E-commerce accounting
Multi-channel reconciliation, inventory and COGS, and multi-state sales-tax nexus for Shopify, Amazon, and Stripe sellers.
Focus: Netted payouts & nexus
E-commerce accountingIndependent bookkeeping & advisory firm · Serving clients nationwide, remotely
Every industry breaks its books in a different place — job costing, trust accounts, netted payouts, prime cost. TechBrot configures your books around the number that actually runs your business, in a fixed-fee scope.
Industry-specific accounting builds the books around the number that runs a particular business: netted payouts and sales-tax nexus in e-commerce, job costing and WIP in construction, client trust accounts for law firms, prime cost for restaurants. TechBrot sets it up in your own QuickBooks file at a fixed fee; monthly bookkeeping runs $500–$2,500+/mo.


Certifications · Current certifications held by TechBrot’s senior reviewer: Intuit QuickBooks Certification Level 2 and QuickBooks Workforce Certification — verification on request. Intuit’s ProAdvisor program becomes Intuit ProPartner Accountants in early 2027; the certifications continue.
Six industries with dedicated expertise pages — each built around the number that actually runs that business.
Multi-channel reconciliation, inventory and COGS, and multi-state sales-tax nexus for Shopify, Amazon, and Stripe sellers.
Focus: Netted payouts & nexus
E-commerce accountingJob costing, work-in-progress reporting, retainage, AIA progress billing, and certified payroll for contractors and trades.
Focus: Job costing & WIP
Construction accountingPer-property and per-unit books, security-deposit and owner-fund handling, depreciation, and property-software reconciliation.
Focus: Per-property profit
Real estate accountingIOLTA and client trust accounting, three-way reconciliation, earned-vs-unearned retainers, and matter-level books.
Focus: Trust reconciliation
Law firm accountingDaily POS reconciliation, prime cost and COGS, tip and payroll handling, sales tax, and multi-location books.
Focus: Prime cost
Restaurant accountingInsurance revenue reconciliation, billed-vs-collected tracking, per-provider books, payroll, and patient refunds.
Focus: Billed vs collected
Healthcare accountingGeneric bookkeeping treats every business the same: categorize, reconcile, produce a P&L. That’s fine until you need to know the thing your industry actually turns on — job profitability on a build, prime cost on a Friday night, collection rate against what you billed, whether trust funds reconcile to the penny. Those numbers don’t appear by accident; the books have to be built to surface them.
TechBrot configures QuickBooks and your monthly process around how your industry operates, so the financials answer the questions you actually ask — and so the work is ready the moment you want advisory on top of it. As automation commoditizes routine data entry, that industry judgment is exactly where the value now lives.
The same operating standard and QuickBooks ProAdvisor delivery, applied to the way each of these runs.
| Industry | What the books turn on | Industry page |
|---|---|---|
| Cannabis · hemp · CBD | IRC 280E and the COGS boundary | Cannabis & hemp |
| Professional services | Utilization & project margin | Professional services |
| SaaS & software | MRR, deferred revenue & churn | SaaS |
| Nonprofit | Fund & grant restrictions | Nonprofit |
| Dental | Production vs collection | Dental |
| Manufacturing | Inventory & cost of goods | Manufacturing |
| Trucking & logistics | Cost per mile & settlements | Trucking |
| Retail | Margin, shrink & sales tax | Retail |
| Agencies | Billable hours & pass-throughs | Agency |
| Franchise | Royalties & multi-unit rollups | Franchise |
| Home services | Job profitability & crews | Home services |
| Auto repair | Parts, labor & RO margin | Auto repair |
| Fitness & wellness | Memberships & deferred revenue | Fitness |
| Landscaping | Crew & equipment job costing | Landscaping |
| Property management | Trust/deposit ledgers & owner statements | Property management |
| Short-term rentals | Per-listing P&L & platform payouts | Short-term rentals |
| Rental property | Per-property P&L, deposits & owner equity | Rental property |
| Amazon sellers | Settlement reconciliation & FBA COGS | Amazon sellers |
| Shopify sellers | Payout reconciliation & sales tax | Shopify sellers |
| Law firm trust / IOLTA | Three-way trust reconciliation | Law firm trust accounting |
| Specialty trades | Per-ticket margin & service agreements | Specialty trades |
Checked against TechBrot’s methodology.
TechBrot serves U.S. small and mid-sized businesses across many industries, with dedicated expertise pages for e-commerce, construction, real estate, legal, restaurants, and healthcare, plus professional services, SaaS, nonprofits, dental, manufacturing, trucking, retail, and more. The same operating standard and QuickBooks ProAdvisor delivery applies across all of them.
Yes. The underlying work — accurate books, correct QuickBooks setup, reconciliation, payroll, sales tax, and advisory — applies to nearly any business. If your industry isn’t listed, a 30-minute discovery call maps your specific accounting needs and how we’d handle them.
Pricing depends on your industry, transaction volume, complexity, and the services in scope, and is always quoted as a fixed monthly fee against a written scope with no hourly billing. Monthly bookkeeping typically ranges from $500–$2,500+ per month with complexity adjustments.
With a cleanup. We reclassify what’s mis-booked, rebuild the industry-specific structure your books need, and reconcile to a known-good baseline — then transition into accurate monthly bookkeeping. Starting mid-mess is fine: it’s how the industry-specific structure gets built in correctly the first time.
Yes — those are exactly the mechanics generic bookkeeping tends to get wrong. We configure QuickBooks for inventory and COGS, job and project costing, class and location tracking, and multi-entity or multi-location rollups, matched to how your industry actually runs. If the existing setup needs heavier structure, we build it during onboarding or a cleanup.
It depends on how far behind and how complex the file is: a bookkeeping cleanup runs two to eight weeks and a catch-up four to twelve, set in the written scope before you move into accurate monthly bookkeeping. We scope the timeline in writing before starting, and then book a free 30-minute discovery call and we’ll estimate yours. Cleanups are fixed-fee against a written scope, never hourly.
We work in the platform you already run. The goal is to connect your existing field-service, POS, e-commerce, or membership system to QuickBooks cleanly — not to make you re-platform. The operational system can stay exactly as it is, and the accounting work is building and maintaining the bridge so the numbers reconcile. We’ll flag a platform change only when the existing tool genuinely can’t produce reconcilable data — and even then it’s a recommendation with the trade-offs laid out, never a requirement to start. The integration discipline is the same across platforms: map the data once, reconcile totals every month, and keep QuickBooks as the auditable system of record. If your industry runs on a platform we haven’t named, the discovery call confirms whether it integrates the way we need it to.
TechBrot performs QuickBooks and bookkeeping work — setup, cleanup, monthly close, reconciliation, industry-specific configuration, KPI reporting, and advisory — and produces the financial statements and supporting detail your tax preparer files from. TechBrot does not prepare or file tax returns; we work with your CPA or EA. We also don’t do IRS representation, audit, or assurance. That boundary is deliberate and it works in your favor: clean, industry-correct books make your CPA’s job faster and your return more accurate, and we coordinate directly with them on anything that touches the line — entity structure, multi-state nexus, depreciation methods.
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