Bookkeeping for creative studios
Ledgerline matches client payments, freelancer invoices, and project budgets automatically — so the person who runs your studio's books can go back to running the studio.
Hollow Point Films — Ep. 4 cut
$12,940.00
S. Marchetti — colorist invoice #0417
$2,175.50
Talus Architecture — retainer
$6,300.00
What it does
01 — Reconciliation
Ledgerline watches your bank feed and your project ledger side by side, matching client payments to the right invoice line — even when a client pays three projects in one wire transfer.
6.3 hrs
saved per studio, per week
02 — Freelancer payouts
Upload a freelancer's invoice and Ledgerline reads the project reference, applies the correct cost center, and queues the payout for approval — no spreadsheet relay required.
312
contractor invoices processed last quarter, at Birch & Loom
03 — Close the month
Ledgerline flags the three or four entries that actually need a human look, and drafts the rest. Studios using it close their books in an average of 41 minutes.
41 min
average month-end close time
Getting started
Link your bank feed and the invoicing tool you already use. Takes about six minutes.
Tag your first month of transactions. Ledgerline learns your project codes and vendors from there.
Every week, clear the handful of entries it flags. Everything else is already matched.
“We used to lose the first three days of every month to reconciliation. Now our bookkeeper spends that time reviewing margins, not chasing line items.”
Pricing
$0
forever, up to 12 invoices / month
For a one-person studio finding its footing.
$84
per month, billed annually
For studios of 2–15 running several client projects at once.
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for studio groups & multi-entity books
For groups managing several studio entities under one roof.
Questions
No — it replaces the three hours a week someone on your team spends copying numbers between your bank, your invoicing tool, and a spreadsheet. Your accountant still reviews the books; they just start from a ledger that's already reconciled.
It lands in a short review queue with the closest three candidate matches ranked by confidence. Most studios clear that queue in under ten minutes a week.
Any bank that supports Plaid or Finicity — which covers most business checking accounts in the US and Canada — plus direct integrations with the invoicing tools studios already use.
Yes. Import is a CSV upload or a direct pull from your prior tool, and the migration team maps your old cost-center codes for you at no extra charge on the Studio plan and above.