About Hamper
By the first of next month, nobody on your team will have opened a shoebox.
Hamper is bookkeeping software that does the dull parts on its own: collecting, categorizing, matching, checking. This page covers why it exists and how we decide what goes into it.
01 / The problem
Bookkeeping is mostly waiting and retyping
A receipt lives in a coat pocket. The bank line lives in a feed. The invoice lives in an inbox. Keeping books has always meant carrying one to meet the other.
For a freelancer that is a weekend a quarter. For a small team it is one person quietly volunteering every month. For a bookkeeper it is other people’s folders of PDFs, and an apology attached to each.
None of that work needs judgment. It needs patience, and software has plenty. Hamper was built to take the matching and sorting, and leave people the few entries that really are ambiguous.
02 / Principles
Four rules we keep checking against
Unsure goes to a queue, not the ledger
When Hamper isn’t confident about a category or a match, it waits in review. A wrong entry that looks right is worse than a visible question.
A correction is taught once
Recode a transaction and the change becomes a rule, applied to the past and the future. Nobody should fix the same merchant twice.
The books stay current by default
Reconciliation runs every night, not at quarter end. Month close is a look at a finished page, not a project.
Every number can be traced
Each total opens to its transactions, each transaction to its receipt, each change to who made it and when. Your accountant should never have to ask where something came from.
03 / How it’s made
Small on purpose, supported by the builders
Hamper is a focused product maintained by a small group that also answers the support inbox. Reports from customers reach the people who can fix them.
- ReleasesSmall and frequent, with changes described plainly in the Docs.
- SupportEmail to contact@hamperautomated.com; replies come from the product team.
- Your dataYour ledger exports to a standard file whenever you want it. It stays yours.
- ScopeBookkeeping, categorization, reconciliation, reports, forecasts. Little else.
04 / Where it’s going
Next on the workbench
Direction, not promises with dates. Each item starts from a request we keep hearing.
Capture
Fewer receipts to chase
Better reading of faded, folded and foreign-language receipts, and smarter matching when a bank line arrives days late.
Reconcile
Clearer explanations
When a flag appears, a plain sentence on why, and a one-step fix for the common causes.
Forecast
More scenarios to push on
Seasonal swings, late-paying clients and planned purchases, layered over the baseline built from your real books.
The roadmap is shaped by what customers send in, so what lands first may not match this order.
05 / Start
Hand over the first of the month for good.
Plans run from $109 a year. Pick the size that matches how many people and ledgers sit behind it.