Construction and trades for Australian businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — construction and trades is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to ATO. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside industries we know more broadly, that stays with your registered BAS or tax agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for construction and trades — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Construction and trades sits inside industries we know, alongside Ecommerce, SaaS and software, Professional services. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

Your accountant applies the AASB 15 judgement — when performance obligations are satisfied and how much to recognise. We keep the cost-to-date, estimated-total-cost, and completion data current in the job cost ledger so that judgement has clean numbers behind it.

No, a registered tax or BAS agent compiles and lodges the Taxable Payments Annual Report. We maintain the running subcontractor payment ledger through the year so the data is ready for them by the 28 August deadline.

No. Release depends on the contract and, where relevant, the timeframes in the applicable state security of payment act. We track the schedule against each contract and flag amounts that look ready to claim — the release itself is a matter between you and the other party.

Whether a specific contract is caught is a legal determination based on contract value and type. We can flag contracts that look scheme-eligible as they're set up and maintain the trust ledger once your accountant or lawyer confirms it applies.

Percentage complete, cost incurred to date, amount claimed to date, and the resulting overbilling or underbilling, shown job by job across every open contract — built from the same job cost ledger we maintain monthly.

No, that determination depends on whether the arrangement is deemed principally for labour under superannuation guarantee rules, and it's your accountant's call. We track the labour-versus-materials split and payment history so that call has data behind it.

No, interpreting rights under a state security of payment act, or handling an adjudication, is legal work outside a bookkeeping engagement. We track each claim against the job cost ledger so the underlying numbers are ready for whoever advises you.

We record ABN status against each subcontractor in the ledger as part of standard payment processing. Withholding obligations that can apply when no ABN is quoted, and any broader compliance question, sit with your accountant.

GST attribution on retentions follows the tax invoice and timing rules your BAS agent applies. We track the retention release date and amount against the original claim so the BAS agent has the figures needed to apply it correctly.

On a documented basis tied to actual use — logged equipment hours or days against each job, for example — so shared costs are split rather than absorbed entirely by whichever job happens to be open.