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Small business.
Simple software.

Built in Melbourne by a team that knows what it's like to run a small to medium business — the late-night invoicing, the spreadsheet chaos, the app fatigue. From tradies to restaurants, salons to freelancers.

Our mission

Give every small to medium business owner the tools that used to cost $500/month and a full-time admin — for the price of a coffee a day.

We're not trying to be the next Salesforce. We're building the anti-Salesforce — software that's so simple you never need a training session, so affordable you never think twice, and so complete you never need another app.

Built on principles, not hype.

Built for real businesses

We don't build for enterprise. We build for the tradie quoting from a van, the cleaner invoicing between jobs, the PT booking clients at 6am.

Radically simple

Every feature earns its place. No bloat, no feature-gated upsells, no 200-page setup guides. If it takes more than 30 seconds, we redesign it.

Australia first

GST, ABN validation, ATO compliance, and Australian bank integrations. Not an afterthought — the foundation everything is built on.

Your data, your business

We'll never sell your data or lock you in. Export everything anytime. Your client list, your invoices, your history — it's yours.

Our journey — and what's ahead.

From napkin sketch to a full business platform. Here's where we've been and where we're headed.

2025Done

The idea

Frustrated by juggling 8+ tools to run a small to medium business, we sketched OneBookPlus on a napkin at a Melbourne cafe.

2025Done

Building

Months of late nights, early mornings, and countless espressos. We talked to 200+ small to medium business owners to get it right.

Q1 2026Done

Platform launch

OneBookPlus goes live in Australia. Invoicing, quotes, CRM, bookings, expenses, accounting, bank imports, and a modular App Marketplace — all in one platform.

Q1 2026Done

Restaurant & hospitality

Full hospitality suite: Point of Sale, table management, kitchen display, menu builder with dietary tags, daily sales tracking, orders (dine-in/takeaway/delivery), and reservations.

Q1 2026Done

Jobs, rostering & payroll

Job management with batch invoicing and weekly scheduling. Employee rostering, timesheets, leave tracking, and payroll with super and PAYG.

Q1 2026Done

ATO & tax lodgement

BAS preparation, individual tax return lodgement, TPAR reporting, lodgement history, and 13 free tax calculators.

Q1 2026Done

Retail & inventory

Retail Point of Sale with product catalogue, barcode scanning, inventory tracking with low-stock alerts, and integrated payments.

Q2 2026Done

Native iOS app

Native iPhone app built in Swift with SwiftUI. Create invoices, manage bookings, and track expenses from your pocket.

Q2 2026Done

Payments & email marketing

Stripe Connect integration, online invoice payments, email campaigns, automated follow-ups, and review request automation.

Q1 2026Done

Trades, service & retail verticals

Deep trades pipeline with drag-and-drop kanban, quote-to-job conversion, batch invoicing, photo notes. Service business waitlist and cancellation management. Full retail POS with product catalogue and barcode scanning.

Q1 2026Done

Production polish

Security headers, rate limiting, error boundaries, SEO optimisation, and comprehensive competitive positioning with 18 comparison pages and 18 industry landing pages.

Q3 2026In progress

AI assistant

Smart categorisation, cash flow predictions, and natural language queries. Ask "How much did I make last quarter?" and get an instant answer.

Q4 2026
Q4 2026

Android app

Native Android app with feature parity to iOS. Push notifications, offline mode, and receipt scanning.

2027
2027

Multi-currency & APAC expansion

Invoice in any currency, NZ GST, Singapore invoicing, Xero/MYOB sync, and localised compliance across the Asia-Pacific region.

Meet the founder

Built by someone who gets it.

BS

Bishal Shrestha

Founder & CEO

bishal.com.au

“I've worked with hundreds of Australian small to medium businesses — tradies, restaurants, salons, freelancers — and the same problem kept coming up: they were paying for 8 different tools that didn't talk to each other. OneBookPlus was born from that frustration. I wanted to build the one book I wished existed when I was running my own businesses — simple, affordable, and genuinely useful from day one.”

Based in Melbourne, Bishal has spent over a decade in digital marketing, web development, and small to medium business consulting. He's built and scaled multiple businesses across Australia and understands firsthand what Australian small to medium business owners actually need — not what enterprise software companies think they need.

Read the full story
10+
Years in digital
200+
Businesses consulted
10+
Tools replaced
100%
Australian owned

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Related pages

About Us — The Story Behind OneBookPlus | OneBookPlus