Pricing
What Does Equipped Bookkeeping Cost?
Monthly bookkeeping starts at $300 a month, flat. Projects like catch-up and clean-up are quoted once, as a fixed price. Nothing here is billed by the hour.
Monthly Bookkeeping Starts At $300 A Month
One flat price every month, based on how much work your books take.
Every month you get
- Transaction categorization
- Bank, card, loan and processor reconciliation
- Chart of accounts maintenance
- The monthly close
- Standard monthly financial statements
- Correcting issues as they come up
- Coordinating with your tax preparer
- Questions, which are never billed
What moves the number
How many transactions run through the books, how many bank accounts and credit cards have to be reconciled, and how complicated the business is to report on. Nothing about the price is per hour.
What Does Catch-Up Or Clean-Up Cost?
Each of these is a one-time job with its own fixed price, agreed before any work starts. The price cannot grow later, however big the problem turns out to be.
Catch-Up Bookkeeping
Months or years that were never recorded at all. The price depends on how far back it goes, and how much can be rebuilt from the records you still have.
Clean-Up Bookkeeping
The books exist but cannot be trusted. The price depends on how many months need correcting, and whether the accounts were ever properly reconciled.
Bookkeeping Setup
Building the books from scratch. The price depends on how you earn, how many accounts and card processors connect, and whether anything is moving over from another system.
Custom Financial Reporting
Reports built around the questions you actually ask. A report can only use numbers the business already tracks, so if something is not being captured yet, that gets fixed first.
Business Growth Consulting
Time with us to work through a decision. It is quoted directly rather than listed, because it depends on how often you want to meet.
How Do You Price My Business?
We work the price out on a call, not with a calculator. There are four steps and none of them cost you anything.
- You tell us where things standSend your email with a couple of lines about the business. What you sell, and whether the books are up to date or behind.
- We have a short callWe ask how you get paid, what you sell, and what is missing from the books. That is usually enough for us to price the work. Sometimes we need to look at the books as well, and there is no charge for that.
- You get your priceOne flat rate for the monthly work. If the books need catch-up or clean-up first, that is a separate fixed price. We keep the two apart so the monthly rate is not padded to cover the past.
- You decideNothing starts until you agree to the price. If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, we will tell you that instead.
Monthly bookkeeping starts at $300 a month, and what your business pays on top of that depends on four things. How many transactions run through the accounts: four hundred card transactions a month is more work than forty. How many accounts there are: every bank account, credit card, loan and payment processor is reconciled separately, so six is more work than two. How complicated the business is to report on: several revenue streams, subcontractors or job-level costs all add work. And what shape the books are in, since books that are already current cost less to keep that way. The number comes out of a short call rather than a form.
Catch-up is quoted as a one-time project, separately from the monthly rate. The price depends on how many months were never recorded and how much of the history can be rebuilt from records that still exist. You get that figure and the monthly figure as two numbers, not one, so you can see how much of the cost is fixing the past.
Because there is one starting price and the tiers above it are not published. Naming a number before we know what the work involves would only mean changing it later.
No. Monthly bookkeeping is a flat monthly rate and projects are a fixed price agreed before work starts. Hourly billing makes questions cost money, which is a good way to stop clients asking them.
No. Questions are never billed. A bookkeeper you are reluctant to contact is not doing the job.
That is quoted separately, as a one-time project. It is not folded into the monthly rate. Blending the two would hide how much of your payment goes to fixing the past instead of keeping up with the present.
No. There is an agreement, but it runs month to month, so you are never committed past the month you are in.
No. Equipped does not process payroll and does not calculate, file or remit sales tax. Reconciling payroll transactions that came from your provider can be part of the work depending on scope, and that is agreed in the quote rather than assumed.
No. Equipped is a bookkeeping company, not a CPA or tax firm. You get clean, reconciled books your tax preparer can file from, and we coordinate with them.
Nothing, and it commits you to nothing. You get a real number rather than a range, including if the honest answer is that your books are fine and you do not need the service yet.
Get A Real Number, Not A Range
Send your email and tell us where the books stand. It costs nothing, and nothing starts until you have agreed to the price.