Essential
$199 / month
For smaller businesses with straightforward monthly activity.
- Up to 75 transactions per month
- One bank account
- One credit card
Bookkeeping for business owners, not accountants
Your Local Bookkeeper.
Work with a real bookkeeper in your area for monthly bookkeeping, payroll, HST and tax filing — with modern online tools and the support of a wider bookkeeping network behind the scenes.
A real local bookkeeperBooks, payroll, HST and taxModern online tools
Choose your city
Find your local bookkeeper.
Every city has its own bookkeeper — the person who works with the businesses around them. Open yours to meet them, see what they cover and what it costs.
My Local Bookkeeper — HalifaxHalifax · Dartmouth · Bedford · Lower Sackville · Clayton Park · Cole Harbour · Timberlea · Fall River · Eastern Passage · SpryfieldRussel Layden · Your Halifax bookkeeperMeet your bookkeeper →
My Local Bookkeeper — St. John'sSt. John's · Mount Pearl · Paradise · Conception Bay South · Torbay · Portugal Cove–St. Philip's · Logy Bay–Middle Cove–Outer CoveMarilyn Faulkner · Your St. John’s bookkeeperMeet your bookkeeper →Somewhere else? Tell us about your business — we’ll say what we can do and let you know when we reach your city.
Why local
One bookkeeper who knows your business.
You work with one person. They learn how your business actually runs — your customers, your suppliers, the things that only happen in your trade — and they stay your point of contact. No call centre, and no explaining it again every month.
Behind them are modern systems that keep the records organized and take care of the repetitive part, so more of their attention goes to the things that need judgment. You don’t have to learn any of it.
One regular contact
The same person every month — someone you can email or call directly.
Someone familiar with your business
They know how your business runs, so a question gets an answer in context.
Local presence, online convenience
A bookkeeper in your area, with everything you need to send or see available online.
Continuity built in
What happens if your bookkeeper is unavailable?
It’s a fair question, and it is the one real risk in working with a single local bookkeeper.
You work with one person as your main contact. But the work is done on shared systems, with organized records and the same process in every city — so your bookkeeping is never trapped in one person’s inbox or memory.
If your bookkeeper is away, or eventually moves on, another bookkeeper in the growing network can pick up your records, your history and your process, and carry on.
Shared systems and recordkeepingThe same process in every cityA local relationship, without the single-person risk
Software vs. a bookkeeper
Software gives you tools. We do the bookkeeping.
QuickBooks, Xero and Sage are capable tools, and we are happy to work in whichever one you already use. But a tool is something you operate — the work still belongs to whoever sits down to do it.
Premium accounting software is a monthly cost you already carry, and the bookkeeping is still yours to do. Instead of paying for software and still doing the bookkeeping yourself, work with a real local bookkeeper.
With software on its own
The software is ready. The work is still yours.
- You do the bookkeeping.
- You reconcile the accounts.
- You find the mistakes.
- You prepare for tax time.
With your local bookkeeper
The same four jobs, done for you each month.
- We do the bookkeeping.
- We reconcile the accounts.
- We find the mistakes.
- We prepare for tax time.
Powered by Brian
Your books live in our system, not on your desk.
We keep your books in Brian, our own bookkeeping system. You don’t buy it, install it or learn it — it comes with the bookkeeping, and it’s where your bookkeeper does the work.
Send things in from anywhere. Photograph a receipt or forward a statement, and it’s filed against the transaction it belongs to.
See your statements when they’re ready. Your monthly numbers in one place, not buried in an email you have to find again.
One list of what we need from you. A question about a transaction sits with that transaction, instead of in a thread.
Deadlines you can see coming. HST periods and filing dates, with what’s owed, before they arrive.
Invoice your customers and track what’s owed to you. Who has paid, who hasn’t, and how long they’ve taken.
See how the business is actually doing. Your margins and ratios against what’s normal for your industry.
