What a set of books costs to keep

People are surprised we will tell them what the work is, so here it is. A month of bookkeeping is: pulling the bank and card and app feeds, matching every line to an account, chasing the receipts and answers we are missing, tying every account out to its statement, working out what to set aside for tax, and writing the pack. The more transactions you have, the more of all of that there is.

That is why the fee is set by volume and nothing else. Turnover does not measure the work — a business doing a million dollars on forty big invoices is less work than one doing a hundred thousand on eight hundred small sales. Charging the first one more would be charging for the size of the number, not the size of the job.