QuickBooks · ProAdvisor Cost
How much does a QuickBooks ProAdvisor cost?
The honest answer is a range, not a single number — because two businesses with the same revenue can have very different books. What you pay depends on the engagement (bookkeeping, cleanup, setup, or consulting) and on the real shape of your file: how clean it is, how many months behind, transaction volume, accounts and integrations, product tier, and entity structure. This page explains what drives the cost and how we price it — a written fixed fee, never an hourly meter. It points to the full price list for the authoritative figures and to the calculator to estimate your range. Every figure here is an estimate, not a quote. Independent firm, not affiliated with Intuit Inc.
The cost of a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor is always a range until your file is reviewed, and it’s priced as a written fixed fee — not hourly. Our canonical starting ranges: monthly bookkeeping $400–$2,500+/month; a one-time cleanup or catch-up $1,500–$15,000+; new QuickBooks setup $750–$5,000+; and an ongoing consulting retainer, scoped to your file as a fixed monthly fee in writing. Where you land is driven by file condition, months behind, transaction volume, number of accounts and integrations, QuickBooks product tier, and multi-entity complexity. These are estimates, not quotes — your exact fixed fee is set in writing after a free discovery call and file review. The QuickBooks software subscription is billed by Intuit separately; this page is about the firm’s service fee, not the software license. The pricing page is the authoritative price list; the calculator estimates your range.
Reference maintained by the Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor team at TechBrot Inc., an independent firm — not affiliated with Intuit Inc. No affiliate or referral commissions on QuickBooks subscriptions. Figures are canonical starting ranges, not quotes.
Intuit certifications
Every engagement is reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor (QuickBooks Online Level 2, Payroll) — verification on request. Intuit’s ProAdvisor program becomes ProPartner Accountants in early 2027; the certifications continue.
ProAdvisor cost, in five questions.
How much does a QuickBooks ProAdvisor cost?
It depends on the engagement, and it’s always a range until your file is reviewed. Our canonical ranges: monthly bookkeeping $400–$2,500+/month; a one-time cleanup or catch-up $1,500–$15,000+; new QuickBooks setup $750–$5,000+; and an ongoing consulting retainer, scoped to your file as a fixed monthly fee in writing. These are estimates, not a quote — your exact fixed fee is set in writing after a free discovery call and file review. The pricing page is the authoritative list.
Is it hourly or fixed-fee?
Fixed-fee. We scope the work and quote a flat monthly figure for ongoing bookkeeping or consulting, or a flat project fee for a cleanup or setup, so you can budget with certainty and never get a surprise hourly bill. If your needs change — you add payroll, a second entity, or inventory — we re-scope and agree a new fixed fee in writing before anything changes.
What drives the cost up or down?
The main drivers are file condition (how clean or behind the books are), how many months behind a cleanup is, transaction volume, the number of accounts and integrations, the QuickBooks product tier (Online vs Desktop vs Enterprise), and multi-entity structure. More of any of these moves the fee toward the top of the range; a clean, current, simple file sits at the bottom.
Does the cost include the QuickBooks subscription?
No. This page is about the firm’s service fee — the work a ProAdvisor does inside your books. The QuickBooks subscription itself is billed by Intuit separately, and current subscription pricing is on Intuit’s site. We’re an independent firm, not affiliated with Intuit Inc., and we earn no commission on QuickBooks subscriptions.
How do I get an exact number?
Start with a free file review: a Certified ProAdvisor looks at your actual QuickBooks file — volume, accounts, integrations, product tier, how current the books are — and then a discovery call scopes the work and produces a written fixed fee. You decide with the number, and exactly what it covers, in front of you. You can also estimate your range first.
What ProAdvisors charge — and why we don’t bill that way.
Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors are commonly quoted at $50–$150 an hour. We don’t bill hourly, because an hourly meter penalizes you for a messy file and rewards a slow one.
TechBrot works on a written fixed fee instead: monthly bookkeeping $400–$2,500+/month, a one-time cleanup or catch-up $1,500–$15,000+, and new setup $750–$5,000+. The number is set by the scope of the work, not the clock — so the efficiency risk sits with us, not you.
The hourly figure is the independent market range, published for comparison. Our own figures are estimates until a free file review; your exact fixed fee is set in writing. The pricing page is the authoritative list.
What a ProAdvisor costs per month, section by section.
