A North Charleston bookkeeper
for commercial work.

A different kind of trade town

Commercial money moves slower.

North Charleston is not a residential service market wearing a different name. It is South Carolina’s industrial engine — aerospace manufacturing, the port terminals, a joint military installation, the airport, and the warehouse and logistics corridor feeding all of it.

For a trade contractor that changes almost everything about the accounting. Your customer is usually another business, often a general contractor, not a homeowner writing a check at the end of the day. You invoice on a schedule someone else controls. You wait. A slice of every invoice is held back until the whole project closes out.

Books designed for residential service work fall apart under that. They show you a receivables balance without telling you how much of it is retainage you cannot collect yet, or which general contractor is quietly forty days past their own stated terms.

Bonding and lending

Books that survive being read by a stranger.

Commercial work eventually asks you to prove yourself on paper. A surety wants financial statements before it writes a bond. A bank wants them before it extends a line of credit to cover your net-60 gap. A general contractor may want them before adding you to an approved-subcontractor list.

None of those readers are gentle. They look for work-in-progress that reconciles, revenue recognition that is consistent, and a balance sheet where equity, retainage, and deposits actually make sense. A file full of uncategorized transactions and an Opening Balance Equity account nobody ever cleared will cost you the bond, not just the conversation.

We keep your QuickBooks Online file in a state where handing it over is a non-event. Reconciled every month. Closing date locked once the period is done. Every entry backed by a source document.

Who we work with

The trades doing commercial and industrial work.

Our North Charleston work concentrates in the trades that serve business customers rather than households:

• Mechanical and HVAC contractors on commercial systems, rooftop units and warehouse ventilation, where equipment values are high and the service agreement matters as much as the install.
• Industrial and commercial electricians running conduit, panels, and controls in plants and distribution facilities, usually as a sub to a general contractor and usually on progress billing.
• Commercial plumbing and process piping, where materials are a far larger share of job cost than in residential work and pricing a job wrong is expensive.
• Commercial roofing on warehouse and industrial envelopes — large square footage, long warranties, and material costs that move with the market.
• Sitework, concrete and specialty subs working the industrial and logistics corridor, where retainage and back-charges are simply part of the deal.

What they have in common is not the trade. It is that they invoice businesses, wait to be paid, and need books that survive being read by a surety, a lender, or a general contractor’s accounts payable department.

Where we work

North Charleston and the surrounding industrial corridor.

We work inside your own QuickBooks Online file, remotely. These are the areas North Charleston contractors most often run work in:

Pricing

Cleanup pricing, and what comes after.

A cleanup is a one-time project — fixed scope, fixed price, and a date it is finished by. These are starting prices, not sight-unseen quotes; the exact figure is set after a free books diagnostic.

Monthly bookkeeping afterwards is optional, never a condition of the cleanup. Plans run $149 Starter, $299 Growth and $599 Scale per month — no setup fee, cancel any time. See how a cleanup works →