Take card payments.
Keep your books straight.
Connect your own Stripe account and send invoices with a pay link attached. When the money lands, the payment is already recorded against the right invoice.
Free plan, no credit card, and you keep your own Stripe account and its rates.
Argo Books
Three steps, and it runs itself
The awkward part of card payments is not taking them, it is matching the payout to the invoice afterwards.
Connect your Stripe account
You link the account you already have. Argo Books never holds your funds and never sits between you and your money.
Send invoices with a pay link
Your customer pays by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay without creating an account or calling you back.
Watch it settle itself
The payment is recorded against the invoice, the invoice flips to paid, and the revenue lands in your books.
Payouts matched to the invoices they came from
Stripe pays out in batches, which is where most people lose the thread between what a customer paid and what hit the bank. Argo Books keeps the link, so a payout can be traced back to the invoices inside it and your records agree with your statement.
- Payments recorded against the invoice automatically
- Processor fees captured rather than quietly absorbed
- Your own Stripe account, your own rates and payout schedule
Start taking card payments
No account, no credit card, and you connect the Stripe account you already have.
What changes when payment and bookkeeping are the same step
Paying you takes one click
A pay link in the invoice removes the gap where a customer means to pay and then forgets for three weeks.
No matching payouts by hand
The link between a payment and its invoice is kept for you, so a batched payout is traceable instead of a puzzle.
Fees show up in the numbers
Processing costs are recorded rather than silently eaten, so your margins reflect what you actually netted.
It stays your account
Argo Books connects to your Stripe, it does not resell it. Your rates, your payouts, your relationship.
Your books stay on your computer
Argo Books is a desktop application, not a cloud service holding your finances on someone else's server. Your records are written to your own machine, and you can back them up or move them like any other file.
- Records and documents stored locally
- No third-party cloud storage of your financial data
- Your data moves and backs up like any other file
Built for the way you actually work
Freelancers
Get paid by card without asking clients for a bank transfer.
Trades and services
Take payment on completion rather than waiting on terms.
Retail and e-commerce
Card volume that reconciles itself against your books.
Anyone chasing payment
Removing friction from paying you is the cheapest way to get paid sooner.
Before you download
Connect a restricted, read-only Stripe key under Settings > Integrations, then click Sync now. Argo Books reads your charges, refunds, fees, and customers and turns them into revenue entries, expense entries, and customer records ready to review and import.
No. The integration uses a restricted, read-only key, so Argo Books can read your payouts and charges but can never issue a charge, send a payout, or change anything in your Stripe account.
No. Argo Books recognizes a Stripe payout deposit on your bank statement and skips it automatically, since the individual sales were already recorded through the Stripe integration.
What Stripe connects to
Get paid the way your customers want to pay
Download Argo Books and connect your Stripe account today. Free plan, no credit card, and your data stays on your own machine.