Electricians: your books, closed by the fifth business day.
Quick answer
For electricians, TrainedBooks catches your books up and keeps them clean: a person does the cleanup, using our software. Every bank and card transaction is sorted with a plain-English reason, and you get your real profit and a location-aware tax set-aside (real federal + your state's rates), and prepares a tax-ready package so your tax pro just reviews and files. You review the few flagged items and own an exportable ledger. The diagnostic is free with no card required; a one-time cleanup starts at $1,500 and Keep-Clean at $49/mo, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. It is bookkeeping, not a tax preparer, and it does not file returns.
Last updated: September 2026
Electrical contractors, solo sparkies, and small crews. TrainedBooks turns the bank feed into closed books by the fifth business day: materials, permits, and tools categorized with reasons, income matched to deposits, and a tax set-aside so quarterlies stop surprising you.
The problem
Wire and breaker prices swing, permit fees stack up per job, tools walk out of the budget a few hundred dollars at a time, and progress billing means income never matches the work you actually did that month.
What TrainedBooks does
TrainedBooks turns the bank feed into closed books by the fifth business day: materials, permits, and tools categorized with reasons, income matched to deposits, and a tax set-aside so quarterlies stop surprising you.
Built for how a electrician actually runs
Supply-house materials and copper runs categorized as job costs, with price-swing months still reconciling
Permit and inspection fees tracked per month so bid-vs-real stops drifting
Tool and equipment purchases separated from consumables for your CPA's depreciation call
Progress-billing deposits matched to income with anything odd flagged, not guessed
How it works
Bring in your activity
Upload a bank or QuickBooks CSV, a statement PDF, or a photo of a receipt.
TrainedBooks does the close
Every line categorized with a confidence and a plain-English reason. It learns each correction you make.
You get your numbers
Profit, margin, and what to set aside for taxes, plus a CPA-ready packet. You approve; you stay in control.
Bookkeeping for electricians: FAQ
Tools, ladders, meters: expense or equipment?
TrainedBooks categorizes purchases with a plain-English reason and keeps bigger equipment visible so your CPA can make the depreciation call at year-end from the packet, not from a shoebox.
I run a helper through payroll. Does TrainedBooks handle that?
Payroll runs from your provider show up in the books as payroll costs, and the tax packet includes a payroll summary. TrainedBooks doesn't run payroll itself. It keeps the books around your payroll clean.
Can my CPA work from this at year-end?
Yes. One click produces the accountant packet: P&L, balances, 1099 and payroll summaries, open questions, and the full register. Your CPA reviews and files; you own and can export everything.