Bookkeeping for Cleaning & Janitorial

Yes — that is the point of setting the books up by industry. Commercial cleaning is a payroll business with thin margins and high staff turnover, which means the difference between a profitable contract and a loss-making one is a few hours a week that nobody is tracking. Where crews are treated as subcontractors, the classification question sits underneath everything, and where supplies and equipment are bought centrally but consumed per site, contract-level profitability is invisible.

Labor cost tracked per contract or per site, fully loaded with taxes and insurance; Contract-level profitability so underpriced accounts surface before renewal; Supplies and equipment allocated to the sites that consume them; and 2 other recurring pieces. It is done monthly rather than reconstructed at year end, so the numbers are usable while the decisions are still open.

The three we see most: one payroll figure across every contract, so no account can be evaluated; subcontracted crews with no W-9s collected until January; supplies as a single overhead line, hiding the sites that consume the most; contracts renewed at last year’s rate because nobody could see the margin. Labor is seventy percent of the invoice, so a point of margin is a payroll question.

Yes. We work inside your file so you keep ownership and full visibility. If you do not have one set up yet, we build it around your industry from the start, including a chart of accounts that matches how you actually earn.

That is our specialty. Cleanup is quoted at a fixed price after a short no-obligation review, so you know the cost before any work begins. Scope varies enormously, so we look first and quote second.