Revenue is what you charge. Profit is what you keep.
On every part and material you can enter your cost — what you paid, which the customer never sees on the invoice. SideWRK subtracts it, so each job shows the real profit, not just the total. Revenue is the number you brag about; profit is the number that feeds your family.
The Money tab rolls it all up: what you’ve collected this month, what’s owed and outstanding, your open estimates in the pipeline, and a 12-month table of collected minus parts, ending in your net. It’s the honest scoreboard for the side business.
What you can use it for
Catch the jobs that don’t pay
A job with a big total and a bigger parts bill can be near break-even. Real profit shows you which work is actually worth your Saturday.
See the month clearly
Collected this month, owed, all-time — the three numbers that tell you how the business is really doing, without a spreadsheet.
Chase what you’re owed
The owed-and-outstanding number is the money sitting in unpaid invoices. Knowing it is the first step to collecting it.
Price with proof
When you can see your margin job to job, you know exactly where you’re undercharging — and you raise your rate with numbers behind it, not a guess.
Mark up parts, keep your cost private
Quote the part at the marked-up price — most trades run 20–50% over cost for sourcing and warranty risk — and enter what YOU paid as the private cost. The customer sees one clean number; the Money tab shows the spread you earned on the part.
How to read your numbers
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Enter your cost on parts
As you build a job, put your cost on each part and material. It stays private — it never shows on the customer’s invoice.
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Open the Money tab
See this month’s collected, what you’re owed, your all-time total, and the value of open estimates in your pipeline.
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Read the real profit on a job
On each job card, total minus your parts cost is your estimated profit — the number that tells you if the work paid.
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Watch the 12-month trend
The table shows collected, minus parts, and net for each month, so you can see the business moving over the year.
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Use it to raise your prices
Spot the thin-margin jobs and the underpriced services, and adjust your rate where the numbers say to.
Why real profit is the whole point
Most tools show you revenue because it's the flattering number. But a side-work operator doesn't get paid in revenue — you get paid in what's left after the parts, the gas, and the material. Showing you that, on every job, is the core of what SideWRK does.
This is about what you made. If you want the other money question — "where does the money land, and can anyone hold it" — that’s covered on your money: paid straight to your own accounts, never held in a platform wallet.
Expenses
Point your camera at the Home Depot receipt and SideWRK fills in the amount, store, date, and category for you. Every business expense lands on your year-end Tax Wrap-Up — so the write-offs you’re currently losing in a truck console turn into money back.
It's the running record of what it costs you to do business — parts, gas, tools, supplies, fees. Instead of typing each one in, you snap a photo of the receipt and it reads the amount, the store, the date, and a category, and prefills the whole thing. You confirm and it's logged.
Those expenses don't just sit there. They roll into your Tax Wrap-Up at year-end — a clean total with a category breakdown, a CSV, and a printable summary you can hand to whoever does your taxes.
Stop losing write-offs
Every receipt you can’t find at tax time is money you overpay the IRS. Snapping it on the spot means it’s captured while you’re standing at the counter.
Kill the shoebox
No more glovebox full of curling receipts to sort in April. They’re logged, categorized, and totaled as you go.
Know your true costs
When your real expenses are tracked, you see what a job actually costs to run — which is the difference between revenue and the profit you keep.
Hand your preparer one clean page
A category breakdown, a total, and a CSV mean your tax preparer isn’t billing you to sort a bag of receipts.
Tax wrap-up
Keep your jobs and expenses in the app all year and the Tax Wrap-Up hands you one clean summary at the end: total income, total costs, a category breakdown, CSVs, and a printable page for your preparer. No shoebox, no April scramble.
It's the year-end view of your business money in one place: everything you took in, everything it cost you, and your logged expenses — added up and broken out by category. Because you've been invoicing and snapping receipts all year, the summary builds itself.
From it you can pull an income and costs CSV, a printable summary to hand your tax preparer, and QuickBooks-ready exports. The goal is simple: turn a year of side work into a clean page instead of a bag of paper.
File without the shoebox
Your income and write-offs are already tallied and categorized, so tax time is a print-and-send instead of a weekend of sorting.
Hand your preparer one page
A clean summary and CSVs mean your accountant isn’t charging you to organize receipts — they just do the return.
