Plumbing business accounting software
- Balance due
- $687.16
- Labor
- $290
- Parts, marked up
- $288
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Accounting software for a plumbing business is the books, and the books are only as good as the invoices that reach them. Most plumbers already have QuickBooks Online or Xero; what they do not have is every invoice, with the customer and the job on it, arriving in the books the day it was raised. The gap between the truck's invoice and the accountant's ledger is where cash goes missing and month end gets late.
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Invoice on the truck, book it the same day
The invoice written on site, from the work order, is the source document. Pushing it into the books as it is saved, with the customer created if they are new, is what keeps the ledger and the truck in step without a Friday of data entry.
Keep the customer and the job on the invoice
An invoice in the books with no job on it cannot be costed. Carrying the customer and the work order reference into the accounting system is what makes job profitability a report rather than a guess.
Take payment on the invoice, reconcile once
A pay link on the invoice means the payment arrives against the invoice it belongs to. Reconciling that is a match, not a hunt.
Plumbing business accounting software: common questions
Does RoughInDesk replace QuickBooks?
No. It raises the invoices and pushes them into your QuickBooks Online or Xero. Your accountant keeps working where they work; the invoices just arrive on time with the job on them.
Which accounting software is best for plumbers?
Whichever your accountant already uses well. The difference between the leading packages is small next to the difference between an invoice that reached the books today and one that reached them at month end.
Can I take card payments?
With RoughInDesk Pro you connect your own Stripe account and every invoice carries a pay link, paid straight to you. The payment arrives against the invoice it belongs to.
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Keeping what you make
The answers are free forever. Pro turns them into your paperwork: your logo and license number on it, no watermark, every estimate and invoice saved against the customer and the job, and clean exports.
- Download as PDF
- No RoughInDesk watermark
- Save and reopen later
- Your logo and license on it
- Bulk export documents
- Appointment reminders emailed to your customers
- Connect your own Stripe account and get paid online
- Connect your QuickBooks Online or Xero
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The plumbing shop's accounting problem is rarely the accounting: it is the invoice raised on the truck that never reaches the books, so every invoice pushed into QuickBooks Online or Xero on the day it is raised closes the gap.
Plumbing invoice software (Balance due): $687.16, RoughInDesk, worked example.
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