Bookkeeping services in Riverside & Avondale

Riverside and Avondale are built on independent, owner-run businesses: restaurants and bars in Five Points and King Street, boutiques in the Shoppes of Avondale, salons, yoga and fitness studios, and a growing number of design and marketing firms in Brooklyn. These businesses tend to run on a mix of Square, Toast, Shopify, and Mindbody, which means the bookkeeping challenge is reconciling multiple payment processors, fees, and tips to what actually hits the bank.

We set up QuickBooks Online so each processor has its own clearing account, sales tax collected is tracked separately from revenue, and merchant fees land where your tax preparer expects them. That's the difference between books that show real margins and books that just show deposits.

Daily sales summaries from your POS are recorded by category (food, beverage, alcohol, retail), tips are tracked as a liability until paid out, and sales tax is separated at the point of sale so your DR-15 filing matches your books. If you have catering or events, those get their own class so you can see whether they're worth the effort.