The monthly range, the six factors that place a file within it, and what the fee does and does not include — the QuickBooks subscription and tax preparation among them — set out in full below.
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The full explanation, section by section — how the fee is set, what moves it, what each engagement ranges from, and how to get an exact number.
How much a ProAdvisor costs
Hiring a QuickBooks ProAdvisor costs a range, not a single number, and the range depends on the engagement. Ongoing monthly bookkeeping runs from four hundred to twenty-five hundred dollars a month, and more for complex files. Cleanup, setup and consulting are priced separately. Every figure is an estimate, not a quote: your exact number is a written fixed fee, set after a free review of your file.
What ProAdvisors charge
ProAdvisors are commonly quoted by the hour, and TechBrot deliberately doesn’t bill that way. An hourly meter penalizes you for a messy file and rewards a slow one. Every engagement here is a written fixed fee instead: a flat monthly figure for ongoing bookkeeping or consulting, or a flat project fee for a cleanup or a setup. You can budget with certainty, and there’s never a surprise hourly bill.
Written fixed fee, not hourly
TechBrot prices on a written fixed fee for three reasons. You see the number before any work starts, and exactly what it covers, so there’s no meter running in the background. The firm carries the efficiency risk, not you: a slow month or a tricky reconciliation is absorbed, because the price is set by scope. And the fee only changes when the work does — add payroll, a second entity or inventory, and it’s re-scoped in writing first.
Six factors that move your fee
Six factors decide where a quote lands in its range. File condition is the biggest swing on a first engagement: a clean, reconciled file needs maintenance, while duplicates, an inflated undeposited funds balance or reconciliations that no longer tie need repair first. Months behind is the primary driver of a cleanup or catch-up fee. And transaction volume sets how much categorization, matching and review the books need every period.
Integrations, tier and entities
Three more factors move a ProAdvisor’s fee. Every bank account, card and loan is its own feed to reconcile, and every connected app adds mapping work. Online, Desktop and Enterprise files are not the same effort, so the product tier shapes scope. And multiple entities, payroll, inventory and multi-state sales tax each add work. A clean, current, single-entity file sits at the bottom of the range; more of any factor moves it up.
What each engagement ranges
Each engagement has its own range, always shown as a range and never a single point. Monthly bookkeeping, four hundred to twenty-five hundred a month and up, moves with volume, accounts, payroll and sales tax. A new QuickBooks setup is a one-time fee from seven hundred fifty to five thousand dollars and up, depending on a fresh start or a migration. A consulting retainer is monthly, scoped by product tier, integrations and advisory depth.
Monthly fee or cleanup fee
When the books are materially behind, an engagement usually starts with a one-time cleanup to get current, then moves onto a monthly bookkeeping fee to keep it that way. The cleanup is a flat project fee, from fifteen hundred to fifteen thousand dollars or more, priced by how far behind and across how many accounts. The free file review tells you which you need, and both are quoted in writing. You won’t pay a cleanup fee for work that isn’t there.
Three illustrations
Three illustrations show how the six cost factors land — scenarios, not averages, client data or quotes. A current, simple file on QuickBooks Online, with one bank account, one card and no payroll, skips cleanup and sits near the bottom of the monthly range. A business behind across a few accounts starts with a cleanup, then steadies on a monthly fee. And a multi-entity Enterprise operation with payroll, inventory and integrations sits at the upper end.
The QuickBooks subscription
The QuickBooks subscription is not part of a ProAdvisor’s fee. The fee covers the service — the work done inside your books — while the software subscription is billed by Intuit, separately. TechBrot is an independent bookkeeping and advisory firm, not affiliated with Intuit, and earns no commission or affiliate revenue on subscriptions. So nothing recommended here is driven by keeping you on a more expensive plan.
Tax preparation
Tax preparation is not part of a TechBrot fee. TechBrot is a bookkeeping, QuickBooks and advisory firm; it doesn’t file income taxes or provide IRS representation. The fees cover bookkeeping, cleanup, setup and consulting work inside QuickBooks. Where tax matters come up, the work is coordinated with your CPA or tax preparer, and the books reach them clean and ready. Filing itself is a separate service, from a separate professional.
How to get your number
There are three ways to get your number. The fastest is a free file review: a Certified ProAdvisor looks at your actual QuickBooks file — volume, accounts, integrations, product tier and how current it is — then a discovery call scopes the work into one written fixed fee. If you’d rather estimate first, the bookkeeping cost calculator places you in a range. Or start from the full price list. Nothing is committed until you see the number.
