Construction & Contractor Accounting
“Since switching to August Castle Accounting, we finally have real visibility into job costs as they happen instead of guessing until the job’s done. The QuickBooks and JobTread setup Jackson built for us keeps our budgets, invoicing, and payments all in sync. It’s made a real difference in how we manage our projects.”
— Canon Baldridge, Owner, Integria Construction
Built for how construction actually works
Most bookkeeping systems weren’t built for job-based businesses. Standard accounting tells you what came in and went out — it doesn’t tell you which job is making money, which one is bleeding you dry, or where your cash actually stands between draws. If you’ve ever finished a job and only then found out it wasn’t profitable, or spent hours manually tracking costs against a budget that’s already out of date, you know the problem.
As a JobTread and Truss partner, we built a system specifically for contractors and project-based businesses using three tools that work together:
- QuickBooks Online — the accounting foundation. Clean books, accurate financials, and tax-ready records year-round.
- JobTread — job costing and project management. Every job gets its own budget, and every cost gets tracked against it in real time, so you know where a project stands while it’s still happening, not three months after it’s done.
- Truss — construction-specific banking and payments. No-fee business banking built for the industry, faster payment collection from clients, quick payouts to subs and vendors, and it syncs directly back into QuickBooks — so the money side and the books side never fall out of sync.
What this solves for you:
- Hours back in your week. No more manually re-entering costs across three different spreadsheets and hoping they match.
- Job profitability, in real time. Know which jobs are making money and which aren’t, before it’s too late to do anything about it.
- Cash flow you can actually see. Faster draws, faster payments, and banking built around how contractors get paid — not a generic business checking account.
we work with you
As a JobTread and Truss partner, we set up the full system — QBO, JobTread, and Truss, all connected — and manage the books month to month so you always know where each job and your business as a whole actually stand.