Most bookkeepers bill hourly, and for recurring monthly work that is exactly backwards. The monthly close is the same shape every month — the same reconciliations, the same categorization, the same reports. Pricing predictable work by the hour just means your invoice swings with someone else’s pace, and you can’t budget the one line item that should be the most stable on your books.
TechBrot prices monthly bookkeeping as a fixed monthly fee against a written scope. You know the number before the first close, and it doesn’t move month to month. Ask questions, send documents, call when something comes up — there’s no meter on your own bookkeeper. If your business genuinely changes — you add an entity, take on payroll, your volume jumps a tier — the fee is re-quoted and re-approved in writing before anything changes. You are never surprised by an invoice.
This works because the close is delivered by Certified ProAdvisors efficient enough to price it confidently. The fixed monthly fee is a statement of competence: we know how long a clean monthly close takes at your volume, so we can quote it. No long-term lock-in — recurring bookkeeping runs month to month against the written scope.