Croxall Construction runs 4 businesses and saves $60K in headcount per year with Intuit Enterprise Suite

Unifying four disparate companies

Croxall Construction Companies is a Chattanooga, Tennessee holding company that President Hayden Croxall founded with his brother, Kristian, spanning high-end residential and commercial construction, as well as large-scale commercial painting. As the brothers launched and merged businesses, each ran in its own QuickBooks Online instance, leaving the financials siloed and reporting slow. After moving to Intuit Enterprise Suite for its multi-entity capabilities, Hayden now reviews the health of every entity in a couple of clicks and estimates the company saves $60K a year by not adding additional finance headcount, all while tracking toward $50M in revenue.

Separate books for a business that wasn't separate

When Hayden started his first company seven years ago, he signed up for QuickBooks Online knowing little about the back office. As he puts it, “I was the bookkeeper, I was the painter, I was everything at that point.” That worked for one company. It stopped working as the brothers added and merged businesses, because each one lived in its own QuickBooks account with no consolidated layer tying them together. At the point the Croxalls began evaluating a consolidated solution in late 2024, the company was roughly half its current size — and already running into the limits of managing interconnected books by hand.

The company had reached the point where the entities depended on one another, and Hayden needed to see them “as a single living organism” rather than a stack of disconnected books. As he describes it, “this business works with this business, and everything's connected in one way or another.” Without a consolidated view, he couldn’t quickly judge whether the overall organization was healthy or which entity needed help. As the financials grew more consequential and Hayden, a former teacher with no business background, took on forecasting and strategic decisions, the company needed a system that could grow with it, instead of one more siloed account to reconcile by hand.

The move to Intuit Enterprise Suite

As Croxall outgrew separate accounts, the brothers weighed the options open to a growing construction business and evaluated both Sage and NetSuite. However, “six-figure implementation fees and months-long implementation times made both me and my brother reluctant on switching over to a traditional ERP,” says Hayden.

However, Intuit Enterprise Suite soon came on their radar, and the decision came together quickly once they got on a demo call. Two things drove it: the first was continuity, since everything already lived in QuickBooks and the team already knew the platform, which made adoption a natural step rather than a migration onto something unfamiliar. The second, and what Hayden weighs most heavily, was trust. “More importantly than anything, we trusted QuickBooks,” he says, and in an era of rapid AI-driven change he treats “trust as the deciding factor in any software choice.” With an affordable price-tag lining up alongside that familiarity, the brothers made the move to Intuit Enterprise Suite.

Consolidated visibility without additional headcount

Hayden estimates he saves $60K a year because Intuit Enterprise Suite lets the existing team produce results without adding headcount. “That’s the tangible bottom line, and in that alone the ROI with Intuit Enterprise Suite makes sense 100 times out of 100.”

As Croxall scaled, the financial picture grew more complex: the company now carries seven figures in both accounts receivable and accounts payable across its entities. “You can't just look at the bank account and know where you're at. You have to pull more complex reports and see visibility across all the different entities." Intuit Enterprise Suite is what makes that visibility possible.

Rather than sorting transactions or posting intercompany entries himself, with Multi-Entity Hub and Consolidated View, Hayden logs in, sees “exactly where the company stands on a profit-and-loss and balance-sheet basis in just a couple clicks,” and gets back out to make strategic decisions. He can still drill into each business as an individual entity, but the Consolidated View lets him manage the whole organization the way the business actually runs.

Speed changed for the finance team as well. Reporting that once “took 10+ hours a week” now takes minutes or even seconds, which frees the two bookkeepers and the fractional controller to focus on financial strategy rather than menial tasks. For the bookkeeping team, quickly issuing due-tos and due-froms between entities keeps the balance sheet accurate, and Hayden ties that accuracy directly to savings at tax-prep time. He sums up his own benefit plainly, “Time is finite, and Intuit Enterprise Suite lets us be efficient and get the information we need to lead the company.”

Building toward $50M

Croxall Construction is on trajectory to reach $20M this year, with a realistic path to $50M within a few years, and Hayden’s confidence in scaling with Intuit Enterprise Suite has risen the longer he and his team have been on the platform. He is focused on bringing project-level revenue forecasting into Intuit Enterprise Suite so that hiring, vehicle purchases, and pipeline decisions are driven by contracted-project data rather than rough estimates, and he is an active voice in shaping those capabilities. He is equally enthusiastic about the Suite's AI direction and he expects to migrate more of his business onto Intuit Enterprise Suite as new features roll out.

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