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Nordlet for startups

How a European startup can use Nordlet for invoices, subscriptions, Stripe payments, VAT, payroll, several companies and an accounting API.

A startup starts small and changes fast. It may sell subscriptions, take card payments through Stripe, hire its first staff and open a second company in another country.

Nordlet keeps the books for all of this. You can use it in the web app, through its API, or both.

What Nordlet does

  • Invoices. You create, issue and e-mail invoices. A schedule can repeat an invoice every month or every year.
  • Subscriptions paid in advance. When a customer pays for a year up front, the money is not all earned on day one. Nordlet can spread the revenue over the service period. The unearned part is called deferred revenue. The revenue recognition guide explains the methods.
  • Stripe. You import a Stripe payments export. Nordlet books the fees, customers, invoices and refunds. See the Stripe import guide.
  • Bank. You connect your bank or import statement files, and Nordlet matches payments to invoices.
  • Other currencies. An invoice can be in a currency other than your company's own currency. See multi-currency accounting.
  • Supplier bills. You forward supplier invoices to the company's own e-mail address, and they appear on the capture page.

Tax and staff

  • VAT. VAT is the tax added to the price of most sales in Europe. Nordlet picks the VAT treatment of each sale, including sales to other EU countries. The EU VAT guide explains how.
  • Returns. The filing support table shows, for each country, which returns Nordlet sends, which files you upload yourself, and which figures you type in.
  • Payroll. Nordlet calculates salaries, taxes and social contributions with the payroll rules of the company's country. See payroll.
  • Equipment. Laptops and other equipment go into the fixed asset register, and Nordlet posts their monthly depreciation.

More than one company

Many startups have a parent company and a subsidiary, often in different countries.

  • One login can hold several companies. You switch between them in the app.
  • A consolidation group combines the companies into one balance sheet and profit and loss. This is called consolidation. The consolidation guide explains the methods.
  • When two group companies invoice each other, Nordlet can create the matching draft purchase invoice in the other company.

For developers

If your own product creates the sales, it can send them to Nordlet directly.

  • Every API call has the same shape: POST /v1/{module}/{resource}/{action}. The getting started guide walks through the first calls.
  • Client libraries exist in nine languages. See the SDKs guide.
  • Webhooks tell your system when something happens in Nordlet, signed so you can check they came from Nordlet.
  • The MCP server connects Claude and other MCP clients to the API with one API key.
  • A sandbox company holds test data. You can delete it at any time.

People and access

Each team member gets a role, such as owner, accountant, developer or viewer. A developer can read the books and manage API keys and webhooks. The team roles guide lists every role.

Frequently asked questions

Can I move my books from another system?

Yes. The migration guide explains how to bring over the chart of accounts, partners, opening balances, open invoices, fixed assets and stock.

Can I test Nordlet without touching real books?

Yes. Create a sandbox company. It is for trying things out and for testing an integration, and its data is wiped when you delete it.

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