A pyrotechnician's bookkeeping tends to happen in two phases: the season, when you fire and invoice without looking at the numbers, then winter, when everything is retyped into a spreadsheet for the accountant. In between, there is no way to tell whether a town's national-day show was actually profitable once the fireworks, the subcontractor, the truck and two seasonal staff on CDDU contracts were paid. And the accountant asks for a ledger file the spreadsheet cannot produce.
PyroDesk computes revenue from invoices, sets the expenses you record against it (fireworks purchases, subcontracting, travel, wages) and gives you the profit overall and per file. Payment tracking shows what has been collected and what is still owed; bank reconciliation matches incoming transfers with invoices. The FEC export produces the accounting-entries file in the format French accountants expect, for the financial year or the period you choose, with no re-entry.
Mid-September, the season is fired. You open the accounts: 41 shows invoiced, three invoices still unpaid, including a council to chase. Profit per file shows that wedding displays paid better than village festivals, because of travel. You run the FEC export from January to September and send it to the accountant, who prepares the interim statement without calling you back for a missing document. The winter stock order is decided on real figures.
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Other features
- Client management for fireworks companiesA client's whole history — council, festival committee or private customer — found in two seconds, without digging through your inbox.
- Show files and Kanban pipeline for pyrotechniciansOne show, one file: from the first call to payment received, you know exactly where every deal stands.
- Pyrotechnic stock management by lotItems, lots, expiry dates and net explosive content tracked in real time, with an alert before the magazine runs dry.
- Fireworks quotes and invoices in 5 minutesPick your services, PyroDesk does the maths and produces a clean PDF in the client's language, ready to sign on the portal.
- Season planning and firing calendarYour whole season at a glance, synced with Apple Calendar and Google: never two shows on the same July Saturday again.
- Collaboration, subcontracting and seasonal contracts between pyrotechniciansShare files with your team, hand a show to a subcontractor without revealing your prices, sign your seasonal staff's CDDU contracts.
- Client portal with online signatureYour clients sign quotes and contracts with a finger, pay by bank transfer and follow their file from a secure link, in their language.
- Internal messaging for fireworks crewsTalk to your crew and subcontractors without leaving PyroDesk: private conversations, groups per show and a general feed.
- National job board between fireworks companiesNeed a pyrotechnician for a national-day show, or a mission for your crew? Post, filter by region and talk to the candidates.
- Daytime fireworks: stock by colour and forecastsSmoke and daytime effects managed by shade, every movement traced, and consumption forecast for each upcoming event.
- Pre-filled CERFA 14098 and prefecture watchThe fireworks display declaration filled from the file, and the orders of all 101 French départements monitored for you.
- 3D fireworks simulation with PyroSimulatorYour firing plan in real-time 3D in the browser, matched to real calibres, with tube tilt, drafts and rack export.