Bookkeeping for the businesses of Old Towne Orange.

Old Towne Orange is the largest National Register Historic District in the state of California — about 1,400 vintage buildings inside roughly one square mile, built around the Plaza traffic circle instead of a standard grid, which is what makes it look and feel like nowhere else in Orange County. A mosaic-tile fountain from 1937 still sits at the center of it. Antique dealers started moving in during the 1980s, and by the mid-90s the district had grown to more than 50 antique shops. Today it's known as the Antique Capital of California, with 40+ shops still doing business around the Circle.

A different kind of small business district

Antique dealers run books differently than most retail — consignment splits, high-value individual items, inventory that can sit for months before it sells. Add in the boutiques, restaurants, and cafes that fill out the rest of the Circle, and it's a business mix that doesn't fit a generic small-business template. I'm not around the corner from Old Towne the way I am in Garden Grove, but it's a district I know well and am glad to work with.

Built around how these businesses actually run

• Antique & consignment dealers: split tracking between dealer and shop, inventory that turns slowly
• Restaurants & cafes: POS and delivery-platform reconciliation, inventory/COGS, tip tracking
• Boutiques & specialty retail: inventory, vendor payables, sales tax handled correctly
• Historic-building landlords and small commercial owners: see real estate investor bookkeeping

Books by the 15th. No meter running.

Flat pricing, quoted up front

Monthly bookkeeping starts at $300/mo. If your books haven't been touched in a while, cleanup comes first — see how that works. See also: how service area works.