'd need for tax.
The spreadsheet worked until it didn't. One quarter, a delayed payment and a bad exchange rate left one of us short on a tax bill.
What we wanted instead
- Invoices clients could pay like a local bill.
- Balances in the currencies we were actually paid in.
- Tax money moved aside before we could spend it.
That's still the whole product. Everything else is there to make those three things faster.
