Bookkeeping for Scott's Addition Businesses

Bookkeeping for Scott's Addition breweries, restaurants, and creative businesses. We're based in the neighborhood and know the local business scene.

Bookkeeping for the Brewery District

Scott’s Addition went from forgotten industrial blocks to Richmond’s brewery district in about a decade. Now there are more than a dozen breweries, cideries, and meaderies within walking distance of each other. Add the restaurants, taprooms, and creative businesses that followed, and you have a neighborhood running on small operations with complicated books.

We’re based here on Summit Ave. We walk past our clients’ businesses on the way to lunch. That proximity matters because we understand what it takes to run a craft beverage operation or a restaurant in this neighborhood. The production side, the taproom side, the wholesale accounts, the events. We handle the financial tracking so you can focus on making good products.

Monthly Bookkeeping

Transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, monthly close. P&L and balance sheet delivered every month so you know where you stand. No more guessing whether you’re actually making money.

Inventory and Production Tracking

Breweries need more than basic bookkeeping. We handle ingredient inventory, batch costing, and the tracking that shows which products are profitable and which ones just look busy.

Payroll Processing

Full payroll service including tip reporting, tax deposits, quarterly filings, and year-end W-2s. Your staff gets paid correctly and on time. You stop thinking about payroll deadlines.

Catch-Up Work

Behind on your books? That’s a normal starting point. Most brewery and restaurant owners call us because the financials have slipped while they focused on operations. We clean it up and keep it current going forward.

Scott's Addition Businesses We Work With

The neighborhood has more variety than people assume. Yes, there are breweries everywhere. But there are also restaurants without taprooms, creative agencies that moved into converted warehouse space, fitness studios, and service businesses that followed the residential boom. All of them need small business bookkeepers who understand their operations without requiring a tutorial every month.

Our clients range from solo operators to businesses with a dozen or more employees. The common thread is that they’ve outgrown doing their own books but don’t need a full-time hire. We fill that gap.

Breweries, Cideries, and Meaderies

Scott’s Addition has become a destination for craft beverages. We work with producers who need to track raw materials, production batches, taproom sales, distribution revenue, and the events that bring people through the door.

Restaurants and Bars

The food scene here has grown alongside the breweries. We track food cost, labor percentages, daily sales, and the numbers that tell you if you’re running a profitable operation or just a busy one.

Creative Businesses

Design studios, marketing agencies, photographers, and creative professionals who found affordable space in former industrial buildings. We keep the books clean so you can focus on client work instead of chasing receipts.

Fitness and Wellness

Gyms, yoga studios, and wellness businesses that serve the growing residential population. Membership revenue, class packages, seasonal fluctuations. We track it all and deliver reports that make sense.

Common Questions

Are you actually located in Scott's Addition?

Yes. Our office is on Summit Ave. We're part of the neighborhood, not a remote firm listing it as a service area.

Do you work with breweries and taprooms?

Yes, frequently. Scott's Addition has more breweries than most cities, and we've learned the bookkeeping side of craft beverage production. Ingredient costs, batch tracking, taproom versus distribution, all of it.

What does monthly bookkeeping cost?

Starting at $199 per month. The actual price depends on transaction volume and complexity. Breweries with production tracking and multiple revenue streams typically land higher than a simple service business.

Can you help if my books are behind?

That's how most clients start. We handle catch-up work to get you current, then move to ongoing monthly service.

Do you handle payroll for restaurants and taprooms?

Yes. Tip reporting, tax deposits, quarterly filings, W-2s. Hospitality payroll has its own requirements and we're set up for it.

Greater Richmond's Small Business Bookkeeper