QuickBooks Online services with clear boundaries
James McGown Bookkeeping offers three services for sole proprietors and small businesses with supported, manageable QuickBooks Online needs.
QuickBooks Cleanup Assessment
Price: $195 fixed
Payment: 100% prepaid
The assessment is a diagnostic review. It is designed to identify important problems, missing information, reconciliation concerns, cleanup priorities, and the likely scope of a separate Cleanup & Catch-Up engagement.
You receive
— A concise review of the current bookkeeping condition
— Prioritized findings
— Missing-information and unresolved-item notes
— Scope and professional-boundary flags
— A recommended cleanup sequence
— A fixed-price proposal when the available information supports one
The assessment does not itself correct, clean up, or reconcile the books.
If the related Cleanup & Catch-Up proposal is accepted within 30 calendar days, the $195 assessment fee is credited once against the initial 50% cleanup payment.
The Cleanup Assessment is currently available through Upwork. Project requirements, communications, files, contracts, and payment remain within Upwork.
QuickBooks Cleanup & Catch-Up
Price: starting at $750
Payment: 50% upfront; remaining 50% before final delivery
This is a defined fixed-price project for an approved historical period. The exact work depends on the condition of the file, available records, number of accounts, transaction volume, and complexity.
The approved scope may include
— Supported transaction cleanup
— Reconciliation of included bank and credit-card accounts
— Chart-of-accounts cleanup or maintenance
— Final Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports
— Reconciliation-status summary
— Unresolved-items and documented-limitations summary
— Cleanup completion summary
A Cleanup Assessment may be required before a fixed cleanup price can be offered, especially when scope is unclear or the books are significantly behind.
Monthly QuickBooks Bookkeeping
Price: starting at $325 per month
Typical range: $325–$475 per month
Payment: automatic card or ACH payment in advance after the direct-payment workflow is approved and activated
Monthly service may include
— Supported transaction review and categorization
— Reconciliation of included accounts
— Chart-of-accounts maintenance
— Monthly Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports
— Reconciliation-status summary
— Unresolved-items summary
— Concise month-end status summary
Books must be current and supported before monthly bookkeeping begins. If opening balances or reconciliation status are unreliable, an assessment or cleanup project may be required first.
What these services do not include
— Audits, reviews, compilations, or assurance
— Legal advice
— Tax advice or tax-return preparation
— Payroll filing or payroll correction
— Sales-tax filing or sales-tax correction
— Inventory accounting
— Multi-currency accounting
— Cryptocurrency accounting
— Client or trust-fund accounting
— Fraud investigations
— Unsupported or misleading entries
— Specialized tax treatment, depreciation, owner basis, complex equity, or unusual loan treatment without clear instructions from the client’s qualified adviser
Pricing and scope note
Starting prices are not automatic quotes. Final scope and pricing depend on the records, included accounts and periods, transaction volume, complexity, missing information, and any specialist issues. James makes the final service-fit, scope, timing, and pricing decisions.