A running count of orders, payments, and ad income against the print bill
The print bill is the one number every yearbook program is quietly measured against: copies ordered times the per-copy cost to produce them. Yearbook Money keeps that bill on one side of the ledger and every recorded order, family payment, and piece of ad or sponsor income on the other, so an adviser can see at a glance whether the book is ahead of its own cost or behind it. The ledger math — the running total, the exact-cent reconciliation, the fee accounting — is built and production-ready. The entries it totals come from elsewhere in the platform (family ordering, ad sales), and those charge rails are honest-off today, so there are no live numbers for a real school on this page yet.
Ledger math built · live order/ad feeds honest-off
Add-only by design — and that is a narrower claim than "tamper-proof"
Every entry booked to the ledger is a new row. A correction — a refunded order, a mis-entered print bill, a reversed ad payment — is booked as its own new entry pointing back at what it corrects; nothing already posted is edited or deleted in place, so the running history is never quietly rewritten. That is an honest, narrower claim than it might sound: it describes how our own application code is written (the write path exposes no update or delete of a posted entry), not a cryptographic or blockchain-style guarantee. There is no hash chain here and no outside notarization service checking the ledger's back. "Add-only-by-design" and "tamper-proof" are different claims, and this page only makes the first one.
Add-only entry model built · not a tamper-proof claim
The platform never skims a gift or a sponsor's ad — only the processor's own fee applies
Ad income, sponsor money, and family payments that land in the ledger are not quietly reduced by a platform cut. The only deduction the ledger ever applies is the payment processor's own fee, taken off the gross amount first — the same fee-off-gross-first, largest-remainder accounting used across the platform's other money surfaces, so every cent is accounted for and nothing is silently rounded into a margin. An adviser can see exactly what a given order or ad sale nets the school before a single dollar moves.
Fee-off-gross-first accounting built
The adviser sets the print bill; the ledger tracks it, not us
The print bill itself — copies ordered and the per-copy production cost — is a number the adviser or business office enters and can revise as a print quote firms up. Yearbook Money does not set a school's price, does not negotiate with a printer, and does not decide what a book costs; it only holds the number the school gives it and measures orders and income against that number as they are recorded. The obligation-tracking model (copies, per-copy cost, firm-vs-estimated status) is built.
Print-bill tracking built
Free to start; the school sets the book price and keeps the proceeds
There is no subscription or per-student fee to run the ledger. The school sets its own book price, and the proceeds from every order are the school's; the platform's only involvement in the money is the honest-off charge rail described above and, when it is enabled, the processor's own fee. No school has claimed the yearbook.money address and run a live ledger yet — it is free and open for the first program to do so.
Free to start · no school has claimed it live yet