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TrueCount Services provides bookkeeping, payroll, and QuickBooks support for restaurants, food-and-beverage businesses, and other small businesses. Because every business has different activities, systems, employees, and support needs, pricing begins with clear starting points and ends with a proposal tailored to your exact needs.

BOOKKEEPING, PAYROLL & QUICKBOOKS PRICING

Clear Starting Prices

Understand the general investment level before scheduling.

Your fee reflects the services and complexity involved.

You approve the scope and fee before work begins.

Customized Fixed Proposals
No Surprise Billing

What Kind of Support Do You Need?

CHOOSE YOUR SERVICE

Explore the pricing approach for the service that best fits your business. Monthly bookkeeping, payroll, and QuickBooks support are available to restaurants, food-and-beverage businesses, and other small businesses.

Monthly Bookkeeping

Reliable monthly bookkeeping for small businesses that need accurate reconciliations, organized records, and financial reports they can understand.

Restaurant Bookkeeping

Specialized bookkeeping for restaurants and food-and-beverage businesses with POS systems, delivery platforms, tips, gift cards, inventory activity, and other industry-specific needs.

QuickBooks Consulting & Setup

One-on-one QuickBooks help, company-file setup, workflow guidance, troubleshooting, and support for business owners who manage some or all of their own bookkeeping.

Payroll Services

Payroll processing for businesses that want dependable support, clear employee-based pricing, and help managing the recurring payroll process.

Need help fixing or catching up your books?

Diagnostic reviews, cleanup bookkeeping, and catch-up projects are also available for businesses whose books are inaccurate, disorganized, or behind.

View Cleanup & Catch-Up Pricing →

Reliable Bookkeeping for Small Businesses

Accurate bookkeeping gives you more than organized records; it gives you a clearer understanding of how your business is performing. TrueCount Services provides dependable monthly bookkeeping for professional service providers, retail businesses, contractors, salons, fitness businesses, real estate professionals, and other small-business owners.

Your service is priced as a fixed monthly fee based on the activity, accounts, reporting needs, and level of support your business requires.

MONTHLY BOOKKEEPING

What monthly bookkeeping may include
  • Recording and categorizing business transactions

  • Reconciling bank and credit-card accounts

  • Tracking loans and other balance-sheet accounts

  • Reviewing the books for discrepancies

  • Preparing monthly financial statements

  • Maintaining an organized QuickBooks Online file

  • Ongoing bookkeeping questions and support

Accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, sales tax filing, cleanup work, and specialized reporting may be added as needed.

*Starting pricing represents the typical minimum monthly investment for businesses whose activities and service needs fall within this level. Your exact fee may vary based on transaction volume, number of accounts, entities, locations, reporting requirements, record condition, and additional services.

Small Business Bookkeeping
Starting at
$300/month*

For straightforward businesses with consistent monthly activity, organized records, and standard reporting needs.

Included at this level
  • Monthly bookkeeping and reconciliations

  • Standard financial statements

  • Month-end review

  • Direct support from your bookkeeper

You will receive a customized fixed-fee proposal before services begin.

Bookkeeping Built for the Way Food-and-Beverage Businesses Operate

Restaurants and other food-and-beverage businesses have financial activity that traditional bookkeeping often fails to capture properly. POS sales, payment processor deposits, delivery platforms, tips, gift cards, inventory activity, and multiple revenue streams all need to be reconciled, not simply downloaded into QuickBooks.

With more than three decades of restaurant-industry experience, TrueCount Services combines accurate bookkeeping with a practical understanding of how food-and-beverage businesses actually operate.

RESTAURANT & FOOD-AND-BEVERAGE BOOKKEEPING

What specialized restaurant bookkeeping may include
  • Reconciling POS sales and settlement activity

  • Matching payment processor deposits and fees

  • Recording third-party delivery sales, commissions, refunds, and deposits

  • Tracking tips and payroll-clearing accounts

  • Recording gift-card and customer-deposit liabilities

  • Posting and reconciling client-provided inventory information

  • Separating catering, events, retail, or other revenue channels

  • Tracking loans, equipment, and other balance-sheet activity

  • Preparing monthly financial statements

  • Reviewing the books for discrepancies and unusual activity

Payroll processing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, sales tax filing, enhanced reporting, cleanup work, and pre-opening setup may be added as needed.

