Bookkeeping Packages & Pricing
Flat-rate monthly bookkeeping from $500/month. You know the number before we start, asking a question does not generate an invoice, and the books close every month.
$500 /month
- Up to 50 transactions/month
- Bank and credit card reconciliation
- Monthly P&L and balance sheet
- HST/GST filing
- QuickBooks or Xero managed for you
- Year-end package for your accountant
- Email support
$800 /month
- Unlimited transactions
- Bank and credit card reconciliation
- P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
- HST/GST filing
- QuickBooks or Xero managed for you
- Year-end package for your accountant
- Catch-up bookkeeping, up to 3 months
- CRA correspondence handled
- Priority email support
Custom
- Multi-entity and corporate structures
- High-volume transaction processing
- Payroll processing included
- Multi-currency reconciliation
- Custom financial reporting
- A named bookkeeper on your file
- Monthly strategy call
- Full CRA audit support
Prices are monthly in Canadian dollars and exclude HST. Personal and corporate tax return preparation is quoted separately — see tax preparation and corporate tax. Not sure which package fits? The bookkeeping cost calculator gives you an estimate in about a minute.
What employing a bookkeeper actually costs
The honest comparison is not our price against a bookkeeper’s salary, it is our price against salary plus the employer’s share of payroll. A bookkeeper in Ontario earns a median of $28.50 an hour. At full-time hours that is what one costs you in a year:
| Salary$28.50/hour median, 37.5 hours a week over 52 weeks | $55,575 |
| Employer CPP5.95% of earnings above the $3,500 exemption, 2026 rate | $3,098 |
| Employer EI1.4 times the employee premium, 2026 rate | $1,268 |
| CPP2Does not apply below the $74,600 ceiling | $0 |
| Ontario Employer Health TaxPrivate-sector employers are exempt under $1,000,000 of Ontario payroll | $0 |
| Total, one bookkeeper | $59,942/year |
| Standard package$800 a month, unlimited transactions | $9,600/year |
Two things that comparison leaves out, in both directions. An employee sits in your office and does whatever you ask, which a bookkeeping package does not; and the figure above excludes vacation and sick coverage, a desk, a QuickBooks licence, and the cost of the work stopping when that person leaves. What it does not do is inflate the number. Competing pricing pages often add a flat 25–35% for “benefits and source deductions”; the real statutory employer cost at this salary is $4,367, about 7.9%, because Ontario exempts employers with payroll under $1,000,000 from Employer Health Tax.
Wage figure: Job Bank occupation 12562 (Bookkeeper), Ontario median, 2023–2024 reference period, Labour Force Survey, Statistics Canada. CPP and EI are 2026 rates, the same constants used by our payroll calculator.
What moves the price
Four things change a bookkeeping quote. None of them is how long the work takes, which is why there is no hourly rate on this page.
How many accounts need reconciling
Two bank accounts and a credit card is routine. Six accounts, a line of credit, Stripe, Shopify and a US dollar account is a different month's work, and it is the main thing that moves you from Starter to Standard.
Whether the books are current
Catching up eighteen months of unreconciled transactions is a one-time project, not monthly bookkeeping, and it is quoted separately. Standard absorbs up to three months. Beyond that we look at the file first and give you a fixed number before starting.
Payroll
Running payroll means source deductions calculated every cycle, PD7A remittances on schedule, T4s in February and an ROE whenever someone leaves. It is included on Enterprise and quoted per employee otherwise.
How many entities
A holding company and an operating company are two sets of books, two HST accounts and intercompany entries that have to agree. Multi-entity work is Enterprise, not a surcharge on Standard.
For the wider market picture — hourly rates, freelance versus firm, what other providers charge — see our guide to how much a bookkeeper costs in Canada.
Pricing questions
Get your exact price
Book a free 15-minute review of your books. We will tell you which package fits and what, if anything, needs catching up first.