Booth, retail, tips, and payroll that finally add up. QuickBooks, QuickBooks, fixed fee. Free assessment.
Austin scales faster than its back office — revenue arrives before the systems do, and the books are usually the last thing to catch up. For salons, spas and wellness studios across Travis County — from downtown and South Congress to the Domain and East Austin — that shows up as renters, commission stylists, and employees all get paid differently — and the books treat them all the same and product sales and services land in one bucket, hiding which side of the business actually carries you
Steven Palmieri works remotely with Austin owners in a market defined by a technology-and-startup boom layered over hospitality and creative small business. We separate service, retail, and tips, reconcile your booking platform payouts, and make contractor payments clean for 1099 season. You get a documented before/after trail your CPA can verify — no offshore rush job, no judgment about how far behind the books have slipped.
You're not bad at business. The books just stopped telling the truth about the chair and the calendar.
Renter revenue, product sales, and payroll blur — tax and cash both suffer.
Processor dumps don’t equal the day sheet, so you’re always reconciling ghosts.
Product walks out, cash comes in, and the books never agree.
Two minutes. No document dump. Just the truth about how behind it feels.
We separate booth, service, retail, and tips the way a salon actually runs.
Backlog cleared. Accounts reconciled. A before/after report you — and your CPA — can act on.
Beauty & wellness cleanup that matches the chair, not a factory chart of accounts.
Every account reconciled and every anomaly documented before we change a thing.
The backlog cleared with beauty & wellness business-correct categories — not a generic chart of accounts.
A before/after summary and a simple monthly rhythm so it stays clean after we leave.
If our assessment can’t show you exactly what’s wrong and what it costs to fix, the assessment costs you nothing — no obligation either way.
“Finally handed my CPA a clean QuickBooks file instead of a shoebox.”
“Tips, product, and services finally live on separate lines.”
“My 1099s took an afternoon instead of a panic week.”
Illustrative examples of typical client situations — not statements from specific named clients.
Tell us a little about the business — we reply within one business day.
Yes — we serve Austin and the wider Travis County area entirely remotely, working from your QuickBooks exports and bank feeds. No office visit required.
Most cleanups finish in 2–4 weeks depending on backlog size and account volume.
Fixed fee, quoted after the free assessment — based on months behind, accounts, and transaction volume. No hourly surprises.
Yes — payout reconciliation from booking platforms is usually the first thing we fix.
Never. Messy books are a symptom of a busy business. Fixing them is literally what we do all day.