# Accounting Overview

**Category:** [Accounting](https://help.totalctrl.app/hc/totalctrl/totalctrl-help-center/en-US/categories/accounting)
**Updated:** 2026-08-19

## What is Accounting?

TotalCtrl Accounting is a lightweight bookkeeping tool covering the full cycle from issuing invoices to managing supplier bills, recording expenses with receipt scanning, and reconciling bank transactions.

## Key modules

  
- **Contacts, Invoices, Bills, Expenses, Transactions, Chart of Accounts, Reports (P&L and Balance Sheet)**

## Integrations

  
- **Stripe:** Generate payment links on invoices.
  
- **Plaid:** Connect bank accounts to automatically import transactions.
  
- **Shopify:** Auto-create paid invoices from Shopify orders.

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## Related Articles

- [Payroll: connect Gusto or record runs manually](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/payroll)
- [Sales tax: rates and the tax report](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/sales-tax)
- [Accounting overview](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/accounting-overview-1)
- [Create and send an invoice](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/create-an-invoice)
- [Creating and Sending Invoices](https://help.totalctrl.app/en-US/articles/creating-and-sending-invoices)

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