The strongest promise a bookkeeping product can make is that your data is yours, provably, at any moment. kBooks is built around that promise.
The one-click backup
From your plan page, one click produces a complete backup of a company:
- Your ledger as spreadsheets (CSV) anyone can open, with your lists beside it: accounts, customers, vendors, classes and items.
- QuickBooks files that can stand up your books elsewhere, lists included.
- A full structured copy (JSON) a developer or another system can read.
- Every document in the vault.
It downloads as a single zip to keep wherever you like. Take one whenever it makes you comfortable; it is your data and there is no limit or fee.
The account owner's backup holds every company on the account. Someone with admin access gets the companies their access opens, and only those.
Leaving whole
The same exports mean leaving kBooks is a real option, not a threat. The books you built here can travel to your next system, and that fact is deliberate.
Security, in plain terms
- Your session belongs to you alone; accounts enforce one live sign-in at a time by default, and every sign-in is listed under Recent sign-ins.
- Access to each company is explicit and per person, at the level you granted. See People and access.
- Bank connections are read only: kBooks can see activity to do your bookkeeping, and cannot move money. How bank data is handled has its own published page under /legal/bank-data.
- The full security statement lives at /legal/security, written to be read, not skimmed past.
Is it just me, or is it down?
The status page at /status is public and lives apart from your sign-in, so it answers precisely when you cannot get in. It shows the product's health as measured from outside, with recent history.