Accounting software for resellers
Track what every item cost you, where it sold, and what the margin actually was. Sourcing receipts, inventory, and the tax-time picture, all in one app.
Free desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. No account, no credit card.
Argo Books
Opening Argo Books on Windows
Windows may warn you because Argo Books is a newer app, not because it is unsafe. After the download finishes, here is the last step to open it:
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Open the installer. If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.
Buy low, sell higher, remember exactly what each one cost
Reselling is the garage sale at 7 AM, the auction lot at noon, the wholesale pallet on Tuesday, and a shelf in the garage that's worth more than it looks. At tax time, the IRS wants clean cost-of-goods numbers. Argo Books tracks what you paid for each item, what you sold it for, and what's still sitting in inventory, so the margin is real and the deductions are real.
Every item, from purchase to sale
Add an item to inventory at the price you paid: the thrift price, the auction-lot unit cost, the wholesale per-piece. When it sells, log the sale at the price you got. The cost-of-goods number that flows into your taxes is exactly what you spent, not an estimate.
Snap a receipt from the thrift store, the auction, or the wholesale lot
Take a photo and Argo Books pulls the vendor, date, and amount automatically. Tag it Sourcing, Shipping Supplies, or Vehicle so when the year wraps up, every deductible expense is sitting in a category, not in a shoebox.
See the margin before tax time, not after
Argo Books shows revenue, cost of goods, and the gap between them in real time. You stop running the business on vibes. Slow-selling categories show up as slow. Profitable ones get more shelf space.
Works offline, free tier covers solo resellers
Argo Books runs natively on Windows, Mac, and Linux. No internet needed in the garage or at the auction, no monthly subscription climbing every year. The free tier covers most side-hustle and solo full-time resellers forever.
What Argo Books isn't
Argo Books does not connect directly to eBay, Amazon, Etsy, or Mercari. It does not pull your marketplace sales in automatically, it does not print shipping labels, and it does not sync inventory across channels. If you sell at high volume and need that automation, tools like A2X, Link My Books, or QuickBooks Commerce are built for it. For solo and side-hustle resellers who can spend ten minutes a week logging sales by hand or importing a marketplace CSV, Argo Books gives you the cost-of-goods, margin, and tax-prep picture without the integration costs. Free desktop app, no monthly fee creeping up, your data stays on your computer.
Download FreeStart free, upgrade only if you need more
Most resellers stay on the free tier. Premium adds predictive analytics so you can see which categories are trending up and which are dying, unlimited invoicing, and priority support.
FREE Plan
Just starting out, or you only need the basics? This is the place.
Free forever
- Unlimited products, customers, and sales
- See your numbers update in real time
- Keep every receipt in one place
- Send 25 invoices a month
- Scan 10 receipts a month, no typing
- Import 100 spreadsheets a month
- Import 25 bank statements a month
PREMIUM Plan
Want unlimited invoicing, bigger monthly limits, and forecasts you can act on? Go Premium.
Billed monthly
Billed annually at $150 CAD
Everything in Free, plus…
- Unlimited invoices and online payments
- Scan 500 receipts a month, no typing
- Import 500 spreadsheets a month
- Import 500 bank statements a month
- Run Canadian payroll and produce T4s
- Forecast revenue and spot trends early
- Sign in with your fingerprint or face
- Priority support when you need it
Argo Books for your line of work
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Add the item to inventory at the price you paid (the thrift price, the auction lot share, the wholesale unit cost), and when it sells, log the sale.
The cost-of-goods number for your taxes lines up with what you actually spent.
Yes, by tagging each sale with the channel as the customer or category. Argo Books does not pull the sale in automatically from those platforms, so you enter them manually or import a CSV the marketplace gives you.
Many resellers do this weekly and treat it like an end-of-week routine.
Yes. Log mileage as an expense line with the date and the trip distance, tag it Sourcing or Vehicle, and the totals show up on the expense report.
At tax time, the mileage deduction is sitting where you put it.
Yes. The desktop app runs natively on your laptop and does not need an internet connection to scan receipts, add inventory, or build a record.
Take photos at the auction, enter them later that night at the kitchen table.
No. Argo Books does not connect directly to eBay, Amazon, Etsy, or Mercari APIs.
If you sell at high volume and need automated sync, A2X, Link My Books, or QuickBooks Commerce integrate. For a side hustle or solo reseller, a weekly manual or CSV-import workflow with Argo Books gives you clean cost-of-goods and tax-prep numbers without paying for an integration.
Yes, forever. The free tier covers all core features including inventory management and 25 invoices per month.
Premium ($15 CAD/month) adds predictive analytics, unlimited invoicing, and priority support. No credit card to start.