Your clients' businessstays your business.
Accounting made for attorneys. Trust accounts, retainers and six-minute billing in one modern workspace, with no one looking over your shoulder.
Held for clients
- Pellwood v. Example Freight LLC$14,250.00
- Halvorsen estate plan$1,800.00
- Okoro lease dispute$6,500.00
- Marrowind construction defect claim$22,000.00
Your client's settlement isn't anyone's replay.
Online accounting apps can replay every click and every key you press. EscBooks never records a session, and never will.
Deposit to trust
Replay log0 keystrokes
Deposit to trust
Replay log
Nothing to replay.
“… we may use session-replay technologies … to record users’ interactions … in a manner that allows us to watch video replays of those user sessions. The replays include users’ clicks, mobile app touches, mouse movements, scrolls and keystrokes/key touches …”
Due diligence, already in writing.
Ethics opinions ask lawyers to vet a vendor before trusting it with client information. Here is where EscBooks stands.
- Who owns your data?You do
- Is it sold, or used to train AI?Never
- Is it encrypted?In transit and at rest
- Is a bank login required?Never
- Are you told about a subpoena?First, where the law allows
- Can you take it all with you?Any time
- Where is it kept?In the United States
Mark it as trust. EscBooks keeps it straight.
A ledger for every client, a journal of every dollar, and a three-way reconciliation each month.
Client Trust (IOLTA)
Bank account ···4821Client trust account
Book Balance
$45,700.00
Held for Clients
$43,710.00
Lawyer's Funds
$150.00
Earned Fees Not Yet Withdrawn
$1,840.00
Built around the rules you answer to.
The controls the trust-account rules call for, working quietly while you practice law.
You remain responsible for following your state's trust-account rules. EscBooks keeps the records and does the arithmetic. Read the trust accounts guide →
- Overdrawing a clientRefused
- A firm expense from trustRefused
- A cash withdrawalFlagged
- Earned fees left in trustFlagged
- Your own funds running highFlagged
- A reconciled monthLocked
A retainer for every matter, held in trust.
One form opens it. EscBooks keeps the ledger, pays invoices when you say so, and writes the check for the fee you've earned.
1/4Start it
One form. The deposit request drafts itself.
New Retainer
Kind
Client
For
Held in
Deposit to request
Warn when the balance is under
The rest of a practice's books, built in, not bolted on.
Everything else a practice runs on, at one flat price.
- Tenths of an hourTime rounds to six minutes, the way you bill.
- Matters and AssociatesYour words for the work, everywhere in the app.
- Results by matterHours, fees and costs on every one.
- Costs billed backFiling fees and expenses, on the client's invoice.
- Trust ledgers on paperAny client's ledger, with its running balance.
- Your accountant, freeTwo seats. They see everything and change nothing.
QuickBooks makes you build a law practice's books. EscBooks comes with them.
- Client trust accountAn add-on appBuilt in
- RetainersA liability account and a negative invoice lineOne for every matter
- Session recordingPermitted, keystrokes includedNever
- Projects and billable expenses$140 a month, on PlusIncluded, $29 a month
QuickBooks facts are from Intuit's own pages, checked October 2026: its pricing page (regular list prices, not promotions), the help article “Record a retainer or deposit”, its page for law firms, and the Intuit Global Privacy Statement. EscBooks is $19 a month for founding members who join by April 15, 2027.
Straight answers
No. Enter transactions yourself or upload your bank’s CSV files. A connected AI assistant can help with PDF statements. Bank connections are optional, including for trust accounts.
Try it with your own matters.
Every feature, the trust account included, free until January 1, 2027. Join the beta and keep the founding price for life.