Introducing CashSheet Workbooks: The Spreadsheet That Works Like a Database
The product our name kept promising
Search "cash sheet" and you won't find ERP software — you'll find a humble, essential document: the daily log a business uses to count a register drawer, track petty cash, and reconcile what should be in the till against what actually is. People have built these in Excel forever, and Excel has quietly failed them forever: a deleted formula here, a column of text-that-looks-like-numbers there, $10,000.01 that became $10,000 somewhere in a float.
Today we're shipping the product that takes that job seriously. CashSheet Workbooks is a collaborative spreadsheet with a database's discipline — and it's live now at app.cashsheet.com for every CashSheet account.
A grid with guardrails
Workbooks looks and feels like the spreadsheet you already know. The difference is underneath: every column has a type, and the system holds the line on it.
- Typed columns. Text, number, currency, date, checkbox, single- and multi-select with defined choices, file attachments, and formulas. A date column will not accept "next Tuesday"; a currency column will not accept "abc". Bad data is refused at the door — by the server, not just the UI.
- Money exact to the cent. Currency cells are stored as integer cents, never floating point. We've audited enough POS systems to know exactly how floats corrupt money at scale — pennies of drift that become dollars above $10,000. In Workbooks, $16,325.62 is 1,632,562 cents, always, in storage, in formulas, and in exports.
- Formulas by column name. Instead of fragile A1 references, you write
={Counted} - {Expected}once on a column and every row computes it — instantly as you type, driven by a real spreadsheet engine with 380+ functions behind it. - Files on the row. Attachment columns hold actual documents. Snap the receipt, attach it to the expense entry, download it at audit time. Files live in private storage and stream through authenticated requests — never a public bucket link.
- In and out freely. Import existing sheets from CSV — headers map to typed columns automatically, and "$1,234.56" lands as exact cents. Export any sheet to CSV or a whole workbook to Excel, with real currency formatting. Your data is never held hostage.
Cash sheets, two clicks from sign-in
Workbooks ships with the three classics as templates: a Daily Cash Count with a full denomination counter ($100 bills down to pennies, totals computed as you count), a Petty Cash Log with categorized entries and receipts attached to each row, and a Cash Book with debit/credit columns and a computed net. Pick one when you create a workbook and start counting. We wrote up what a cash sheet actually is and a walkthrough of the daily count template alongside this launch.
One account, seriously isolated data
You sign in with the same CashSheet account as every other product we make — one identity across the platform, no separate signup. And your organization's data is isolated the way we isolate accounting data: enforced at the database with row-level security, so isolation is a property of the storage engine, not a filter an app bug could forget. It's the same conviction behind our silo architecture, applied to the shared tier.
Early access, and what's next
Workbooks is in early access — the grid, types, formulas, templates, imports/exports, and attachments described here are live today. On the roadmap: related rows (link sheets like database tables), kanban and calendar views over the same data, no-code automations, and the one we're most excited about — POS drawer reconciliation, where the expected cash figure flows straight from CashSheet POS and the only thing a closer types is the physical count.
It's included with your CashSheet account: open Workbooks, create a Daily Cash Count, and see the name make sense. If you count cash for a living, we'd love your feedback.
