Three capabilities.One inbox to close from.
Bookwren reads Gmail, categorizes the receipts and subscriptions inside, and assembles the month-end packet your accountant opens — without you re-keying anything. Here's what each capability does and where to find it in the app.
Inbox · Always-onAlways-on Gmail ingestion with OCR on attachments.
One OAuth grant, read-only scope. Bookwren pulls receipts, invoices, and subscription notices the moment they land, and OCRs the PDFs and image attachments so the merchant, amount, and date land in the same normalized shape as a plain-text email.
No forwarding rules to set, no folders to maintain, no manual import. The Gmail scope is read-only — Bookwren never sends, deletes, or labels mail on your behalf — and you can revoke the grant from Google at any time. Receipts and renewals you care about land on the inbox surface the moment they arrive; promotions and personal mail are filtered out before they reach the pipeline.
AI auto-categorization with subscription auditing.
Every charge lands on the right IRS Schedule C line automatically — utilities, software, supplies, travel, meals (with the 50% deductible flagged) — and recurring merchants are watched over time for duplicates and price creep.
The categorized ledger is the foundation the audit sits on. Pin a category to a merchant and Bookwren applies it on every future charge from that merchant; the audit pairs case-folded merchant names that substring-overlap, flags price creep on long-running plans, and surfaces the trial that quietly converted. The two surfaces are linked — cancel a duplicate in the audit and the change flows back into the next monthly close.
Monthly P&L packet plus accountant-ready PDF.
At month-end Bookwren assembles the categorized ledger, the subscription audit, and any flagged anomalies into a single PDF your accountant opens — categorized, reconciled, and shaped for QuickBooks or Xero handoff.
The PDF carries the categorized ledger as the cover page, anomalies as a callout section, and the receipts as an appendix. The Bookkeeper tier routes the packet to your accountant's shared workspace directly, with reclassify and note support. No night-before hand-off, no screenshots-in-a-folder — the close is the artifact your accountant expects to receive.
Want the long version?
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Each capability has a deep-dive page — what it does, how it stays stable over time, and where it fits in the monthly close.