The Best Bookkeeping for Small Businesses

Bookkeeping done for you with easy-to-understand reporting. Take the tedious back-office work off your plate so you can focus on your business.

Get started with a free live virtual bookkeeping consultation.

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400% ROI*
From small business services on average
25 Hours**
Saved during tax preparation
1 Million+***
Consultations delivered

Certified experts help you maintain your books

Our certified US-based accountants have more than 17 years of experience on average. Partner with a bookkeeper who has experience in your industry and state. You can rely on 1-800Accountant's dedicated bookkeepers to accurately categorize transactions and reconcile your accounts.

Certified experts help you maintain your books
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Freedom to focus on your business

Let us handle your everyday small business bookkeeping tasks so you can focus on what you do best – running your business.

Accurate, detailed books done for you

Accurately categorized transactions and reconciled accounts. Make business decisions based on up-to-the-minute information.

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Game-changing features

Keep things running smoothly: Automatically connect bank accounts, send invoices, upload receipts and track mileage.

"The bookkeeping service I have is excellent. I have used this service for 3+ years, which has made business financial management much easier."

Testimonials Stars

KG

April 2023, Trustpilot

Actual customer testimonial. Photo is illustrative only.

Save yourself the hassle. Let us handle your bookkeeping.

  • Dedicated Bookkeeper
  • Software Fluency
  • Secure Online Portal
  • Business Bank Account Syncing
Dedicated Bookkeeper
Dedicated Bookkeeper
Leave your record keeping to our professionals; message or schedule appointments as needed to get your questions answered.

The simple way to do your books:

  1. Schedule your live digital bookkeeping service consultation.
  2. Find the right combination of services for you.
  3. Explore our portal for online bookkeeping services for small businesses.
The simple way to do your books:

Frequently Asked Questions about Bookkeeping

1-800Accountant's small business bookkeeping clients enjoy our satisfaction guarantee. Our bookkeeping service is designed to provide excellent value to small business clients, ensuring accuracy and reliability. If you feel the forms or any aspect of our professional bookkeeping services doesn’t meet that standard, you can request a refund of the prorated balance within your first 30 days of use.

Onboarding times will vary depending on the complexity of your financial situation and typically take about a week on average. Once onboarding is complete, your monthly financial statements detailing the previous month's performance are prepared and sent to you on or before the 15th of every month.

Your expert bookkeeper will need a few items and information to start doing your books and providing business bookkeeping services, including:

  • Prior year financial statements and depreciation schedule
  • Bank and credit card statements
  • Bookkeeping software access

The volume of your financial transactions will determine your bookkeeping cost. The small business expert conducting your discovery consultation will disclose bookkeeping pricing details during this discussion, tailoring them to your business needs and budget.

Review our affordable service packages via our pricing page. Both monthly and annual subscription options are available.

1-800Accountant's proprietary bookkeeping platform, ClientBooks, is compatible with leading accounting software, including QuickBooks Online (QBO), FreshBooks, and Wave. Our bookkeepers are fluent in these platforms, ensuring seamless integration and financial data management.

Unlike do-it-yourself (DIY) bookkeeping software and accounting services, 1-800Accountant provides dedicated bookkeeping and back bookkeeping services done-for-you (DFY). Your dedicated bookkeeper will work closely with you, providing personalized support and ensuring your books are managed accurately and efficiently, giving you the insights you need to make critical, data-backed business decisions.

Your dedicated bookkeeper will primarily communicate with you through messaging and calls. Messages are sent and received via your 1-800Accountant Client Portal, typically within 24-72 hours. You can schedule a monthly call to discuss financial statements, ask questions, and address pressing concerns. Additional phone calls with your dedicated bookkeeper can be scheduled as needed.

1-800Accountant, America’s leading virtual accounting firm, offers financial services to small businesses nationwide, serving a diverse range of industries across all 50 states. Whether your business operates in multiple states or you're planning a future expansion, our bookkeeping service supports your ambitions. In addition to bookkeeping, we offer quarterly estimated tax preparation, audit defense, and other essential financial services that maximize your tax savings while ensuring compliance for complex, multistate operations.

Small businesses rely on 1-800Accountant's catch-up bookkeeping service to get their books up to date. No matter how far behind you are–even by months or years–our robust catch-up bookkeeping service will catch you up quickly with error-free results. Knowing your books are accurate and up to date provides relief and peace of mind, empowering you to focus on other aspects of your business.

Yes, 1-800Accountant offers a suite of professional small business accounting and tax services to small business owners and entrepreneurs, ensuring IRS compliance year-round while minimizing their annual tax burden. In addition to DFY business bookkeeping, our services include business tax preparation and filing, tax advisory, and payroll. Like all 1-800Accountant tax solutions, these services are affordable and tax-deductible.

ClientBooks, our proprietary business bookkeeping platform, currently supports accrual basis accounting. This method records transactions based on when a product or a service is exchanged. Revenue transactions are recorded on the date that a customer becomes legally obligated to pay you for providing a product or a service. Expense transactions are recorded when you become legally obligated to pay for a product or service received.

1-800Accountant serves the needs of small businesses in all 50 states with bookkeeping and a suite of financial services designed to save more of your time and hard-earned money, so you can focus on what matters: your business. Our services are affordable, tax-deductible, and are designed to scale with your business as it grows, supporting you throughout your career as an owner and entrepreneur.

When you trust your business's complex bookkeeping work with 1-800Accountant, your designated bookkeeper will reconcile your accounts monthly. We can accommodate unique bookkeeping requirements that would mandate a higher or lower reconciliation frequency for your business.

1-800Accountant offers a 30-day satisfaction guarantee, providing excellent value to our small business clients. If you feel any aspect of our bookkeeping service or any other service you're using doesn’t meet that standard, you can request a refund of the prorated balance within your first 30 days of use. You can also add additional services from 1-800Accountant, including tax advisory services and audit defense, throughout your time as a client.

When using 1-800Accountant's full-service, tax-deductible bookkeeping solution, rest easy knowing your data is safe and secure. We use the industry standard 128-bit SSL encryption to protect your information. As an added safeguard, our team remains vigilant to emerging threats to help ensure your data is secure.

Your designated full-service bookkeeper will handle everyday bookkeeping tasks for your small business, ensuring the accurate categorization of transactions and that your accounts are consistently reconciled. Accurate bookkeeping is a tedious and time-consuming task that is best left to experts, particularly if you have complex bookkeeping requirements.

It is essential to transmit documentation and receipts to your designated bookkeeper promptly to avoid an incorrect or incomplete view of your business's financial situation. While we offer full-service bookkeeping to small business clients, we depend on your active participation to ensure accuracy so that you can make critical business decisions based on up-to-the-minute data.

We offer payroll services for small businesses with one or multiple employees. Invoicing is achieved via our proprietary bookkeeping platform, ClientBooks. Currently, our software requires clients to download the invoice to their device and send it through their email provider. Sending invoices directly from ClientBooks is a feature that will be available in a future version of the platform.

Talk to 1-800Accountant. Say Hello to Better Bookkeeping.

*Based on a $12.2k average 2022 tax refund per client, which is 4x the cost of a full-service package. Source: first-party data.

**Includes average business tax preparation, form completion and submission, record keeping, and other misc admin time. Source.

***Historical first-party data.