Welcome to Mainline advisory

The all-in-one financial hub for plumbing businesses

Visibility now. Advice when it matters.


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Who We Are

Purpose-Built for the Plumbing Industry


We are not a generalist firm running a plumbing playbook. We are a specialist firm. Our workflows, compliance frameworks, software configurations, tax planning strategies, and HR templates are built around the realities of running a plumbing and gas fitting business in Australia.  We speak your language.

From navigating the Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award to managing ATO benchmarking, TPAR obligations, licencing, job costing, and the cash flow pressures that come with quoting work weeks or months in advance.

We understand your problems. We've helped plumbers solve them before.



stop managing the gaps between your providers

One Team, Complete Visibility


Right now, your bookkeeper doesn't talk to your accountant. Your payroll provider doesn't know your tax position. Your HR advice comes from Google at 11pm. You're the one holding it all together — and things still fall through the cracks.

Mainline replaces all of that with one dedicated Ops Hub: four specialists working as a single team on your business, in the same systems, in real time. Data Integrity. Compliance. Employment Relations. Tax Strategy. All connected. All coordinated. All moving your business forward.

One team. One point of contact. One clear picture of where your business stands.



tired of chasing your bookkeeper, accountant and your own paperwork?

Let's have a conversation. 15 minutes. No obligation. We'll tell you straight where you stand and how we can help


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Our Founders

Mainline wasn't dreamt up in a boardroom. It was built by two practitioners who kept seeing the same problem — from opposite sides of the same fence.

One from public practice accounting. One from commercial bookkeeping. Both working with plumbing businesses. Both watching business owners fall through the gap between their bookkeeper and their accountant. Rather than keep working around a broken model, they built a new one.

Today, both founders remain hands-on across every aspect of Mainline. You won't just see their names on the website. You'll deal with them directly.


Olivia Story
Director | Systems & Compliance Expert
Olivia is a registered BAS Agent with more than 15 years experience in trade-sector bookkeeping, payroll, compliance and cloud systems. At Mainline, she leads the Systems & Data and Compliance & People streams - making sure the Ops Hub Teams run with precision. 

Loves a weekend away with the family. Dog person. Has strong opinions on clean payroll processes
Danielle Baillie
Director | Structuring & Tax Advisor
Danielle is a registered Tax Agent with more than 20 years experience in public practice, specialising in tax strategy, business strcuturing, and financial advisory for trade businesses. At Mainline, she leads the Strategy & Tax stream - making sure every client's structure, tax position and financial strategy are working as hard as their business is.

Parent of three. Not to be trusted with plants. Believes a good spreadsheet can solve most problems.

You won't just see our names on the website. You'll deal with us directly. 

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Service packages aligned to business maturity


Essentials Essentials

Sole operators / micro


0-2 employees


Annual compliance, reliable bookkeeping and payroll, BAS and cloud setup


  

$750/mo

Excl. GST

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trade trade

small trade teams


3-5 employees


Essentials plus - Tax planning, TPAR, IAS,  and HR foundations ..




$2,750/mo

Excl. GST

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growth growth

established businesses


6-14 employees


Trade plus - Management reporting, cashflow and budgeting, HR partnering, workflow automation and job management


$6,000/mo

Excl. GST

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premium trade premium trade

large / multi-entity


15+ employees


Growth plus - Dedicated team, virtual CFO services and monthly board ready reportin


From

$10,000/mo

Excl. GST

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Clients can scale up or down. No lock-ins. Right fit for fee. 

One-off onboarding investment

Investment
Essentials Package $ 795
Trade Package
$ 1,500
Growth Package
$ 3,000
Premium Trade Package
From $ 5,500


 All prices exclude GST



What your onboarding includes:

             File review and historical tax position assessment
             Bookkeeping clean-up and ledger reconciliation
             Payroll setup review and compliance check
              Software migration
              Compliance   calendar build and first-year planning
              Team training on new workflows and systems
              Transition to ongoing “Ops Hub” team


How the transition process works

Follow our value-adding onboarding process. 

1.

discovery
discovery

We scope the needs in every aspect of your back office including software, payroll, tax and structuring to name a few.


2.

Stabilise
Stabilise

We complete the handover with the outgoing provider; perform any required cleanup and complete any required software migration.


3.

Systemise Systemise

We setup worflows and test them with the first live processing cycles, establish HR foundations and train members on their new systems and reporting.


4.

Handover & refine Handover & refine

Finally, we handover to your permanent "Ops Hub" team. We continue to optimise software workflows and will run 30 and 60-day satisfaction checkins with you.


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frequently asked questions

You've Got Questions. We've Got Straight Answers


You're running a plumbing business, not researching accounting firms for fun. So we've kept this simple — the questions we hear most, answered plainly. If something's not covered here, pick up the phone or book a call. We don't bite.