Miami's property market means real estate is one of our most common local requests, and the whole game is separation. We set QuickBooks up so each property or entity carries its own profit and loss, using class or location tracking rather than one blended file, so you can see which building or deal actually makes money. Commissions, owner draws, and inter-entity transfers stay clean, and 1099s for contractors and owners are painless at year end. Short-term and vacation rentals add transient rental taxes that need their own tracked liability accounts so a host isn't quietly under-collecting. Our QuickBooks for real estate guide goes deeper on the property-level setup.
QuickBooks help in Miami
A QuickBooks consultant for Miami businesses — remote, specialist-led.
We're a remote QuickBooks practice that works your Miami file on U.S. business hours (Central Time): multi-currency books for import/export and Latin-America trade, property-level tracking for real estate, hospitality accounts that hold up, every account reconciled, and a clean handoff to your CPA. One specialist keeps the books, with tourist taxes held apart from sales tax.
Last reviewed October 2026 by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor
Coverage · Miami & South Florida
SERVING MIAMI REMOTELY
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A map of the South Florida tri-county area, with Miami-Dade highlighted alongside Broward and Palm Beach counties. QBSpecialist is a remote QuickBooks practice serving Miami and South Florida businesses remotely, from import/export and real estate to hospitality.
- Serving Miami remotely
- Multi-currency and real estate ready
- One specialist — never a rotating pool
Miami-Dade's sales tax and tourist taxes
Miami-Dade sales carry Florida's 6 percent plus the county's discretionary surtax on the first $5,000 of any single item; the county's current rate is on the Department of Revenue's DR-15DSS table (Florida DOR, checked October 2026). Hotels and short-term rentals also collect county tourist and convention taxes on top of sales tax, set county by county — the books need them in their own liability accounts, remitted separately, never mixed with sales tax. Short-term rental platforms collect some of these on their own bookings, so channel-by-channel payouts matter (short-term rentals).
The fee is fixed after a free review — from $1,500 for a project, from $400/mo for monthly bookkeeping — with a documented handback at the end, so your team can see what changed and why.
Do you need a Miami-based QuickBooks consultant?
Miami is a trade, tourism, and real estate economy with a strong cross-border tilt — and each of those pulls a QuickBooks file in a different direction. A Miami QuickBooks consultant's job is setting the file up to fit the business the city actually produces.
You don't need one in your neighborhood, but you do want one who recognizes the businesses Miami produces: import/export firms invoicing in several currencies, real estate investors and brokerages, and a deep bench of hospitality and tourism operators. That fluency is the value — and it travels perfectly well over a remote connection. The everyday bookkeeping is the same anywhere; what differs is the setup a Miami business needs behind it. We serve Miami businesses remotely, so you get that context without paying for an office you'd never visit.
Miami's economy runs on trade, tourism, and real estate
Three forces shape QuickBooks work for Miami businesses. First, international trade and logistics: PortMiami and Miami International Airport make the region one of the country's busiest gateways for goods moving to and from Latin America and the Caribbean, and the wholesale, distribution, and freight businesses around them run on inventory, landed cost, and cross-border payment. Second, tourism and hospitality: hotels, restaurants, and a large short-term rental market drive seasonal, high-volume, tip-and-service-charge accounting. Third, real estate and finance: Miami is a major residential and commercial property market and a banking hub oriented toward Latin America, so property investment, brokerage, and multi-currency finance are everyday realities here rather than exceptions. None of these are claims about your specific business — they're the character of the market, and they tell us where a Miami file usually needs attention.
QuickBooks multi-currency for Miami import/export and latin-america trade
Multi-currency · how it carries the books
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The multicurrency flow this page describes: you invoice customers and pay vendors in foreign currencies, the books stay in your home currency, and exchange-rate movement lands in its own realized and unrealized gain and loss accounts. Once multicurrency is switched on it cannot be turned off, and the home currency is fixed at setup. Illustrative.
For the trading, distribution, and cross-border businesses that Miami is built on, the single most important setup decision is multi-currency. QuickBooks Online includes a multicurrency feature that lets you invoice customers and pay vendors in foreign currencies while your books stay in your home currency, with exchange-rate movement tracked as realized and unrealized gains and losses. The catch is that once multicurrency is switched on, it can't be turned off, and the home currency is fixed at that point — so it has to be set up deliberately, not toggled on to solve one invoice.
We set your home currency, add only the currencies you actually trade in, create your foreign-currency customers and vendors correctly, and make sure the gain/loss accounts are in place so exchange-rate swings are visible rather than buried in a catch-all. For import and distribution files we also keep inventory, freight, and landed cost clean, because those feed the cost of goods that your margins and your tax figures depend on. If a file already has multicurrency in a mess, a focused QuickBooks cleanup is usually the honest first step before anything ongoing begins.
QuickBooks for Miami real estate and property businesses
QuickBooks for Miami hospitality and tourism businesses
For Miami's restaurants, bars, and hospitality operators, the pressure points are volume and cash. High transaction counts from point-of-sale systems have to flow into QuickBooks cleanly, tips and service charges need to be booked so they don't distort revenue or payroll, and seasonal swings make month-to-month reconciliation the thing that keeps the picture honest. We set the file up so daily sales, processor deposits, and payroll tie out, and so the numbers behind your sales tax are right before the return is due. Our QuickBooks for restaurants guide covers the hospitality setup in detail.
