The FlowBooks Community & Product Education Hub
The FlowBooks Community is where users, bookkeepers, and small business owners will ask questions, share workflows, suggest features, and learn better accounting practices. While the public forum is still in progress, you can already explore the FlowBooks Education Library through our practical accounting guides.
Questions & Help
Ask questions about accounting workflows, reports, inventory, customers, vendors, and how to use FlowBooks in your business.
Workflow Tips
Learn practical bookkeeping workflows, accounting habits, and better ways to keep your records clean and reliable.
Product Feedback
Suggest features, discuss improvements, and help shape the future direction of FlowBooks.
Start with the highest-impact accounting topics
These guides focus on the topics that cause the most confusion for small business owners, including owner-paid expenses, chart of accounts setup, expenses versus bills, credit card purchases, deposits, and the difference between assets, liabilities, and expenses.
How to Record Owner-Paid Business Expenses
Learn the correct way to record business expenses paid personally by an owner, without distorting equity or payment accounts.
How to Record Business Expenses Correctly
A practical guide to posting expenses to the right accounts and keeping your books clean from day one.
Owner Contribution vs Owner Draw
Understand the difference between money put into the business and money taken out, and how each should be recorded.
Bill, Expense, or Check: Which One Should You Use?
Know when to use bills, direct expenses, and payment entries so liabilities and cash flow stay accurate.
Accounts Payable vs Expenses Explained
See why an expense is not always the same as a payable, and how the two work together in real bookkeeping.
How to Set Up Your Chart of Accounts
A simple framework for building a clean chart of accounts that supports reporting without becoming cluttered.
Fixed Asset vs Expense: What’s the Difference?
Learn when to capitalize a purchase as an asset and when to record it as a current-period expense.
How Credit Card Purchases Should Be Recorded
Record credit card spending properly so you do not confuse payment accounts, liabilities, and expense timing.
How to Record Customer Deposits and Prepayments
Handle deposits correctly so they stay out of revenue until earned and your liability balances stay accurate.
Cash vs Accrual Accounting for Small Business
A practical introduction to the two accounting methods and how they affect reporting, taxes, and decision-making.
Forum launching soon
We are preparing the FlowBooks community forum where users can ask questions, discuss accounting workflows, share product feedback, and collaborate with other business owners and bookkeepers.
Why this matters
Many accounting mistakes happen because software allows incorrect workflows without explanation. FlowBooks aims to help users understand the correct treatment of everyday transactions so their books stay cleaner, reporting stays more reliable, and bookkeeping becomes easier over time.