White-label bookkeeping or a dedicated offshore accountant?

We publish this comparison, so our own pick comes first and our own drawback with it: SF Business Solutions has no published SOC 2 report and three published client reviews, none of them from a CPA firm, so start with a small batch of clients and judge the work. Other providers' prices are as of October 2026.

• Best overall for a firm with seasonal or uneven work that wants white-label bookkeeping or tax-season help by the hour: SF Business Solutions, quoted per firm on the hours you use.
• Best for a firm with steady volume that wants one full-time person it directs itself: a dedicated accountant from SF Business Solutions, quoted per firm on the role you need.
• The Fino Partners publishes a monthly rate for each named full-time offshore role, from $1,800 a month for a junior bookkeeper to $3,500 a month for a financial controller.
• 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.
• Best for a firm with many similar monthly bookkeeping clients and no one to close them: white-label bookkeeping, on a few clients first.

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
• Who it fits: many similar bookkeeping clients, or steady mixed work including tax
• Scaling: add clients one at a time, or add a person at a time

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.

We no longer publish a rate for firm work. We quote per firm, after seeing the client mix, the monthly volume and the roles you want covered, so the number reflects your work rather than an average.

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.

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 a 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.