Know which jobs actually made money
Construction accounting lives or dies on job costing. If labour, materials, and subs aren't allocated to the right job, you find out a project lost money long after you could have done anything about it — and your bonding company wants a WIP schedule you can't produce.
What makes construction & trades books different
These are the places we see go wrong most often — and the first things we fix.
Cost allocation by job
Shared labour, equipment, and materials have to land on the right job or profitability is fiction.
WIP and percentage of completion
Over- and under-billing schedules are demanded by sureties and lenders, and are painful to build retroactively.
Retainage and subcontractor compliance
Retainage receivable and payable sit for months, and subs need accurate 1099s and lien waiver tracking.
Built for how you actually operate
- Job costing by project, phase, and cost code
- WIP schedules with over/under billing
- Retainage receivable and payable tracking
- Progress billing and AIA-style invoicing support
- Subcontractor payment tracking and 1099 preparation
- Equipment and materials cost allocation
Software we work in
- QuickBooks Contractor
- Sage 100 Contractor
- Buildertrend
- Xero
- Bill.com
Using something else? We adapt to your stack — just ask.
Flexible pricing
from $10/hour
- Hourly, dedicated, or fixed monthly
- Free first-month trial
- Onboarding in 24 hours
Where we usually start
Construction & Trades, answered
Yes. We prepare work-in-progress schedules showing costs incurred, estimated cost to complete, percentage complete, and over/under billings in the format sureties and lenders expect.
We prepare the underlying payroll data and job allocation. Certified payroll report filing for prevailing-wage jobs is coordinated with your payroll provider or CPA.
Subcontractors are set up as 1099-eligible vendors from onboarding with W-9s collected upfront, so year-end reporting is a report run rather than a scramble. See our note on the new $2,000 threshold.
Other industries we know well
Leave the accounting to us
Your first month is free, onboarding takes as little as 24 hours, and rates start at $10/hour. No lock-in.