You didn't get into this to do paperwork.
There's a shoebox of receipts in the truck and you've been meaning to deal with it since March. Two invoices never went out. The job that felt busy might have lost money and you won't know until your accountant tells you in April.
The parts of the week that cost you money
Not the work. The hour after the work, and the things that quietly go missing in it.
The invoice you didn't send
The job finished at seven, you drove home, and the next morning started before you got to it. Invoice from the driveway instead — SutorBooks installs on your phone, so raising it takes the two minutes it should rather than waiting for a evening at the desk.
On your phone →The receipt in the footwell
Three trips to the supplier, three bits of paper, and by the time anyone looks at them the ink has gone. Photograph it at the counter and the date, amount and vendor fill themselves in.
Add-on Receipt Scanning, from Starter up.
The hours nobody wrote down
You quoted three. It took seven, there was knob-and-tube behind the wall, and a change order that exists only as a conversation. Log the hours against the job and bill them onto the invoice.
Job costing →Which jobs actually made money
A yearly total tells you whether it was a good year. It doesn't tell you which kind of work to stop taking.
Costs and revenue land on the same job, so profit per job is something you look up. The bathroom that ran long, the commercial job that paid late, the friend-of-a-friend rate you've never repeated — each one is a number rather than a feeling.
Underneath it is real books underneath, which is why the job report, the profit and loss and the balance sheet can't tell you three different stories.
Who this is for
Electricians, plumbers, HVAC, roofers, concrete, landscapers, painters, cabinet installers and general contractors — anyone running real money through a business with no back office and nobody in the next room who knows what a chart of accounts is.
- Estimates that become invoices without retyping the job.
- Bills and vendors, so what you owe the supply house is a list rather than a memory.
- Bank reconciliation from an imported statement.
- Your accountant's seat is free on every package, including Free.
What we don't do
Better you know now than in month three.
- No payroll. If you have a crew on the books, that stays wherever it is today.
- No tax filing. We produce 1099 reporting; we don't file it, and we're not a CPA.
- No automatic bank feeds. You download a statement and import it.
- It isn't only for the trades. This page is written for you because we think you've been underserved, but the product is built for small businesses generally — shops, agencies and founders use the same ledger.
Build. We'll handle the books.
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