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Your job costs live in one place. Your bank lives in another. Books puts them together — statement import, real reconciliation, and a P&L that knows what a job is. Included in your plan. No add-on, no upgrade tier.
CSV from any bank, or the OFX/QFX file your bank already labels “QuickBooks format.” Map your columns once. Re-import the same file and nothing duplicates.
Jobsides printed those checks, so it knows the number and the amount. They match on their own — no hunting.
Payments, expenses, and bills come back ranked by confidence. Categorize or ignore in one tap.
Categorize something and tick “rule it.” Next import, it files itself. Rules are a visible list you can delete — not a black box.
A pending charge that posts a few days later, slightly different, gets flagged before it lands twice.
Reconciliation refuses to sign off until every line is resolved and opening plus activity equals closing to the cent. If it’s off, it tells you the exact gap. Reconciled statements freeze, and the closing balance carries into next month.
Cash-basis P&L with your bank-categorized overhead folded in. Open AR and AP. Cash by month. And cash by job — which is the number you actually wanted.
1099 totals with the $600 floor already marked, plus a five-file package for your CPA including the per-job cash summary.
Books is cash-basis. It is not GAAP, it doesn’t do accrual, and there’s no balance sheet — that’s deliberate and it’s staying that way.
It doesn’t file your payroll taxes. It doesn’t file sales tax. It won’t replace your CPA, and it isn’t supposed to.
Keep QuickBooks Simple Start at $38 for the ledger your accountant wants. Drop the $140 Plus tier you were only paying for job costing.
QuickBooks puts job costing behind its Plus tier at $140/month. That’s the only reason most contractors are on it.
Jobsides already does job costing. So go back to Simple Start at $38 — your CPA still has the ledger, your 1099s still live there, your bank feeds still work.
Your accountant never has to learn anything new.
QuickBooks pricing as of August 2026.
| Jobsides Books | QuickBooks Online Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Included | $140/mo |
| Job costing | ✓ | ✓ (Plus tier only) |
| Cash by job | ✓ | — |
| Bank reconciliation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Check auto-match | ✓ (we printed them) | — |
| Bank rules | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cash-basis P&L | ✓ | ✓ |
| 1099 totals | ✓ | ✓ |
| CPA export package | ✓ 5 files | ✓ accountant access |
| Users | Unlimited | 5 |
| Live bank feeds | — statement import | ✓ |
| Receipt photo scanning | — | ✓ |
| Mileage tracking | — | ✓ |
| Balance sheet / accrual / GAAP | — by design | ✓ |
| Payroll tax filing | — | add-on |
| Sales tax filing | — | ✓ |
The short version: every construction platform at this price makes you run QuickBooks alongside it. Every books tool cheaper than QuickBooks has no idea what a job is. Books is job costing and bank reconciliation in one place.
QuickBooks pricing as of August 2026.