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Bookkeeping & accounting in Arlington, Irving & the DFW mid-cities

The mid-cities are where DFW actually does its work. Freight lands at the airport, moves through Grand Prairie and Garland warehouses, and sells from Arlington storefronts and Irving offices, and none of that commerce belongs to either downtown. We keep books for it: accrual financials with landed-cost COGS, closed by the 10th business day, for ecommerce sellers and local operators alike.

eMerchant Books accountants serving Arlington, Irving, Denton and the DFW mid-cities

The corridor between the downtowns is our kind of client

Look at a freight map of the metroplex and the mid-cities light up. DFW Airport moves more cargo than almost any field in the country, and the distribution spine that feeds it runs straight through this territory: air freight and customs brokers in Grapevine and Coppell, warehouse rows along 161 in Grand Prairie, wholesale operations in Garland and Carrollton, importers in Lewisville working the I-35E corridor. Businesses like these don’t have simple books. They have containers whose freight and duty belong in unit costs, inventory sitting in three buildings at once, and marketplace settlements that look nothing like the deposits hitting the bank.

An accountant in Irving, TX who mostly files 1040s can’t do much with that. We can, because it’s our whole practice: monthly bookkeepingbuilt on settlement-level detail, channel P&L that shows whether the wholesale side or the Amazon side earns, and books that tie to your 1099-Ks at year end. Behind on the books? Catch-up bookkeeping gets quoted flat, in writing, before we start. Las Colinas is part of this practice too; the office towers hold plenty of product companies and founder-run operations whose inventory never gets within ten miles of the building.

A small business accountant for Arlington, TX storefronts

Arlington built an economy on people showing up: the stadiums, the theme parks, and the miles of retail, restaurants and service businesses that feed off ten million visitors a year. That revenue is seasonal, cash-heavy and split across POS systems, which is exactly where generic bookkeeping falls apart. Our local practice takes established Arlington and Grand Prairie businesses whole: Square, Clover, Toast and Shopify POS reconciliation, A/P and A/R, sales tax filings, payroll coordination, and a clean QuickBooks or Xero file you own. A shop that also sells online gets both sides in one set of books, set up in QuickBooks built for ecommerce so the storefront and each channel stay visible separately.

Denton anchors the other end of the territory with a different character: a courthouse square of independent businesses and two universities feeding it customers and founders. First real bookkeeper for a growing Denton shop, or an accountant in Denton, TX for a maker brand that outgrew a spreadsheet, that’s work we take gladly. Small files get our attention because small files become the interesting ones.

We’re a Plano firm with a practice across the whole metroplex, and we come to you. Dallas-side sellers have their own page at ecommerce accountant in Dallas, the west side lives at bookkeeping services in Fort Worth, and Collin County is covered from the Plano office. This page is for everyone in between.

What a mid-cities engagement includes

  • In-person onboarding in Arlington, Irving, Denton or anywhere between
  • Accrual books with landed-cost COGS, closed by day 10
  • Marketplace, storefront, wholesale and POS channels in one file
  • Multi-warehouse inventory across the airport corridor
  • Texas franchise tax numbers that tie to gross, not deposits
  • QuickBooks or Xero, in your own file that you keep
  • Published ecommerce pricing; local work quoted flat
  • Free Ecommerce Books Teardown before any commitment

The full rate card is on our pricing page, from $149/mo Books Lite up. The first conversation is a free teardown of your current books, at your place of business or over a table anywhere in the mid-cities.

Closed by day 10, or 50% off

Your prior month is reconciled and delivered by the 10th business day, guaranteed in writing. Miss it and that month's fee is half price. No competitor guarantees anything.

You own your books

We work inside your QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite file, not ours. Leave any time and everything stays with you, diligence history included.

Exit-grade, always

Accrual books with landed-cost COGS and a maintained addback schedule. If a buyer or lender called tomorrow, your books would be ready.

Published pricing, no lock-in

Our full rate card is on the website and engagements run month-to-month. Every ecommerce-exclusive competitor hides pricing behind a sales call. We don't.

Arlington, Irving and mid-cities accounting FAQs

I'm searching for an accountant in Arlington, TX. Is that you?

If your business has inventory, channels or more than one revenue stream, yes. We're a DFW accounting firm with a bookkeeping-led practice covering Arlington, Grand Prairie and the mid-cities: accrual books, sales tax filings, and a year-end package your CPA files from directly. Onboarding happens at your shop or warehouse, not over a portal. If all you need is a personal 1040, a tax storefront will cost you less; we're built for operating businesses.

Do you work with Denton businesses, including ones near the university?

Yes, and Denton is a practice we like. The square and the blocks around UNT and TWU are full of first-location businesses: coffee shops, print and merch operations, music retail, boutiques run on Square or Shopify POS. We set those books up right the first time, handle the seasonal swings a college town brings, and if your side hustle online store becomes the main event, the file is already built for it. We drive up I-35E for onboarding and quarterly reviews.

What does an accountant in Irving or Las Colinas cost?

Ecommerce engagements follow our published rate card: Foundation from $1,250/mo for brands doing $100K-$250K a month, Books Lite at $149/mo for smaller sellers. Local Irving and Las Colinas engagements are quoted flat after a short look at your systems. A generalist mid-cities bookkeeper runs $300-800/mo; the difference buys settlement-level marketplace accounting and inventory valued the way a lender would value it.

Can you handle a distribution business near DFW Airport?

That's the center of our practice, not the edge of it. Freight forwarders, importers and wholesale distributors around DFW Airport, Grapevine and Coppell deal with landed costs, in-transit inventory and B2B terms alongside marketplace channels. We build one set of accrual books that carries all of it: container costs in unit COGS, multi-warehouse inventory, marketplace settlements tied to 1099-Ks.

Which mid-cities do you actually cover?

Arlington, Irving, Grand Prairie, Denton, Carrollton, Garland, Grapevine and Lewisville are the core, and everything between them. We're based in Plano, so nothing on this list is more than about forty minutes out. Distance never changes the service or the price; it changes which highway we take.

Books for the part of DFW that does the shipping

Tell us what you sell and where it sits. We'll take a free look at your current books and meet you anywhere from Arlington to Denton.

  • ✓ Books closed by day 10, guaranteed in writing
  • ✓ Everything stays in your QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite file
  • ✓ Published pricing, month-to-month, no lock-in
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For $100K+/mo ecommerce brands

Day-10 close guarantee · published pricing

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