For freelancers and contractors no one withholds for

The account that
withholds for you.

Get paid by card, bank or USDC. ExactSplit works out exactly what you owe on every payment and moves that share to a separate tax wallet the moment it lands. At tax time, file it yourself or hand your accountant a finished file.

Open your account free →Not a bank: wallets by Whop and its partner banks · Money moves only when you say so · Not tax advice
Tax reserve$0.0027.4% of every payment, to the cent
Yours to spend$0.00Safe to use today

Example: three payments land in an ExactSplit Wallet and each is split at a 27.4% set-aside rate. $1,920.74 goes to the tax reserve and $5,089.26 is yours. Illustrative figures.

One account. The tax handled as you go.

getPaid.anyWay()

Get paid any way

Send invoices and payment links your clients pay by card, bank or stablecoin, or give them your wallet's USDC address on Solana or Base. Every payment lands in one account.

tax.setsItselfAside()

The tax sets itself aside

Each payment's exact tax share, from your real safe-harbor figures and not a 30% guess, moves to a separate tax wallet the moment it lands. Paid in USDC, set aside in USDC.

file.orHandOff()

File it, or hand it off

Filled Schedule C and SE, 1040-ES vouchers and a TurboTax import if you file yourself. A private link with quarterly sign-off if your accountant does.

Watch it work.

Deposits · this month
Stripe payout$4,800.00→set aside $820.80
Acme Corp · invoice #1042$6,200.00→set aside $1,060.20
Northwind · retainer$3,500.00→set aside $598.50
Reserved so far$0.00

Every deposit, split. Rate derived from your real safe-harbour target, applied the moment money lands.

Tax reserve
Should be reserved$12,500.00
Actually in reserve$4,200.00
⚠ You're $8,300.00 short — more than one quarter's payment.
✓ On track for September 15.

Tracked, not just told. Your reserve account against what should be there, and a nudge before a deadline rather than after.

Sync · classifying against “real estate agent”
GITHUB.COM−$4.00Deductiblellm
WHOLE FOODS MKT−$83.12Personalrule
STRIPE PAYOUT+$4,800.00Incomeaccount
SQ *BLUE BOTTLE−$6.50Personalrule
FACEBK *ADS−$50.00Deductibleheuristic

Books that keep themselves. Every transaction classified against your trade, with its provenance shown.

Safe to pay yourself
Operating balance$12,000.00
Tax not yet set aside−$3,000.00
Bills due, next 30 days−$900.00
Pending charges−$150.00
Cash buffer · 14 days−$700.00
Yours to move today—

What is yours to spend. Tax not yet set aside, bills about to hit, and a buffer come off the balance. The rest is yours, today.

Closings pipeline · real estate
142 Maple St$7,000.0070%
9 Harbor View$10,500.0050%
Lot 4, Ridge Rd$4,200.0090%
Projected income$40,000.00
Set aside from the next deposit15.1%

Income you can see coming. A pending closing raises the projection and the set-aside rate before the deposit lands.

Accountant view · Q3
Dana, CPA HOME DEPOT $412.80 on Aug 14: job site or the kitchen?
You Job site. Lumber for the Ortiz deck.
Resolved · rule saved for HOME DEPOT
Q3 · $3,180.00awaiting sign-off

Your accountant, in the loop. A question on the row it is about, an answer where it sits, and a quarter signed off.

The 30% rule costs you money in both directions.

It was never a tax rule. It was a guess, and for most people it holds back far more than they owe, all year, earning nothing. Your number depends on your income, filing status, state, retirement contributions and last year's return. We compute it from your actual transactions. You keep the difference.

Then it finds the money you are leaving on the table.

A calculator is a one-day product. This is the rest of the year: the contributions, the entity decision, the deductions with evidence. Every feature in detail →

Stablecoins

Paid in USDC, taxed correctly

Clients can pay invoices in stablecoins, or send USDC or USDT straight to your wallet. You mark each deposit as a client payment or your own money; income is valued in dollars when it arrives, and its tax share is set aside in the same coin.

Tax engine

2026 tables, cited to the source

Brackets, SE tax, the wage base, §199A with the SSTB phase-out and the OBBBA $400 floor, the $400 SE-tax cliff, both safe-harbour tests. Every constant carries its Rev. Proc. or Notice.

Retirement

SEP and solo-401(k), solved exactly

Each account against its own statutory limit, the circular employer contribution in closed form, the shared §415(c) ceiling, catch-ups by age, and an optimiser that re-runs the whole engine to show what one more dollar actually saves after the QBI clawback.

S-corp

Crossover, in both directions

Employment tax saved, real costs subtracted, and the §199A effect modelled whichever way it cuts. Break-even at your own salary ratio. Always flagged for a CPA, because it's a structural decision.