Why no single flat price
No single flat price is published, because a flat price would overcharge a simple file or under-serve a complex one. A ProAdvisor’s fee is only honest if it reflects the actual work: review the file, scope it to the real drivers, and quote one written fixed fee within the published ranges. The pricing page holds those ranges for every engagement; the cost guide explains why a quote lands where it does.
Who quotes the number
Cost work here is quoted by Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors, certified in QuickBooks Online Level 2 and Payroll, so the scope behind the number reflects real platform fluency. Stop guessing at the cost: one free file review turns an estimate into a written fixed fee. Send this to whoever signs off on the books — and subscribe for the rest of the series.
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How we price — and who quotes it
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- Cost work here is quoted by Certified ProAdvisors holding active Intuit certifications in QuickBooks Online (Level 2) and Payroll — so the scope behind the number reflects real platform fluency, not a guess. Verification available on request.
- We earn nothing from your QuickBooks subscription — no Intuit affiliate revenue, no commissions. The scope and the fee reflect what your books actually need, not what keeps you on a more expensive plan.
- Every figure on this page is an estimate, not a quote. Your exact fixed fee is set in writing after a free discovery call and a review of your file — never an hourly meter, never a surprise invoice.
Written fixed fee, not hourly — and why.
Every engagement is scoped to a flat figure — a fixed monthly fee for ongoing work, or a flat project fee for a cleanup or setup — agreed in writing before any work starts. Three reasons we don’t bill hourly.
You see the number before any work starts
A written fixed fee means you decide with the figure — and exactly what it covers — in front of you. There is no hourly meter running in the background and no surprise invoice at month-end. You can budget with certainty because the number doesn’t move unless the scope does.
We carry the efficiency risk, not you
On an hourly model, a slow month or a tricky reconciliation costs you more. On a fixed fee, the firm absorbs that — the price is set by the scope of the work, not the clock. Our incentive is to work efficiently and keep your file clean, not to log hours.
The fee only changes when the work does
The fixed fee holds for the scope you agreed. If your needs genuinely change — you add payroll, a second entity, inventory, or a new sales-tax obligation — we re-scope and agree a new fixed fee in writing before anything changes. You’re never billed for more than what you signed off on.
Six factors that move your fee within the range.
There is no single flat price because no two files are the same. These six factors do most of the work in deciding where a quote lands — more of any of them moves the fee toward the top of the range; a clean, current, simple file sits at the bottom.
File condition
The single biggest swing on a first engagement. A clean, reconciled, well-structured file needs maintenance; a file with duplicate transactions, an inflated Undeposited Funds balance, uncleared opening-balance equity, or reconciliations that no longer tie needs repair first. The worse the condition, the more the work — which is why a messy file often starts with a one-time cleanup before a lower steady monthly fee.
Months behind
For a cleanup or catch-up, how far behind the books are is the primary driver of the project fee. A couple of months of un-categorized transactions is a light catch-up near the bottom of the cleanup range; multiple years across several accounts, with reconciliations to rebuild and prior periods to correct, sits much higher. Cleanup is priced by the depth of the backlog, not a flat tier.
Transaction volume
The number of transactions flowing through your accounts each month — deposits, payments, transfers, card charges — sets how much categorization, matching, and review the books need every period. A few dozen transactions a month and several hundred a week sit at very different points in the monthly range.
Accounts & integrations
Each bank account, credit card, loan, and merchant or payment account is its own feed to reconcile. Each connected app — Shopify, Stripe, Bill.com, Gusto — adds mapping and reconciliation work and a place for duplicates or mis-postings to appear. Two or three accounts and no integrations is routine; a dozen accounts and several integrations adds real ongoing scope.
QuickBooks product tier
Work on QuickBooks Online, Desktop, and Enterprise is not the same effort — Enterprise files with advanced inventory, advanced pricing, or job-costing carry more configuration and more places for complexity to live. The product tier shapes scope, and therefore the fee. (The product subscription itself is Intuit’s charge, billed separately.)
Multi-entity & complexity
Multiple entities, intercompany transactions, classes or locations, payroll, inventory, and multi-state sales-tax obligations each add scope. A current single-entity file with one or two accounts sits at the lower end; a multi-entity operation with payroll, inventory, and several integrations sits toward the top of the range.
What each engagement ranges from — and to.
