Orange Way Books

What Orange Way Books is

Orange Way Books is a free, open-source double-entry bookkeeping web app for Bitcoin-native businesses and privacy-conscious small businesses. It is in early development, with working code that can be run locally. Its bookkeeping features include accounts, journal entries, transactions, contacts, invoices, payment requests, attachments, and audit logs. It calculates profit and loss, balance sheet, trial balance, general ledger, cash flow, and foreign-exchange revaluation reports in the browser. Sensitive business fields are encrypted in the browser before reaching the server, which stores ciphertext it cannot decrypt. Some metadata remains visible: transaction dates, row counts, and ciphertext length that may correlate with plaintext length. On-chain Bitcoin transactions are public. The app supports CSV and QuickBooks workbook imports and JSON data takeout; an optional Orange Rails integration provides bank and exchange feeds. Organizations can assign role-based access to Owners, Admins, Accountants, Bookkeepers, Auditors, and time-limited Support users. It is licensed under Apache-2.0. Self-hosting instructions cover cloning the project, installing dependencies with Bun, configuring Supabase, and running it locally. The recovery code is generated in the browser; losing both it and the vault password makes data unrecoverable.