Plain-English guides on job costing, catch-up bookkeeping, 1099s, and getting your field-service tools to match QuickBooks. Written for contractors, not accountants.
DIY QuickBooks, a categorization service, or a done-for-you trade bookkeeper? An honest comparison of the three ways contractors keep their books, and how to pick.
Read articleBehind on your books? Here is what a catch-up actually involves, how long it takes, and how to stay current once you are out of the hole.
Read articleA company-wide P&L tells you if the business made money. Job costing in QuickBooks tells you which jobs, crews, and customers actually drove that profit. Here is how to set it up.
Read articleYour Jobber or ServiceTitan total never matches your QuickBooks deposits. Here is why those numbers diverge and how to reconcile them so your revenue and job costs are trustworthy.
Read articleThe January 31 deadline is just the finish line. The real work is collecting W-9s before the first payment and tracking subcontractor payments all year. Here is the checklist.
Read articleTrade-native bookkeeping inside your own QuickBooks file, closed by the 15th.