Bookkeeping support · clear scope · ex-GST prices

Find the package that fits how your business works.

Standard package prices, entry-path prices and relevant rates are published here. If your business needs a tailored scope, I will explain what drives the quote before you decide.

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Package index

Start with the closest fit.

  1. 01Essential$420 / month (ex GST)
  2. 02Core$660 / month (ex GST)
  3. 03Team$840 / month (ex GST)
  4. 04Growth$1,325 / month (ex GST)
  5. 05CustomFrom $1,320 / month (ex GST) plus selected add-ons

The full package guide

What each monthly package covers.

The monthly packages and standard starting rates are set out below, together with what is included. If your file needs a custom quote, you will know why and what the number covers before any work begins.

My business is small and my records are tidy

Essential

$420 / month (ex GST)

What is included

  • Up to 2 hours of monthly bookkeeping capacity
  • Up to 2 active bank, card, loan or payment-platform accounts
  • Up to 50 routine monthly transactions as a quoting guide
  • Quarterly BAS/IAS preparation and lodgement support
  • Quarterly profit and loss and balance-sheet reports
  • Routine email support related to the agreed bookkeeping scope

What is not included

  • Payroll
  • Catch-up or historical clean-up work
  • Xero setup or migration
  • Payroll tax
  • Invoicing, debt collection, bill payments, inventory, job costing, foreign currency or additional entities

I need consistent bookkeeping and monthly reports

Core

$660 / month (ex GST)

What is included

  • Up to 4 hours of monthly bookkeeping capacity
  • Up to 4 active reconciliation accounts
  • Up to 120 routine monthly transactions as a quoting guide
  • Quarterly BAS/IAS preparation and lodgement support
  • Monthly profit and loss and balance-sheet reports
  • Routine email support
  • One 20-minute review call each quarter

What is not included

  • Payroll
  • Catch-up or historical clean-up work
  • Payroll tax
  • Payment processing, debtor management, inventory, job costing, foreign currency or additional entities

I have a small team and need payroll handled too

Team

$840 / month (ex GST)

What is included

  • Everything included in Core
  • Standard fortnightly payroll for up to 3 employees
  • Up to 2 ordinary payroll runs each month
  • Payslips, STP reporting, PAYG and super calculations, leave-accrual updates and routine payroll control reconciliation

What is not included

  • Award interpretation, employment-law or HR advice
  • Complex termination calculations, payroll tax, workers compensation or salary packaging
  • Timesheet chasing or corrections caused by late or inaccurate client instructions
  • Catch-up or historical payroll remediation

My volume is growing and payroll runs every week

Growth

$1,325 / month (ex GST)

What is included

  • Up to 7 hours of monthly bookkeeping capacity
  • Up to 6 active reconciliation accounts
  • Up to 250 routine monthly transactions as a quoting guide
  • Quarterly BAS/IAS preparation and lodgement support
  • Standard weekly payroll for up to 3 employees and up to 5 ordinary payroll runs each month
  • Monthly financial reports
  • Routine email support
  • One 30-minute review call each quarter
  • Routine payroll control reconciliation

What is not included

  • Payroll tax, inventory, job costing, foreign currency, ecommerce complexity or additional entities
  • Complex payroll, employment-law or HR work, or catch-up remediation
  • Payment processing or debt collection

My business has more volume, accounts or complexity

Custom

From $1,320 / month (ex GST) plus selected add-ons

What is included

  • Starts with up to 10 hours of monthly bookkeeping capacity
  • Quarterly BAS/IAS preparation and lodgement support
  • A tailored scope for higher transaction volume, larger teams, more accounts, additional reporting or non-standard requirements

What is not included

  • Payroll and other selected add-ons unless expressly included in the tailored proposal

Before monthly work begins

Choose the right starting path.

Existing businesses normally begin with onboarding and a file review. Genuinely new businesses choose the option that matches whether Xero is already established.

An existing business wants to move to Count The Beans.

Combined onboarding and file review

$750 (ex GST)

Engagement and workflow setup plus a review of the existing bookkeeping file, reconciliations, GST coding, BAS position, payroll/STP and systems. Written findings confirm any remediation and suitable recurring scope separately.

The recurring scope and any remediation are confirmed separately.

Start with a file review

A genuinely new business has no historical accounting records requiring review and its accounting system is already set up.

New Business Onboarding

$330 (ex GST)

Engagement setup, authority and access checklist, workflow setup, direct-debit setup and client orientation.

This is not a file review or Xero build.

Discuss new-business onboarding

A straightforward genuinely new business has no historical records or data migration and needs Xero set up.

New Business Xero Foundation

$750 (ex GST)

Onboarding, standard Xero organisation setup, GST settings, chart of accounts, up to 2 bank feeds, basic workflow setup and a 45-minute handover and training session.

Entity formation, ABN/GST registration, tax advice, payroll setup, migration, data repair and third-party subscriptions are not included.

Start with Xero Foundation

Outside a monthly package

One-off help stays clearly separate.

Monthly BAS/IAS, standard payroll, payroll setup, Xero migration and more complex system work are added only where needed and are shown separately in the proposal. Scope depends on reporting frequency, employee numbers, pay frequency, file condition and system complexity.

One-off support

Catch-up and clean-up

$150 / hour (ex GST) · 5-hour minimum

Historical catch-up, clean-up and correction work is scoped after the file review and approved separately. Where time-based pricing is appropriate, the rate is $150 per hour ex GST with a five-hour minimum; a fixed quote may be provided where the scope is clear.

A fixed quote may be provided where the reviewed scope is clear.

Tell me what you need

Add only what is needed

BAS, payroll and system add-ons

Scoped separately

Monthly BAS/IAS, standard payroll, payroll setup, Xero migration and more complex system work are added only where needed and are shown separately in the proposal. Scope depends on reporting frequency, employee numbers, pay frequency, file condition and system complexity.

These are add-ons or custom scope, not peer monthly packages.

Discuss the right add-ons

Scope boundaries

Clear before work begins.

Your package is designed around the work your business actually needs. Before we begin, we confirm your records, systems, transaction volume, reporting obligations and payroll requirements so your ongoing fee is clear from the start.

If your records need historical clean-up, your business has more complex reporting requirements, or your scope changes over time, we will discuss this with you first and provide a clear proposal before additional work begins.

Count The Beans provides bookkeeping and BAS-agent services within the agreed scope. We do not provide income-tax, legal, financial-planning, employment-law or discretionary-trust services.

Not sure which one is closest?

Bring me the version of your books you have now.

We can use a short call and the file-review process to work out the right starting point without guessing at the scope.

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