Bookkeeping categories
What category is HoneyBook in bookkeeping?
Money you pay HoneyBook is usually Online Software, and a HoneyBook payout into your bank is Sales Revenue. Even Margin tells them apart by which way the money moves, and asks you to confirm the payout.
What HoneyBook is for
Inside Online Software, Even Margin also tags HoneyBook by what it is for: CRM & Sales. It does the same for the 1,300+ tools on its list, so Analytics can show what your software is for: your spend on each kind of tool, side by side in one chart, with HoneyBook counted under CRM & Sales.
What HoneyBook charges are
HoneyBook does two things in your bank account: it charges you for your plan, and it pays out what clients paid you through it.
How Even Margin categorizes HoneyBook
Online Software. Payouts are Sales Revenue, for your review list.
- Even Margin recognizes HoneyBook on your bank transaction, using the merchant list its team curates.
- Money you pay HoneyBook is categorized as Online Software with high confidence, applied without asking you.
- A HoneyBook payout into your bank is categorized as Sales Revenue at medium confidence and goes to your review list to confirm, since income is worth a look.
When a different category fits
Whatever category you pick for a HoneyBook transaction stays: Even Margin never overwrites a choice you made.
- A refund you send a client through HoneyBook is money going out, so Even Margin first counts it as software. Move it to Sales Returns & Refunds.
- Clients who pay you by bank transfer instead arrive under their own name, and those payments are Sales Revenue too.
Why is my HoneyBook payout less than the client paid?
HoneyBook's processing fee comes out of a client payment before it reaches your bank, which is why a payout can be smaller than the payment. Your HoneyBook account shows the fee for each one.
What if clients pay me through HoneyBook and Stripe?
Payouts from HoneyBook and Stripe both land in Sales Revenue, and Even Margin asks you to confirm each one. For a separate total per platform, create a revenue category for each and write a rule per merchant.
About this page
Reviewed 2026-10-16 by the Even Margin team.
These are categories for your books; for how a cost is treated on your tax return, ask your accountant. Merchant names are trademarks of their owners, and Even Margin is not affiliated with them.