Let's play "Price this bookkeeping catch up!"
Every time I provide a quote to a prospective client I question myself. No matter how much I try to standardize my pricing, every client is still different and the standardization failes me. Sometimes, I am more confident in my pricing, other times, not so much.
I have one right now that I am second guessing. Who wants to play "Price this catch up?"
A prospective client approached me with a two year catch up (2024 and 2025). 1300 transactions in year 1, 1200 in year 2. Service based business, $200-250K in gross revenues, I looked at their QBO and there is nothing crazy or messy. I don't think I will find too many skeletons here. Nothing at all has been categorized for those years so there nothing to unwind - just straight up categorization from scratch.
I was thinking $1200 per year of clean up. I feel like bookkeeping pros will tell me that it is too low but I can't imagine this taking a lot of time and I do not feel good about price gouging them.
What is your price range for this?
Posted Jan 14, 2026, 8:44 PM UTC