Bookkeeping for berry farms, greenhouses and agricultural operations.
One harvest window pays for the whole year, and the paperwork it generates arrives all at once — piece-rate crews, contractor-supplied labour, fuel, fertiliser, packaging and equipment. We keep farm books current through the season so you know your cost per acre and per pound, and so payroll and GST never wait until winter.
Sound familiar?
These are the things we see most often in farms, berry growers and greenhouses books before we take them over.
- Seasonal and piece-rate crews paid before the payroll records catch up
- Farm labour contractor invoices with no breakdown of who worked when
- Input costs — fertiliser, plants, packaging, fuel — lumped into one expense line
- GST credits on inputs missed because receipts never reached the books
- Equipment purchases treated as expenses instead of capital assets
- No idea of cost per acre or per pound until the accountant finishes year-end
What we handle for farms, berry growers and greenhouses businesses
- Seasonal and piece-rate payroll, remittances, ROEs and T4s
- Farm labour contractor payments tracked and reconciled to invoices
- Input costs split by crop, block or greenhouse range
- GST registration and filing with input tax credits fully claimed
- Equipment and improvement purchases recorded as capital assets
- Year-end working papers ready for your accountant's farm schedules
How we run your file
We set the chart of accounts up around your growing operation rather than a generic 'sales and expenses' shape, so plants, fertiliser, packaging, fuel and labour each stand on their own. Through harvest we reconcile monthly and keep the collected GST set aside; in the off-season we handle cleanup and the year-end package. You get a short monthly statement pack with cost lines you can compare season over season.
Photograph supplier invoices and fuel receipts at the farm and they land straight in QuickBooks Online or Xero. Payroll runs from the hour and piece records you already keep — no rebuilding them in January.
What it costs
Flat monthly fees from $150, set after a quick look at your volume — no hourly surprises and no lock-in contract.
FAQ
Agriculture, Berry Farms & Greenhouses bookkeeping questions
Straight answers before you pick up the phone.
Yes. We run seasonal pay periods, calculate piece-rate earnings against BC minimum requirements, remit source deductions on time, issue ROEs when workers finish, and prepare T4s at year-end.
Regularly. We reconcile contractor invoices to the hours or volumes actually worked and keep those payments recorded separately from your own payroll, so the records hold up if they are ever reviewed.
That is the point of setting the books up by crop or block. Once inputs, labour and packaging are coded that way, your monthly statements show what each part of the operation actually costs to run.
It changes the timing, not the work. We stay current through the season, plan GST and instalments around the cash coming in, and use the quiet months for cleanup and year-end prep.