Florida tax still applies — and it lives on our Florida page
Wherever your Miami business sits, Florida's tax rules shape the file: no state personal income tax, a statewide sales and use tax with the Miami-Dade county discretionary surtax on top, reemployment tax on payroll, and a corporate income tax for corporations. We deliberately don't re-explain all of that here — the full, sourced detail lives on our Florida QuickBooks consultant page, and repeating it would only create duplicate content. What matters locally is that we configure your QuickBooks sales tax center for the right combined jurisdiction and reconcile what you collected to what you owe, so your CPA files from clean numbers.
How a Miami file is set up in QuickBooks
A Miami file is built around its currencies, its properties and its taxes. Cleanup or catch-up from $1,500, monthly bookkeeping from $400/mo, each fixed after a free review.
- Sales tax with the $5,000 surtax limit. Florida's 6 percent plus the Miami-Dade surtax, which applies only to the first $5,000 of any single item, so a large single-item sale is not overcharged.
- Tourist taxes in their own accounts. Hotel and short-term rental income carries county tourist and convention taxes, posted to separate liabilities and never mixed with sales tax.
- Platform payouts by channel. Where a booking platform collects some taxes itself, its payouts are recorded channel by channel, so the books show what was collected and by whom.
- Multi-currency for trade. An import/export business keeps foreign-currency customers, vendors and bank accounts in their own currency, with exchange gains and losses booked when balances settle.
- One property, one profit and loss. Real estate and rental owners track each property or entity on its own, so each carries its own income, expenses and owner draws.
Access is the same for every client — a view-only free review, then the accountant user you invite for paid work (security), with every step on the record (methodology). If the work in Miami is physical — paper receipts nobody will scan, daily cash counted in person — a local bookkeeper fits better; when local beats remote sets out the test, and a short call settles it.
Remote-first, nationwide
Mon–Sat · 8am–6pm CT
Worked remotely across South Florida — the same reconciliation-first process and the same specialist, throughout the Miami metro.
- Miami-Dade
- Doral
- Coral Gables
- Miami Beach
- Broward
- Palm Beach
How to verify our Miami consulting
Who’s responsible for your file
A Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor handles your file from the review through the corrections to the hand-back — the same person throughout, never a rotating pool.
About QBSpecialistOur reconciliation method
Every account tied to its statement, month by month. Read exactly how we do it.
Read the methodologySecurity posture
View-only access for the free review, QuickBooks' accountant access for the work itself — never your bank logins — and access handed back when the work ends.
Response commitment
A written reply within one business day.
Questions about QuickBooks help in Miami
Do you have an office I can visit in Miami?
No — and we won't pretend otherwise. We work entirely inside your QuickBooks file, remotely, which is what lets one specialist serve a trading company in Doral, a brokerage in Coral Gables, or a restaurant in Wynwood the same way. If your work genuinely needs someone on site, we'll tell you plainly and point you to a local Miami bookkeeper.
Can QuickBooks handle multiple currencies for my Miami import/export business?
Yes. QuickBooks Online has a multicurrency feature that lets you invoice customers and pay vendors in foreign currencies while your books stay in your home currency. We set your home currency, add the foreign currencies you actually trade in, and configure the exchange-rate handling so realized and unrealized gains and losses land in their own accounts. Once it's on, multicurrency can't be turned off, so getting the setup right the first time matters — which is exactly what we do.
I do a lot of business across Latin America — can you set my books up for that?
Yes. Miami's role as a gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean means many local businesses invoice and collect in several currencies and reconcile international wire transfers. We structure your chart of accounts, foreign-currency customers and vendors, and bank feeds so cross-border activity reconciles cleanly and the exchange-rate movement is visible rather than buried.
Do you handle QuickBooks for Miami real estate and short-term rentals?
Yes — it's one of the most common Miami requests. Real estate work needs property- and entity-level separation so each property or entity carries its own profit and loss, commissions and owner draws stay clean, and 1099s are painless at year end. Short-term and vacation rentals add transient rental taxes that need their own tracked accounts. Our QuickBooks for real estate guide goes deeper on the setup.
What about Florida sales tax and the county surtax — do you cover that?
We do, but the full detail lives on our Florida consultant page rather than here, so we're not repeating it in two places. Florida sales and use tax, the Miami-Dade discretionary surtax, and reemployment tax all shape how your QuickBooks sales tax center and payroll accounts are built. We configure the file for your jurisdiction and reconcile what you collected to what you owe; your CPA files the returns.
How do I keep Miami-Dade's tourist taxes apart from sales tax in QuickBooks?
Give the county's tourist and convention taxes their own liability accounts and lodging its own income item, so each night's tax posts where it is owed and is remitted separately from sales tax. Sales tax itself is Florida's 6 percent plus the Miami-Dade surtax on the first $5,000 of any single item, at the rate on the Department of Revenue's DR-15DSS table. Where a short-term rental platform collects some of the tax on its own bookings, record its payouts channel by channel so nothing is counted twice.
What does a QuickBooks consultant cost in Miami?
The same as anywhere else we work — a fixed scope for a fixed fee, quoted after a free view-only review of your file, with cleanup-class projects from $1,500 and ongoing monthly bookkeeping from $400/mo. Price follows the work — accounts, months, transaction volume, and complications like multicurrency or inventory — not your Miami address.
- Where we work— the other markets, served the same remote way
- New York City— New York City's own taxes, for a Miami business with a New York office
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Describe the file and a specialist will tell you which of these you are dealing with — including when the answer is that you don't need us.