About Slate

Slate is a cloud bookkeeping system for freelancers and small businesses in Israel - invoices, receipts, VAT reports and expense management, all in one place, compliant with Tax Authority requirements.

Our goal is to turn the accounting side of running a business into a matter of seconds instead of hours - with legal compliance (sequential numbering, digital signing, allocation numbers) built into the system itself, not a set of steps you have to remember.

For more on how we protect your business data, see the security page.

Who writes the guides

The guides on this site are written by the Slate team, and they rest on the same requirements we implement in the product itself: sequential numbering, digital signing, the Open Format export, and allocation numbers from the Tax Authority. When we describe how a document works, it is because we had to build it correctly first.

Every figure in a guide, a threshold, a rate or a deadline, is checked against the official source: the Israel Tax Authority, Bituach Leumi, the text of the law, or Kol Zchut. Where a guide leans on an external source, the sources are listed at the end of the page with a link, so you can check for yourself rather than take our word for it.

Israeli thresholds and rates change almost every year, and sometimes mid-year. Every guide carries a visible publication date and update date at the top, and we move the update date when the number changes rather than when it suits us. If you find something out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

The obvious caveat is worth stating: the guides are general information, not tax advice. They explain how the system works and what the law requires; they do not replace an accountant who knows your specific case.

What happens to your data

An issued document cannot be edited or deleted, and your history can be exported at any time as an Open Format file. The full detail, including digital signing and public verification of a document, is on the security page.