How Much Should You Charge for Bookkeeping? CPA Firms and Bookkeepers-Read This First

If you’re a CPA or bookkeeping firm, one of the toughest questions you face-especially during tax season-is: “How much should I charge for bookkeeping?”

There’s no one-size-fits-all answer, but here’s how to think about pricing-and how to increase your margins without increasing your workload.

Common Bookkeeping Pricing Models

1. Hourly Billing
   1. Typical range: $30-$90/hr depending on experience and complexity.
   1. Downside: Difficult to scale, clients often push back.
2. Flat Monthly Fee
   1. Popular with small businesses.
   1. Range: $150-$600+/mo based on size and frequency of transactions.
3. Per-Transaction or Tiered
   1. Pricing based on volume of entries or bank accounts.
   1. Can be hard to predict or explain to clients.

 The Real Problem: Time & Capacity

Most firms underprice to stay competitive-and then scramble to finish books when tax season hits. This leads to:

• Overtime costs
• Burned-out staff
• Dropped clients

The Fix: White-Label Bookkeeping with RemoteBooksOnline

We give you a private CRM dashboard where your clients upload statements. Our trained team does the bookkeeping in the background-your firm stays the face.

• You keep control.
• You set the client price.
• We handle the work.

Whether you want to charge $250 or $750/month-you own the margin.

Explore our white-label bookkeeping program for CPA firms, or learn how we handle QuickBooks cleanup during tax crunch season.

Let us do the books-while you grow your firm. Get started with white-label bookkeeping from RemoteBooksOnline today.