And you mostly do — until year-end, when the accountant finds an extra $40k of revenue you forgot to invoice, three months of un-reconciled accounts, or a pile of duplicates you'd been paying twice. By then it's a fire drill. Argus is the smoke alarm.
She has read access to your dashboard and the same punch list you see. The conversation about each issue happens right next to the transaction.
Two paragraphs, sent every Monday at 7 am. No spreadsheets, no jargon. Just: here's what changed, here's what to fix.
Most accounting tools were built for accountants — and read like it. Argus translates every issue into a sentence a human being would actually say out loud.
Not "Vendor B-3429 has 3 records with overlapping invoice numbers." Argus rewrites every flag in the language an owner uses with their bookkeeper.
Each flag explains what it costs you if ignored — actual dollars, actual deadlines, actual tax exposure. So you know what to push on first.
Every issue has a one-click "send to my bookkeeper" — your concern goes from "is something wrong?" to "Sonia, can you take a look at item 3?"
Each one is a check that, in our experience, finds real money on the table. Bookkeeping mistakes don't just look bad — they leak cash, miss deductions, or invite CRA attention.
No new tool to learn. Argus reads your existing QuickBooks. Your bookkeeper keeps doing what they do.
One-click OAuth, like signing into anything else with Google. Read-only — Argus can never edit your books.
Full health check inside a minute. Then again every night. You get a Monday-morning summary email.
Invite them in (free). They see the same dashboard you do — and it becomes the punch list for your weekly check-in.
"I'm not a numbers person. Argus tells me, in a sentence, whether my numbers are right. That's all I ever wanted from accounting software."
Pay per business, not per user. Invite your bookkeeper, your partner, your accountant — collaborators are always free. Annual billing saves 20%.
For one business that you want to know is healthy, every day.
For owners with multiple entities — holding cos, side projects, real estate.
Bookkeepers and accountants you invite are always free. More than 5 entities? Argus for Firms is a better fit.
If your bookkeeper is great, Argus will mostly tell you so — and that confidence is the point. The 5% of the time something slips, you'll find out on a Tuesday instead of in a March panic. Most great bookkeepers love Argus, because it gives them a clear punch list.
It depends on how you frame it. We've seen owners introduce Argus as "this is helping us both — you'll get a daily punch list, I'll stop bothering you with random questions." The bookkeepers who push back tend to be the ones you'd want to find out about.
No. Argus connects to QuickBooks read-only. We can see, but never edit. There is no API path for us to modify a transaction even if we wanted to.
No. Argus translates every issue into one or two plain-English sentences with the dollar amount and the customer/vendor name. If you can read a credit card statement, you can read your Argus dashboard.
QuickBooks tells you when a transaction happened. Argus tells you when something looks wrong about it — and ranks the wrongness. Different question entirely.
Cancel anytime. Argus disconnects from QuickBooks immediately, our cached snapshots are purged within 30 days, and you keep doing whatever you were doing before. No data lock-in — there's nothing to lock in, your books live in QBO.