Profit Leak Audit
Find the hidden profit leaks in your landscaping business.
Most small businesses are quietly bleeding money through forgotten subscriptions, duplicate charges, mislabeled expenses, and overhead that no longer serves them. The Profit Leak Audit finds it, all of it.
Why this matters
Most businesses are spending money on things they forgot they signed up for.
When a business grows quickly, expenses accumulate faster than anyone can track them. A software trial that became a subscription. A vendor that keeps running a card after a relationship ended. A service that was useful once and is now just overhead. Individually they're small. Together, they can represent thousands of dollars a year in recoverable spend.
Our target is to find waste and reclaim at least 10% of overhead for every client we do this audit for. In most cases, we find it.
Forgotten SaaS subscriptions still charging monthly
Duplicate charges from vendors or payment processors
Mislabeled expenses reducing deductible tax items
Recurring charges for services you no longer use
Vendors billing at old, uncorrected rates
Tax deductible items getting miscategorized as not deductible
Beyond subscriptions
The profit leaks we look for in landscaping businesses
In a landscaping business, profit usually leaks through the small things: an extra hour of trimming, one more trip to pick up mulch, a rental that did not get included in the estimate, a crew waiting on materials, a customer deposit recorded incorrectly, or a job that looked profitable only because labor was never assigned to it.
Underpriced labor
Owner time not included in pricing
Free add-on work
Material markup too low
Forgotten equipment rental costs
Dump fees not passed through
Travel and material pickup time ignored
Seasonal maintenance priced like a simple mulch job
Payroll taxes left out of labor burden
Jobs tracked only by revenue, not margin
Recurring customers with underpriced work
Repairs and equipment costs buried in overhead
Credit card and processing fees ignored
Discounts given without knowing margin
What you get
- 6-month expense review
- Recurring charge review
- Vendor review
- Job cost review where data is available
- Service line margin review
- Payroll and labor burden review
- Report with action items
- Suggested QuickBooks cleanup items
How it works
What the Profit Leak Audit includes
6 month transaction deep dive
We go through every expense transaction in your last 6 months of books, not just categories, but individual line items.
Subscription & recurring charge audit
Every recurring charge is identified, flagged, and compared against your active vendor relationships. Unknown charges are surfaced immediately.
Categorization accuracy review
We review how expenses are categorized and flag anything that's miscoded, especially items with tax implications.
Profit Leak Report
You receive a clear, readable report showing what we found, what it costs annually, and what we recommend you cancel, renegotiate, or recategorize.
Implementation support
We don't just hand you a list. We help you take action on the findings and update your books to reflect the corrected picture.
Pricing & access
Get it free with Growth or Managed
Included in your plan
$0 with Growth or Managed
The Profit Leak Audit ($995 value) is included as part of the No-Brainer Bonus Stack for Growth (Profit Optimizer) and Managed (Full Scale) plan clients.
View Plans →Standalone audit
$995
Not ready for a monthly plan? You can commission the audit as a standalone project. Findings are yours to keep and act on with your existing bookkeeper.
Request a Quote →Find out what your overhead is really costing you.
Book a free diagnostic and we'll tell you exactly what to look for, and what to expect to find, in your own books.