Bookkeeping & Payroll for
New Braunfels Businesses
Weekly bookkeeping, payroll, and back-office operations for contractors, trades, practices, and seasonal businesses across Comal County.
A Business That Makes Half Its Year in Four Months Needs Better Books, Not Fewer.
New Braunfels has an economy most bookkeepers aren't built for. Between the rivers, Gruene, and the summer season, a lot of local businesses earn a disproportionate share of their revenue in a narrow window — then spend the rest of the year living on what's left and hoping the reserve math was right.
Seasonality punishes bad bookkeeping harder than anything else. If your books are three months behind, you find out in February that last summer was worse than it felt. By then the decisions that needed the information — staffing, pricing, whether to carry that lease through the slow months — are already made.
The other half of New Braunfels is growth. Comal County has been one of the fastest-growing places in the country for years, and that pulls in home builders, trades, medical practices, and service businesses that scale faster than their back office does. A bookkeeping setup that worked at four employees quietly stops working at fifteen.
- Revenue concentrated in a few months of the year
- No reliable read on whether the reserve will cover the slow season
- Seasonal staffing that spikes payroll and paperwork together
- Growth outrunning the person doing the books part-time
- Job costing that never got set up as the crews grew
- Sales tax and multiple revenue streams tangled together
- Cash coming in faster than anyone is recording it
- A CPA asking questions nobody can answer in March
Everything a New Braunfels Business Needs, From One Team
Start with one service or hand over the whole back office. Most clients begin with one or two and expand when coordinating providers stops being worth their time.
Bookkeeping
Transactions entered and allocated every week, reconciled and closed every month. Not a pile that gets sorted in January.
- Weekly coding, monthly reconciliation
- Balance sheet reviewed, not just the P&L
- Statements days after close
Payroll & HR Compliance
Full payroll processing, tax filings, and the compliance paperwork that comes with having employees. Roughly 8,000 payrolls a year.
- Hourly, salary, overtime, and contractors
- Payroll tax filings handled
- Certified payroll for public work
AP, AR & Collections
Bills paid on time, invoices out on schedule, and someone actually following up on what's aging.
- Vendor bills and check runs
- Invoicing and payment application
- Collections calls we make, not you
Catch-Up & Cleanup
Months or years behind is a normal way to start. Diagnostic review first, written scope and fixed price before any work begins.
- Fixed price, quoted up front
- History brought current
- No lecture about how it happened
Reporting & Advisory
Dashboards you can open any time instead of a report you wait for, plus controller and CFO-level support when the business needs it.
- Custom dashboards and KPIs
- Controller oversight
- Forecasting at $2M revenue and up
The Full-Service Package
Bookkeeping, payroll, AP/AR, reporting, controller oversight, and office support under one team at one flat monthly price.
- One team, one invoice
- No coordinating three providers
- Scoped before we begin
Not sure where to start? The financial data checklist is a short, free way to see what shape your books are actually in.
The Businesses New Braunfels Actually Runs On
We build the books around how a business earns, and in New Braunfels that varies more than in most cities its size.
Home Builders & Construction
Comal County's growth means residential and commercial construction at volume. Job costing, WIP, retainage, progress billing, and certified payroll when public work enters the picture. Construction services →
Trades & Field Services
Plumbing, HVAC, electrical, pool, and pest routes serving thousands of new households. High transaction volume, revenue per truck, and field software that has to reconcile to the books. Trades services → · Insurance audits →
Seasonal & Tourism
Outfitters, lodging, event venues, and anything downstream of the rivers. Seasonal payroll, off-season reserve planning, and revenue recorded properly across a compressed earning window.
Restaurants & Hospitality
Tight margins, high volume, tipped wages, and a payroll that changes weekly. Food and labor cost tracked as a percentage of sales, not discovered at year-end.
Medical & Dental Practices
A growing population brings practices with it. Payer reconciliation, provider-level reporting, and the multi-entity structures practices accumulate. Practice services →
Professional & Retail
Main Street retail, agencies, and professional service firms. Clean monthly reporting, real AR follow-up, and payroll that stops being your Sunday evening.
Close Enough to Meet, Set Up So You Don't Have To
We're up Highway 46 in Bulverde — about half an hour from downtown New Braunfels — so an in-person meeting is genuinely easy when it's the right call. Most of the work doesn't need one. Your books, documents, and reporting live in a secure portal you can open from a truck, and when you call, a person who knows your business answers.
To be clear about scope: Bulverde Business Solutions provides bookkeeping, payroll, and financial operations services to businesses in New Braunfels and across Texas. We are not a CPA firm. We do not provide tax, audit, or attest services, and nothing on this page is tax, legal, or investment advice. We keep your books accurate all year, assemble a year-end package your CPA can work straight from, and coordinate with them directly. If you don't have a CPA yet, we can tell you what to look for.
Bookkeeping in New Braunfels — Answered
What local business owners ask before handing over the books.
Do you have an office in New Braunfels?
No — we're based in Bulverde, roughly half an hour up Highway 46. In practice that means we can meet in person when it's genuinely useful, which is more than most remote bookkeeping firms can offer and less overhead than a second office you'd end up paying for. Day to day, everything runs through a secure client portal.
Our business is seasonal. Can bookkeeping actually help with that?
It's where bookkeeping earns its keep. A seasonal business needs to know, during the season, whether it's tracking ahead or behind — and needs a defensible number for what the off-season will cost. That requires books current within the week, not within the quarter. We also separate seasonal from year-round revenue so you can see what the base business does without the peak flattering it.
We're growing fast and our bookkeeping can't keep up. Is that fixable?
Yes, and it's the most common reason businesses in Comal County call us. Growth breaks bookkeeping in a predictable order: transaction volume outruns the part-time person, then job or department-level detail never gets set up, then reporting becomes a company-wide total that can't tell you which part is working. We rebuild the structure first, then keep it current weekly.
How much does bookkeeping cost in New Braunfels?
A flat monthly price, quoted after we look at your actual transaction volume, employee count, and which services are in scope. We don't bill hourly and we don't meter phone calls — a client who won't call because the clock is running is a client we can't help. Cleanup work, if you need it, is quoted separately as a fixed price before any work starts.
Do you handle sales tax?
We track and reconcile sales tax so the liability on your books is right and your filings can be prepared from accurate numbers. Where a return needs to be signed off by a licensed professional, that goes to your CPA. We'd rather draw that line clearly than blur it.
Can you work with our existing CPA?
Yes, and most of our clients keep theirs. We're not a CPA firm and don't want to be your tax preparer. We keep the books accurate all year and hand your CPA a year-end package they can work straight from, which most CPAs strongly prefer to reconstructing a year in March.
Let's Find Out What Last Season Really Made You.
Most New Braunfels business owners have a feeling about it and not a number. Start a strategy call and we'll show you what it takes to know.
Start a Strategy Call → Or call us directly at (830) 666-0417.
