--- area: "books" title: "Bookkeeping" tools: 33 mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/books" auth: "Authorization: Bearer " docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/books" --- # Bookkeeping The business's double-entry books: a chart of accounts, journal entries, expenses with receipts and taxes. Bank statements are imported and matched, invoices and bills post on their own, periods lock, and the reports cover profit and loss, the balance sheet, the trial balance, the ledger, tax, the cash ahead and a snapshot of the business. Replaces: QuickBooks, Xero, lexoffice. ## MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/books` connects the Bookkeeping tools only, plus the account tools that come with every MCP server. It speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP; send the key as `Authorization: Bearer `. Every tool here is also a REST call: `POST https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/` with the arguments as a JSON object. ## ChatGPT and Claude Add `https://api.conecto.chat/v1/mcp` as a connector in ChatGPT or Claude, one for every area, and tick Bookkeeping when you sign in. It signs in with OAuth: someone on the account signs in on conecto.chat, ticks the areas it may use and allows it, and it runs on a key of its own that the owner can revoke. ## OpenAPI For a custom GPT's Actions: `https://api.conecto.chat/v1/openapi/books.json` (OpenAPI 3.0, the key as a Bearer token). For Power Automate, Logic Apps and Copilot Studio connectors: `https://api.conecto.chat/v1/openapi/books.swagger.json` (OpenAPI 2.0, the key in the X-Api-Key header). Both list this area's tools and the account tools. Prices: Reports, reading and importing bank lines free · each booking or change $0.01 · $0.02 per bank line matched · settings and closing $0.001. A call that fails costs nothing. ## Tools | Tool | What it does | Price | |---|---|---| | [books_setup](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_setup.md) | Starts the business's double-entry books (currency, start date, chart of accounts) or changes their settings. | $0.001 a call. | | [books_get](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_get.md) | The books' settings: currency, start date, fiscal year, locked period, roles, payment accounts, taxes, and what is waiting. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_list_accounts](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_list_accounts.md) | Every account with its code, type, role and balance on a day. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_save_accounts](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_save_accounts.md) | Adds accounts or changes them, matched by code: name, type, description, code, role or archived. | $0.001 a call. | | [books_save_tax](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_save_tax.md) | Adds or changes a tax rate the books use (VAT, GST, sales tax), matched by name. | $0.001 a call. | | [books_record_expense](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_record_expense.md) | Books a cost the business paid, with its tax split off and the receipt attached. | $0.01 a call. | | [books_record_entry](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_record_entry.md) | Books a journal entry of two or more balancing lines, for whatever the other tools do not cover. | $0.01 a call. | | [books_attach_receipt](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_attach_receipt.md) | Attaches a receipt from the file store to an entry that has none. | $0.01 a call. | | [books_reverse_entry](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_reverse_entry.md) | Undoes an entry by booking its mirror image; entries are never edited or deleted. | $0.01 a call. | | [books_list_entries](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_list_entries.md) | Entries, newest first, with their lines, by dates, account, source or text. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_import_bank](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_import_bank.md) | Reads a bank statement from the file store (CSV, CAMT.053 or OFX) onto a bank account, skipping lines imported before. | Free. | | [books_bank_lines](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_bank_lines.md) | Imported bank lines (by default the ones still to match), each with up to three suggestions of what it was. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_match_bank_lines](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_match_bank_lines.md) | Says what bank lines were: entries already booked, invoices or bills they pay, an account to book them to, or nothing to book. | $0.02 per bank line matched. | | [books_save_bank_rule](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_save_bank_rule.md) | Saves a bank rule, like Xero's: which new bank lines it matches and how they are booked, to one account or split by percent, each part with its own tax. | $0.001 a call. | | [books_list_bank_rules](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_list_bank_rules.md) | Lists the bank rules in the order they are tried, with where they book and how often they were used. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_apply_bank_rules](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_apply_bank_rules.md) | Books every new bank line a rule matches, each by the first rule that matches. | $0.02 per bank line booked. | | [books_delete_bank_rule](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_delete_bank_rule.md) | Deletes a bank rule; what it booked stays booked. | Free. | | [books_report](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_report.md) | A report: profit and loss, balance sheet, trial balance, ledger, tax, the VAT or OSS return, the cash flow ahead or a snapshot of the business. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_save_tracking](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_save_tracking.md) | Saves a tracking category with its options, like Xero's: a department, a region or a project line that any line of the books can carry. | $0.001 a call. | | [books_list_tracking](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_list_tracking.md) | Lists the tracking categories and their options. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_save_budget](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_save_budget.md) | Saves a budget per income and expense account and month, like Xero's budget manager: amounts, monthly or yearly. | $0.001 a call. | | [books_list_budgets](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_list_budgets.md) | Lists the budgets with every line's monthly amounts and total. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_delete_budget](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_delete_budget.md) | Deletes a budget; the books don't change. | Free. | | [books_repay_claims](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_repay_claims.md) | Pays someone back for costs they paid with their own money (expense claims), like Xero's, with a SEPA file when asked. | $0.01 a call. | | [books_list_claims](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_list_claims.md) | Lists expense claims: what people paid for the business privately, and what each is owed. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_save_asset](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_save_asset.md) | Registers a fixed asset (a van, a machine) and how it depreciates, like Xero's: straight line, declining balance, at once or not at all. | $0.001 a call. | | [books_list_assets](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_list_assets.md) | The fixed asset register: each asset's cost, accumulated depreciation and book value, what a run would book now, and the register held against the books. | Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. | | [books_depreciate](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_depreciate.md) | Books the depreciation of every registered asset through a month's end, one entry a month, like Xero's run depreciation; or undoes it after a date. | $0.01 a call. | | [books_dispose_asset](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_dispose_asset.md) | Sells or writes off a fixed asset, like Xero's dispose: depreciation to the day it goes, then its cost, the price and the gain or loss. | $0.01 a call. | | [books_delete_asset](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_delete_asset.md) | Takes an asset registered by mistake out of the register; the books don't change. | Free. | | [books_lock](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_lock.md) | Locks the books through a date, so nothing new is booked on or before it; null unlocks. | $0.001 a call. | | [books_close_year](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_close_year.md) | Closes a fiscal year for good: nothing is booked on or before its last day again, and it can't be undone. | $0.001 a call. | | [books_export](https://conecto.chat/tools/books/books_export.md) | A CSV of the journal or the accounts, a DATEV Buchungsstapel for a German tax adviser or a French FEC, with a download link. | $0.001 a call. | ## Example jobs - Book each receipt the owner forwards as an expense, with its VAT split off and the receipt attached. - Import the bank statement every Monday, let the bank rules book the usual lines, and match the rest to an invoice, a bill or an expense. - Lock the books once the VAT return is filed and send the accountant the quarter's journal.