United States
- USD and American formats
- EIN on the company and on invoices
- A US chart of accounts
- Sales tax on the invoice, posted to its own liability account
Not yet: sales tax by jurisdiction, a bank feed, US payroll.
The operating platform for cross-border businesses
One Business. Multiple Countries. One Platform.
Run your US and European companies from one place.
LegaSum brings together accounting, entity management, compliance workflows and business operations in one intelligent platform. Manage your companies yourself or let qualified professionals handle the work for you.
- No monthly fee
- Paid out to your own bank
- Cancel by walking away
Your companies3 companies
USD
Northwind Labs LLC
Delaware, United States · US chart of accounts
DKK
Northwind ApS
Copenhagen, Denmark · Danish standard chart · moms
GBP
Northwind Ltd
London, United Kingdom · UK chart · VAT
One login. Each company keeps its own books, currency and rules.
Multiple entities
All Your Companies. One Connected Platform.
Manage multiple legal entities across different countries without losing local control. Access company-specific accounting, financial reporting, documents, responsibilities and operational workflows through one connected workspace.
Live
Multiple legal entities
Several companies under one login, each with its own country, books and permissions. Switch between them without signing in again. Add another company yourself from the menu, in any country we serve.
Live
Country-specific accounting
A Danish company gets Danish books, a US company American books and a UK company British books — not one ledger translated three times.
Building
Consolidated management overview
One screen across all your companies, with figures side by side. Today the overview shows each company's open work; the combined figures are being built.
Building
Multi-currency capabilities
Every company books in its own currency today. Invoicing in a customer's currency, exchange rates and combined reporting across currencies are being built.
Live
Cross-border collaboration
Invite an accountant or a colleague to one company or to several, with a role per company. Access in one never carries over to another.
Local-first
Built for International Business. Designed for Local Operations.
Every country has its own accounting rules, tax requirements, reporting standards and business practices. LegaSum combines local workflows with international visibility, so every company can operate according to its local requirements while remaining connected to your global business.
Denmark
- Danish interface, DKK
- CVR lookup on sign-up
- Moms codes and the Danish standard chart
- Bank feed, payroll and SAF-T export
Not yet: filing the VAT return and eIndkomst directly to Skattestyrelsen.
United Kingdom
- GBP and British formats
- VAT number and UK VAT rates
- A UK chart of accounts
- The nine-box VAT return, calculated
- Bank feed
Not yet: MTD submission to HMRC, Companies House number, PAYE.
Other European countries invoice in their own currency and VAT rate today, and get their own local books one by one.
Two ways to operate
Your Business. Your Way.
Live
Self-Service Accounting
Run your own accounting, invoicing, reconciliations and business administration with LegaSum’s integrated software.
Building
Managed Business Operations
Delegate bookkeeping, accounting workflows and administrative tasks to qualified professionals through LegaSum, with AI supporting efficient delivery. Bring your own accountant in today; managed bookkeeping is being set up country by country.
Or both: keep the invoicing yourself and hand the books to a professional, company by company.
US & Europe
Built for Business Across the Atlantic.
Whether you operate a US LLC, a Danish ApS, a UK Ltd or multiple European companies, LegaSum helps you coordinate your business operations across jurisdictions from one platform.
A US LLC with a Danish ApS
Two companies, one login: American books in dollars for the LLC, Danish books in kroner with moms for the ApS.
A UK Ltd next to a US LLC
UK books in pounds with the VAT return calculated each quarter, American books in dollars for the LLC, and the same login for both.
Several European companies
Each on its own currency and VAT rate, with your accountant invited to the ones they look after.
Support differs by country, and each country above says what is live and what is not. If yours is not listed, tell us what you run. Tell us.
AI and professionals
Intelligent Automation. Professional Accountability.
Automate repetitive accounting and administrative work while keeping qualified professionals involved where judgment, local expertise and regulatory responsibility are required.
A bookkeeper's bill is mostly hours, and most of those hours go on work that is mechanical: matching payments to invoices, chasing receipts, keying the same number into two places, and checking that it balances. None of that needs professional judgement — it needs doing, correctly, every month. Take those hours away and the bill should follow them down. That is the whole basis for the share, and it is why it is a share and not a subscription.
The machine does the mechanical part
Payments match themselves, recurring work recurs, entries post themselves, and the review runs every night whether or not anybody remembers it.
A person does the judgement
What something is, how it should be treated, what to do about the thing that does not fit. That is the work you are paying for, and it stays with a person.
You get a result, not a login
The deliverable is books that are right and figures you can act on — not a screen you have to learn first.
Where the CPA fits
Our aim is to get the licensed work inside the same price, or close enough to it that the comparison is not a contest. We are not there, and until we are we will say what is included rather than what we intend.
