Pricing

Two ways to work with us

Straightforward files start at $150 a month and are priced by transaction volume, so a small file costs what a small file should. Everything else gets looked at properly and quoted as a fixed number before any work starts.

Most common

Flat monthly

From $150 per file, per month

For straightforward files that are already current. The rate is set by transaction volume and fixed for the engagement, so you can price your own work with confidence.

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$150/month

Sole practitioners and small service businesses

  • to 100 $150
  • to 200 $250
  • 200+ Quote
Start with one file

Includes

  • Full-cycle bookkeeping — A/P, A/R, reconciliations, journal entries
  • All bank and credit card accounts reconciled each period
  • Monthly close package prepared for your review
  • Chart of accounts maintained to your firm’s standard
  • Internal review under CPA supervision before handoff
  • One consolidated questions list per period

A file fits this tier when it is

  • A single entity in a single currency
  • Current — not a catch-up or cleanup job
  • Up to 200 bank and credit card transactions a month
  • Across no more than 3 bank or credit card accounts
  • Free of inventory, job costing and progress billing
  • On QuickBooks Online, Xero or Sage

We count transactions as the lines on the statements we reconcile. Your rate is set when we scope the file and then stays put — it does not move with a busy month. If a file consistently outgrows its band we come back to you with a revised number before the next period, never on an invoice you were not expecting.

Custom quote

Scoped per file quoted before any work starts

For everything the flat tier does not cover. We look at the actual file, then give you a fixed number — no hourly meter running in the background.

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Includes

  • Everything in the flat monthly tier
  • Catch-up and cleanup engagements, priced as a one-time project
  • Multi-entity and intercompany bookkeeping
  • Multi-currency files and foreign exchange revaluation
  • Inventory, job costing and progress billing
  • Higher transaction volumes and multi-location operations

Ask for a quote when the file involves

  • Books that are behind, or a prior provider’s mess to unwind
  • More than one entity, or intercompany activity
  • Foreign currency transactions
  • Inventory, work-in-progress or job costing
  • More than 200 transactions a month, or more than three accounts

How we price

No meter, no surprises

You are quoted before work starts

Scope, price and delivery dates are agreed in writing first. Nothing is billed against an hourly meter you cannot see.

Your margin stays yours

We bill your firm, not your client. What you charge on top is your business, and we have no visibility into it and no opinion about it.

Start with one file

There is no minimum volume and no annual commitment. Move the second file when the first one has earned it.

A note on margin

What you charge your client is your business

We invoice your firm. You set your own fee, and we have no visibility into it and no opinion about it. The point of this arrangement is that the work costs you less than delivering it in-house — the difference is yours to keep, reinvest, or pass on. That is your call, not ours.

Not sure which tier a file lands in? Send us the details at hello@apar.ca and we will tell you before you have to commit to anything.

Get a number for your actual file.

Describe the file on a short call and we will tell you which tier it falls into and what it costs — before you move any work.

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