More capacity for your firm, without hiring for every busy season

The saving comes from paying for the hours the work takes instead of carrying the salary, benefits, software and training of a US hire through the quiet months. Whether it pays off depends on your fees: if you bill a bookkeeping client more than our cost plus the time your team spends reviewing, the difference is margin.

A simple way to test it: take five of your monthly bookkeeping clients, add up what you bill them, subtract what the work would cost with us and the review hours you would still spend, and compare that with what those clients earn you today.

Across the market, providers price firm work in three ways. Per-client pricing suits many similar bookkeeping clients, because cost follows revenue. Hourly pricing follows the actual work, which suits a mix of bookkeeping, tax and project work. A monthly fee for a full-time person suits steady volume and one accountant who learns your clients.

Our pricing for firms is simple: $12–$15 an hour for B2B partnerships, covering white-label work and dedicated staff, or a full-time accountant from $1,500 a month.

Ask how client data is accessed and stored, who will actually do the work, how work is reviewed before it reaches you, and how you get your files back if you leave. Read the contract for the notice period, who owns the work papers, and what happens to client data at the end.

Red flags: no written confidentiality terms, staff sharing logins, prices that only appear after a long sales process, and a provider that cannot explain how it gets the Section 7216 consent your offshore tax work needs. Whoever you choose, test them on a few clients before moving more.

SF Business Solutions is a bookkeeping firm, not a CPA firm, but our team includes one licensed CPA, which helps when your reviewers want to talk through a technical question. Audits themselves are available through our professional CPA partner firms.