Live Margin for staffing agencies

Your Margin by Client. This Week. Not Next Month.

Jombone already knows what you billed and what you paid, per client, per job order, per recruiter, per week. Live Margin turns that into a weekly P&L, a gross margin dashboard, and a journal your accountant imports as-is.

Gross margin by clientWeek ending Sep 4 Before burden
ClientBillingWagesGPGP%
Northgate Logistics42,18031,24010,94025.9%
Apex Plastics38,60027,41011,19029.0%
Harbor Foods27,95021,0806,87024.6%
Meridian Packaging19,30016,4102,89015.0%
Sterling Fabrication14,72010,6604,06027.6%
Slice by job order, recruiter, branch, state, WC classDrill to invoice
Same week
Margin visible the day invoices generate
By client
GP at a grain your accounting software cannot produce
0 re-keyed
Billing and wages never typed into a ledger again
1 upload
The only step added to your week
The Friday question

"What Was My Margin on Client X Last Week?"

Your staffing platformSystem of record for timesheets, rates, invoices

  • Billing Exact
  • Wages Exact
  • By client Yes
  • By recruiter Yes
  • Available Same week
THE GAP
Your margin lives here. In a spreadsheet.

Your accounting systemLegal-entity P&L, after the bookkeeper closes

  • Billing Re-keyed
  • Wages Re-keyed
  • By client No
  • By recruiter No
  • Available 30-60 days

The same numbers, typed twice, agreeing never. So the owner answers the margin question with a spreadsheet, a month late.

How Live Margin works

Billing and Wages Post Themselves. Everything Else Takes Five Fields.

1Set up your chart once

Your accounts, your codes, an afternoon.

Build revenue, cost of goods and expense accounts in workspace settings using the names your books already use. A live preview shows your P&L skeleton as you build. No accounting training needed.

Chart of accountsPreview
4000 Revenue
4010 Billable Hoursoffset: AR
4020 Direct Hireoffset: AR
5000 Cost of Goods Sold
5010 Assigned Payrolloffset: Accr. Wages
5020 Payroll Taxesoffset: Accr. Burden
5030 Workers Compoffset: Accr. Burden
6000 Operating Expenses
6010 Rentoffset: AP
2Revenue and wages post automatically

The two hardest numbers on a staffing P&L, handled.

Every invoice line and every worker's approved gross wages post the moment they are generated, carrying client, job order, worker, recruiter, branch, state and workers' comp class. Nothing estimated. Tax never counted as revenue.

INVOICE LINE
Apex PlasticsINV-2261
Forklift Operator, RT 40.0h1,180.00
Week endingSep 4
POSTING
4010 Billable Hours1,180.00
offset: ARSep 4
ClientJob orderWorkerRecruiterStateWC class
Posted automatically. No user action.
3Every other cost, one upload or five fields

Burden, comp, screening, rent. Coded in seconds.

Upload the burden sheet your payroll software already produces and payroll taxes, workers' comp and benefits are allocated to every assignment by wages earned. Record any other cost against an account and a date, receipt attached. Tag a job order and the client fills itself in.

Add expenseExpense Management
Screening / background check
5040 Screening
Sep 3, 2026
45.00
Attach file
JO-1187 Forklift, Apex Plastics
Save
Derived from job order: Client: Apex PlasticsState: NYWC 8810

Timesheets approved Monday. Margin by client Monday. The rest we show you live.

Book a Demo
What you get every week

Margin by Client. P&L by Week. Journals Your CPA Imports As-Is.

Gross margin dashboard

  • GP and GP% by client, job order, worker, recruiter, branch, state, WC class
  • Two lines, always labelled: before burden and after burden
  • Any week, any range, compare to prior period

Weekly operating P&L

  • Revenue, COGS, gross profit, opex, operating income, net income
  • Week, pay period, month, quarter, year to date
  • Every line drills to the invoice, timesheet or expense behind it

Balanced journal export

  • Any period, any account range, CSV for QuickBooks, Xero, Sage and others
  • Debit, credit, source reference and dimensions on every row
  • Exported batches lock. Corrections post as reversals. Batch 41 never moves.
What changes

Running the Agency on What Happened vs. What Is Happening

MONTHLY P&L
LIVE MARGIN
Pricing
Renew first, find out later
See the underwater account before the next contract cycle
Recruiters
Paid on billing
Paid on GP they actually earned
Burden
A lump on the P&L
Allocated to every client and job
Bookkeeping
Re-key, reconcile, repeat
Import a balanced journal, reclass, done

The owner who knows margin by client on Friday prices differently on Monday.

Designed from real staffing P&Ls

Built around the structure every agency shares: billable hours, direct hire, worker cost, burden, office overhead, factoring.

Nothing estimated

Billing and wages come from your own timesheets and invoices. Burden comes from your payroll software. Jombone calculates no tax and no rate.

Your accountant stays in control

You define the accounts. Your CPA gets a balanced journal and reclasses on their side. Management basis, unaudited, by design.

See Your Margin by Client Before the Month Ends

Bring your last P&L to the demo. We will show you the same period, by client and recruiter, from the data your platform already holds.