*Starting pricing represents the typical minimum monthly investment for food-and-beverage businesses whose operations and service needs align with this level. Your exact fee may vary based on transaction volume, locations, accounts, POS reporting environments, payment processors, delivery platforms, gift cards, tips, inventory activity, catering, franchise requirements, reporting needs, and additional services.

Restaurant Operations Bookkeeping
Starting at
$600/month*

For restaurants and food-and-beverage businesses that need more than standard transaction categorization and bank reconciliation.

Designed for businesses such as
  • Restaurants and bars

  • Cafés and coffee shops

  • Bakeries

  • Food trucks

  • Caterers

  • Breweries, wineries, and distilleries

You will receive a customized fixed-fee proposal based on your systems, activity, and service needs.

Dependable Payroll Support With Clear, Employee-Based Pricing

Payroll should be accurate, timely, and easier for the business owner to manage. TrueCount Services provides payroll processing support for restaurants, food-and-beverage businesses, and other small businesses that want dependable service and direct communication with the person handling their payroll.

Pricing is based primarily on the number of employees, with additional charges only when the service requires unusual complexity or work outside the normal payroll schedule.

PAYROLL SERVICES

What payroll service may include
  • Processing regularly scheduled payroll

  • Reviewing employee hours and payroll information provided by the client

  • Maintaining employee payroll records in the payroll system

  • Calculating wages, deductions, taxes, and direct deposits through supported payroll software

  • Providing electronic paystubs and employee access when supported

  • Processing standard new hires and employee separations

  • Supporting tipped-employee payroll when applicable

  • Answering routine payroll questions

  • Coordinating year-end electronic W-2 and 1099 delivery through the payroll platform

Payroll software fees are paid directly by the client unless otherwise stated. Human resources services, manual payroll calculations, timekeeping administration, and the correction of historical payroll issues are not included in standard payroll processing.

Standard pricing applies to routine payroll processed through supported payroll software. Multiple pay schedules, multi-state payroll, frequent employee turnover, garnishments, complex deductions, contractor payments, tip allocation, or other unusual requirements may affect the final fee.

Payroll Processing
Weekly payroll
$7/per employee, per payroll run
Biweekly payroll
$14/per employee, per payroll run

Payroll pricing is based on employee count and payroll frequency. Semi-monthly, monthly, and unusually complex payroll arrangements are quoted separately.

You will receive a clear payroll proposal based on your employee count, pay schedule, and payroll requirements.

Additional Service

Fee

Payroll setup

Client-requested off-cycle payroll

Printed and mailed W-2 or 1099

Electronic W-2 or 1099 delivery

$250 one time

$45 per run

$10 per form

Included when supported

Get QuickBooks Set Up and Working for Your Business

QuickBooks Online is most useful when it is set up around the way your business actually operates. Whether you are starting from scratch, trying to improve your current system, or need help understanding a specific feature, TrueCount Services provides practical, one-on-one support.

These services are ideal for business owners who manage some or all of their own bookkeeping but want professional guidance, a stronger foundation, or help solving a specific QuickBooks problem.

QUICKBOOKS CONSULTING & SETUP

What QuickBooks support may include
  • Setting up a new QuickBooks Online company

  • Creating or refining the chart of accounts

  • Connecting bank and credit-card feeds

  • Setting up products, services, customers, and vendors

  • Configuring classes, locations, or tracking categories when appropriate

  • Reviewing bookkeeping workflows and recurring processes

  • Troubleshooting QuickBooks issues

  • Teaching business owners how to use reports and features

  • Providing personalized QuickBooks training and guidance

Historical cleanup, catch-up bookkeeping, transaction entry, payroll setup, and ongoing monthly bookkeeping are quoted separately.

QuickBooks setup pricing varies based on the business’s industry, accounts, locations, reporting structure, payroll connections, sales tax requirements, inventory activity, integrations, and the condition of existing records. Restaurant and multi-location setups are generally priced above the starting level.

QuickBooks Online Consulting
One-on-one consultation
$150
60-minute session

Personalized help with your QuickBooks questions, workflows, reports, or setup decisions.

Additional consulting or training

$150 per hour

QuickBooks Online Setup
Starting at
$500

For a straightforward new QuickBooks Online company with standard setup needs

Setup may include
  • Initial company settings

  • Customized chart of accounts

  • Bank and credit-card connections

  • Basic setup of customers, vendors, products, and services

  • Initial workflow guidance

Setup projects receive a customized fixed-fee proposal before work begins.

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