Understand your money.
Guides to organizing your finances and preparing for tax season, written to be useful whether or not you use Countorra. Then how Countorra itself works, end to end.
Financial guides.
Why preparing your taxes feels difficultThe arithmetic is rarely the hard part. Gathering a year of scattered records, months after the fact, is.3 min read- Why organizing your finances mattersOrganized records do not make you richer. They make every later decision cheaper, from a monthly budget to a tax return.2 min read
- How to organize your personal financesA sequence that works: get everything in one place, make the records true, then start asking questions of them.2 min read
- How to understand your monthly cash flowIncome minus expenses is the headline. The useful part is which of those numbers is volatile, and why.2 min read
- How to keep side income separate from your personal moneyIf you earn money working for yourself, the most useful habit is separation: one place for that income and its costs, apart from everyday spending.3 min read
- How to prepare your financial information for tax seasonMost of the work is gathering and organizing, and almost all of it can be done before the forms arrive.2 min read
How Countorra works.
See it in the product- See everything.
- Income, spending, accounts and your tax year, read as one connected system instead of five separate spreadsheets.
- Ask anything.
- Real questions, answered from your actual transactions and documents, with the figures shown rather than buried in chat text.
- Understand what changed.
- When something moves, Countorra shows the comparison and the reason, not just a number.
- Act.
- Categorize a transaction, record an expense, or suggest a figure for your taxes. Reads run instantly. Writes wait for your confirmation.
- Stay ahead.
- Countorra can surface things worth noticing before you go looking for them.
Looking for how to do something?
The Help Centre has step-by-step answers for accounts, bank connections, documents, the assistant and tax preparation.