Bookkeeping for
Massage
Therapists.
Your booking app pays out net of fees, clients prepay for packages they use over months, holiday gift cards get redeemed months later, and in a studio, card tips belong to your therapists. We split every payout and reconcile your books monthly, so you know what you actually earned.
Flat monthly pricing · Cancel anytime · Dedicated bookkeeper
Built for Every Type
of Massage Business
Solo therapist renting a room or a studio owner with a full team, the money moves through the same booking apps. We set up your books around how you sell sessions, packages and gift cards.
Independent Therapists
You book your own clients, rent a room or travel to them, and handle your own payouts. You need books that pull fees, tips and rent out of session income and keep business spending in one place.
- Booking app payouts split into fees and tips
- Room or booth rent recorded
- Linens, oils and table costs categorized
- CEUs and license renewals tracked
- Mileage for mobile sessions recorded
- Records ready for your CPA
Studio & Spa Owners
You run the front desk, schedule a team and sell packages and memberships. We track what clients prepaid, what therapists are owed and how each revenue stream contributes to the month.
- Packages and memberships tracked to use
- Gift card balances kept as a liability
- Card tips paid out through payroll
- Therapist pay by commission or hourly
- Product sales and sales tax recorded
- Rent, laundry and utilities categorized
Room Rental Studios
Some studios rent rooms to independent therapists instead of employing them. We record the rent coming in, keep it apart from your own session income and track what each renter still owes.
- Rent income by therapist
- Late or missed rent tracked
- Your own sessions kept separate
- Shared supply costs recorded
- Lease, utilities and laundry tracked
The Financial Headaches
We Fix
Massage businesses run on prepaid money and card payouts. That's where most of the bookkeeping mistakes hide.
Payouts That Hide Fees and Tips
Square, Vagaro, Mindbody and MassageBook deposit one net amount after fees, refunds and tips. If only the deposit is recorded, revenue is understated, processing fees disappear and tips you owe therapists look like your income.
Gift Cards Counted Too Early
A gift card sold in December isn't income until it's redeemed. Recorded as a sale, it inflates the holidays and leaves a hole when clients redeem them months later. State rules on unused gift cards vary, so your CPA needs a clean balance.
Packages and Memberships Out of Sync
Clients prepay for packages and monthly memberships, then book sessions whenever they can. When all that cash goes straight to income, you can't see how many sessions you still owe or what refunds for unused visits would cost you.
Tips and Therapist Pay Tangled Up
Card tips come in with your payout but belong to your therapists. If they aren't run through payroll or paid out cleanly to contractors, the books show tips as your income and therapist pay never matches what was earned.
Every Month
Everything You Need,
Nothing You Don't
Our services are set up for a business that sells sessions, packages, memberships and gift cards through a booking app. We work in QuickBooks Online from your Square, Vagaro, Mindbody or MassageBook reports and bank feeds.
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
A monthly P&L, balance sheet and cash flow with sessions, memberships and product sales split out, plus balances for gift cards and prepaid packages you still owe.
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
Rent, linen service, oils and product orders tracked on payables. For room rental studios, we track the rent each therapist owes and match payments as they arrive.
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, which files the payroll taxes and W-2s. We reconcile each run to the books, including card tips paid out to therapists and commission or hourly pay.
See Full Details →"Very reliable, detail-oriented, and keeps my finances in perfect order. Their expertise and responsiveness make managing my business stress-free. Highly recommend!"
Massage Therapists
FAQ
Questions we hear from Massage Therapists 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 Massage Therapists,
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.
Finance terms worth knowing
Plain-English explainers, no jargon.
Work Out the Knots.
We'll Handle
The Books.
Schedule a free 15-minute call. We'll review your current setup, answer your questions, and give you a flat monthly quote — no pressure.
No credit card required · No long-term contracts · Cancel anytime
Simple, Flat-Rate Pricing
Flat monthly plans scaled to your business — no hourly billing and no surprise invoices. You always know the price up front.
★★★★★ 5.0 · 8 client reviews on Intuit's ProAdvisor directory
✔ Reviewed by Daniel Cope, Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor · Updated August 2026