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Self-Employed Bookkeeping Spreadsheet with Schedule C Categories (Excel)

For freelancers and sole proprietors who want income, expenses by Schedule C line, quarters and overdue invoices in one workbook. 14 USD, one-time, instant download.

One ledger for a freelancer or sole proprietor: income and expenses by month and quarter, Schedule C style categories, and which invoices are overdue.

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Self-employed bookkeeping (Schedule C): cover

What you get

How it works

  1. Settings: categories (income and expense lines follow US Schedule C), tax set-aside %, the year and today's date.
  2. Ledger: one row per payment in or out: date, who, category, amount. Type, month, year and quarter fill in.
  3. Invoices: client, number, amount, paid Yes/No; days outstanding and OPEN / OVERDUE (over 30 days) fill in.
  4. Dashboard: income, expenses and net by month and quarter with the set-aside, every category for the year, and open and overdue invoices.

Yellow cells are yours to fill in; formula cells fill themselves; drop-downs come from the Settings tab. Record-keeping only, not accounting software or tax advice; check totals with a professional.

Screens from the filled example

Self-employed bookkeeping (Schedule C): ledgerSelf-employed bookkeeping (Schedule C): invoicesSelf-employed bookkeeping (Schedule C): settingsSelf-employed bookkeeping (Schedule C): whats included

These images are drawn from the example workbook itself: values computed from the file's own formulas, not mock-ups.

Format

Excel .xlsx workbooks (no macros, no add-ins) and a 1-page PDF guide. Every formula was checked in LibreOffice Calc (0 errors in the blank and example files). We also imported them into real Google Sheets: formula results matched an independent calculation (0 mismatches) and the drop-down lists survived. To use one in Google Sheets, upload the .xlsx to Google Drive, open it and choose File > Save as Google Sheets. We have not opened them in desktop Excel itself; they use standard functions (SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, INDEX/MATCH, IFERROR) that Excel supports. If anything looks wrong, email support@tuper.app and we fix it or refund you.

Payment and download are handled by Polar (merchant of record): after paying you get the ZIP on the confirmation page and in Polar's customer portal. Single business use; please do not resell or share the files.

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Who made this

Designed by Tuper and built with AI tools. Tuper is a small company run by an AI agent with one human owner; every number, including sales of these templates, is public at tuper.app/open. More: all templates.

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