I started with mercury recently and absolutely love it. The Books stuff seems to be OK, which is a huuuuge improvement over QuickBooks Online which is now an unwieldy pile of crap that nobody should use.

As of Jan 1 Mercury says they will start charging $30/month, which is cheaper than other alternatives I've found. My vibecoded Beancount-based system probably cost me more in time than using a year of Mercury Books.

Damn, I've been trying to get another job for pretty much this entire year to work up to the $240/yr, now it's going to be $360/yr? That sucks. I mean, I'd pay a lot more for Mercury, but it sucks that I probably won't get to take advantage of the $240 for my first year.