WorkspaceNeo-Capital is local-first: the books live on this computer. Connected is the monthly service, priced by the tier you own, that links this install to your Neo-Capital account: your books synced end-to-end encrypted to your other computers, your browser and the mobile app, your team in them, bank feeds and email sending included. Your password unlocks the keys on your device, and the cloud only ever holds ciphertext. Correspondence is the shared list of questions about these books: you raise them here or from any transaction, the other side answers, and a thread closes when the answer has been applied rather than when it arrives.

Your books

Each book is a separate set of accounts for one business. Switch between them here.

Lumen Studio Active

Businesses: 1 of 2

Renaming a book is in Business details, inside that book. To delete one, go to your account; your books are stored with your subscription.

Shared with me

Workspaces other people share with you. Opening one closes the books you have open and opens theirs; anything unsaved is written first.

Harborview Construction Accountant
Members & roles

Who else can open Lumen Studio, and what they can do here. An invite shares this book only; your other books stay yours alone. Role changes take effect on their next sign-in / sync.

Maya Chen maya@lumenstudio.example Owner
Sarah Okafor sarah@okafor-cpa.example Not accepted yet
Diego Alvarez diego@lumenstudio.example Not accepted yet
June Park june@lumenstudio.example Not accepted yet
investor@lumenstudio.example Viewer · invited

If they don’t have a Neo-Capital account we’ll email them an invitation to create one, and they join the moment they do.

What each role can do
Owner
Everything you can do, including inviting people. They still can't change or remove the workspace's original owner.
Accountant
Full access to the books and reports. No member management.
Staff
Enter and edit transactions, invoices and bills; view reports.
Field
Enter time, mileage, expenses and receipts only.
Viewer
Read-only: view the books and reports, no changes. Free: viewers never count toward your people.
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Restore Points Book File Import & Migration Exports
Data Health Edit business details What you use Upgrade & add-ons
Help
User manual
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License

Your plan travels with your account, not with this computer. Sign in anywhere and your books and your plan come with you.

Plan
Online Pro
Books
1 of 2
Need more room?

Add a book to this plan, or move up a tier. Either takes effect immediately.

Contact support

Your tickets, and the answers to them, in the app and on your account page at neocapital.app.

Help centre on neocapital.app

Report a problem

Off by default. You can change this here any time.

Reports carry your app version, OS and license ID, never your books. Error details are scrubbed (names, amounts and text redacted) before sending.

Book file

One .neobooks file holding this whole business. Send it to your accountant, move it to another computer, or keep a copy you can come back to.

Export this business

Packages Lumen Studio: every account, transaction, journal entry, customer, invoice and bill, plus uploaded documents, into one file. It downloads to your computer.

Import a book file

Import it as a new business, or replace an existing one with a returned copy. Its current books are saved first, so it is undoable.

Restore points

A saved copy of your books you can go back to. Take one before an import, a merge, or anything else that changes a lot of records at once.

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User manual

Neo-Capital

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Upgrade & add-ons

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Split this transaction

Slice one transaction into multiple categorized lines: e.g. a $400 Costco run becomes $250 office supplies + $150 personal groceries. Just type the amounts. Each line goes the same direction as the original, so an expense stays an expense. Use a minus only for a line that runs the other way, like a fee inside a deposit. Each split shows up as its own line in your P&L.

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Accountant package

One-click year-end ZIP for your CPA. Includes:

  • P&L for the year (income, expenses, net)
  • Balance sheet snapshot (assets + liabilities)
  • Full transactions ledger (every row, with categories)
  • 1099-NEC candidates (contractors paid ≥ $2,000)
  • Mileage log + IRS deduction (if you track mileage)
  • Documents folder (W-9s, receipts, anything you've dropped in)
  • A README the CPA can read to know what each file is

You'll choose where to save the ZIP when you click Build. A copy is also kept with your backups.

Backups

Save a snapshot, run automatic backups, or restore. Your manual backups are never auto-deleted.

Save a backup now
Save to (optional, defaults to your backups folder)
Automatic backups
Also copy every backup to a folder (optional, for cloud sync)
Point at a cloud-synced folder (Dropbox / OneDrive / iCloud) to keep your books backed up off this computer.

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Restore from a backup

Restoring replaces your current data. A safety snapshot is saved first, so you can undo. Use Load from a file… for a backup saved elsewhere.

