White-label bookkeeping or a dedicated offshore accountant?

The difference in one line

With white-label bookkeeping you buy an outcome: each client's books closed and reconciled. With dedicated staff you buy capacity: a trained person who works your queue. The first needs less of your time; the second gives you more control.

• Pricing: across the market, a monthly fee for each client, an hourly rate, or a monthly fee per person
• Management: the provider manages the work, or your team does
• Best for: many similar bookkeeping clients, or steady mixed work including tax
• Scaling: add clients one at a time, or add a person at a time

What the market charges

As of September 2026, published prices give a sense of the range. Madras Accountancy's 2026 pricing guide puts white-label bookkeeping at $150 to $500 a month for each client and dedicated full-time offshore staff at $1,200 to $2,500 a month. The Fino Partners publishes a price card for CPA firms from $1,800 a month for a junior bookkeeper to $3,500 a month for a financial controller.

Our own prices are on the pricing page: $12–$15 an hour for B2B partnerships, covering white-label work and dedicated staff, and a full-time accountant from $1,500 a month.

Which one to start with

If you have more than a handful of monthly bookkeeping clients and no one to close them, start with white-label on a few clients. If your problem is broader (reconciliations, tax prep, workpapers, admin) and the volume is steady all year, a dedicated accountant goes further. Firms often start with white-label and add a dedicated person once they trust the provider.

Alternatives to Madras Accountancy

Madras Accountancy is an India-based firm that provides offshore accounting and tax support to US CPA practices, and it publishes detailed pricing guides, which is useful when you compare. Other providers in the same space include The Fino Partners, which publishes prices per role, and SF Business Solutions, a US firm that offers white-label bookkeeping, tax preparation and dedicated accountants at a published hourly rate, with one licensed CPA on the team. Compare them on who reviews the work, hours of overlap, how client data is protected, and whether prices are written down.