Worked through on published prices for the same work, it comes to $1,008 a year against $3,388 — you keep $2,380, which is 70% of the bill. The arithmetic, with the sources it came from.
There is no US price for bookkeeping yet. The books themselves are American now, and the section below says plainly what is still missing. This is the rule the price will follow, and you can check it before you ever have to trust us on it.
What the payment costs
01
0.9% to us. Stripe's fee to Stripe
Not a tier and not a starting-from. Nine dollars on a thousand-dollar invoice, and separately whatever Stripe charges for the card or the bank transfer. We publish both, because one number that quietly contains the other is how you end up surprised.
02
The money is yours, directly
Payouts land in your own account, not in ours first. Stripe verifies your identity and bank details once, and after that it runs by itself.
03
Nothing until you are paid
No monthly fee, no minimum, no per-user seat. An invoice that is never paid costs you nothing, and a refund takes our share back with it.
04
Paid, posted, done
The payment matches itself to the invoice and posts itself. You are not reconciling one Stripe payout against seven invoices at the end of the month.
LegaSumPay
One button on the invoice. That is the whole mechanism.
There is no payment link to build, no checkout page to host and no deposit to hunt for at month end. The invoice carries the button, your customer taps it, and the money goes where your money goes.
- Connect your account onceStripe verifies who you are and which bank account is yours. It takes a few minutes and it happens once.
- Card, wallet or bank transferYour customer chooses. Apple Pay and Google Pay work without you setting anything up.
- The price, said plainly0.9% of each amount paid, plus Stripe's card fee. No fixed monthly fee, no minimum, no lock-in.
- Payouts in 45 countriesIf you invoice abroad, the money still settles into your own account.
Also live today
What else works, the day you create a company
These run now, in the United States, with no waiting list and no pilot. They are not the whole platform — the rest is further down, with an honest account of where it stands.
- Customers and contactsA real CRM underneath the invoicing: leads, accounts, a pipeline with deal values and win/loss, activity history, duplicate detection. The customer you invoice is the customer in the pipeline, not a copy of them.
- Quotes, invoices, credit notesIncluding recurring billing for work that repeats, and automatic chasing for invoices that have gone quiet.
- Products and servicesA catalog the quote and the invoice both draw from, so a price change happens in one place.
- ReportsSales, customers and collections, built from the same records the invoices came from — so a number can be traced back to the document that produced it.
- One login, several companiesRun or advise more than one company without a second login or a second subscription. Roles and permissions are per company; the books stay separate.
For accountants and bookkeepers
Bring your clients. Keep the relationship.
If you keep books for other people, LegaSum is the machine underneath your practice rather than a competitor to it. One login, every client separate, and the mechanical hours taken off your desk so the hours you bill are the ones worth billing. Where we are going is to have the licensed work inside the client's price — and the practice that gets there with us is the one we want to build it with.
- Several companies, one loginRoles and permissions per client. The books stay separate; the login does not.
- The client sees what you want them to seeOr nothing at all. It is your practice and your relationship.
- We do not sign anythingWe are not a CPA firm, we issue no assurance, and we do not file on anyone's behalf. Those acts are yours, and we have no interest in them.
What is not here yet
Building Your books can live here. Four things around them cannot yet
This is the part most platforms leave to a footnote, so here it is in body type, above the sign-up button. Create a company in the United States today and you get an American chart of accounts in dollars — assets in the 1000s, accounts receivable, retained earnings, sales tax payable, FICA lines for payroll. Your EIN goes on the company and onto every invoice. What is not there yet: sales tax is not calculated for your jurisdictions, there is no bank feed — you import the statement file your bank exports — payroll does not run a US pay cycle, and there is no US price for bookkeeping. The books are yours. Four things around them are not.
- What you get todayInvoicing, payments, customers, products, reports and an American chart of accounts — all of it in English, all of it in dollars, all of it live.
- What is still missingSales tax by jurisdiction rather than a rate you type, a bank feed, a US pay cycle, and a US price for bookkeeping.
- Why it is not just a translationA ledger is a chart of accounts, a tax engine, a fiscal calendar and an identifier. Translating the words would give you an American-looking ledger that still thinks in someone else's rules, which is worse than saying it plainly.
So if your books depend on a bank feed, a sales tax engine or a US payroll run, keep them where they are for now, and come here to send invoices and collect the money, which works today. Each of the four will be on this page in the same plain words when it closes.
The rest of the platform
LiveStart your businessCompany profile, several companies and countries under one login, teams, roles, permissions, branches and locations.
LiveRun accounting & paymentsDouble-entry books, chart of accounts, P&L, balance sheet and cash flow. Quotes, invoices, credit notes and recurring billing. Payments recorded, matched and reconciled. Invoicing, payments and the books are live; a bank feed, sales tax by jurisdiction and a US price for bookkeeping are not — see above.
