LedgerLine handles monthly bookkeeping for small U.S. businesses — the reconciling, the categorizing, the month-end close — so the numbers you look at on the first of the month are numbers you can trust. Real humans, one dedicated bookkeeper, flat monthly pricing quoted before you start.
Bookkeeping service only. Not a CPA firm, law firm, PEO or licensed financial advisor — and not tax, legal or accounting advice.
Most small-business books go sideways in the same four places. This is the guide we hand new clients, paired with the month-end close checklist our own bookkeepers work from — written for owners, not for accountants.
No dashboards to babysit and no bundle of software you will never open. A person does the work, a checklist keeps it consistent, and you get the statements.
Every transaction categorized, every account reconciled, every month. Feeds from your bank, card and payment processor come in, we code them against a chart of accounts built for your entity type, and we chase down the ones that do not make sense instead of parking them in an ask-my-accountant bucket.
Six months behind? Two years? It happens — a brutal busy season, a bookkeeper who moved on, a drawer of receipts nobody wanted to open. We review the file first, quote the catch-up as a flat one-time project, then rebuild the period month by month so the ending balances actually tie.
We work alongside the payroll provider you already use: mapping each run into your books, reconciling the payroll clearing account, and keeping contractor payments coded separately from employee wages. LedgerLine is not a PEO and is not an employer of record — your provider files, we keep the books straight.
A profit-and-loss, a balance sheet and a cash summary in your inbox after each close, plus a short note in plain English on what moved and why. Statements are prepared for internal management use — they are not audited, reviewed or compiled, and they are not tax advice.
Four stages, roughly one month end to end. Scroll — the case walks the ledger line.
You tell us the shape of the business — entity type, how money comes in, how many accounts, what is currently a mess. No forms to fill out first. We tell you plainly whether we are a fit.
You get an invite to our encrypted document portal. Read-only bank and card feeds are connected where your institution supports them, prior-year files get uploaded once, and access is scoped per person.
Your bookkeeper reconciles the trailing months, tidies the chart of accounts, and sends one consolidated list of questions instead of drip-feeding you emails. You approve the opening balances before we go live.
The close checklist runs, the books get locked for the period, and your statements land with a plain-English summary. A typical target is the fifteenth of the following month; timing varies with how fast documents arrive.
Bookkeeping quotes should not require a discovery funnel. Here is the shape of our tiers so you can size it yourself. These are illustrative examples — your actual scope and price are set in writing after a short scoping call.
$199 / month
Single-owner LLCs and sole proprietors with one bank account and a card.
$389 / month
Shops, trades and studios with a small team and a payroll provider.
$749 / month
Multi-location or multi-entity operators who need tighter month-end control.
Example pricing shown for illustration only — it is not an offer and not a guarantee of price. Scope varies by engagement based on transaction volume, number of accounts, entity structure and the current state of the books. Catch-up and cleanup of prior periods is quoted separately as a flat one-time project.
The complaint we hear most about previous bookkeepers is not the price — it is being surprised by it. So here is the list of things we do not bill for, in writing, before you ever send a document.
Your monthly figure is quoted in writing before the first month starts. If scope genuinely changes — a new entity, a second location — we re-quote it and you approve it first.
Emailing your bookkeeper about a weird charge is not a billable event. Questions are part of the engagement, not an add-on line.
Your books are yours. If you leave, you take the file and the supporting documents with you, exported in a standard format.
Cleanup of prior periods is a flat one-time project quoted after a free file review — it never gets smuggled into the monthly rate.
Bookkeeping is not a growth hack. It is a set of small tasks done in the same order every month by someone who remembers how your business works.
One named person on your account with a direct line, not a shared inbox and a ticket number. They learn your vendors, your seasonality and the three recurring charges that always look wrong but are not.
Encrypted upload, per-person access, and read-only bank feeds where your institution supports them. Statements and receipts stop living in text threads and email attachments.
A P&L, balance sheet and cash summary each month with a short note in plain English. Prepared for internal management use — not audited, reviewed or compiled, and not a substitute for your CPA.
One monthly number, agreed in writing before month one. Scope changes get re-quoted and approved by you first — never billed after the fact.
Our books were fourteen months behind after our old bookkeeper left mid-season. LedgerLine quoted the cleanup as one flat number before starting, rebuilt it month by month, and I stopped dreading the email folder labeled 'accounting.'
I run six trucks and a payroll provider I actually like. What I did not have was anyone reconciling the payroll clearing account. Now it ties every month and my CPA stopped sending me that one dreaded question in February.
The part I did not expect was the monthly note. Two short paragraphs telling me what moved and why, written like a person wrote it. Same bookkeeper every month, and she remembers how our retainers work.
Testimonials are composites written for this demonstration listing and do not describe real clients. Ratings and review counts are illustrative.
Grab the free small-business bookkeeping guide + month-end close checklist and use it whether or not you ever hire a bookkeeper. If you would rather skip the reading, request a free quote or call a human at (877) 555-0134.