For independent creators
Four platforms in one book. Sponsors invoiced. Tax set aside as the money lands
Dev Malhotra runs a channel, sells templates on Gumroad and an app on the App Store, alone.
Four platforms, one income line
YouTube, Gumroad and the app stores arrive with fees apart; sponsors are invoiced and reminded.
Accounts and rails in depth →YouTube pays on the twenty-first, Gumroad every Friday, the App Store a month late. What did the month actually earn, after everyone's cut?
INV-0003Keel Keyboards3,200Sent
INV-0002Northlight Displays2,800Paid
INV-0001Keel Keyboards2,600Paid
Four figures as filters: owed, overdue, received this month, paid without an invoice; each one opens its own list.
A request by link, and a permanent payment address for the space.
Tax, gear and the budget
The tax year ready before you file, and gear filed with its receipt.
Reports and tax in depth →The USDC a sponsor paid is a lot with a cost of its own. Does every asset add up, does the book say what the chain says, and is the year sealed?
The inbox holds everything that arrives: quarantined mail, receipts, and the expenses still without paper.
Subscriptions
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Tools and gearDev MalhotraExpires09/29
A virtual card from a prepaid balance, topped up in USDT or USDC when it runs low.
💻 Software & subscriptionsOver by $18112%Over
🎥 Gear65%Inside
🎬 Editing100%Inside
📣 Promotion33%Inside
Monthly limits per category, what is left of each, what slipped past.
Sep 24Notes app10
Sep 26Rail · shoot in Chicago140
Oct 3Creative suite59.99
Oct 4Music licence17.99
Oct 9Transcription30
Everything dated on one page: what is overdue, what falls this week, what is coming in, and where the balance lands at month end.
The assistant
Ask it what your tools cost you now
Platforms pay in bursts and subscriptions creep; the composer reads the charges themselves and compares the last with the typical one before it.
The assistant in full →- Reading the charges themselves
- Comparing the last with the typical one
Two did: Adobe is 14% above its typical charge since March, and Riverside 9% since June. Notion's July charge carried an extra seat, so it does not read as a rise.
What it takes on
- Subscriptions that got dearer
- The last charge against the typical one before it, in the supplier's own currency, so a month with an extra seat does not read as a rise. A press writes the new price into the plan.
- VAT by the day the period closes
- What has accrued, and where the period's own pace leads by its last day, with a goal card on the tax account. Nothing here moves money.
- Who is overdue, and what next
- One line per client: how late the oldest invoice is, the reminders sent, what they promised, and one next step with its reason. Write it down and Send it are a press each.
Connections
Platform earnings, read every day
Orla reads daily earnings from eleven platforms, and Dev uses four of them. The bank comes by feed or by statement.
- YouTube
- Gumroad
- App Store
- Lemon Squeezy
- Google Play
- Etsy
- Google AdMob
- Bandcamp
Who does what
You, your editor and your accountant
- Founder
- Sees four platforms as one figure, sends the sponsor's invoice, and knows the tax estimate before April.
- Contractor
- The editor is paid from the same book as a contact with a rail, not a seat.
- Accountant
- Has the month in files, and can look inside the closed period.
Control and trust
Read-only keys and your own number
- Read-only keys
- A platform key reads earnings and payouts and nothing else; a key with payment rights is refused.
- Paper
- A receipt finds its own payment; rows without paper are waived in bulk when there never was any.
- Your own number
- Reminders go out on WhatsApp or SMS from your own number, so the sponsor knows who is writing.
- Rules
- A rule written in words files the next Adobe charge the way the last one was filed, and can be undone.
Questions
The questions that come first
Do I have to give Orla my YouTube or App Store password?
No. YouTube and the stores connect with a sign-in on the platform that grants read access to earnings; Gumroad and PayPal connect with a key you make there. A key with payment rights is refused, whatever platform it comes from.
Is the tax estimate advice?
No. It is an estimate from your own rows and the profile you set: jurisdiction, filing status, what you already paid. It is there so the amount to set aside is a figure, not a guess. Your accountant still files the return, with the rows to back it.
Does the free plan cover one creator?
The free plan has no card and no time limit, and it includes one business space to try. Paid plans start at $25 a month; any single limit can be raised with a pack instead of a plan change, so one person pays for what they use.
See it on your own books
Thirty minutes: we connect an account, drop a real bill in, and close a month together.