What Lejja does
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Fund accounting, native
Restricted, unrestricted, and designated funds tracked at the ledger level — a restricted fund that goes overspent is flagged automatically, while designated funds can run negative without a false alarm.
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Grant tracking from real transactions
A grant's spend, remaining balance, and eligibility are computed live by summing the actual transactions allocated to it — never a parallel spreadsheet that drifts out of sync.
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Cashflow what-if planner
Model scenarios and a runway figure over a monthly run-rate. The forecaster has zero foreign keys into the real ledger by design, so you can experiment freely without any risk to the books.
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Funder & board report sharing
Freeze a redacted snapshot of a report behind a secure link, optionally password-protected with an expiry date — funders and trustees view it with no account needed. Hidden figures are never persisted.
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Bank statement import + reconciliation
Upload a generic CSV; the tool guesses the date/description/amount columns, previews every row as new/duplicate/error, and suggests high-confidence matches to reconcile.
Reporting with drill-down to source
P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow, Trial Balance, Grant/funder reports, Budget vs Actuals and more — every figure on every report clicks back to the exact transaction that produced it, on a cash or accrual basis.
Correct-by-reversal, never by rewriting
A locked accounting period can't be edited; mistakes are fixed by posting a balanced reversing journal in an open period. History is never quietly rewritten.
Built for someone who isn't an accountant
Friendly language first, accounting jargon second — the tool is designed to make an intelligent operator with practical money experience feel competent, not stupid.
Who it's for
Marcus, a part-time finance officer working two days a week at a community arts charity, juggles four live grants from three funders using a side spreadsheet — and dreads the year-end report each funder demands, because reconciling it all by hand takes days he doesn't have.
How it works
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Import and categorise a bank statement
Upload a CSV from the bank → the tool auto-maps date/description/amount columns → review new/duplicate/error rows in one screen → commit → the correct double-entry postings are created automatically in the background.
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Track a grant from award to closeout
Create the grant with its funder, award, and budget lines → tag transactions to the right budget line as spend happens → watch live spend and remaining figures update → at year-end, close the grant to freeze a snapshot for the funder's records.
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Share a report with a funder or board
Generate a Grant report or P&L → freeze a redacted, shareable link (optionally password-protected, with an expiry) → send it. No account, no spreadsheet export, no back-and-forth.
Why not just use Wave (free) or a spreadsheet?
Wave is free and handles simple day-to-day bookkeeping perfectly well for a single, uncomplicated income stream. It has no concept of restricted funds, no grant budget-line tracking, no project accounting, and no cashflow scenario forecasting. A charity juggling three funders on a spreadsheet typically loses the better part of a day each month reconciling spend against each grant by hand — that's the exact problem Lejja removes. If your organisation has one clean income stream and no restricted money, Wave is genuinely enough; the gap only opens once grants and restricted funds enter the picture.
£10/mo
or £100/year
Also in the Touchgrass Sweet — all four paid apps together, with Compass free.
What people say
“We went from three funders' spend tracked in three tabs of one terrifying spreadsheet to just... knowing. That's the whole pitch, really.”