About Microbooks
Microbooks is a 100% API-based bookkeeping platform. It automates routine accounting — double entry, taxes, discounts, multi-currency, period closes — and produces financial statements compliant with the IFRS and GAAP reporting standards, so the products you build can carry real books instead of a homegrown ledger.
Where it came from
Microbooks grew out of Eloquent IFRS, an open-source package for automating bookkeeping in Laravel applications. The package found a steady following on GitHub, and the pattern in the issues and questions was hard to miss: developers everywhere were being asked to bolt accounting onto their products, and almost nobody wanted to build a ledger from scratch.
The obvious next step was to take the same accounting engine and put it behind an API any stack can use — not just Laravel, not just PHP. That is Microbooks: the bookkeeping knowledge of an accountant, packaged as infrastructure.
What we believe
Accounting is a solved problem — reinventing it is a bug
Every product that touches money eventually needs real bookkeeping, and a ledger built on a deadline rarely survives its first audit. Microbooks exists so developers can ship proper double-entry accounting through an API instead of rebuilding it badly.
Standards are the product
Reports that comply with IFRS and GAAP are not a premium feature — they are the whole point. The engine enforces the rules an accountant would: immutable posted transactions, reversing entries, period closes, forex translation.
API-first, not API-also
There is no primary web app with an API bolted on. The API is the platform: everything the dashboard does, your code can do — and everything your code can do, an AI assistant can do safely through the MCP server.
Automation with a paper trail
Bookkeeping should be automated, but never silently. Drafts before posting, dry-run previews, scoped revocable tokens — the platform is designed so that every change to the ledger is deliberate and traceable.
Who's behind it
Microbooks is built by Edward — an accountant who became a software engineer, which explains a product that cares equally about clean APIs and clean trial balances. Before Microbooks he built bookkeeping systems professionally and published Eloquent IFRS. If you spot something we're doing wrong (or right), reach out on Twitter @ekmungai or at edward@microbooks.io — feedback gets answered, fast.
Get in touch
Ideas, integration requests, or war stories about hand-rolled ledgers — we'd love to hear them at feedback@microbooks.io.