The campaign funded. The books say you earned it all last month.
Kickstarter or Indiegogo, a pledge manager, late pledges on a store, a factory deposit. Recouped ties all of it to the bank and the books, deterministically, with the memo your accountant needs.
Money logic is deterministic. AI reads and explains. It never adds, matches, or decides.
One campaign, five numbers. Nobody ties them.
- Kickstarter pledged at close
- $340,210.00
- Kickstarter paid out
- $305,546.74
- Pledge manager collected
- $41,880.00
- Bank received
- $345,446.74
- Books recorded as sales
- $382,090.00
The bank rec ties. Fees and dropped pledges never came out. The tax went in as sales. And nothing has shipped.
- Kickstarter fees never booked−$27,518.85
- Dropped pledges (2.1%) still in sales−$7,144.41
- Backer refunds not booked−$1,980.00
- Books overstated by$36,643.26
- Tax the pledge manager collected, booked as sales$3,412.00
- Add-ons and shipping booked as product$18,300.00
- Factory deposit booked as expense, not inventory$60,000.00
- Preorders booked as sales, nothing shipped$345,446.74
- Income this year, or a liability until you ship
Booked as sales, the campaign is this year’s income. Booked as a liability until you ship, it may not be. The memo shows both, and what each does to the tax bill. You and your accountant pick.
- A margin you can’t see
The deposit went out as an expense. Freight and duties never reached the units. Nobody knows what one costs until the campaign is over.
- A second campaign priced on the first one’s numbers
Tiers, shipping and stretch goals get set from a total that was never true.
The campaign close. Every line tied, every treatment explained.
Send the exports the week the payout lands. Recouped ties them, lists what won’t tie with the correction it needs, and writes the memo. Your accountant reviews and signs. Deterministic the whole way.
The campaign close
Every payout tied to the campaign, the pledge manager and the bank, before the money gets spent.
Five exports: the Kickstarter or Indiegogo payout report, the pledge-manager export, the store export, the bank statement and the ledger. Every line tied. Every exception with the correction it needs. A memo that shows both treatments of the campaign.
From $2,500, quoted from your exports before any work starts.
The monthly close
Selling on a store between campaigns? Every month prepared so your accountant can sign it in about an hour.
Every Shopify or Stripe payout tied to its orders, fees, refunds and disputes. Every exception with the correction it needs. The books tied to the platform, not just to the bank.
From $750 a month. Prepared by Recouped, signed by your accountant.
The rule
Money logic is deterministic. AI reads and explains; it never adds, matches, or decides.
A tiered rules engine matches every line and logs the rule it used. The same inputs give the same answer, and the rule log lets your accountant check every line.
Same inputs, same answer. Every line names its rule.
Priced per campaign, not per backer.
The campaign close is quoted from your exports before any work starts. Selling on a store between campaigns is a flat monthly fee, keyed to payouts and sources, never per transaction.
Campaign close
One campaign, tied end to end. The memo your accountant needs.
- One platform, one pledge manager, one store
- Every payout tied to the campaign, the pledge manager and the bank
- Every exception with the correction it needs
- The memo, both treatments, your accountant picks
- A second store or a wholesale channel adds to the quote
Signed close
Selling on a store between campaigns? The month prepared, the exceptions priced, your accountant signs.
- S · $750, up to 10 payouts a month
- M · $1,250, up to 25 payouts or a second source
- L · $2,000, daily payouts plus two or more sources
- Each additional entity +$400 a month
- A management control, not an audit opinion
Scoped retainer
The close, plus the person who fixes what it keeps finding at the source.
- A written scope each month, agreed before any work starts
- Two business days to a real answer on a money question
- Fee, refund and payout posting rules corrected at the source
- A new channel, a new entity or a ledger cleanup handled inside the scope
Custom
Fulfilment, preorders, inventory. When the close finds a system problem, not a break.
- Quoted from what the close found
- Built by Digital Sprint, the studio behind Recouped
- The close keeps running while it is built
Bookkeeper or CPA?
Refer a Stripe-heavy client. They get the free check; if it becomes a close, you take 20% for twelve months, and your name stays on the close. Wholesale pricing opens later, from measured hours. Software or hardware clients, the terms are the same.
Questions
Talk to us the week you fund. Before that there is nothing to tie.
Good. Recouped ties it to the store, the bank and the books. It doesn’t replace it.
Some do, on cash basis. The memo shows both treatments and what each does to the tax bill. You and your accountant pick.
That’s Digital Sprint, the studio behind Recouped. The campaign close tells you whether you need one. The Custom card above goes there.
Keep them. Your bookkeeper reconciles the bank, and it ties, because every deposit matches a payout line. Recouped ties the platform to the bank and to the books, line by line, and hands your bookkeeper the exceptions. They review and sign.
No. The signed close is a management control, like a reviewed bank reconciliation. Recouped prepares it; the person with authority over the books signs it. No attestation, no assurance.
The raw exports are purged a few days after the close is signed, and you get a note confirming it. The close, its numbered versions and the workpapers stay in your portal, encrypted, for as long as you’re a client. Then they export to you.
Start the campaign close.
Tell us the platform, the pledge manager and the ledger. We reply with the exports to send and a quote. Nothing starts until you have it.
- You tell us the platform, the pledge manager and the ledger
The form. Thirty seconds.
- We reply within one business day
With the five exports to send and a secure way to send them. The quote follows once we have seen them.
- Every line tied
Every exception with the correction it needs. The memo, both treatments. The timeline is in the quote.
- Your accountant signs
The workpapers are yours. The raw exports are purged, and you get a note confirming it.