Bookkeeping for tilers

What the books involve

• Supply and lay or labour only: jobs where the tiler buys the tiles invoiced with materials shown apart from labour, and labour-only jobs invoiced for the work alone, so the margin on each kind of job reads correctly.
• Tile, adhesive and grout purchases: bills from tile showrooms and trade suppliers checked against what was ordered for each job, with returned boxes recorded as credits.
• Builder work: bathroom, laundry and floor stages on new homes invoiced to each builder, with payments matched to those invoices and anything still unpaid kept on a monthly list.
• Renovation clients: deposits and final invoices for bathroom makeovers and outdoor tiling recorded against each address, with card and bank transfer payments matched as they clear.
• Waterproofing and other work invoiced by other trades entered against the bathroom it was done in, so the full cost of each room is visible.
• Tile saws, mixers, levelling clips and diamond blades recorded apart from job materials, so the cost of equipment and consumables does not blur job costs in the monthly reports.