Attested Accounts™
Finance records that show whether they were changed.
Attested Accounts is an evidence layer over the Business Village's invoicing, quotes, recurring invoices, expenses and time tracking. Every write already appends an entry signed under your Village's key when it happens, so a later change to a record can be detected by you, your accountant or an auditor. The hash-linked Finance record, with its day root and its leaf in the daily estate root, is built and tested, off by default and available on request.
What it does
- Every write to an invoice, quote, recurring invoice, expense or time entry appends an entry signed under your Village's key when it happens. This has no switch. If the Village has no identity key or the signer is down, a new entry is written unsigned and an alert is raised; for a Village with no identity key, an update to an existing record can be refused instead.
- Where the Finance record is turned on for a Village, its invoice events are hash-linked, so a deleted or reordered entry can be detected. It is off by default, and no Village is recorded as having it on. Records written before it is turned on are not linked retrospectively.
- An invoice has an action-history view and a downloadable verification bundle that a third party can check offline, without a Village account.
- When someone asks for erasure, the Village reports which finance records are held under a retention rule and scrubs the erasable remainder.
- It reads, checks and stores a Peppol e-invoice (PINT A-NZ) that you upload as an XML file. Sending has been built, through a Peppol access-point provider the Village chooses and holds its own account with, and is not yet connected to the live Peppol network.
Qualified timestamp receipts
A qualified (RFC 3161, eIDAS) timestamp receipt for one invoice is built and available on request as an opt-in. It is turned on per customer because each receipt is priced, as a pack of 100.
What it is, and what it is not
It is not an accounting system, an audit opinion or accounting advice. It signs the Business Village's own invoicing, quotes, expenses and time records. Expenses can be sent one way to Xero; nothing is read back from Xero, and there is no link to MYOB or QuickBooks. Signing shows that a record was not changed after it was written; it says nothing about whether the figures are right, complete or lawful. MDSL holds the signing key today.
Not built yet
Quotes, expenses and time entries are signed, but do not yet have a history view, a receipt or a verification bundle. A single view across many small clients, for a practice, is not built.
Price
| Attested Accounts, per Village | — /month per Village |
|---|---|
| Qualified receipts, per pack of 100 | — per pack of 100 qualified receipts |
No GST is added. The hash-linked Finance record is built and tested and is off by default; it is available on request. There is no cheaper unsealed tier.
How to get it
Attested Accounts is available on request, on top of a Business Village. There is no free tier and no open signup. Evaluation access is by a one-time token John Stroh issues, bound to one address. Tell us a little about what you need; this creates no account, and every request is reviewed before anything is issued.
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Status as at 3 November 2026.