Every plan includes all of it. What you pay depends on the size of your business, not on which features you’re allowed to use.
What we do
Everything the books need, in one place.
One bookkeeper, one monthly process, and the filings that come off it.
01
Monthly bookkeeping
Transactions categorized, bank and credit-card accounts reconciled, and your books kept current throughout the year.
02
Catch-up bookkeeping
Several months behind? We work through the backlog, reconcile the accounts and bring everything up to date.
03
Payroll
Payroll processing, deductions, remittance tracking and year-end payroll records.
04
HST
We track the HST you collect and the eligible input tax credits you pay so your records are ready when filing time comes.
05
Corporate tax (T2)
Corporate tax preparation and filing for incorporated businesses, using books we already understand. $799 for monthly bookkeeping clients.
06
Personal tax (T1)
Personal tax preparation for business owners, self-employed individuals and families. We take personal tax clients from January 2027. Returns are then prepared for CRA’s own season, which opens later in the winter.
How it works
From the first conversation to a year of tidy books.
Five steps, and you only do the first two.
Choose your city
Your city’s page introduces the bookkeeper there and the areas they cover.
Meet your bookkeeper
A conversation about your business, what you have now and what you need.
We review your books
We look at where things stand and say plainly what getting current would take.
We keep them current
Every month: transactions categorized, accounts reconciled, statements sent.
Tax time is easier
Your HST, T2 and T1 come off books that are already done and already reviewed.
Pricing
Straightforward monthly pricing.
Monthly bookkeeping is a flat monthly price — from $199 a month — set by how much activity your business has, not by the hour. Payroll, tax filing and project costing for contractors are priced the same way, each on its own, and you are told the number before anything starts.
If catch-up or cleanup work is needed first, we’ll quote that separately.
Every plan includes everything; the tiers are about size, not features.
Growth
$299 / month
For active businesses with more accounts and more monthly activity.
- Up to 200 transactions per month
- Up to two bank accounts
- Up to two credit cards
Pro
$399 / month
For businesses with higher transaction volume or more complex financial activity.
- Up to 400 transactions per month
Every plan includes
- Monthly transaction categorization
- Statement-verified reconciliations
- Monthly close and exception review
- Monthly profit and loss statement
- Monthly balance sheet
- Plain-English monthly review notes
- GST/HST tracking
- Loan and financing tracking
- Multiple revenue streams
- Foreign-currency activity
- Customer invoicing and payment tracking
- Tax-ready year-end records
Payroll processing
Books and payroll, handled together.
Have employees? Add payroll to your monthly bookkeeping, so there is one relationship for the day-to-day financial work in your business and the pay runs land in the books where they belong.
$69/month
+ $15/month per employee
2 employees$99/mo
5 employees$144/mo
10 employees$219/mo
With monthly bookkeeping · plus HST
Resources
Small business resources.
Plain answers to common questions about bookkeeping: what it costs, who does what, and what to do when the books fall behind.
- Across Canada
Sole Proprietor or Corporation? The Tax on $100,000 of Profit
What a sole proprietor and a corporation pay on $100,000 of profit in 2026, in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, and what each structure offers.
Last updated - Across Canada
How Much Does a Bookkeeper Cost in Canada?
What decides the price of bookkeeping in Canada, hourly vs monthly pricing, what a fee should include, and what our monthly plans cost.
Last updated - Across Canada
Bookkeeper vs Accountant
What a bookkeeper does, what an accountant or CPA does, who prepares the tax return, and which work in Canada needs a public accounting licence.
Last updated - Across Canada
Do I Still Need a Bookkeeper If I Use QuickBooks, Xero or Sage?
What accounting software does on its own, what it still leaves to someone, the signs the books need a bookkeeper, and how the two work together.
Last updated
Find your local bookkeeper.
Open your city to meet the bookkeeper there. If we haven’t reached your city yet, tell us about your business and we’ll say what we can do.