Contractors and trades

Job costing, crews, subs, and getting paid.

Trades businesses lose money in two places: work that was never invoiced, and invoices that were never collected. BKS closes both, and handles the crew and subcontractor reporting that comes with running jobs.

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What we hear

If any of this sounds familiar

These are the situations businesses in this position actually describe when they call.

Work finished months ago that still has not been invoiced
Retainage and progress billing tracked in someone’s head
Subcontractors paid all year with no W-9 on file
No idea which jobs actually made money

The order

What happens, in what sequence

Doing these out of order is how businesses pay twice. This is the path BKS runs.

1
Set up to bill
Customers, terms, and invoicing that posts straight to the ledger, with payment links so the invoice can be paid the day it arrives.
- Invoicing
- Payments
2
Pay the crew
Employees on payroll with the withholding and state registrations that go with them; subcontractors onboarded with a W-9 before the first check.
3
Collect
A live receivable aging and a documented follow-up sequence, so past-due accounts get chased on a schedule instead of when someone remembers.
- Accounts receivable
- Collections
4
Know your margin
Books with class or job tracking, so profitability is something you can read per job rather than guess at year end.