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Bookkeeping for Pet Stores

Bookkeeping for pet stores starts at $500/month: monthly close, categorized transactions, reconciled bank and card accounts, and a plain-English P&L. Our in-house team handles what makes pet stores different — inventory, COGS, and channel deposits.

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What makes pet stores bookkeeping different

In retail, inventory is usually the biggest number on the books and the easiest one to get wrong. Buying stock isn't an expense — selling it is. Until purchases and sales are matched, your P&L moves with your buying habits instead of your business.

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Purchases become expenses only when the item sells

Stock bought in one month and sold in another has to move from inventory to cost of goods when it actually sells. Expensed on purchase, a big buying month reads as a loss and the month you sell it reads as pure profit.

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Shrink, markdowns, and returns

Discounted, damaged, and returned goods all change what your inventory is really worth. Recorded as they happen, margin stays believable; ignored until a physical count, they arrive as one ugly year-end surprise.

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Every sales channel deposits differently

In-store POS, your own online store, and marketplaces each pay out on their own schedule, net of their own fees. Each one has to be reconciled separately or your revenue and your fee costs both come out wrong.

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Sales tax collected is money you're holding

Tax collected at the register is held on behalf of the state, not revenue you earned. Kept in its own account on the books, remittance reconciles cleanly and your CPA has a clear number to work from.

What’s included

One flat monthly rate for your pet store. Everything below, every month.

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Monthly close, every month

Categorized transactions, reconciled bank and card accounts, and books that are actually current — not six weeks behind.

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A P&L you can read

Plain-English monthly statements. Revenue, costs, margin — and what changed since last month, flagged for you.

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Ad spend inside the books

Marketing cost broken out per channel and set against revenue. “Did the ads make money” becomes a line you can point to.

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Catch-up & clean-up

Behind on your books? We reconstruct and clean up past months first, then keep the rhythm going.

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Tax-season handoff

Your CPA gets a clean, organized file at year end — fewer billable hours spent untangling, fewer surprises.

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One team, one thread

Questions answered by the people who keep your books — in-house, not a ticket queue.

How it works

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Free books review

We look at your current books and tell you honestly what shape they're in and what the monthly scope would be.

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Catch-up if needed

Past months reconstructed, categorized, and reconciled before the ongoing rhythm starts.

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Monthly rhythm

Close every month, statements delivered, questions answered — flat rate, cancel anytime.

Starts at $500/month

Simple, flat pricing

$500/month and up

The exact flat rate for your pet store is scoped to your transaction volume and account count — quoted after the free books review, with no long-term lock-in. Already running marketing with us? Your books and your campaigns live in one data picture.

Planning the marketing side too? See what marketing costs for pet stores.

Frequently asked questions

How much does bookkeeping cost for a pet store?

Bookkeeping starts at $500 per month. The exact flat rate is scoped to your transaction volume and account count, and it's quoted after a free review of your current books — so you know the number before you commit. No long-term lock-in.

What makes bookkeeping for pet stores different?

In retail, inventory is usually the biggest number on the books and the easiest one to get wrong. Buying stock isn't an expense — selling it is. Until purchases and sales are matched, your P&L moves with your buying habits instead of your business. Two examples that come up on almost every pet store’s books: “Purchases become expenses only when the item sells” and “Shrink, markdowns, and returns”.

Do you file my taxes?

No — your CPA handles filing, and we don't give tax advice. What we do is keep the books that make filing easy: categorized, reconciled, and closed every month, so your accountant gets a clean, organized year-end file instead of a shoebox. If your books are behind, we run a catch-up and clean-up pass first.

Do I have to be a marketing client to use your bookkeeping?

No. Bookkeeping stands on its own for any pet store. But when we run both, your P&L and your campaigns share one data picture — which is where the “did the advertising actually make money” answer comes from.

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Start with the free books review

No commitment — we look at where your pet store’s books stand today and tell you exactly what monthly upkeep would look like.

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