Nine months, three extra people, and the same profit on paper.
No stock to anchor anything. The books are people, recoverable costs and receivables — and the question is always whether an engagement made money once everyone’s time is counted.
Sound familiar?
If none of these are your business, this probably is not the page for you — and we would rather you found that out here than on a call.
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One client took nine months and three extra people, and it shows the same profit as the one that took six weeks.
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You billed the travel and the printing to the client. Probably. Somebody would have to go through the file.
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Payroll is the largest number in the business and it lands in the books as a single line.
Receivables, payroll and profit per engagement — no inventory in the way.
What you will be looking at
The screens this trade lives in
Every one of these exists today. Nothing here is something we would build for you later — that part has its own heading further down.
Sales
Invoices and retainers, without an inventory module standing in the way.
Receivables
Who has not paid, and how long the conversation has been going on.
Payroll
The largest cost in the business, posted properly rather than as one lump.
Bill desk
Recoverable costs coded to the client they belong to on the day they arrive.
Attendance
Days worked, where that matters to what you bill.
Reports
Whether the engagement made money once everybody on it has been counted.
What it already does
About the hard part
- Sales, receivables and ageing without an inventory module in the way
- Payroll and attendance
- Recoverable costs coded to the client they belong to
Usually built on top
Time or retainer capture feeding the ledger, and a profitability cut per engagement.
Scoped and quoted in writing before anything is built, and it ships into your own books — so a custom report reconciles to the statutory ones rather than disagreeing with them.
How custom work fits in →Not quite your trade?
The ledger underneath is the same one. What changes is the costing, the chart of accounts and which screens you open first.
Bring a bill you have not entered yet
We photograph it on the call and you watch the draft entry come back. It is a better demonstration than anything we could write here.