📱 Best Platforms
Upwork (QuickBooks setup and chart of accounts design jobs from new businesses), Fiverr (QuickBooks setup and bookkeeping configuration gigs), LinkedIn (pitch newly-formed LLCs and startups who post about incorporation — they need their books set up immediately).
📖 The Hustle
New LLC owners open QuickBooks, stare at the blank chart of accounts, and have no idea which categories to create for their industry. You build a clean, logical chart of accounts tailored to their business type — income accounts, expense categories, asset and liability accounts — so their books are structured correctly from day one. Charge $200-500 flat for setup. Getting it right at the start avoids expensive cleanup later.
🚀 First Step
Create a free QuickBooks Online Accountant account, build a sample chart of accounts for a fictional photography business, and screenshot the organized account list.
🔑 Keys to Success
- Use QuickBooks' industry-specific default charts as your starting template and customize from there — it is faster and more thorough.
- Number accounts logically (1000s for assets, 2000s for liabilities, 4000s for income, 5000s for expenses) — professional numbering matters.
- Provide a 1-page 'Chart of Accounts Guide' explaining what goes in each account in plain English — small biz owners need the reference.
🛠 Tools & Resources: QuickBooks Online Accountant, Xero, Wave Accounting, Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel