AI-native accounting platform Digits unveiled Tuesday the Digits app for iPhone and iPad, enabling business owners to run their business from anywhere.
The Digits app gives business owners a live view of their financial position, including cash across all accounts, current profit, payables, and receivables, and lets them act on it immediately. Customers can approve, reject, pay, and route bills; send invoices; capture receipts; and forward or upload documents, all from their device.
With the company’s AI assistant Ask Digits built in, business owners can also get quick, accurate answers to all their financial questions without having to run detailed reports.
“Rather than acting as a companion viewer, the Digits app provides direct access to live financial data and workflows across iPhone and iPad, enabling business owners to run their business in the moment, approving, paying, invoicing, and making decisions as things happen,” the San Francisco-based company said in a media release on March 31. “Customers can also add a Digits widget to their home screen to check their financial position the moment they unlock their phone.”
The app maintains the same security protections as the Digits platform, including SOC 2 Type II compliance and end-to-end encryption, ensuring financial data remains secure across all devices, the release states. The app also is 30MB and launches instantly.
“In the past six months, our engineering team pulled off a technical triumph: over 250,000 lines of native Swift (with no webviews), optimized network request batching, offline caching, and live home screen widgets result in a groundbreaking experience whether you’re on the go or in the office. You have to experience it to believe it,” Jeff Seibert, founder and CEO of Digits, said in a statement.
The app’s launch, he says, reflects a broader shift away from batch-based accounting: reviewing finances at the end of the day, week, or month. Instead, business owners and their accountants can stay continuously up to date, resolving tasks in minutes that previously took days of back and forth.
“Your finances shouldn’t wait for you to get back to your desk,” Seibert added. “We built Digits so the accounting happens even when you’re not looking at it. Now it also works wherever you are. Check your cash in a meeting, pay a bill at lunch, snap a receipt in a parking lot—your backlog disappears.”
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When a bill comes in, business owners can approve, pay, reject, or route it immediately. When they’re handed a receipt, they can capture it on the spot and have it automatically matched to the correct transaction.
Invoices can be sent as soon as work is done. Documents can be forwarded from email or uploaded directly from a banking app, where they are processed and organized by Digits automatically.
Instead of batching tasks at the end of the week or month, work gets done in the moment, Digits says.
When questions come up, customers can use Ask Digits to ask “Why is my cash lower this month?” or “How much did I spend with this vendor last quarter?” and get answers grounded in their live financials.
Follow-up questions maintain context, allowing customers to explore further without starting over, the company says.
When an accountant flags an issue or shares a task, customers can review, respond, or reassign it immediately from the app.
“What previously required multiple emails and delays can now be resolved in minutes,” Digits said.
The Digits app is available today for all customers on iPhone and iPad via the Apple App Store. To learn more, visit here.
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