For contractors and tradespeople
Bookkeeping for contractors and tradespeople, done from your statements
Drop in the statements and exports contractors and tradespeople already have. ProfitBooks categorizes every transaction, tracks the deductions that matter for your work, and hands your tax preparer a clean profit and loss. $20 a month, billed annually, plus pay-as-you-go credits.
100 free credits at signup, 10 free every day. No card required.
What you upload
- Business checking statement
- Fuel and supply card statements
- Supplier invoices (Home Depot, Ferguson, lumber yard)
- Receipts for tools and materials
What gets categorized
- Job income (checks, Zelle, card)
- Materials and supplies
- Subcontractors
- Fuel and vehicle
- Tools and equipment
- Insurance and licensing
Deductions to look for
- Materials and supplies by job
- Vehicle expenses (standard mileage or actual)
- Tools under the de minimis limit
- Depreciation on equipment
- Liability and workers comp insurance
- Licenses and permits
- Subcontractor payments (and the 1099s that go with them)
Why it fits
Built for the way contractors and tradespeople actually run money.
Income arrives from a few sources, expenses land on one or two cards, and nobody has time to categorize 12 months of it in April. ProfitBooks reads the statements, learns your vendors, and keeps the profit and loss current so quarterly taxes stop being a guess.
- Chart of accounts built for your industry from one question
- Confidence threshold: auto-finalize the obvious, review the rest
- Year-end totals by category, ready for Schedule C or your preparer
- Need a reconciled balance sheet? Full Books, $99 a month billed annually, replaces the bookkeeper
Pricing
What contractors and tradespeople pay
About 180 transactions a month is 2,160 a year, which fits inside the 10 free credits you get every day. You would pay the $240 a year base plan ($20 a month, billed annually) and nothing else.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Do I need to connect my bank?
No. Download the PDF statement from your bank or take a photo of it. ProfitBooks reads it. No logins shared, no feeds to babysit.
What does it cost for contractors and tradespeople?
About 180 transactions a month is 2,160 a year, which fits inside the 10 free credits you get every day. You would pay the $240 a year base plan ($20 a month, billed annually) and nothing else.
Can my tax preparer use it?
Invite them free. They see the same profit and loss and ledger you do (and the reconciled balance sheet on Full Books), and can export CSV for their software.
Can I see cost by job?
Tag transactions with a job name when you review them and filter the ledger by tag. Full job costing with estimates is not something ProfitBooks does; a spreadsheet or your estimating software still wins there.
I pay subs by check and Zelle. Will that be a mess?
No. Checks and Zelle payments appear on your statement with the payee, and the AI learns which payees are subcontractors. At year end you get a per-vendor total for 1099-NEC.
Your books for contractors and tradespeople, done tonight.
Create a free account, drop in a bank statement, and watch every transaction get categorized. 100 free credits to start, 10 more every day. No card required.
Takes about 90 seconds. No sales call, no onboarding fee, no contract.