Bookkeeping for
Drywall
Contractors.
You work for GCs who pay late, hold retainage, back-charge cleanup and want a lien waiver with every check. Meanwhile board deliveries and piece-rate crews need paying every week. We keep each job's billing, retainage and costs straight so you know what you're owed and what each job earned.
Flat monthly pricing · Cancel anytime · Dedicated bookkeeper
Hang, Tape, Finish
or All Three
Some drywall shops only hang, some only tape and finish, and some run full-scope jobs with metal stud framing and ceilings. The billing to GCs looks similar. The cost structure doesn't.
Commercial Drywall Subs
Metal studs, board and finish on commercial jobs for GCs. Monthly pay applications, retainage held to closeout, lien waivers with every payment, and GC billing portals to keep up with.
- Pay apps tracked against schedule of values
- Retainage receivable by job
- Conditional and unconditional waivers logged
- Back-charges recorded against the job
- Change orders billed and tracked
Residential & Tract Work
Houses for production builders and custom builders. Jobs move fast, builders pay by house or by phase, and crews are often paid by the board or by the square foot. Margin per house depends on both.
- Billing per house, lot or phase
- Board deliveries coded per house
- Piece-rate pay recorded by house
- Builder payments matched to invoices
- Margin per house and per builder
Tape & Finish Specialists
Labor-heavy shops that tape, mud, sand and texture behind a hanging crew. Your costs are mostly labor and compound, so a slow-paying GC or a back-charge nobody questioned hits harder.
- Labor cost by job and finish level
- Compound and sundries coded to jobs
- Crew and sub payments tracked
- Open balances by GC, aged
- Repairs and punch-out billed as extras
The Financial Headaches
We Fix
Drywall is labor-heavy and paid by GCs on their schedule. These are the places the books usually lose track of money.
Retainage nobody remembers to bill
Each pay app gets paid short the retainage, and the books record only what came in. Months later the job closes out and no one knows how much is still being held. We record retainage as a receivable by job so you can ask for all of it at closeout.
GCs who pay late, or pay short
Pay-when-paid terms, slow approvals and back-charges for cleanup or damage mean the check rarely matches the invoice. When it's deposited without being matched, short pays become permanent. We tie every payment to its pay app and flag what's missing.
Lien waivers that don't match the money
Many GCs want a conditional waiver before they release payment and an unconditional one once it clears. When waivers aren't tied to what actually came in, it gets hard to tell what's been waived and what's still unpaid. We keep a waiver log matched to payments.
Supplier deliveries that span jobs
The supply yard stocks board floor by floor, and one invoice may cover a partial delivery or more than one job. Returns and restocking credits come later. We code each delivery to its job and reconcile the supplier statement so material costs are right.
Every Month
Everything You Need,
Nothing You Don't
Drywall books have to follow the GC's process: schedule of values, monthly pay apps, retainage, waivers, closeout. We set yours up to match in QuickBooks Online and track every job from first delivery to the final retainage check.
Monthly Bookkeeping
Every account reconciled, every transaction categorized, every month. You get a clean P&L and balance sheet you can read and use to make decisions.
See Full Details →Financial Reporting
Job cost reports by contract, a billed-versus-paid view with retainage held, aged receivables by GC, and a P&L that shows labor and material margin across all your jobs.
See Full Details →Bank Reconciliation
Every business account and credit card matched and verified each month. No mystery charges. No unresolved transactions. No surprises.
See Full Details →Accounts Payable & Receivable
We record supply yard deliveries and sub invoices by job, track pay apps, short pays and back-charges, and keep retainage on its own list until each GC releases it.
See Full Details →Catch-Up Bookkeeping
Months or years behind? We clean it all up before monthly service starts, at a flat price per month behind that we quote up front.
See Full Details →Payroll Support
Payroll runs through Gusto, and Gusto files the payroll taxes, W-2s and 1099s. We reconcile each run and code piece-rate, hourly and sub crew pay to the jobs worked.
See Full Details →"Dan is crucial to the financial management of my business. I am a busy guy that started a side hustle and it took off. It became too tedious for me to manage bookkeeping, and I decided to outsource that service to create time to focus on my operations, customers, and services."
Drywall Contractors
FAQ
Questions we hear from Drywall Contractors before they sign on with Tides.
Based in Greenville, SC —
Serving Clients Nationwide
100% remote bookkeeping for small businesses across South Carolina and throughout the United States.
Beyond Drywall Contractors,
We Serve All These Businesses
Tides Bookkeeping specializes in bookkeeping across 12 distinct industries. Industry-specific expertise means fewer errors, better categorization, and a bookkeeper who already understands how your business makes money.
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Hang the Board.
We'll Handle
The Books.
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Flat monthly plans scaled to your business — no hourly billing and no surprise invoices. You always know the price up front.
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✔ Reviewed by Daniel Cope, Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor · Updated August 2026