Mileage

Priced by trip date

2026 split mid-year; every trip is rated by its own date with the citation attached. All four §274(d) fields required, because an incomplete trip isn't a smaller deduction, it's none.

Accountant

A finished file, not a shoebox

Invite your accountant by email. They get a private link, no account needed, and see the quarterly figures, the reserve, and the business transactions. They can ask about any row, request a document, and sign off each quarter. When a number moves after they approved it, you both see it.

Real estate

A workflow built for agents

Commission income recognised at the net amount, MLS, E&O, lockbox and showing services classified without being taught, and a closings pipeline: each pending closing raises the projection and the set-aside rate before the check arrives, and drops out the day it lands.

Bookkeeping

Books you never have to do

Read-only bank feed in, classified books out. Every transaction judged against your trade, a rule table that learns your merchants, mileage that meets IRS substantiation, and a Schedule C file your CPA can work from.

Assistant

Ask your books

"What did my Bali trip cost?" Trips are inferred from your ledger, not typed in. The assistant picks a query and narrates tested arithmetic. It never does the sums itself, and it never gives advice.

January

Schedule C working papers

Line-by-line Part II, a mileage log, and every transaction with its assigned line, as CSV and printable. The caveats are written into the file, for the CPA who never saw the app.

Built like it holds your bank data. Because it does.

Whopand its partner banks hold wallet funds. ExactSplit is not a bank and never holds your money; bank connections stay read-only.
AES-256GCM encryption on bank tokens at rest. Never logged, never returned by any endpoint.
Read-onlyPlaid access. We never see your bank credentials.
780+automated checks on the tax maths and tenant isolation, run on every change.

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Questions

Can clients pay me in USDC?

Yes. Invoices and payment links accept stablecoins at checkout, and every wallet has its own USDC and USDT addresses on Solana, Base and other networks. Deposits sent straight to an address wait for you to mark them as a client payment or your own money, so only real income is taxed.

Is ExactSplit a bank?

No. Wallets are provided by Whop, Inc., a technology platform, and its partner banks hold the funds. ExactSplit is software: it works out your taxes and, when you switch on auto-split, asks Whop to move the tax share between your own wallets. Stablecoin balances are not FDIC-insured.

Does it move my money?

ExactSplit itself does not. When your reserve falls behind it proposes a transfer; you approve it and make it at your bank, and it is marked funded when the deposit appears. In your ExactSplit Wallet, deposits and withdrawals are carried out by Whop and its partner banks, inside the wallet page, only when you start them. The one exception is auto-split, which you switch on yourself: when a payment lands in your wallet, ExactSplit moves its tax share to your own tax wallet, and you can switch it off at any time.

What is “safe to pay yourself”?

The amount you can move to personal today without touching tax or upcoming bills. It is your operating balance, less tax owed so far that is not already in the reserve, less recurring bills due in the next 30 days, less a cash buffer you set. It is recomputed on every sync and shows how old the balances are.

Can my accountant use it?

Yes. Invite them by email and they get a private link with no account to create. They see the quarterly figures, the reserve status and the business transactions, never balances, personal rows or your bank login. They can ask about a transaction, request a document, and approve each quarter. Revoking the link takes one click.

Is this tax advice?

No. It is an estimate built from your own transactions, with every approximation surfaced in the app and in the export. Anything above the §199A threshold, and anything structural like an S-corp election, is flagged for a CPA. An accountant's approval inside the app is their sign-off, not ours.

Who is it for?

Freelancers, contractors and sole proprietors who are paid without tax withheld, including by clients paying in stablecoins. The tax engine is built for US Schedule C filers. There is one built-in workflow so far, for commission-based real estate agents, with a closings pipeline and the trade's merchants already known. Everyone else tells it their trade and deductibility is judged against that; more packs follow where the workflow is genuinely different.

How does it connect to my bank?

Through Plaid, read-only. Access tokens are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, never logged, and never returned by any endpoint. Removing a bank calls Plaid's /item/remove so the connection is genuinely gone.

What does it cost?

Free gets you the wallet, your estimate, and one connected bank with your live set-aside rate. Pro is $249 a year or $29 a month, with a 14-day free trial: every bank, auto-split into your tax wallet, your accountant, and Schedule C files. Pro + Self-File is $399 a year and adds filled IRS forms and a TurboTax import. Business is $499 a year or $50 a month and adds retirement and S-corp planning, a wallet per business, and priority support. Accountants can cover their clients for $49 a month for five, then $12 each. See /pricing for the full comparison.

What is ExactSplit Wallet?

An optional wallet, opened from your ExactSplit dashboard, for keeping your tax reserve apart from everyday money. It is provided by Whop, a technology platform whose partner banks hold the funds; ExactSplit never holds your money, and any savings account works just as well. Full disclosures are at exactsplit.com/wallet-terms.

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Not tax advice. Estimates only. Confirm anything material with a CPA.