grist for FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
Spreadsheet-database software for finance and accounting
Streamline your workflow, use ready-made templates or build your own, and create custom reports that fit your needs.
Flexible and secure solution for accounting, bookkeeping and financial analysis
Invoicing
Create printable invoices directly from your spreadsheet data.
Enter your data to automatically generate PDF invoices.
View and analyze all historical invoice records.
Payroll
Easily manage your payroll with our automated template.
Just input employee name, role, and wage details.
Review, analyze, and export payroll data and history.
Expense tracking
Consolidate your expense tracking and reduce administrative overhead.
Share one document with specific permissions so employees only see their own expenses.
Summarize expenses by month and employee in colorful charts.
Flexible and secure
Drag-and-drop layouts
An intuitive page builder to create and customize your reports and templates.
Build dashboards your way
Create your own dashboard. Analyze data using charts, pivot tables, and powerful formulas.
Granular access rules
Keep data secure with access rules that limit who can see what, down to each cell.
“I love Grist. It’s crazy powerful. I still can’t believe what we’ve been able to achieve in it. It’s the dream that low-code was sold as for years – we can do incredible things in each column with Python and we can build our own widgets to run on those! Wild!”
Elliot Lee
User Researcher
“The more I use Grist, the more I LOVE it. I have been surveying self-hosted database GUI tools, and I was consistently disappointed with their shortcomings or bugginess. Grist is the first to have tilted the balance the other way.”
Stephen S.
Publications, Personal City Guides
“Grist has given us incredible flexibility to solve data problems and find solutions, whether it is for a small team at the district, or at scale with the entire district staff. We’re really excited about the different ways we can use it going forward.”
Director of Product
EdTech Company
“What I like about Grist the most is its focus. It appears simple, but it’s very powerful in a focused way. Grist has really improved our workflow and communication.”
Chris Scott
Co-founder in Digital Marketing
“If people spend some time learning a new tool they’ll have more power to do their work and research. I said to one of my students, ‘You will be very very happy using Grist because you are miserable using Excel!'”
Eduardo Dalcin, Ph.D.
Biodiversity Informatics Expert
“Most CRMs don’t work the way Grist works. Grist’s layouts are simple and do exactly what we need.”
Jennifer Bledsoe
IT Tech at Law Firm
“I recently discovered Grist after becoming frustrated with the limitations of traditional spreadsheets like Excel and Google Sheets. Grist has been a breath of fresh air, especially with its ability to handle structured data in a way that feels familiar to anyone with experience in relational databases, but with the added flexibility of Python.”
Will Bailey
Small Business Manager
Templates
More templates
Sales Commissions
Track sales, calculate commissions, and summarize revenue and commission pay out in vibrant charts.
View TemplateTime Tracking + Invoicing
Track billable hours and generate invoices in this streamlined template.
View TemplateInvestment Research
Uncover trends by exploring investment data across categories and time using vibrant, dynamic charts.
View TemplateProfessional Services
Grist Solutions
We’ll create a custom solution that makes your data more useful – now, and far in the future.
Plan your solution
Work with us to identify workflow pain points and improvements.
Customize based on your needs
We’ll create a solution that fits, and a solution that lasts.
Build with experts
Not just a custom solution, but expert advice from those closest to Grist.
Take control of your data
Unlock your data’s true potential with the better spreadsheet
