# Bookkeeper · Post 3 — Soft offer

**Where to post:** IndieHackers "show what you're working on", r/SideProject,
r/Bookkeeping (only in monthly "self-promo" threads — read each
sub's rules), bookkeeping newsletter "tools" sections.

**Format:** ~250 words. Pitches the product but leads with the
problem and is honest about the scope.

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## Title

I built a desktop CSV cleanup tool for bookkeepers who hate the bank-export reconciliation grind

## Body

Quick context: I do {{your-context — e.g., "books for 12 small clients" or "side-bookkeeping for a few non-profits"}} and the part I dreaded most every month was cleaning bank exports before importing them to QuickBooks. Different bank, different format, every time.

I built **DataTools** — a desktop app (Mac/Win/Linux) that runs the same six cleanup steps every export needs:

- Normalizes dates, currencies, account-number formats
- Fuzzy-matches merchant-name variants ("Amzn Mktp" = "Amazon")
- Flags duplicate transactions across re-exported date ranges
- Strips trailing whitespace, hidden chars, BOM markers — the stuff QuickBooks chokes on silently
- Generates a per-file audit trail your client can open in Excel: every change, every rule that fired, timestamped
- Splits oversized exports for tools with row limits

It runs **locally** — your client's bank data never goes to a server. (This was the whole reason I built it instead of using one of the cloud "data cleaning" SaaS tools.)

It's **$49 one-time**, no subscription, no per-client license. v1.x updates included.

If you want to try before you buy: there's a hosted demo with sample bank exports at the link below. The demo is identical to the desktop app — same UI, same six tools, just running in your browser on synthetic data.

→ datatools.gumroad.com (or the bookkeeper landing page: datatools.app/bookkeeper)

Happy to answer questions in the thread.

— {{your-name}}