QuickBooks bookkeeping for landscapers

Landscaping jobs, materials and machines in QuickBooks

Each design and build job is followed from first deposit through to the closing invoice, with the materials, machines and trades it used charged to it.

• Each garden build kept as a project for its client, provided your plan includes the projects feature, so the deposit, stage invoices and costs for that garden sit together.
• Deposits and progress payments billed on the timetable you agreed with the client, following your accountant's treatment of deposits.
• Supply yard dockets and nursery receipts for turf, topsoil, plants, sleepers and pavers photographed or emailed to QuickBooks, checked off under For review, then charged to the build that used them.
• Hired excavators, skid steers and compaction gear charged to the garden that needed them, kept apart from repayments on the machines you own.
• Retaining wall, irrigation, fencing and concreting subcontractors entered as bills against the build, so the project shows the trades you paid alongside your own materials.
• Tip and green waste fees charged to the job that produced the waste, so the cost of clearing a garden shows up in what the job made.
• A profit and loss report, an aged receivables report and a list of unpaid supplier bills each month, laid out the same way through busy and quiet stretches, so this season compares with the same months before.

Businesses by main state or territory

These counts are for the ANZSIC class Landscape Construction Services. Businesses that mainly maintain gardens are counted in a separate class, so they are not included here.