Audit-ready trust accounting
A live receipts & disbursements journal, per-client ledgers and a three-way reconciliation that has to agree before you sign off. Your filing builds itself.
AI Reads your checks & remittances for you
/ 00Marshal back-office software
The desk that keeps your returns, money and clocks in order.
ReturnDesk runs the back office of a Marshal’s practice — trust-account reconciliation, statutory execution clocks, check capture and the forms — audit-ready by design.
Built to the statutes, fees and clocks that govern your practice
Scanned in one pass
AI check capture
SCAN → POSTMeridian Auto Group
1420 Commerce Way
Riverton Business Park
Riverton Business Park
No. 2048
51-118/113
Date 2026-06-03
Pay to the order of
State Marshal — Trust A/C
$ 1,284.50
One thousand two hundred eighty-four and 50/100
Dollars
First Ledger Bank & Trust
MemoDocket CV-2026-0148
Authorized signature
⑆113000138⑆ 8820004471⑈ 2048
MakerMeridian Auto Group
Amount$1,284.50
Date2026-06-03
Posted toTrust journal ✓
CAPTURE 04 / 04 · POSTED0.6s
Illustrative — sample data
3-way
Trust reconciliation that must tie
AI
Reads your checks & remittances
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Records retained, automatically
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Desk for the whole back office
/ 01The accountability
When the records aren’t there, the badge comes off.
The Marshal system ties the badge to one duty above all others: account for every dollar you collect. Miss it and the consequences are real.
The cautionary tale · representative
A veteran Marshal — badge revoked
Collected client money and didn’t remit it on time. The commission pulled the badge for the missed remittances; the state then charged felony larceny.
$12K+ withheld·multiple clients·badge revoked·felony larceny
30 days
to remit collected funds
5% / mo
penalty if you’re late
$100K
surety bond (2025 law)
Self-reported
reconciliations to the Commission
Could you produce your remittance records tomorrow — to the penny?
/ 02Why ReturnDesk
The whole job — front to back.
Most tools handle the easy half. ReturnDesk runs the part the Commission actually audits: the money you hold and the clocks you can’t miss.
Never miss a statutory clock
Every execution becomes a deadline — 7-day bank service, the 21st-day wage effective date, the §6-32 return — surfaced before it’s ever late.
Check capture & the forms
Scan a check and the AI posts it to the trust journal — no retyping. The full state form library and the 15/115 fee math come standard.
/ 03How it works
Three moves, start to filed.
Step one
Bring what you have
Import your open parties from a spreadsheet — one row per party. ReturnDesk matches by file, person and docket, and previews before anything saves.
Step two
Work the desk
Scan checks, capture returns and serve executions. The clocks start themselves and the fee math runs as you go — nothing to calculate by hand.
Step three
Reconcile & file
Reconcile in three clicks, watch it tie and export the Commission filing. Attach the bank statement and you’re done.
/ 04A look inside
See the desk at work.
Illustrative screens — the money, the clocks and the paper, in one place.
Statutory clocks
EXECUTIONSBank — 7-day serviceOn time
Wage — 21st-day effective3 days
Property — 20-day noticeTomorrow
Return — statutory deadlineDue
Every execution becomes a deadline that surfaces before it’s late.
AI check capture
SCAN → POSTMakerMeridian Auto Group
Amount$1,284.50
Date2026-06-03
Posted toTrust journal ✓
Scan a check; the AI reads every field and posts it — no retyping.
Client remittance
BATCH 321Collected, 21 debtors$6,932.84
Marshal fee 15/115$904.30
Net remitted$6,028.53
Check + CSV to clientReady
One-page statements, the fee math, the check and the client CSV — done.
/ 05The old way vs. the desk
Clear off the desk.
The checkbook and the spreadsheet work — until the commission, a client or an auditor asks you to prove it.
The checkbook register
The reconciliation spreadsheet
Hand-calculated 15/115 fees
Sticky-note deadlines
The shoebox of returns
A separate invoice template
→ all of it, in one desk.
| What the job needs | ReturnDesk | Spreadsheet + checkbook |
|---|---|---|
| Three-way reconciliation that has to tie | Built in | By hand |
| Statutory clocks surfaced before they’re late | Automatic | Sticky notes |
| 15/115 fee math & the $50 minimum | Calculated | By hand |
| Check capture from a scan | AI reads it | Retype it |
| 7-year retention & an audit trail | Automatic | A folder, hopefully |
| Produce remittance records to the penny | One click | A weekend |
| The commission filing | Builds itself | From scratch |
/ 06From the field
What Marshals are saying.
Peers who traded the checkbook and the spreadsheet for one desk.
★★★★★
The first month it caught two remittances I’d have blown the 30-day clock on. That alone paid for the year.
Ray D. · State Marshal · 14 yrs on the badge
★★★★★
I stopped doing the 15/115 math on a legal pad. Scan the check, it posts, the reconciliation ties. My whole filing took an afternoon.
Denise M. · State Marshal
★★★★★
I’m not a computer person and I was running it the same week. A client asked for records and I had them to the penny in about ten minutes.
Frank P. · State Marshal · solo office
Sample reviews — shown for layout; replace with real Marshal quotes before launch
/ 07Pricing
One Marshal. One office. One account.
One plan for the Marshal — add staff seats as you need them. 1 month free, cancel anytime.
Billed monthly · cancel anytime
Best value
Desk
$199 /mo
Everything a single Marshal needs.
Includes a 1-month free trial
- Up to 500 parties
- Trust accounting & 3-way reconciliation
- Execution clock engine
- Returns & statutory fee engine
- Full state form library
- 10 GB document storage
- AI check capture — 2,000 / mo
- Priority email support
Additional seats
Named logins for your staff — one session per seat, every action logged to that person.
+$19.99 /mo each
* 7-year record retention is included while your subscription is active. ** AI fair-use: 2,000 scans/mo on Desk — beyond that, $0.05 per scan.
/ 08Questions
The things Marshals ask first.
Do I have to switch everything at once?+
No. Import your open parties and run ReturnDesk alongside your spreadsheet and checkbook for as long as you want. Most Marshals move over once they’ve watched the numbers tie a few times.
Can I import what I already have in a spreadsheet?+
Yes. Drop in a spreadsheet or CSV export — one row per party — and ReturnDesk matches by file, person and docket, then previews everything before it saves.
Is my client and debtor data private?+
Your book is encrypted and walled off from every other Marshal’s. We don’t sell data, and you can export yours at any time.
What if I’m not technical?+
If you can use email and a web browser, you can use ReturnDesk. The clocks, the fee math and the reconciliation run themselves, and we help you get set up.
What happens to my data if I cancel?+
While your subscription is active we store your records for the seven years Marshals are expected to retain them. If you stop paying, we export and hand you all of your data and then wipe it from our servers. Reactivating later is a one-time $199 fee.
Is ReturnDesk approved by the State Marshal Commission?+
No software is “Commission-approved.” ReturnDesk is built to the 2025 statutes and Commission rules, so what you produce lines up with what the Commission audits — but it’s an independent tool, not legal advice.
Close your books with confidence.
Spend your time serving and collecting — let ReturnDesk hold the money straight and keep every clock running.