24 features
Everything Nightbooks does
Grouped by the job, not the menu. The overnight close is the product. The rest is what a small New Zealand business actually needs.
Close overnight
The books work the night shift. Morning is a status, not a chore.
Overnight book close
Banks land, lines are coded and matched, GST stays current. The books close every night, not once a quarter.
The work happens while you sleep. Morning is a status, not a chore.
Gold / Silver / Bronze
One glance: gold is closed and healthy, silver is a couple of clicks, bronze needs you. The medal only turns gold when the work is actually done.
Wake up to gold, or a short list that gets you there.
You only engage when we need you
Confident work is booked. Uncertain items wait as one-click suggestions. Most mornings there is nothing to do.
We only wake you if the books cannot close without you.
Self-learning reconciliation
Invoice matches, transfer pairs, and merchant memory sit at the core of the nightly close — not an add-on. You still turn it on. Corrections stick. The queue shrinks.
Last night’s coding is tonight’s default.
Open banking bank feeds
Consent at your NZ bank: sign in, pick accounts, transactions start flowing — typically a few minutes. No bank-feed forms, no calling the bank.
Connect once. Every following night the bank arrives on its own.
Get paid
Send the invoice. Take payment. Know who still owes you.
Invoicing
Create, email, and PDF a proper NZ tax invoice. Track draft, sent, viewed, and paid. Recurring invoices, reminders, credits, and statements live here too.
Send it this afternoon. We watch whether they opened it.
Invoice page with Stripe pay
Shareable invoice page the customer can open without login — and pay on the spot. Bank-transfer details still print on the invoice.
They pay after hours. The invoice is marked paid when you wake up.
Quotes
Create and send a quote, then convert it to an invoice when they say yes — same GST and send path.
Contacts
Customers and suppliers with the history that invoices and bills hang off.
Capture and pay
Bills in, payments out — without a shoebox or a second portal.
Inbox capture
Connect Gmail or Outlook. Nightbooks pulls bills, payment receipts, and other mail that belongs in the books — after you clarify personal vs business. A private forwarding address sits beside it.
Supplier invoices and payment receipts are in the inbox by morning.
Snap receipts
Photo or upload a receipt. Nightbooks reads supplier, GST, and totals and drafts the bill.
Snap it at the counter. It is a draft entry before you get home.
Integrated bill payments and bank transfers
Pay a supplier or move money between your own accounts from Nightbooks. The payment matches the bill or pairs as a transfer automatically — no extra banking portal.
Approve tonight. Payment and match can be waiting in the morning.
Bills and payables
Supplier bills from inbox, snap, or manual entry. Track due, paid, and outstanding.
Stay compliant
GST, IRD, year-end, and the register — built as you go.
GST return prep
GST position from live books. Full IRD-box return for the period, invoice or payments basis, ready for you to review.
The return has been building itself all period.
Direct IRD filing
Submit the prepared GST return to the IRD from Nightbooks. Today you review and file yourself; this shortens the last step.
When it ships: review at night, filed before morning.
Integrated IRD payments
Pay GST and other IRD amounts from Nightbooks, against the return you just reviewed — no extra portal hop.
Return ready. Payment can go when you say yes — including after hours.
Year-end pack
Full-year P&L, closing balance sheet, and an IR10-style summary you can hand over or file from.
31 March is a print, not a three-week catch-up.
Fixed assets and depreciation
Asset register with cost, depreciation, and book value. Year-end can preview the depreciation run.
Health checks
Unreconciled lines, overdue invoices, GST oddities, and coding that does not look right — listed before they hit a return.
See the numbers
Reports and cash from the same ledger that closed this morning.
AI accountant chat
Ask anything about the numbers in ordinary English. Answers come from your actual books, with the workings.
Ask at midnight. The books are already current.
Live reports
Profit and loss, balance sheet, and trial balance from the same ledger the medal uses.
Cash position
Cash in bank, who owes you, and who you owe — from live feeds, not last month’s export.
Switch and work together
Bring Xero across. Invite the people who already help you.
Xero import
One-click import of org, chart, contacts, invoices, and history. Run side by side, then switch when the numbers check out.
Bring the old books across in minutes. The nightly close starts that night.
Team and invite your CA
Roles, invites, and free access for the accountant you already have — on every plan. Extra organisations are a Pro add-on.
See it working before you sign up for anything
One click gives you your own private demo business — Kea Coffee Co, a Wellington café with three months of books, live bank lines waiting to be reconciled, invoices, GST and reports. It is the real product, not a video.
Ready to use your own books? Start now — 30-day free trial.