These are our canonical starting ranges, always shown as a range and never as a single point. They’re estimates, not quotes — your exact fixed fee is set in writing after the free file review. The pricing page is the authoritative list; this section summarizes the engagements and what drives each one.
$400–$2,500+/month
Recurring fixed monthly feeWhat moves it: Transaction volume, number of accounts, payroll, sales tax, and how clean the file is. A simple, current single-entity file sits near the bottom; high volume with payroll and multi-state sales tax sits higher.
$1,500–$15,000+
One-time flat project feeWhat moves it: How many months (or years) behind the books are, across how many accounts, and how much has to be corrected and re-reconciled. Priced by the depth of the backlog, not a tier.
$750–$5,000+
One-time flat project feeWhat moves it: Whether you’re starting fresh or migrating, the product tier, the number of accounts and integrations to connect, and how much chart-of-accounts and opening-balance work the build requires.
Scoped in writing
Ongoing monthly advisory retainerWhat moves it: A fixed monthly fee set in writing — lighter for simpler QuickBooks Online businesses, larger for Enterprise or high-integration complexity. Scoped by product tier, integration count, and advisory depth.
Every figure above is an estimate, not a quote — the exact fixed fee is set in writing after a free discovery call and file review. The QuickBooks software subscription is billed by Intuit separately; current subscription pricing is on Intuit’s site. We earn no commission on QuickBooks subscriptions.
Three illustrations of how the factors land.
These are illustrative scenarios to show how the cost factors combine — not averages, not client data, and not quotes. Your figure is fixed in writing after the file review.
Illustrative: a current, simple file
Representative scenario, not a quote. A single-entity service business on QuickBooks Online, one bank account and one card, no payroll or inventory, books roughly current. There’s nothing to clean up, so this skips a cleanup project and sits near the bottom of the monthly bookkeeping range ($400–$2,500+/mo). The actual figure is fixed in writing after the file review.
Illustrative: behind, then steady
Representative scenario, not a quote. A business several months behind across a few accounts usually starts with a one-time cleanup ($1,500–$15,000+, priced by the backlog) to get current, then moves onto a recurring monthly bookkeeping fee ($400–$2,500+/mo) to keep it that way. The file review tells us which you need and what each costs — both quoted as fixed figures.
Illustrative: complex and integrated
Representative scenario, not a quote. A multi-entity operation on QuickBooks Enterprise with several integrations, payroll, and inventory carries more scope across the board — setup or cleanup at the upper end of its range, and either monthly bookkeeping or a consulting retainer scoped to a complex file for ongoing work. Always scoped to the real drivers, always fixed in writing.
How do you want to get your number?
“I just want a number.”
The fastest path to an accurate figure is a free file review — a ProAdvisor looks at your actual file, scopes the work to the real drivers, and quotes one written fixed fee. No hourly meter, nothing committed until you see it.
Get the free file review“I want to estimate it myself first.”
The interactive estimator walks you through volume, accounts, and complexity to place you in a range before you talk to anyone — a starting estimate, not a quote, but a useful gut-check.
Estimate your range“Show me the full price list.”
The pricing page is the authoritative, firm-wide fixed-fee reference — every engagement in one place, with the same canonical ranges this page explains. Start there if you want the complete picture.
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A QuickBooks ProAdvisor’s fee is only honest if it reflects the actual work. That’s why we don’t publish a single flat price and don’t bill hourly: we review the file first, scope the work to the real drivers — condition, backlog, volume, accounts, integrations, product tier, and entity structure — and quote one written fixed fee within our canonical ranges. You see the number, and what it covers, before anything begins, and the fee only changes if the scope genuinely changes.
We earn nothing from your QuickBooks subscription — no Intuit affiliate revenue, no commissions — so the scope and the fee reflect what your books need, not what keeps you on a more expensive plan. The QuickBooks software subscription is billed by Intuit separately. You can see the full pricing list, estimate your range, or read our trust & methodology standards. Independent firm — not affiliated with Intuit Inc.
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typical monthly bookkeeping range, placed on your real drivers
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What people ask about ProAdvisor cost.
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Start with a free file review. A Certified ProAdvisor looks at your actual QuickBooks file — volume, accounts, integrations, product tier, and how current the books are — then a discovery call scopes the work and produces one written fixed fee with exactly what it covers. An estimate becomes a quote only after the review; nothing is committed until you see the number. Earns no fees on QuickBooks subscriptions.