Product Documentation
Understand what Simplivo does, how the workflow works, which plan fits your business, and when self-hosted makes sense.
What Simplivo Is
The simplest, most accurate explanation of Simplivo.
Product summary
Simplivo is a chat-first bookkeeping and financial operations product for small businesses. It helps businesses track business cashflow from chat by turning everyday messages, receipts, emails, and documents into structured financial records.
- Capture expenses, bills, invoices, payments, receipts, reminders, and reports — all from chat.
- Add salary tracking, email ingestion, multi-currency, and detailed reports as your business grows.
- Run the day-to-day work in chat. Use the web panel for onboarding, settings, and admin.
Where Simplivo fits
Simplivo is a bookkeeping and cashflow assistant. It captures, organizes, and reports the day-to-day money side of your business — and works alongside your accountant for tax filing, payroll execution, and formal accounting work.
Why It Matters
The problem Simplivo solves, and why it matters for small businesses.
The problem Simplivo solves
Many small businesses do not struggle because they lack software. They struggle because financial activity happens in chats, memory, receipts, PDFs, and emails, while the actual record gets delayed until later.
- A transaction happens
- Someone plans to record it later
- The information stays scattered across messages, documents, or inboxes
- Visibility gets weaker and reporting gets harder
Simplivo closes that gap by letting you record, organize, and query transactions where the work already happens: chat.
Who Simplivo fits best
- Owner-led businesses
- Small teams that already work heavily in chat
- Businesses that want speed and visibility without learning a new finance tool
- Anyone who wants bookkeeping and follow-through in one place
What You Can Do
The main day-to-day jobs Simplivo handles.
Money out
- Record expenses in plain language
- Track bills and payables
- Record payments against bills
- Track vendors and payment sources
- Handle recurring obligations and reminders
Money in
- Create invoices and receivables
- Track customers and balances
- Record incoming payments
- Track income and outstanding amounts
Visibility and reporting
- Ask for cashflow snapshots and status updates
- See overdue and outstanding items
- Look up transactions and entities from chat
- Generate accountant-ready reports and exports
Capture and ingestion
- Natural language text input
- OCR for receipts, bills, invoices, and PDFs
- Email-assisted ingestion for financial documents
- Attachments and record-linked document context
More advanced workflows
- Record salary payments and advances
- Track employee-related transactions
- Use multi-currency support
- Generate detailed reports and handle higher volumes on larger plans
How the Workflow Works
What using Simplivo actually looks like, before you pick a plan.
From message to record
- A user sends a message, receipt, or document through a supported channel.
- Simplivo interprets the message, reads the document if needed, and asks follow-up questions when details are missing.
- The activity becomes a structured financial record.
- That record stays connected to reminders, balances, reports, and related document context.
You get speed and structure at the same time, instead of having to pick one.
Channels and interface
| Channel | What it handles |
|---|---|
| Primary chat workflow for most small businesses | |
| Telegram | Alternative primary chat workflow |
| Forwarding invoices, statements, and other financial documents | |
| Web panel | Onboarding, settings, admin controls, and dashboards |
Why Start With Cloud
Cloud is the best starting point for most businesses because it gets you live faster with less setup.
Why cloud is the default for most businesses
- Fastest path to value
- Managed private environment
- Less infrastructure responsibility
- AI usage included in cloud pricing
Tip
Each Simplivo Cloud customer gets their own private, isolated environment — never a shared workspace with other businesses.
How the cloud plans compare
- Starter: 1 user, core chat bookkeeping, 500 actions per month, limited document ingestion, and 4 core reports
- Team: 5 users, the complete bookkeeping workflow, 2,500 actions per month, full document handling, and all 13 core reports
- Operations: unlimited users, everything in Team plus employee and salary workflows, 7,500 actions per month, 300 documents per month, and all 14 reports
When Self-Hosted Makes Sense
Run Simplivo on your own server when control over infrastructure and data matters more than convenience.
Who should choose self-hosted
- You want full control over where Simplivo runs
- You are comfortable operating your own server
- You would rather run Simplivo on your own infrastructure than on managed cloud
What the self-hosted license includes
- Deployment rights
- Standard installation package
- Documentation
- One year of updates and support included
- Lifetime use of the installed version
- Bring your own OpenRouter-compatible AI provider and API key
After the first year, your installed version keeps working. You can optionally renew updates and support for another year, while AI provider charges remain separate from the license.
Tip
Most small businesses are better served by Simplivo Cloud, which is faster to set up and includes AI usage. Self-hosted is for teams who specifically want to run their own infrastructure.