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The April shoebox
It arrives the week before the deadline. A bag of receipts, three bank statements and a spreadsheet that stops in June.
There is no bookkeeper. A year of business spending is mixed in with everything else, and sorting it falls to you.
It is not the work you trained for, and with Reapt it stops piling up at the end of the year.
Your clients talk to Amy
For your clients, working with Amy is like having a personal bookkeeper who is always there, knows their business and reads every line they send: the bookkeeper they can't afford and you can't find. She does their part of the job through the year, on their expenses, so it no longer falls to you.
Through the year, your client texts Amy a receipt, forwards her an email, sends her a statement. Nothing to download, no new system to learn. Where she can't tell what a charge was for, she asks them, not you.
Organized, explained, yours to judge
What reaches you is organized and explained, not a shoebox.
Every number traces back to its source: the statement line, the receipt, the email. What is missing is named, not hidden.
The judgement stays yours. Reapt does not prepare returns or give tax advice. What is deductible, and in what amount, is your call.
Guides for your practice: the shoebox client, getting documents on time, bookkeeping capacity, a client intake form template, and how the client-side approach compares with outsourced bookkeeping.
