Macct for the people

Revolutionary bookkeeping for the small-business underdogs.

Auditor, bookkeeper or from the Tax Authority? See the detailed rules overview — every paragraph Macct enforces from the Norwegian Bookkeeping Act, Accounting Act, Tax Act and VAT Act, with references to code and endpoint. →

Run accounting for just NOK 100/month

No subscription. Pay only for actual use.

Macct is a simple accounting system for anyone running a small business — sole proprietorships, small limited companies, freelancers, or the kind of hobby venture where the tax authority insists you keep books for the 47 NOK you earned selling hand-knitted mittens at the Christmas market.

Other systems charge 3,000–7,000 NOK a year on forced subscriptions. Macct charges 100 NOK for one month. If you only use it in March, you pay only 100 NOK. Didn't use it last year? Then you paid nothing.

What can Macct do?

• Double-entry bookkeeping per Norwegian standard (NS 4102) — required by the Tax Authority
• Complete chart of accounts pre-filled — so you don't have to
• Smart voucher entry: describe what happened, we sort the rest
• Automatic VAT calculation — because VAT rules are designed to confuse
• Invoicing — create and send professional-looking invoices
• Customer and supplier ledgers — track who owes whom
• Reports: trial balance, income statement, balance sheet, VAT return
• Scan receipts with your phone — OCR does the rest
• Bank import from DNB — no manual typing
• Tax return and annual accounts directly to Altinn — before the deadline
• Foreign currency — invoice customers in EUR/USD/GBP/SEK etc. with daily rates from Norges Bank

Currency without rhyme or reason

Your customer in Hamburg pays in euros. Your subcontractor in Tokyo invoices in yen. The tax authority wants everything in kroner — preferably before Easter.

Macct supports 12 currencies — NOK, EUR, USD, GBP, SEK, DKK, CHF, JPY, PLN, CNY, AUD, CAD — and pulls daily rates from Norges Bank automatically every business day at 17:30. Weekends and holidays inherit Friday's rate, exactly as the Bookkeeping Act requires.

When you record an invoice in euros, Macct locks the rate at the invoice date. Your customer might pay 14 days later at the bank's own rate — and Macct then posts the exchange-rate difference automatically to account 8040 (currency gain) or 8150 (currency loss), per NRS 8. The general ledger is always in NOK, and the sub-ledger always reconciles with the main ledger.

Want to use the bank's exchange rate instead of Norges Bank's? Enter it manually — but Macct then requires you to document the source (typically a currency note from the bank). Bookkeeping Act § 7. Traceable all the way through.

Who is it for?

Anyone who believes financial control should be a right, not a subscription.

You don't have to be an accountant. You don't need to know what the "congruence principle" means (spoiler: it means almost nothing for you with 20 vouchers a month). Macct asks you what happened — "Paid electricity to Fjordkraft 1,200 NOK" — and sorts the chart of accounts itself.

Fiken and Tripletex are perfectly fine systems. For those who can afford them. For the rest of us, there's Macct.

Power in small hands

"There is power in folded hands" — Bjarne Aamot (1928), Norwegian poet

Macct is pronounced makt, the Norwegian word for "power". That's no accident.

Small businesses have never gained power by banging the table. We get it when we keep order in our own house — knowing what we have, what we owe, what we can live off. Having control of your accounts is a quiet, dangerous form of power.

The big accounting systems know this. That's why they charge for it. We give it away.

All macct to the people.

The Macct Manifesto

Seven commandments, hammered into wood at the kitchen table:

1. Debit shall equal credit. Always. No exceptions, no negotiations.
2. A voucher without an amount is not a voucher. It's poetry.
3. You owe the tax authority precisely what you owe — not a single øre more.
4. Your accountant is a friend, not a servant. Send them cake.
5. The receipt counts. Even the one from the petrol station in Hurum.
6. If you have to guess, you don't have accounting. You have fiction.
7. When the year is closed, it is closed. No restart. That's the point.

NRS 8-certified

Macct follows Good accounting practice for small entities (NRS 8) — the Norwegian standard that lets small businesses get away with simplified rules. No cash flow statement. Simplified note requirements. Everything you need, nothing you don't.

For auditors and bookkeepers who want to dig in: we have a detailed rule overview that lists every paragraph of the Bookkeeping Act, Accounting Act, Tax Act and VAT Act that Macct enforces — and honestly, the rules we don't automate.

Traceability and immutability

The Norwegian Bookkeeping Act § 10 requires every posted voucher to be traceable and immutable. Macct enforces this at the data layer — not just as a rule in application code:

• Vouchers are never editable after creation, regardless of period. Corrections can only be made by reversal (counter-voucher).
• Invoices are locked after sending. In draft status you can edit freely, but once sent or posted, amount, date and customer are permanent. Correction requires a credit note.
• Master data has a full change log. Every change to customers, suppliers, employees, company or settings is automatically logged with before/after snapshot.
• Daily reconciliation verifies that ledger and sub-ledgers balance exactly — auto-flags discrepancies via email.

What does it cost?

NOK 100/month — flat price, everything included.

One price, one version: voucher entry, reports, VAT return, tax return and annual accounts to Altinn, payroll (A-melding), incoming/outgoing EHF, bank import, multi-company. No upgrade ladder, no hidden premium features.

By comparison, Fiken and Tripletex range from 199–599 NOK/month spread across multiple tiers. Macct is typically half of the lowest tier because we're small, lean, and don't have investors demanding growth margin.

You only pay for the months you actually use it. Each Vipps payment extends the subscription by 30 days. Use macct only in March, you pay only 100 NOK. Use it the whole year, that's 1,200 NOK/year.

New users get a 30-day free trial. No commitment, no auto-renewal, no hidden fees.

Behind the scenes

Macct is developed by Malloc AS — a small Norwegian tech company that believes basic financial management should be available to everyone. We have no investors to keep happy and no share price to pump. We just have one idea: that your accounting shouldn't cost more than it's worth.

(And yes, we use Macct ourselves. All the way to the tax return.)

Who we are

Two men who could have ruled the world. They've chosen to keep books for hobby philatelists in Hurum instead.

Together they're building Macct. The world is theirs to lose.