Job-by-job books for general contractors and specialty trades running commercial, industrial, and tenant-improvement work around Chandler's tech corridor — closed by the 15th, every month. Our office is next door in Mesa at 4320 E Brown Rd, Suite 103, Mesa, AZ 85205. We serve Chandler as a primary East Valley service area; there is no Chandler storefront.
Chandler's commercial and industrial pipeline is not the same as a production housing tract. Multiple active jobs, pay apps on a schedule, retainage held until release, and subs whose labor and materials have to land on the right job — or the job report and the general ledger stop agreeing.
Blackline Financial works exclusively with construction businesses — roughly the $1M–$30M band — including general contractors and specialty trades that show up on Chandler commercial and TI work every week: electrical, mechanical/HVAC, plumbing, concrete, site work, framing, and related trades. We do not take restaurants, SaaS, or general small-business bookkeeping.
If you run jobs out of Chandler, Ocotillo, or the Sun Lakes / Tempe edge, you get the same construction-only close we run for Mesa and Gilbert clients — job costing, WIP, progress billing support, and financials a lender or bonding agent can actually use. Day-to-day work runs through QuickBooks Online and a secure portal; in-person meetings are by appointment at our Mesa office a short drive away.
See how we work and the full services and packages. Nearby East Valley pages: construction bookkeeping in Mesa and construction bookkeeping in Gilbert.
Commercial and TI work usually bills on progress — often AIA-style pay applications — with retainage sitting on the balance sheet until the owner releases it. A generalist bookkeeper who treats every deposit like ordinary revenue leaves you guessing which cash is actually yours.
For Chandler contractors billing that way, the books need to show:
AIA pay-app / AR automation is available as a Blackline Command add-on for contractors billing that way — not every package includes it by default. Retainage tracking is part of how we close construction books.
A bank or surety does not care that your bank feed is reconciled. They care whether you can show earned vs billed, which jobs are over- or under-billed, and whether costs are coded to the right job and phase.
Every Blackline engagement includes a monthly close by the 15th — bank and credit-card reconciliations, a P&L and balance sheet you can trust, and QuickBooks Online managed for construction. On top of that close:
We connect QuickBooks Online to the job tools contractors already use — including Adaptive (we're a preferred partner) and Buildertrend — so estimates, bills, and draws don't live in two disconnected systems. Catch-up work, if your books are behind, is scoped in the DIG Diagnostic as its own project — never quietly folded into the monthly fee.
We don't post a public rate card. Every client is quoted from revenue, job count, software, and complexity — usually within one business day.
| Package | Built for | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | About $1M–$3M, 1–5 active jobs | Monthly close by the 15th, reconciliations, P&L and balance sheet, QBO management |
| Frame | About $3M+, 5+ active jobs | Everything in Foundation, plus job costing, a monthly WIP schedule, a CFO Insight Report, and Blackline Command |
| Blueprint | Owners who want forward-looking strategy | Fractional CFO advisory: monthly call, 13-week cash flow, bonding and lender support — alone or paired with Foundation or Frame |
Full detail, add-ons (payroll, software support, AIA/AR automation), and what's never included live on the services page. Systems setup before the first close runs through Groundwork on that same page.
Every engagement starts with a DIG — Discover, Investigate, Guide. We review your books, find gaps (unreconciled accounts, miscoded job costs, missing WIP, catch-up work), and scope the right package before you sign.
Most DIGs take 1–2 weeks. If cleanup is needed, it's quoted as its own project — never folded into the monthly fee.
Or read the full DIG and package breakdown on Services.
We serve Chandler contractors as a core East Valley service area from our Mesa office. That includes work in Chandler proper, Sun Lakes, Ocotillo, and Tempe — plus nearby Gilbert when the engagement fits.
You do not need a Chandler office visit for the books to run. QuickBooks Online and a secure portal keep field and office in sync. If you want to meet in person, appointments are at 4320 E Brown Rd, Suite 103, Mesa, AZ 85205.
Statewide framing and the same package table also live on construction bookkeeping in Arizona. Contractors closer to Brown Road can start on construction bookkeeping in Mesa. Onboarding steps are on Process.
No Chandler storefront. Our office is at 4320 E Brown Rd, Suite 103, Mesa, AZ 85205 — next door in the East Valley. We serve Chandler contractors remotely through QuickBooks Online and a secure portal, and in person by appointment in Mesa. Call (480) 617-2664 or request a quote.
No. We do not prepare or file tax returns. We keep construction-specific books clean and hand them to your CPA. Arizona TPT and income tax filing stay with your tax pro; we coordinate so the records are ready.
Yes. Retainage receivable and payable are tracked as part of how we close construction books. WIP schedules are part of Frame (and scoped when needed). AIA pay-app / AR automation is available as a Blackline Command add-on for contractors billing that way — not every package includes it by default.
Yes. The DIG Diagnostic scopes any catch-up or cleanup as a separate project so you see the cost before you commit. Then Foundation, Frame, or Blueprint starts on ground we can trust. Onboarding steps are on Process.
Yes. We stay in our lane: construction bookkeeping, job costing, WIP, and (when scoped) fractional CFO advisory. Your CPA keeps tax prep and filing. We coordinate so they get clean, construction-specific records instead of a year-end reconstruction project.
Tell us about your Chandler construction business and we'll put together a custom quote within one business day — DIG first, no pressure.
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