Know what to set aside
Seeing income and costs across the year makes it clear roughly what you should be putting away for taxes, so it’s not a shock in April.
Feed QuickBooks
If you use QuickBooks, export your income and expenses straight in instead of re-typing a year of transactions.
QuickBooks export
If you or your bookkeeper use QuickBooks, you shouldn't be typing a year of jobs and receipts in by hand. SideWRK exports your income and expenses as QuickBooks-ready files straight from your year-end summary, so the numbers move over clean.
Because you've been invoicing jobs and snapping receipts in the app all year, your income and expenses are already tallied and categorized. At tax time, SideWRK exports them as QuickBooks-ready CSVs from the Tax Wrap-Up — so instead of re-keying a year of transactions, you import them.
It's the bridge between running the job from your phone and keeping the books in QuickBooks: the same jobs and receipts you logged all year become the rows your accountant needs, without the double entry.
Skip a year of hand-entry
Your income and expenses export in QuickBooks's format, so nobody's re-typing every job and receipt from a pile of paper.
Hand your bookkeeper clean data
A tidy CSV of categorized income and expenses means your accountant spends time on your return, not on data entry you're paying for by the hour.
Keep one source of truth
The jobs and receipts you logged in SideWRK are the same numbers that land in QuickBooks — no reconciling two different records.
Make tax time a handoff
Export, import, done. The prep work happened all year as you invoiced and scanned receipts.
Real profit — common questions
What is "real profit"?
It’s your job total minus your private cost — what you paid for the parts and materials. The customer never sees your cost; you see the profit it leaves. It’s what you actually made, not what you charged.
What’s the difference between gross and net here?
Collected is the money in. Take out your parts cost and you get closer to net — what you keep. The 12-month table lays out collected, minus parts, and net so you can see both.
Does the customer ever see my cost?
No. Your cost is private and never appears on an estimate or invoice. It only feeds your own profit numbers in the Money tab.
How is this different from the "your money" page?
Real profit is about how much you made. The your-money page is about where the money goes — into your own Stripe account, or straight from your customer to you, never held in a platform wallet.
How do I handle a parts markup?
Price the line at what the customer pays — cost plus your markup, commonly 20–50% to cover sourcing and warranty risk — and put your actual cost in the private cost field. The invoice shows one price; your profit numbers quietly carry the markup you earned.
How accurate is the receipt scanning?
The scan prefills the amount, store, date, and a category, and you confirm before it saves — so a bad read is a quick fix, not a wrong number in your books. You’re always the final check.
What categories can I use?
Common trade categories like parts, fuel, tools, supplies, and fees, so the year-end breakdown lines up with how a tax preparer thinks about your costs.
Does this file my taxes for me?
No. SideWRK organizes your income and expenses and hands you a clean summary and CSVs — it does the prep, not the filing. It’s not tax advice; your preparer or software does the return.
Can I get the numbers into QuickBooks?
Yes. The Tax Wrap-Up exports QuickBooks-ready CSVs, so your expenses and income move over without hand-entry.
Does SideWRK file my taxes?
No. It organizes your income and expenses into a clean year-end summary with CSVs and a preparer sheet. You or your tax preparer file the return — SideWRK does the prep, not the filing, and it isn’t tax advice.
What’s included in the summary?
Total income, total costs, your logged business expenses, and a breakdown by category for the tax year you pick — plus exportable CSVs and a printable page.
Can I export to QuickBooks?
Yes. The Tax Wrap-Up produces QuickBooks-ready CSVs for your income and expenses, so you don’t hand-enter a year of transactions.
Where does the income come from?
From the jobs you invoice and mark paid in the app. Keep your work in SideWRK through the year and the wrap-up reflects it automatically.
What exactly can I export?
QuickBooks-ready CSVs of your income and your expenses, generated from the year-end Tax Wrap-Up, so they import into QuickBooks without hand-entry.
Do I need QuickBooks to use SideWRK?
No. SideWRK stands on its own — the year-end summary, CSVs, and a printable preparer sheet work whether or not you use QuickBooks. The export is there for the people who keep their books in it.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the jobs you invoiced and the receipts you scanned during the year — already categorized, so the export is complete instead of reconstructed.
Does this file my taxes?
No. It moves your numbers into QuickBooks (or hands your preparer clean CSVs). You or your accountant file the return — SideWRK does the prep, not the filing.