Built by a bookkeeper, not an outsider

Who is behind this

I'm Donovan Watts. I run Ground Control Bookkeeping, a virtual bookkeeping practice based in Littleton, Colorado. I do monthly books for small businesses on QuickBooks Online: categorizing transactions, reconciling bank accounts, and delivering a clean P&L and balance sheet every month. Same work you do.

Why the software exists

I'm also a developer. So when a part of the job got tedious enough, I didn't just live with it. I built a tool to fix it.

The first one was remittance posting. Matching payments to invoices and posting them in QuickBooks by hand is slow, repetitive work that eats a real chunk of the month. So I automated it for my own practice. It worked. Other bookkeepers wanted it. That tool became Ground Control.

I use it every day

Ground Control isn't a side project I'm hoping someone else will test for me. I run my own practice on it daily, and it posts real payments to real QuickBooks files. When something is clunky, I feel it the same week you would. That's the whole point of building from inside the work instead of guessing at it from the outside.

How I think about your data

Connecting your QuickBooks to an app you found online is a real decision, and it should be. You're responsible for your clients' financial data, and handing it to a stranger is not something to do lightly. I've laid out exactly how the connection works, what the app can and cannot touch, and how you stay in control on the security page. Read it before you connect anything. I'd want to.

Get in touch

If you have a question, want to see how it works, or just want to know who you're dealing with before you connect, email me directly at donovan@groundcontrolbookkeeping.com. A real person answers.