Virtual QuickBooks bookkeeping · Hands-on businesses

Know where every job — and every dollar — stands.

Tenney Bookkeeping keeps clean, current books for people who make, build, and fix things — backed by 20+ years running manufacturing operations. If you're better at your craft than your bank feed, you're exactly who this is for.

  • ✓ QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor
  • ✓ Intuit Certified Bookkeeper
  • ✓ 20+ yrs operations experience
What clean books show youFY 2026
JobBilledMargin
2214 · Kitchen remodel48,200+17.5%
2215 · HVAC retrofit31,400+4.8%
2216 · Fab shop run22,600+19.2%
2217 · Catering · 3 events9,850+26.1%
⚑ Job 2215 is leaking marginNow you know.

Reconciled to the penny.

Who I work withContractors & trades·Machine & fab shops·Small manufacturers·Bakers, caterers & makers·Repair & service businesses

Sound familiar?

Busy all year — but the bank account doesn't show it.

Books are months behind, and tax time is a scramble.

No idea which jobs made money, and which quietly didn't.

None of that means you're bad at business. It means the books aren't doing their job. That part is fixable — and it's the part I do.

Services

Three ways in — depending on where your books are today.

One-time engagement

Diagnostic & Cleanup

Behind by months — or years? I assess the damage, rebuild your books in QuickBooks Online, and hand you a clean, reconciled starting point. Fixed quote before any work begins.

Best if: tax time keeps turning into a fire drill.

Setup & training

QuickBooks System Build

A chart of accounts and workflow set up for how your business actually runs — job costing, classes, and reports that answer real questions instead of creating new ones.

Best if: you're on spreadsheets, or QuickBooks was set up wrong.

Monthly retainer

Monthly Bookkeeping

Transactions categorized, accounts reconciled, and a monthly report you'll actually read. Three levels — Foundation, Operator, and Advisor — that grow with you.

Best if: you want the books handled, every month, done right.

Monthly bookkeeping starts at $350/month and is priced to your actual volume — transactions, accounts, payroll, AP/AR — so the fee fits your books, nothing more. Cleanup and setup projects are quoted flat after a free review.

Why Tenney

Books kept by someone who's run the operation — not just the reports.

Most bookkeepers learned business from a textbook. I learned it from 20+ years supervising manufacturing operations — production schedules, work orders, thin margins, and the very real gap between busy and profitable.

I got certified in the books because I kept watching good operators fly blind. Job costing, WIP, materials, payroll pressure — I don't just categorize those numbers. I've lived the work they describe. And with a cottage baker in my own house, I know Square deposits and market-weekend chaos too.

Now I keep the numbers straight for owners who'd rather be doing the work than chasing receipts.

— Jerry Tenney, Founder

Christian-owned. Stewardship-minded.

Tenney Bookkeeping is built on careful records, honest communication, and treating your business with the respect it deserves. Clients of every background are welcome and served with the same care.

Jerry Tenney, founder of Tenney Bookkeeping
  • QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor
  • Intuit Certified Bookkeeper
  • Associate's degree · Accounting
  • 20+ years manufacturing operations
  • San Antonio, Texas · serving clients virtually

How it works

Simple on purpose.

1

Discovery call

Twenty minutes, no charge. You talk, I listen: what's working, what's overdue, and what you wish your books could tell you.

2

Diagnostic review

I look under the hood in QuickBooks and come back with straight answers and a fixed quote. No hourly meter, no surprises.

3

Clean, current books

Cleanup, setup, or monthly service — reconciled accounts and a report that tells you exactly where you stand.

Get started

Tell me about your books.

Fill this out and I'll reply within one business day — a real answer from me, not a sales sequence. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you that too.

Tenney Bookkeeping · San Antonio, TX

Jerry@TenneyBookkeeping.com