Your crew spends money all day. You find out at month end.

No — and in the US that is the single biggest thing we do not do. There are fifty states plus thousands of local jurisdictions, economic nexus thresholds (commonly $100,000 in a state) and rules that keep moving; Illinois dropped its 200-transaction test on January 1, 2026. i-shim gives you one tax-rate field per line. That is fine for a flat rate you already know; it is not a sales-tax engine and it will not tell you where you have nexus or file a return.

Owner-operators with a crew: contractors, trades, workshops, small fleets, retail with two or three locations. People whose real problem is not the return in April but the twenty things their crew bought this week. If your business is mostly e-commerce with multi-state nexus, we are the wrong tool.

No. No payroll runs, no federal or state withholding, no W-2, no 1099-NEC or 1099-K. The built-in payroll engine is configured for Türkiye and Azerbaijan. Run payroll where you run it today — Gusto, ADP, Paychex, QuickBooks Payroll — and record the payment here.

No. There are no bank feeds and no Plaid connection. You import a statement or enter movements by hand. In the US that is table stakes for accounting software, so we would rather you knew it on this page than after you signed up.

Not federally. Unlike Italy or Spain, the US has no nationwide e-invoicing mandate. The DBNAlliance network (built on Peppol and OASIS standards, UBL 2.x over AS2/AS4) is voluntary, though large buyers, federal contractors and GSA suppliers increasingly ask for it. We are not on that network either — but here it is our smallest gap rather than our largest.

Because they answer different questions. QuickBooks tells your accountant what happened last month. i-shim tells you, today, whether the $340 your foreman spent at the supply house passed your approval, what this customer owes right now, and what is left in the truck float. Plenty of shops run both.

A crew member records an expense, an invoice or an inventory movement from their phone. It stays pending — invisible in the lists, no effect on balances — until you approve it. You can reject, ask for an explanation, or hand approval to a foreman once being the bottleneck stops working for you.

Yes, as location data: all 51 states and DC are in the app, along with 31 US cities, and each company and location is set up separately with its own inventory, float and people. What it does not understand is what those states mean for tax — see the sales-tax answer above.

English is the source language — 11,763 strings, written in English first and translated outward. One honest wrinkle: the customer/vendor ledger is labeled “Current Account” in the app, which in American usage sounds like a bank account. It means the running balance you keep with a customer or supplier. Known wording problem, being fixed.

Yes, and it is one of the more useful things here: fourteen languages over the same data. You work in English, your foreman works in Spanish, and you are both looking at the same job. Language is a per-user setting, not per-company.

Yes — a single XLSX or CSV export with a period lock so a closed month cannot shift under them. There is no QuickBooks or Xero export format, no IIF, and no filing of anything.

Jobs and cost centers, yes — you can tag expenses, inventory and machine hours to a job and see what it actually cost. Customer-facing estimates and proposals with e-signature, no.

There is a permanently free tier that genuinely runs a small operation. Deeper features are a subscription, priced per storefront by Apple and Google — which is exactly why we do not print a number here.

On Google Firebase, with access enforced server-side: someone who is not a member of your company cannot read its data. Servers are in western Europe, not the US. If you have a contractual US-only data residency requirement, this is not for you today.

No. Financial records write straight to the server because the approval chain needs one source of truth. There is a local cache for chat only.

Most should keep QuickBooks, Xero, Wave or FreshBooks as their books, because sales tax, payroll, bank feeds and the accountant relationship all live there and we do none of it. Add i-shim only if you have people spending money away from the office and you want approval and multi-location control on your phone. If you do not have a crew, you probably do not need us.

No. Sign up, create a company, use it. The subscription is monthly and you cancel it in the store.

Install it, create a company, add one location and one crew member, then enter one invoice and one expense. If that takes longer than fifteen minutes it is our problem — write to us.

There is a helper bee inside the app: type “feedback” to it and your message goes to the team with a screenshot attached. Or email [email protected].