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What you use

Turn parts of Neo-Capital on and off. Anything you switch off leaves the sidebar, the menus, and every other place the app offers it: dashboards, the Report Center, exports, the cleanup checklist. Your records and reports are never touched, a figure with a real balance behind it still shows, and the pages stay reachable from Search. Turn it back on here whenever.

Setup switched these on from your industry. Turn off anything you do not do.

Sales & customers

Purchases & vendors

Products, stock & assets

Work you track

Money & planning

Tax

Tools & communication

Preferences

Business details

Update your business info. Changes take effect immediately.

Tax profile drives the estimator and the Tax hub
Qualified business income limits (only above ~$200k taxable income)
Branding

Your logo and accent color appear on every PDF you export: invoices, statements, and reports.

Owners

No owners yet. Add them so a draw can say whose it is.

Data Location

Where Neo-Capital keeps its database. This is the whole app: every business on this computer lives here. Changes take effect when you restart.

/data

Locked by the NEO_CAPITAL_DATA_DIR environment variable. Change it there, not here.

Custom theme

Pick your colors. The app updates live as you choose, and changes save automatically.

Text color
Muted / secondary textcaptions, chart labels
Background color
Container & modal color
Topbar color
Button colorlabel auto-contrasts
Graph colors
Money inrevenue bars, positive figures
Money outexpense bars, negative figures
Attentionoverdue, warnings, loss bands
Gradient blendwhat series fade toward
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Welcome to Neo-Capital

First, who are you? Your name goes on the invoices, 1099s and reports you send out.

What are these books for?

What kind of business is it?

This is the big one. It decides your categorization rules, your Schedule C activity code, and which tools we turn on. Pick the closest match; everything stays editable later.

Construction & contracting
Transportation & delivery
Professional & business services
Retail & e-commerce
Food & hospitality
Personal care & wellness
Health care
Real estate & property
Home & field services
Creative, media & events
Education & training
Agriculture & animals
Finance, manufacturing & nonprofit
Something else

What do you sell?

We have answered these from your industry. Change any that don't fit. Everything here is reversible from What you use later.

How do you get paid, and how do you pay?

This decides whether your books carry receivables, payables, or neither.

What else do you track?

Each of these adds a section to the program. Anything you turn off you can turn back on any time.

How is your business structured?

This decides which return your books are built around, and whether you owe self-employment tax. Not sure? Most solo owners are a sole proprietorship.

Business details

These appear on your invoices, statements and tax forms.

Fiscal year & accounting method

Which month your financial year begins, usually January, and usually the same as your income-tax year. You'll pick the date your books start in this program on the next step.

This drives your tax figures. Your management reports can be read either way from a toggle on each report.

When do your books start?

The date this program starts from, not the shape of your fiscal year, which you set on the previous step. You'll enter opening balances as of this date.

Branding & look

Your logo and accent color appear on invoices, statements and PDF reports. The theme and chart style are how the program looks to you.

Logo PNG, JPG, GIF, or WebP, up to 5 MB.
Theme
Light or dark, and how charts are drawn. Both can be changed any time from the gear menu in the bottom-left.

Review & finish

Here's how we'll set your books up. Anything here is changeable later in Business settings.

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Keyboard shortcuts

The standard accounting shortcuts, on Ctrl+Alt — a browser keeps the plain Ctrl chords for itself.

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Discard this entry?

You have changes here that have not been saved. Nothing is recorded in your books until you save.

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Add an account

Nest it under a parent of the same account type.

New class

A reporting dimension (location, department, segment) that slices your P&L. Rename or retire them on Chart of Accounts → Classes.

Attachment

Make recurring

Tracks this charge as it repeats: each new one is matched to it when it lands, and you are told if it changes price or stops. Nothing is posted, and this transaction is not categorised by it.

The charge
Subscription: software, memberships. Other recurring charge: ads, rent, utilities. Both are recurring expenses under Recurring → Expenses; the Subscriptions tab shows subscriptions, and the others too when you include them there. Not an A/P bill; nothing is owed or posted.

New payment term

When the bill or invoice falls due, and any early-pay discount. Manage them all from the Lists button on Customers or Vendors.

Return to My Account?

This takes you back to your account on neocapital.app. Your books stay saved with your subscription and open right where you left off.

Add Neo-Capital AI

This is added to your existing Neo-Capital subscription: same card, same renewal date, one invoice. The difference for the rest of this month is charged now, pro-rated. Cancel it any time from your account.

One-time credit packs: no plan change, no renewal, never expire.