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LedgerIt vs Pilot.Your numbers on the first, not the 6th or 10th business day.
Pilot is a bookkeeping service that works in QuickBooks Online and sends reports after the month ends. LedgerIt is accounting software: agents keep a double-entry ledger as money moves, a CPA reviews every close, and you approve what matters.
Side by side
- Who does the work
- LedgerItSoftware. Agents file every transaction as it happens, and a named CPA reviews each close and handles the filings.
- PilotA service, in Pilot's words “50/50 people and software”. Pilot's team keeps the books for you.
- When the month's numbers arrive
- LedgerItThe close runs on the first of the month. Filing, matching and accruals happen while the month is still open.
- PilotReports on the 10th business day on the Core plan, the 6th on Custom.
- What you see between closes
- LedgerItThe ledger itself, live: every entry with the evidence behind it, and anything above your threshold waiting for your approval.
- PilotA portal with real-time account data, and questions to your Pilot team.
- Accounting basis
- LedgerItAccrual on every account, from day one.
- PilotCash basis on Essentials; cash or accrual on Core.
- Where the books live
- LedgerItLedgerIt's own double-entry ledger. The database refuses an entry that does not balance, a posting into a closed month and an edit to a posted line.
- PilotQuickBooks Online.
- Programmatic access
- LedgerItA public API and TypeScript SDK: read the statements, post and reverse entries, run rules and close the month.
- PilotNo public API on Pilot's site.
- If you leave
- LedgerItThe statements and the general ledger export to CSV and PDF at any time.
- PilotThe books are in QuickBooks, which Pilot says means your data goes with you.
Three things that change when the books are software.
- Numbers on the first
- Everything that makes a close slow happens while the month is open. On the first, what is left is a checklist, a review by your accountant and your signature.
- A ledger that refuses to be wrong
- The rules of double-entry live in the database, not in whoever writes today. Corrections are reversals on the record; nothing is edited or deleted.
- Your rules first, then a model, then you
- A rule you own files what it covers. A model proposes the rest, and anything large or uncertain waits for a person, however sure the model is.
When Pilot may suit you better
If you want a team to keep the books for you, with tax, CFO services and stock administration from the same company, Pilot sells them together. Bookkeeping starts at $99 a month on Essentials, on an annual subscription, for up to $100,000 in monthly expenses, and Pilot works in QuickBooks if you want to stay there.
Switching from Pilot takes five business days.
01
Connect
View-only access to your bank, cards, payroll and Stripe. About ten minutes.
02
Bring your history
Your QuickBooks file, or every transaction since incorporation, deduplicated across sources.
03
Close the first month
Books caught up in five business days, and the first close reconciled to the bank. Switch between two month ends without a gap.
See your own books on the first.
Send view-only access to your bank, payroll and Stripe. In 5 business days your books are caught up, with your real ARR, burn and runway.
What this page says about Pilot comes from its own website, read on Sep 29, 2026:
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