Oxford, Ohio · Butler County & Greater Cincinnati
Somebody is retyping the same numbers into QuickBooks
Almost every business I look at has one person moving figures into QuickBooks by hand. Invoices from the job system. Estimates from a spreadsheet. Job costs from supplier invoices in an inbox. It is a day a week in a lot of shops, and it is the least interesting day of the week.
This is probably you if
- Invoices get entered twice, in two systems
- Supplier bills are keyed in one PDF at a time
- Job costing lives in a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts
- You cannot see profitability until well after month end
- Your bookkeeper spends most of the time on data entry
Where the double entry happens
The usual culprits: your field service or job system does not sync cleanly, so invoices get created twice. Supplier bills arrive as PDFs and get keyed in one at a time. Job costing lives in a spreadsheet that gets reconciled monthly, badly.
The tell is that nobody trusts the numbers until month end, which means you are running the business on a picture that is always a few weeks stale.
What I build
A proper connection between QuickBooks and whatever creates the money events: your job system, your quoting, your supplier invoices. Bills read automatically and coded to the right job. Invoices raised from completed work rather than retyped.
Anything the system is not confident about gets queued for a person instead of guessed, because a wrong entry in accounting is worse than a missing one.
Numbers you can act on
Once the data flows without hand-keying, job-level profitability stops being a monthly archaeology project. You can see which customers and which kinds of work actually make money while there is still time to do something about it.
Questions people actually ask
- Desktop or Online?
- Both. QuickBooks Online is more straightforward to connect; Desktop needs a different approach but is very doable.
- Will this upset our bookkeeper or CPA?
- It usually delights them. I would rather build this with your accountant in the room, since they know exactly where the manual work is.
- What if the numbers come out wrong?
- Low-confidence items never post automatically. They queue for review with a link back to the source document, so a person makes the call.
Worth a conversation?
Fifteen or twenty minutes about how your business actually runs. No deck, no discovery fee. If I do not think there is anything here worth building, I will tell you that.
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