For law firms & legal practices

Matter billing and clean books for your firm

Bill by matter, run retainers as recurring invoices, and keep client statements and financial reports tidy — on a self-hosted ledger you fully control.

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Kanakku matter invoice for a law firm

Built for how law firms actually run the books

Challenge

Billing and tracking profitability per matter

With Kanakku

Tag invoices and costs to a cost center and project per matter, then read the result in dimension reports.

Challenge

Retainers billed manually every month

With Kanakku

Run retainers as recurring invoices that generate themselves on schedule with recalculated taxes.

Challenge

Clients asking where their balance stands

With Kanakku

Hold each client as a customer with a derived statement of invoices minus payments.

Challenge

Write-offs and fee adjustments after the fact

With Kanakku

Issue credit notes against an invoice so the client balance and the ledger both stay correct.

A typical workflow

  1. 1

    Add each client as a customer and a cost center/project per matter.

  2. 2

    Raise matter invoices, or recurring invoices for retainers.

  3. 3

    Record receipts and reconcile against the bank.

  4. 4

    Issue credit notes for any write-offs or adjustments.

  5. 5

    Review per-matter results and client statements.

Features that do the work

InvoicingInvoicing & billing Recurring billingRecurring billing CustomersCustomers Credit notesCredit notes ReportingReporting & analysis Financial statementsAccounting & ledger BankingBanking & cash

Frequently asked questions

Does Kanakku do trust or IOLTA accounting?
No. There is no trust or IOLTA compliance module. Retainers are modelled as recurring invoices with client statements — for jurisdictional trust-accounting rules you'd need a dedicated trust ledger alongside it.
Is there case or matter management?
No. Kanakku has no case management, document management or time-tracking engine. It handles the billing and accounting side, with cost centers and projects standing in for per-matter financials.
How do I bill and track a matter?
Create a cost center and project per matter, tag invoices and costs to it, and read profitability per matter in the dimension and P&L reports.
Can I bill retainers automatically?
Yes. Set up recurring invoices so retainer billing repeats on schedule, with taxes recalculated for each one.

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