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Job Costing and Accounting for Field-Service Businesses
Field-service businesses don't have one margin. They have a margin per job, per crew, per truck, and per service line, and the company's fate is the sum of numbers most owners never see. This is Steady's home turf: the accounting layer built specifically for businesses that dispatch people and equipment. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, pest control, landscaping, and their neighbors.
- QuickBooks Gold ProAdvisor
- Intuit Certified Bookkeeper
- Intuit Enterprise Suite Certified
- IRS PTIN Holder
What field-service accounting includes
- Job costing that closes the loop: labor (fully burdened, taxes and comp included), materials, subs, and equipment landed on each job, reported against the estimate Job Costing in QuickBooks Online: The Contractor Setup That Actually Works
- Service-line margins: install vs service vs maintenance agreements reported as the separate businesses they are, monthly
- Crew and technician profitability: revenue per crew-day, labor efficiency per tech, the numbers that make scheduling and pricing decisions real
- Vehicle and equipment economics: fuel, maintenance, and depreciation allocated so the trucks' true cost lives in your pricing, not your imagination
- Field software reconciled: ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, FieldRoutes synced and tied to the books monthly, one story, two systems
- Payroll allocated to jobs as it runs, not reconstructed at year-end Payroll Administration for Small Businesses
- Deposits, progress billing, and WIP where jobs span months WIP for Contractors: Why Your P&L Swings, and How to Fix It
What changes when this works
Estimating stops being folklore: every closed job feeds actuals back against the bid, and bids tighten within a quarter or two. Pricing conversations get short: when you know a crew-day costs $2,340 all-in, the discount request answers itself. And the annual surprise, busy year, empty account, gets replaced by knowing which work earns and which just keeps trucks moving.
Built per vertical
The mechanics differ by trade, flat-rate vs T&M in HVAC, route density in pest control, per-square costing in roofing, storm surges in tree work, and we maintain dedicated setups for each. Find yours: All industries
Questions, answered
Common questions
We tried job costing before and it died. Why would this stick?
It dies when it depends on owner discipline at 9pm. It sticks when the bookkeeper owns the allocation monthly and the field software feeds it automatically, which is the service, not the software.
Founder-led service
Ivan Dyakov
Ivan leads client strategy, major relationships, and service standards, supported by a specialized delivery process built for consistency.
Meet the founder- QuickBooks Gold ProAdvisor
- Intuit Certified Bookkeeper
- Intuit Enterprise Suite Certified
- IRS PTIN Holder
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