QuickBooks for contractors, finally done right.
Real-time job margins, watertight books, and a full construction accounting back office — QuickBooks setup, cleanup, and day-to-day management for contractors and home builders doing $1M to $50M+.
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Frustrated, trying to figure out what each job costs?
Here’s what our construction team lead Dylan has to say about it.
Builders who handed off the distraction
DIY construction accounting is quietly slowing your growth.
As a contractor or home builder you handle more numbers than the average person ever will — a messy QuickBooks file, half-costed jobs, and every one of them competing for the time you’d rather spend winning and running work.
These pressures distract you from building the business you first envisioned. We say: give the distraction away.
- Job costing complexity
- Cash-flow volatility on projects
- Field-to-office disconnect
- Retainage & change orders
- Multi-state compliance
- Subcontractor admin
What changes when Nimbl runs your back office
Same crew, same jobs — a completely different view of your business.
Before Nimbl
- Messy QuickBooks, spreadsheets, delayed reporting
- Siloed office vs. job-site data
- Cash surprises at month-end
- No lender- or investor-ready financials
After Nimbl
- Real-time job-level margins & insight
- Unified back-office & field workflows
- A predictable rhythm and trusted decisions
- Forecasting and real strategic planning
Find your growth stage
See the move top construction entrepreneurs make at every level — and what it takes to reach the next one.
Founder-Operator
The growth move to make
Hire your first dedicated crew so you can step away from (most of) the day-to-day and focus on the business.
What it takes to reach the next stage
- Tax filing
- Basic bookkeeping
First Crew in Place
The growth move to make
Invest in processes for accurate budget-vs-actual reporting. Break down performance per job and get clear profitability margins to act on.
What it takes to reach the next stage
- Annual tax strategy
- Bookkeeping, spend management, AP/AR
Multi-Crew Contractor
The growth move to make
Hire an office administrator or bid manager to win back your time. Operations run smoothly without everything depending on you.
What it takes to reach the next stage
- Bookkeeping, payroll, AP/AR, spend management
- Quarterly tax strategy
- Basic FP&A
Established Builder
The growth move to make
Layer in protection and talent so growth doesn’t outrun your systems — IT, virtual assistants, and forward-looking finance.
What it takes to reach the next stage
- IT support (device management, security training, help desk)
- Virtual assistants
- Quarterly tax strategy
- Strategic finance
- FP&A for forecasting, revenue targets, and cash planning
Scaling Contractor
The growth move to make
Expand into new regions or specializations and decide whether to scale ambitiously or prepare for a successful exit.
What it takes to reach the next stage
- Bookkeeping, payroll, AP/AR, spend management
- IT support (device management, security training, help desk)
- Virtual assistants
- Quarterly tax strategy
- Strategic finance support
- Advanced FP&A (M&A planning, revenue growth, capital strategy)
More than QuickBooks — every department your business needs to scale.
Construction accounting is the core, but it’s backed by the operational support, protection, and talent every growing contractor and home builder needs — all in one place.
Construction Accounting
A team of construction accounting experts who live in QuickBooks. We handle QuickBooks for contractors and home builders, and we know how businesses like yours run.
- QuickBooks setup, cleanup & real-time job costing
- Watertight books & accurate margins
- Payroll across multiple teams
- Retainage compliance & month-end P&L
Strategic Finance
You’ve got more than one idea for the business. Bring it all to life through planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling.
- Monthly planning & strategy meetings
- 12–18 month revenue forecasting
- Profitability-per-job analysis
- Cash-flow modeling
Tech & IT
The more you grow, the more the risk grows too. Protect what you’re building with our industry-leading IT department.
- Job-site device management
- Cybersecurity & data backups
- Managed automation
- Data-security compliance
Global Staffing
Avoid office-space overhead by hiring your administrative support through our global staffing department.
- Systems management
- Change-order processing
- Trained virtual assistants
- Ongoing back-office support
Tax
Maximize your resources with rigorous strategic tax planning and compliance, personalized to your business and personal circumstances.
- Minimize business & personal tax
- Federal & state return prep
- State nexus study
- R&D tax credit analysis
You built this business. Now maximize its potential.
One conversation is all it takes to see how far these five departments can take you.
Revenue range we build for
Backed financial review, every month
Departments, one integrated team
Typical reply to your call request
Specialists, not generalists
We’re specialists
Experts in construction accounting, QuickBooks for contractors and home builders, field workflows, and scaling mid-sized businesses.
Rigorous & thorough
A triple-backed financial review every single month, for accuracy you can trust.
Cross-departmental
A fully integrated set of back-office departments designed to help you scale well.
We like evidence
Proven results for construction businesses that want to grow, scale, or exit.
Coaching-forward
Not just service providers — a team that communicates and integrates with your ops.
An accounting department you can actually trust
★★★★★
“Nimbl took an entire chunk of work off my hands. They’ve become an extension of our team — it’s like having a built-in accounting department I can trust. Their flexibility, industry knowledge, and integrity made it easy to say yes.”
Vic PuriPresident & Co-Founder, August Homes
★★★★★
“Nimbl’s part of our accounting team, even though we don’t pay their paychecks. It’s really seamless — they train people well, and if someone new joins, half the time we don’t even know because it just works.”
Greg RobertsController, CaseCo
★★★★★
“I was impressed that we were able to ramp up so quickly. Over time the services have really gelled — Nimbl knows what we need. Having that financial expertise and consistency has made a big difference.”
Brett RigbyVP, Government Affairs & Special Projects, ZenniHome
See how top contractors and home builders run their numbers.
Discover the top three construction accounting moves our most successful clients use — from setting up QuickBooks for home builders the right way to tracking margins, optimizing cash flow, and avoiding costly compliance mistakes.
The 3-Move Margin Guide
Free · No obligation · 5-minute read
Answered right here
Yes — QuickBooks for contractors is our home base. We set it up correctly for construction (job costing, items, classes, and change orders), clean up an existing file if it’s a mess, and then run it day to day so your books stay accurate. If you’re on Buildertrend or another field tool, we make sure it flows cleanly into QuickBooks.
Absolutely. QuickBooks for home builders has its own quirks — draws, retainage, per-lot and per-model costing, and long project timelines. We structure your construction accounting around how you actually build so you can see true profit per home, not just a company-wide number.
Start where the money leaks: accurate job costing and clean month-end books in QuickBooks. Once you can see true margins per job and a reliable P&L, everything else — payroll, cash planning, tax strategy — becomes far easier to layer on.
With real-time job costing tied to your field data. We set up reporting that breaks performance down per job so you see actual margins — not month-old estimates — and can bid and staff future work with confidence.
It’s the forward-looking layer above bookkeeping: monthly planning, 12–18 month revenue forecasting, profitability analysis, and cash-flow modeling. It turns your numbers into decisions about where to grow, when to hire, and how to fund it.
It depends on your revenue stage and how much of your time is being eaten by admin. Many builders reach a point where an outsourced, integrated team is faster and cheaper than recruiting, training, and retaining in-house staff.
Usually when reporting is chronically late, the field and office are working from different numbers, or you’re spending nights on the books instead of the business.
We start by finding your growth stage, then map the smallest set of moves that gets you to the next one. No overwhelm, no ripping everything out at once — just the next right step.
Better construction accounting starts with a conversation.
Choose a time on the calendar and you’ll meet one of our Construction Accounting Leads. We’ll review your QuickBooks and job numbers and go from there.
- A real strategy conversation, not a sales pitch
- Instant confirmation and calendar invite
- No obligation, no long-term lock-in to start
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