Job costing that actually tells you which projects make money — plus progress billing, retainage, and subcontractor tracking handled by people who understand how construction accounting is different.
Most bookkeeping services treat every business the same way: record the transaction, categorize it, move on. That works fine for a business with one revenue stream. It falls apart for a contractor running five jobs at once, each with its own materials, labor, subcontractors, and draw schedule. Without job-level costing, you can be "profitable" on paper and still not know which projects are actually making you money and which ones are quietly losing it.
Expenses get lumped into general categories instead of tracked against the specific job — so you can't tell if a project came in over budget until it's too late to fix.
Holdbacks and partial draws are hard to track manually, and it's easy to lose sight of what's actually been collected versus what's still owed.
Tracking who you've paid, what you still owe, and preparing 1099s (US) or T5018s (Canada) at year-end becomes a scramble.
Payroll and material costs don't wait for your next progress payment — and without a clear cash flow picture, timing gets stressful.
Free, no-obligation review — 2 months of complimentary bookkeeping support if you qualify.
Apply for Free Trial →Yes — this is the core of how we set up your books. Every job gets its own cost tracking so you can see materials, labor, and subcontractor costs against that specific project's revenue, not lumped into one general number.
Yes. We track holdbacks separately from your regular receivables and keep your progress billing schedule reconciled against what's actually been collected.
We work primarily in QuickBooks Online, customized with a job-costed chart of accounts. If you're using a construction-specific platform alongside it, we can typically integrate or reconcile between the two — ask us about your specific setup on a discovery call.