From King Street restaurants and STR property managers juggling multiple accounts to Mount Pleasant contractors tracking project payouts, Charleston businesses can't afford open items at year-end. Tides reconciles every bank account and credit card every month — catching errors, duplicates, and unauthorized charges early so your Lowcountry books always tie out clean.
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Charleston's economy is unlike anywhere else in South Carolina — and the multi-account, multi-location complexity of Lowcountry businesses is exactly why monthly reconciliation matters. Here's how it fits the businesses that drive the Charleston County economy.
Charleston is a tourism, port, and hospitality town first. Restaurants and bars along King Street, short-term rentals and property managers across Mount Pleasant, Folly Beach, and Isle of Palms, and the boutiques and tour operators downtown often run multiple checking accounts, several credit cards, and a stack of merchant processor payouts. Monthly reconciliation matches every one of those accounts to the statement — so duplicate charges, missing deposits, and bank fees get caught in the same month they happen, not at year-end.
Beyond hospitality, the Charleston metro is a serious industrial and professional hub. The Port of Charleston anchors a deep logistics and freight economy; Boeing South Carolina and the aerospace supply chain employ thousands in North Charleston; and MUSC and Roper St. Francis make healthcare one of the region's largest employers. The small businesses that orbit these anchors — contractors on Daniel Island, marine and trades companies in West Ashley and Johns Island, consultants and agencies serving the "Silicon Harbor" tech scene — juggle project-based payouts across multiple bank accounts where one missed transfer can throw off cash position for weeks. Reconciliation is what keeps that complexity honest.
Whether you operate downtown on the peninsula, out in Summerville and North Charleston, or anywhere across the Tri-County, Tides reconciles every account every month — fully remote — so there are no surprises at year-end. Looking for our full local overview? See our Charleston bookkeeping services page.
Reconciliation is more than matching numbers. It's a systematic verification that your books reflect reality — and a safety net that catches errors before they become expensive problems.
Every transaction in QuickBooks is matched against your actual bank and credit card statements, line by line. Every deposit, payment, fee, and transfer is accounted for.
Any transaction that doesn't match — duplicate entries, missing transactions, bank errors, or unauthorized charges — is flagged and investigated. Nothing is left open.
Every business bank account, credit card, line of credit, and savings account is reconciled monthly. No account is skipped, regardless of how many you have.
After each month is complete, you receive a reconciliation summary showing the beginning balance, ending balance, and confirmation that all accounts are cleared.
We review your accounts, identify what needs to be reconciled, and give you a flat monthly quote.
You grant us access to QuickBooks Online and your bank statement portal. Bank feeds are connected if not already live.
At month-end, we work through every account — matching transactions, resolving discrepancies, and clearing the reconciliation in QBO.
You receive a reconciliation confirmation each month. Any flagged items are brought to your attention with context and a recommended action.
Any business with a bank account needs reconciliation. Here's who we work with most.
You have multiple checking accounts, savings, and several business credit cards. Keeping all of them reconciled manually takes hours every month — and something always gets missed.
You process hundreds or thousands of transactions per month. Manual reconciliation isn't practical — you need a systematic, automated approach that catches everything.
Your books have never been properly reconciled, your previous bookkeeper left accounts open, or you're seeing differences you can't explain.
Most business owners don't reconcile monthly — and most don't realize what that's costing them until something goes wrong.
A missing transaction in January becomes three errors by March when it affects related entries. Unreconciled books compound mistakes silently until they become expensive to fix.
The most common way employee theft and fraudulent charges are caught is through monthly bank reconciliation. Without it, money can disappear for months before anyone notices.
If your books don't match the bank, your P&L and balance sheet are wrong. Decisions based on those reports are based on fiction.
Every month you skip reconciliation adds to the backlog. A year of unreconciled accounts can take weeks to clean up — and your CPA will charge you for every hour of it.
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"Daniel has helped me keep my finances organized and is always helpful during tax season. He is very personable, and if I have a question, he promptly gets back with me!"
Whether your business runs hundreds of daily transactions or a handful of large ones, clean reconciled accounts are non-negotiable. We match every transaction to the penny, every month.
Escrow accounts, commission deposits, rental income reconciliation.
Multiple project accounts, material purchases, draw schedule reconciliation.
High-volume daily deposits, POS reconciliation, tip payout matching.
Insurance EFT matching, patient payment reconciliation, EOB tracking.
Retainer deposits, trust accounting, expense reimbursement matching.
Marketplace payouts, chargeback reconciliation, merchant account matching.
Investment deposits, SaaS platform payouts, multi-account reconciliation.
Monthly operating account reconciliation, owner transactions, vendor payments.
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Schedule a free call. We'll review your accounts and give you a flat monthly quote covering full reconciliation of every account.
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