New in Countbean: One-click Claude connection, team roles, and hosted Beancount

Keeping your business books should be as simple as sending a chat message, without sacrificing the precision and auditability of double-entry accounting. We are excited to announce major feature upgrades across Countbean.

Countbean takes the gold standard of plain-text accounting — Beancount and the interactive Fava web dashboard — and turns it into a fully hosted, multi-tenant cloud service with zero setup friction. Read how it works under the hood in the Countbean architecture guide.

What's New in Countbean

1. Instant Claude MCP Pairing (No Token Copying)

Connecting Claude to your private ledger used to require copying API keys across browser windows. With our new OAuth 2.1 Device Authorization Flow, connecting Claude Code or your desktop assistant takes seconds:

Ask Claude to connect to Countbean.
Enter the 6-character code in your browser.
Your ledger is instantly authorized and ready for natural-language bookkeeping!

You can also view the open-source client on the Countbean plugin repository.

2. Natural-Language Bookkeeping

Say "Paid $45 for team lunch on the corporate Visa today" or upload a bank statement CSV. Countbean validates the transaction against your chart of accounts with bean-check, ensures debits and credits balance, and records a permanent Git commit.

3. Share with Your Accountant (Granular Roles)

Collaborate safely with new granular access permissions:

Owner: Complete administration, billing, and machine controls.
Accountant: Direct access to view and update ledger files and custom rules without accessing your top-level billing account.
Client / Viewer: Clean, read-only financial dashboards.

4. Dedicated Private Machine per Customer

Your financial data never shares an application database or memory pool with other tenants. Every customer ledger runs in its own private, isolated Fly.io container that sleeps on idle and wakes up in milliseconds on demand.

5. Automated Git Backups & Verified Nightly Restores

Every transaction is backed by Git version control with one-click reverts and automated nightly backups to cloud object storage. Check our full list of shipped and upcoming capabilities on the Countbean product roadmap.

Start Using Countbean

Experience the clarity of plain-text accounting powered by AI. Check out Countbean pricing or start free today at app.countbean.com/signup.