Built in Asia, for Asia.

Denpyo (伝票) is the Japanese word for the humble slip of paper every business owner knows — the receipt, the voucher, the proof that an expense actually happened. We kept the name because nothing captures the universal headache of running a business quite like a crumpled receipt at the bottom of a bag.

We started in Japan because that's where we'd spent more than twenty years building companies. Japan's tax-filing season — the annual scramble to gather a year of receipts and defend every deduction — was the problem we lived, and the problem we knew best.

Within months of launching, Denpyo was being used by designers in Hong Kong, consultants in Singapore, developers in Taipei, and foreign freelancers filing Korean taxes. Different tax codes, same pain. So we rebuilt Denpyo for every major Asian market — each country's own categories, tax brackets, filing deadlines, and record-retention rules, in the language people actually work in.

More than 15 million freelancers and self-employed professionals work across the markets we serve — and the tax rules they navigate could not be more different. Hong Kong has no VAT. Singapore opens filing on April 15. Malaysia just made e-invoices mandatory under MyInvois. Vietnam requires 10 years of digital records. Japan's Electronic Books Preservation Act makes scanned receipts legally sufficient.

Most bookkeeping tools are built in San Francisco or London and bolted onto Asia as an afterthought — wrong categories, wrong currencies, deadlines for countries you don't live in, and a language switcher that's mostly window dressing. Denpyo is the opposite. Every market is a first-class citizen, built from its own tax authority's rules: NTA in Japan, IRD in Hong Kong, IRAS in Singapore, LHDN in Malaysia, the MOF in Taiwan, NTS in Korea, and more.