Bookkeeping subscription packages built for Canadian small businesses.

Most Canadian small business owners come to us after one of three things has gone wrong: their last bookkeeper sent a $1,400 invoice “for the month it got busy,” their books are six months behind and CRA is asking questions, or their accountant just quoted them four figures to clean up a year of mis-categorised transactions. Every one of those problems has the same root cause — hourly billing and unclear scope.

A monthly bookkeeping subscription fixes it. You pay one predictable fee, every month, for a defined set of work: reconciliation, categorisation, reporting, sales-tax filing prep, and (depending on the tier) payroll and corporate tax. No timers. No surprise invoices. The fee is sized to your transaction volume, employee count, and complexity — not to how long the work happened to take this month.

What's included in a Fluent Books bookkeeping package

Every monthly package — from solopreneur Essentials to Fractional CFO — covers the core month-end close: bank and credit card reconciliation, transaction categorisation in QuickBooks Online, monthly profit and loss, A/R and A/P management, and GST/PST filing prep. Higher tiers add Balance Sheet reporting, payroll for employees up to 15, CRA and WorkSafeBC remittances, T2 corporate tax filing, T4 and ROE preparation, and — at the CFO level — a 13-week cashflow forecast and a monthly strategy call. You can see exactly what each tier includes in the comparison table further down the page, or read the full scope on our bookkeeping service page.

How much does a bookkeeper cost in BC?

Monthly bookkeeping in British Columbia typically runs $300–$1,200 per month for a small business, depending on transaction volume, payroll complexity, and whether tax filing is bundled. Hourly bookkeepers in BC charge $45–$95 per hour, which sounds cheaper until you realise a clean monthly close usually takes 4–8 hours of qualified work — and a messy one can take 15. Fluent Books quotes a fixed monthly fee on the discovery callso you know the number before you sign anything. We'll tell you which tier fits and stick to that price month over month.

Why a flat-fee subscription beats hourly

Hourly billing punishes the months your business is busy — the months you most need clean books and fast reporting. Subscription pricing flips that: complexity is priced in once, then the fee stays flat. You can call your bookkeeper without watching the meter. We can flag a CRA deadline without billing you for the email. And when year-end rolls around, your books are already closed — no scramble, no clean-up invoice. That's the whole point of a monthly retainer over project work. Predictability beats hourly almost every time.

Hourly bookkeeping looks cheaper on the proposal. It rarely is on the invoice. The reason is structural: a bookkeeper billing $75 an hour has a financial incentive to take longer on your file. A bookkeeper on a flat monthly fee has the opposite incentive — to deliver fast, automate the repetitive parts, and keep your books clean enough that next month is faster than this month.

Three things change once you're on a fixed-fee subscription:

1. You stop watching the clock. Quick questions about a CRA notice or a vendor invoice get a same-day reply, not an invoice line item. That's the model behind our how it works workflow.
2. Year-end stops being a project.When monthly close discipline runs all year, the year-end “package” is already prepared. No catch-up clean-up. No surprise December invoice.
3. Pricing becomes a planning input. You know what bookkeeping costs in January and you know what it costs in November. Cashflow modelling gets simpler. Budgeting gets honest.

If hourly billing has burned you before, that's the gap fixed-fee bookkeeping closes. Learn more about how we work, or book a free 30-minute calland we'll quote your tier on the spot.