Case Study: QuickBooks Solutions for Wake Coatings
Wake Coatings is a commercial painting company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, providing professional painting services for businesses and contractors throughout the region. As a growing service provider, Wake Coatings needed accounting solutions tailored to job costing and project management.
The Challenge
Wake Coatings faced several challenges common to small and mid-sized commercial service businesses:
Needed a QuickBooks tutorial to understand the system effectively.
Required guidance to determine which QuickBooks programs best suited their operational needs.
Wanted help implementing the key features inside QuickBooks for accurate job costing and employee cost tracking.
Tara Medlin, project lead at Wake Coatings, explained: "We needed help tapping into, and implementing, the best features inside QuickBooks."
The Solution
Certum Solutions provided hands-on support to ensure Wake Coatings could leverage QuickBooks effectively:
Delivered a comprehensive QuickBooks tutorial, tailored to the company’s workflows.
Recommended the most suitable QuickBooks programs, including the specialized Contractor version for job costing.
Offered strategic guidance and implementation support, helping the team understand and adopt key features for accurate accounting.
Tara highlighted the support she received:
"Certum Solutions walked me through a tutorial in QuickBooks, and specifically helped me figure out how to enter employee costs in order to track job costs."
Results & Impact
Improved job costing and project tracking, allowing Wake Coatings to monitor employee and project expenses accurately.
Clear guidance on program selection, ensuring the company invested in the right QuickBooks solution from the start.
Enhanced knowledge and confidence in using QuickBooks for everyday accounting and reporting.
Takeaway: Certum Solutions QuickBooks guidance → accurate job costing and better project expense tracking
The Transformation
Since working with Certum Solutions, Wake Coatings has been able to:
Make informed decisions on QuickBooks program purchases, avoiding wasted investment.
Track employee costs and project expenses more accurately, supporting better job profitability insights.
Benefit from strategic accounting guidance that lays the foundation for scalable growth.
Tara summed up the experience: "They were thorough during the sales process and knowledgeable with directing me to what program I needed to purchase."
"Certum Solutions walked me through a tutorial in QuickBooks, and specifically helped me figure out how to enter employee costs in order to track job costs." – Tara Medlin, Wake Coatings
About the Client:
Wake Coatings | Raleigh, NC
Services: Commercial painting for businesses and contractors
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