Trades
Trade books that show job profit and labour.
Jobs, crews, and cash before payroll. Built into your fractional finance department.
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What trade books need to show
Five views that sit on a clean close. Illustrative product UI, not live data.
Job / project profit
Invoice, labour, and materials on one P&L per job.
Labour cost
Crew hours coded to the jobs that billed.
Crew vs shop
Field time next to shop and non-billable overhead.
Utilization
Billable hours against paid hours, by crew.
Cash before payroll
Banked and collectible cash before the next payday.
Why trades outgrow generic bookkeeping
Revenue is not margin. Labour eats the job. We build the books so profit by job and crew is visible, plus cash after payroll.
What we close for trades
Jobs and projects
Service calls and install jobs on the same close.
Crew labour
Field hours tied to the jobs they delivered.
Shop overhead
Shop and non-billable time coded so it does not hide in job margin.
Margin by job and crew
Contribution you can read before the next hire or bid.
Cash before payroll
Banked vs collectible, and runway to payday.
Sales tax on the books
GST/HST coded with jobs, materials, and labour where it belongs. Registrations and remittances scoped on the call.
The stack trades run
Ledger, receipts, payroll, and payments into one close. Existing stack marks only.
QuickBooks Online
Xero
Dext
Wagepoint
Stripe
Plooto
Decisions on this month’s numbers
When the books close clean, Fractional CFO uses the same file for cash, forecast, and the call before you hire or bid. See Fractional CFO.
Built into your fractional finance department
Trade bookkeeping is the base. GST/HST and corporate tax ride on clean job numbers. Fractional CFO uses the same file for cash and forecast. One firm. See Pricing, or Book a call.
Who this is for
Growing Canadian trades and home services, typically C$500k+. HVAC and similar when jobs and labour drive the P&L.
How we start
01
Book a call.
How you bill jobs, who codes labour, what the books get wrong.
02
Scope the close.
Jobs, crew, shop, materials, payroll.
03
First clean month.
Jobs tied out. Margin you can run.