Your books, on autopilot.
BareBones is headless by design. Every number in your ledger can arrive over one secure API — so rent, utility bills, and expenses post themselves while you do literally anything else.
Bring your own tools
One endpoint, any tool
There’s nothing proprietary to adopt. If a tool can make an HTTP request, it can keep your books. Most landlords start by forwarding a utility email to a workflow that parses the amount and posts it — set up once, running forever.
See the step-by-step guides → for n8n, Zapier, Make, Apify, AI agents, and more.
- No SDK to learn — it’s plain JSON over HTTPS
- Wire it up in n8n or Zapier with no code
- Or let an AI agent read a bill and post the line
How it flows
From a bill in your inbox to a line in your ledger
Every automation, no matter the tool, follows the same three moves.
Something arrives
A rent notification, a utility bill, a receipt photo — whatever your workflow watches.
Your tool maps it
n8n, Zapier, or an agent pulls out the amount, type, and category. Tenant details never need to leave your side.
BareBones posts it
One authenticated POST /api/v1/ledger and the line is reconciled — categorized, dated, and counted in your net.
Yours to control
Keys you issue, limits you set
Automation shouldn’t mean handing over the keys to your kingdom. You mint keys, scope them, and revoke them — and the full reference lives in the developer docs.
- Generate and revoke API keys yourself, any time
- Per-key, per-endpoint rate limits built in
- The API never exposes another user’s data
Automate your books. Free.
Grab an API key, read the docs, and post your first line in five minutes.