BuildingSell & manage inventoryProducts and services, stock across warehouses, movements, pricing, SKUs, stock reports — and a point of sale that draws on the same stock.
LiveManage customers with CRMLeads, contacts and accounts, qualification and scoring, a pipeline with deal values and win/loss, activity timelines, duplicate detection, custom fields and saved views.
BuildingAutomate marketingAudiences and segments, campaigns and email, a drag-and-drop journey builder with waits and branches, consent and suppression handled properly, and attribution you can read.
BuildingBuild your websiteA real site at company.legasum.com or your own domain: pages, blog, themes, media, menus, product catalog from your inventory, and forms that land in your CRM.
BuildingManage projects & teamsProjects with expenses, payments, change orders and profitability. Tasks, follow-ups and a calendar. Customer and vendor portals for the people outside your team.
LiveUnderstand everything with reportsSales, purchases, inventory, tax, CRM, marketing and profitability — by branch, by period, by whatever question you actually have.
Where this is going, and how far along each part is
The plan is one platform for everything a business has to do, on one set of records. Three of these run today. Five are being built, and they say so. None of them carries a date, because a date we miss is worth less than an order we keep.
LiveStart your businessCompany profile, several companies and countries under one login, teams, roles, permissions, branches and locations.LiveRun accounting & paymentsDouble-entry books, chart of accounts, P&L, balance sheet and cash flow. Quotes, invoices, credit notes and recurring billing. Payments recorded, matched and reconciled. Invoicing, payments and the books are live; a bank feed, sales tax by jurisdiction and a US price for bookkeeping are not — see above.BuildingSell & manage inventoryProducts and services, stock across warehouses, movements, pricing, SKUs, stock reports — and a point of sale that draws on the same stock.LiveManage customers with CRMLeads, contacts and accounts, qualification and scoring, a pipeline with deal values and win/loss, activity timelines, duplicate detection, custom fields and saved views.BuildingAutomate marketingAudiences and segments, campaigns and email, a drag-and-drop journey builder with waits and branches, consent and suppression handled properly, and attribution you can read.BuildingBuild your websiteA real site at company.legasum.com or your own domain: pages, blog, themes, media, menus, product catalog from your inventory, and forms that land in your CRM.BuildingManage projects & teamsProjects with expenses, payments, change orders and profitability. Tasks, follow-ups and a calendar. Customer and vendor portals for the people outside your team.LiveUnderstand everything with reportsSales, purchases, inventory, tax, CRM, marketing and profitability — by branch, by period, by whatever question you actually have.Running something that is not on a card? Tell us what it is — the answer is a plan, an honest "not yet", or a partner who does it today.
Getting started
From nothing to a paid invoice
Three steps, and none of them is a migration project.
01
Create the company
Name, country and what you do. Free, and free to keep — you are not asked for a card.
02
Connect payouts
Stripe verifies your identity and your bank account. Once, in a few minutes.
03
Send the invoice
Your customer taps the button, the money lands in your account, and the invoice closes itself.
Questions people actually ask
Before you start
Can I use this instead of QuickBooks?
Partly, and we would rather say which part than lose the argument later. The books can live here now: an American chart of accounts, in dollars. What QuickBooks does that we do not yet: there is no bank feed (you import your bank's statement file), sales tax is a rate you enter rather than one we look up, there are no 1099s, and there is no US price for bookkeeping. If any of that matters to you, keep your books where they are and send invoices and collect payment here. The full arithmetic — including the monthly volume above which QuickBooks Payments is the cheaper route — is on /quickbooks.
Does it handle US sales tax?
Not automatically. You can put a sales tax line on an invoice and it will bill and collect it correctly, and it lands on its own liability account in your books, so tax you collected is never counted as your income. We do not calculate the rate by jurisdiction and we do not track nexus.
What does it actually cost?
0.9% of each amount you collect, plus Stripe's card fee. Creating a company is free and stays free. No monthly fee, no per-user seat, no minimum.
Where does the money go?
Into your own bank account. Stripe verifies you once and pays out to you directly; the money does not sit with us on the way.
What happens if a customer never pays?
Nothing is charged. We take a share of money that moved, so an invoice that goes nowhere costs you our chasing rather than your cash.
Can we run more than one company?
Yes, and in more than one country, under one login, with roles and permissions per company and per branch. The books stay separate; the login does not. You add another company yourself from the menu, and choose its country when you do.
Can I get my data out?
Yes, and without asking anyone: invoices, invoice lines, journal entries and customer and supplier records download as CSV from inside the product, for any date range you choose. Invoices come as PDFs too. Receipts and attachments are not part of the bulk download yet — that is the one piece still missing, and we would rather say so than let you find out on the day you leave. It is your ledger, not ours.
Your Business Doesn’t Stop at Borders. Neither Should Your Platform.
Creating a company is free, and nothing is charged until money actually moves.