Controllers · Handyman
the controller
- Reads
- Payment · Receipt
- The work
- Quick quotes · The day · Collect
- Up against
- The deposit doesn’t match anything · Double entry, double error · The software bill wanders
- The bill
- $99 / month, this chair included
Who you are · Controllers · Handyman
The handyman books should reconcile themselves.
Whoever holds a handyman shop’s books (controller, bookkeeper, the owner’s spouse at a kitchen table) inherits every gap between the field and the ledger. The product’s job is to close those gaps at the source.
The chair’s real problems
What the controller at a handyman shop is up against.
The deposit doesn’t match anything
A lump lands in the bank and someone spends Thursday guessing which invoices it contains.
Double entry, double error
Work keyed into field software and again into the accounting file drifts twice, and you own the drift.
The software bill wanders
Per-seat licenses, surprise tiers, usage overages: a line item you have to re-audit every quarter.
The work
The days handyman teams run.
01
Quick quotes
Estimates built from templates and stored photos, sent while the lead is still warm instead of three evenings later.
02
The day
Drag-and-drop jobs, and rescheduling the customer does online instead of by voicemail.
03
Collect
Deposits by card or ACH before the work, the invoice at the door after it.
What the record hands you
Your view of the handyman product.
One-way posting, on purpose
Thorbis posts to QuickBooks; the books stay in QuickBooks. One direction means one source of truth to audit.
The bridge →Deposits that itemize
Payouts trace to the invoices inside them. Reconciliation is a check, not an investigation.
Money →A bill you can predict
The posted company price plus metered usage you can see: no per-seat math, no quarter-end surprise.
The quote →
The old way
What the whiteboard costs handyman teams.
Jobs live in text threads
A schedule that lives in messages gets lost in messages.
Cold leads
An estimate that takes three days answers a customer who already hired someone.
The owner’s second shift
Evenings spent invoicing and reconciling are the ceiling on how big the book can get.
The day, from this chair
Three moments that change.
9:00
The match, confirmed
Yesterday’s payout against its invoices: minutes, because the itemization came with it.
11:30
The exception, alone
One job that didn’t post cleanly, flagged, instead of a full-ledger hunt for silent drift.
16:00
The close, boring
Month-end without the shoebox: the field data arrived structured, so the close is arithmetic.
Straight answers
What the controller asks first.
Does the controller cost a seat?
No. $99 is the company, not the seat. Every chair on this page is included, from the owner to the newest tech, and a hire changes the crew rather than the software bill.
Can we bring our handyman records?
CSV and Excel, Documents, The API: we map the columns and read what we can, with a dry run you inspect before anything is live. What we cannot take stays a limit you can see.
Handyman, chair by chair
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Built for the controller at a handyman shop, too.
One posted price for the company: every chair on this page included, from the owner to the newest tech.
Coming from a suite? We’ll extract your records.
Rather talk first? Email the team.