Admin for Tradies
Monique Clow talking with a tradie client, Canterbury NZ
Xero certified advisor — set up, cleaned up and running properly.
NextMinute certified partner — job management that talks to your books.
Business Mentors NZ volunteer mentor — mentoring small business owners on money and systems.
The tools behind the service — the checking systems I use are built in-house at Telic.
About

Meet Monique — your bookkeeper

I'm a bookkeeper, not an agency. I do the work myself, and I've been doing it for 14 years — the last eight of those as Admin for Tradies, working with New Zealand trade and service businesses.

Before that I ran the office of a mechanic's workshop. That's where I learned how a trade business really works from the inside — how the money moves, how fast a busy week can bury the paperwork, and which admin actually earns its place. It's the reason I've never asked a tradie to become an office person. You do your thing, I do mine. It's a good balance of skills.

What makes Admin for Tradies different is that I build the systems as well as run the books — receipt capture, supplier statement checking, job costing, month-end reporting. If something is being done badly by hand, I'd rather fix it than keep charging you for it.

Qualifications: a Master of Business, a Diploma in Lean Systems and a Diploma in Accounting — which is the reason the systems work as well as the books do.

Based in Prebbleton, Canterbury. Working with tradies right across New Zealand.

What I value —
less admin, done properly

Fourteen years of client feedback says the same three things. So they're what I hold myself to.

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Systems, not just data entryIf something's being done badly by hand, I'd rather fix it than keep charging you for it. Every client ends up with less admin than they started with.
You get a straight answerAsk me a question and you hear back — not next week, and not in accountant language. If I don't know, I say so and go and find out.
Forward readyI build AI into the checking, so the data is right before anyone reads it — errors caught early, and reporting that tells you what's actually happening in the business. Leading, not lagging.

Ready to ditch the paperwork?

One phone call and you'll know whether we can help. No pitch, no obligation.

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