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What will it cost to clean up or catch up your books?

Cleanup and catch-up are one-time projects, priced on how far behind you are and how tangled the file is. Answer five questions for a realistic range — drawn from TechBrot’s published fixed-fee pricing, not a guess. It’s an estimate, not a quote: your exact fixed fee is confirmed in writing within 3 business days of a free discovery call.

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TL;DR

This tool estimates a one-time project: a QuickBooks cleanup (books exist but are messy — TechBrot range $1,500–$15,000+) or catch-up (months or years not done — $2,000–$20,000+). It is an estimate from public pricing — never a binding quote. The drivers are how far behind you are, transaction volume, accounts, reconciliation state, and payroll. Your exact fixed fee is quoted in writing within 3 business days of a free discovery call.

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Cleanup & catch-up cost, in five questions.

How much does a QuickBooks cleanup cost?

TechBrot cleanup is a one-time fixed fee of $1,500–$15,000+. Light tidying of mostly-current books lands near the bottom; deep, never-reconciled, high-volume files run higher. Catch-up (books not done for months or years) is $2,000–$20,000+. The exact fee is quoted in writing within 3 business days of a free discovery call.

What’s the difference between cleanup and catch-up?

Cleanup fixes books that exist but are wrong — unreconciled accounts, miscategorized transactions, a broken chart of accounts. Catch-up builds books for periods that were never done. Many engagements are both. Both are one-time fixed-fee projects, separate from ongoing monthly bookkeeping.

What drives the price of a cleanup?

Five things: how far behind you are, monthly transaction volume, the number of accounts, how reconciled the file is, and payroll. A deeper backlog and a worse reconciliation state mean more forensic untangling, which moves the fee up the published range. The estimator scores these to place you in a band.

Is this estimate a quote?

No. It’s an estimate from TechBrot’s published pricing. Cleanup cost depends on what we find when we open the file, which a five-question form can’t see. The real fixed fee is set after a ProAdvisor reviews your file on a free discovery call, and is always delivered in writing before any work begins.

Do I need a cleanup before monthly bookkeeping?

Often, yes. If the existing books are wrong or incomplete, a one-time cleanup or catch-up gets them to a correct baseline first; then ongoing monthly bookkeeping ($400–$2,500+/month) keeps them there. The discovery call determines whether you need cleanup, catch-up, or both.

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Estimate your cleanup or catch-up cost.

Pick the option that fits in each row. The estimate updates as you go. Everything stays in your browser — nothing is sent until you decide to book a call.

An estimate from published pricing — not a quote.

Estimated one-time fee

$1,500–$3,500

Light cleanup

Books are mostly current and just need tidying before the monthly close takes over.

This is an estimate from TechBrot’s published pricing — not a quote. Cleanup is forensic work; the real fixed fee is set after a ProAdvisor reviews your actual file, and is confirmed in writing within 3 business days of a free discovery call.

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§No black box

How this estimate is calculated.

Cleanup and catch-up are one-time fixed-fee projects, not monthly work. Cleanup ($1,500–$15,000+) is fixing books that exist but are wrong — unreconciled accounts, miscategorized transactions, a broken chart of accounts. Catch-up ($2,000–$20,000+) is building books for months or years that were never done. Many engagements are a bit of both.

The estimator scores five drivers — how far behind you are, monthly transaction volume, number of accounts, how reconciled the file is, and payroll — and maps the total to one of four bands inside those published ranges. The deeper the backlog and the worse the reconciliation state, the more forensic untangling it takes, which moves the estimate up.

The estimate is a range, never a single number. Cleanup pricing depends on what we actually find when we open the file — a five-question form can’t see that. The real fixed fee is set after a ProAdvisor reviews your file on a free discovery call, and is always delivered in writing before any work begins.

The four cleanup/catch-up bands inside TechBrot’s published ranges.
BandTypical rangeLooks like
Light cleanup $1,500–$3,500 Books are mostly current and just need tidying before the monthly close takes over.
Moderate cleanup / catch-up $3,500–$7,500 A few months behind or partially reconciled, with a moderate transaction load to untangle.
Significant project $7,500–$15,000 Many months behind, several accounts, never reconciled — real forensic work.
Major / multi-year $15,000–$20,000+ A year or more of unreconciled, high-volume history across many accounts, often with payroll.

Questions about the estimate.

Is this estimator a real quote?
No — and we’re explicit about it. It’s an estimate drawn from TechBrot’s published cleanup ($1,500–$15,000+) and catch-up ($2,000–$20,000+) pricing, meant to put you in a realistic range. Cleanup cost depends on what we find inside the file, so the exact fixed fee is quoted in writing within 3 business days of a free discovery call.
How does the estimator decide my range?
It scores five drivers — how far behind you are, transaction volume, number of accounts, reconciliation state, and payroll — and maps the total to one of four bands inside our published ranges. A deeper backlog and a worse reconciliation state move the estimate up. The bands are shown in full on this page; there’s no hidden math.
Why is cleanup priced as a range, not one number?
Because cleanup is forensic work and the real scope only becomes clear once we open the file. Two businesses that are ‘six months behind’ can need very different work depending on how the file was kept. We show the realistic band and confirm the exact fee after a ProAdvisor reviews your books, rather than invent false precision.
Is cleanup a one-time cost or monthly?
One-time. Cleanup and catch-up are fixed-fee projects with defined start and completion dates. Once your books are current and correct, ongoing monthly bookkeeping ($400–$2,500+/month) takes over — that’s a separate recurring engagement.
Does the cleanup fee include tax filing?
No. TechBrot delivers operational bookkeeping and CPA-ready books; tax filing and IRS representation are handled by your CPA or EA. A cleanup gets your file into a state your CPA can actually work from, and recurring engagements include a year-end CPA handoff at no extra cost.
Is TechBrot affiliated with Intuit?
No. TechBrot Inc. is an independent Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor firm. We hold active Intuit certifications and work inside QuickBooks, but TechBrot is not owned, employed, or operated by Intuit. QuickBooks and Intuit are registered trademarks of Intuit Inc.

From estimate to exact number

Get the exact fixed fee to fix your books.

The estimator gets you in the right range. A free 30-minute discovery call — with a look at your actual file — gets you the exact number, in writing within 3 business days, before you commit. No hourly billing, no obligation.

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