You Work Hard for Your Money—We Make Sure You Know Where It’s Going.
Stress-Free Bookkeeping for Contractors, Plumbers, Electricians, HVAC, & More
Same year, broken out line by line: service versus install, materials versus helpers versus crew. That's the detail you need to price a job, drop a service, or decide whether you can afford more equipment.
What Bench is, and what you actually get
A bookkeeping service — not software you have to run yourself
A dedicated bookkeeper. The same person every month
Monthly financials, plus year-end statements to file from
By the kind of work you sell, so you can compare what pays
Available with your bookkeeping, or bring your own accountant
100% tax-deductible
Built for home service and trade businesses — plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing, remodeling, landscaping, cleaning and pest control.
How Bench can help your business specifically
The money's in the bank, but you don't know how much is yours
Customers pay up front, or in stages. A deposit for a job you start next month is sitting in your account right now, looking exactly like profit. Then a big material order goes out and it's gone.
Your bookkeeper separates money you've earned from money you're still holding, so the profit number in front of you is the real one.
You can't tell which work is actually worth doing
Materials, helpers and crew hours all land in the same few lines. A busy month of small repairs and a month of big installs look almost identical on paper, so you're pricing on instinct.
Income and costs get grouped by the type of work you sell, so you can compare them side by side and see what's carrying the business.
Paying helpers turns into a year-end scramble
You bring on extra hands for the busy stretch. In January you're digging through bank statements trying to work out who you paid, how much, and whose paperwork is missing.
Every payment is tracked against the person or company you paid, all year, so year-end is a list you already have instead of a weekend you lose.
Three ways home service owners handle their books
All three work for somebody. Here's the honest difference, so you can tell which one you are.
Bench is a bookkeeping service, not accounting software. If what you want is a tool you operate yourself, one of the first two columns will serve you better — and we'd rather tell you that now.
What home service owners say
"I've been using Bench for about 7 years and really appreciate their services. It takes bookkeeping off my hands and is presented in an online portal that's easy to navigate. I've been satisfied with their service since signing on with them."
"I'm a solopreneur and Bench has been my perfect partner. No more late nights in January and Feb cleaning up a mess. They do my books each month and my job is simple. Everything is automated and I just have to categorize a few items each month. Grateful!"
Bookkeeping questions from home service owners
If you need the profit on one specific invoice, that lives in your scheduling software. Bench works alongside it rather than replacing it.
