Where the current tool falls short
- A chart of accounts knows nothing about a show: no way to tell what the 15 August display earned once product purchases, travel and the subcontractor are deducted.
- Purchases of pyrotechnic products are booked as expenses, but the tool ignores that they enter a stock with batches and expiry dates.
- Upstream documents — quote, contract, deposit, declaration — do not exist there; entries are still keyed by hand or imported from elsewhere.
What PyroDesk changes
- Turnover, costs and margin are read per show, per client and per month, from the dossiers actually invoiced.
- Deposit and balance invoices, payments received through the portal and stock purchases feed the accounts without double entry.
- The structured accounting export gives your accountant what they expect; e-invoicing is handled through an approved platform.
Generic accounting software is built to keep the books: journal, ledger, VAT, year-end statements. That is your accountant’s territory, and PyroDesk does not try to replace it. What it does not tell you is what a pyrotechnician needs day to day: how much that village display cost in products, travel and labour, and what is left. The entries are there, but nothing ties them to a show, a client or a season.
The gap is felt most at year end. You have to work out which invoices belong to which show, explain why the March purchase served the July display, isolate re-invoiced subcontracting, separate the deposit collected in January from the balance received in August. Your accountant asks questions only the show’s dossier can answer, and that dossier is not in their tool. Hours go by in back-and-forth.
PyroDesk sits upstream of general accounting, where the figures are born. Every dossier carries its quote, invoices, payments and purchases; profitability per show can be read without rework. At period end, the structured export hands your accountant entries already tied to their documents, and e-invoicing goes through an approved platform. The accountant keeps their software; you keep the trade-level view.