Prices
- One flat price a month, never hourly
- A free 30-minute consultation
- Diagnostic Review credited when you sign up
See Your Price Before You Call.
Choose the package that fits, add what your books need, and say where they stand today. Every price shows what it includes.
New Client Offer
Through November 30, 2026, for the first five new clients.
- Diagnostic Review
- Normally $99, now Free
- Whether or not you sign up.
- Onboarding and Tech Setup
- Normally $250, now $200
- When you sign up for a monthly package.
How It Works
- Book your free consultation.
- Crystal confirms on the call that the offer is yours. It’s for the first five new clients, so if you can see it here, it’s still open.
Each part ends once five have used it, and the whole offer ends after November 30, 2026. Everyone else pays the regular prices: the Diagnostic Review is $99 and onboarding is $250. The $99 is credited in full when you sign up for a monthly package.
Build your plan
Three Choices, One Monthly Price
Catch-up
Catch-Up, Month by Month
Slide to how many months your books are behind, and see the one-time price to bring them current.
Catch-Up, One Time
Example
$500 for the most recent month behind, plus $200 for each month before it. Half is paid up front and half on delivery.
Your monthly package starts the month after your books are caught up.
How catch-up worksCompare packages
Every Package, Side by Side
Starter
$500a monthNo sales tax
Solo operators, like a one-truck landscaper or a solo consultant.
Standard
$800a monthPlus sales tax on its invoicing and accounts payable
A small crew or a growing business.
Plus
$1,200a monthPlus sales tax on its invoicing and accounts payable
Busier operations, like food trucks, retail and high-volume service.
Starter
$500a monthNo sales tax
Solo operators, like a one-truck landscaper or a solo consultant.
- Accounts
- 1 bank account and 1 credit card
- Transactions a Month
- Up to 100
- Books Closed Every Month
- Included
- The Core Reports
- Included
- The Review Call
- Included
- Text and Email Replies
- Included
- Invoicing and Accounts Receivable
- Add-on, $150
- Accounts Payable
- Not included
- Point-of-Sale Reconciliation
- Not included
- Custom Performance Reports
- Not included
Standard
$800a monthPlus sales tax on its invoicing and accounts payable
A small crew or a growing business.
- Accounts
- Up to 3 bank and credit card accounts
- Transactions a Month
- 101 to 250
- Books Closed Every Month
- Included
- The Core Reports
- Included
- The Review Call
- Included
- Text and Email Replies
- Included
- Invoicing and Accounts Receivable
- Light
- Accounts Payable
- Included
- Point-of-Sale Reconciliation
- Not included
- Custom Performance Reports
- Not included
Plus
$1,200a monthPlus sales tax on its invoicing and accounts payable
Busier operations, like food trucks, retail and high-volume service.
- Accounts
- Up to 5 bank and credit card accounts
- Transactions a Month
- 251 or more
- Books Closed Every Month
- Included
- The Core Reports
- Included
- The Review Call
- Included
- Text and Email Replies
- Included
- Invoicing and Accounts Receivable
- Full management
- Accounts Payable
- Included
- Point-of-Sale Reconciliation
- Included
- Custom Performance Reports
- Included
Not included: tax returns or CPA work
Your time
What Your Own Time on the Books Costs
Slide in your own hours and what an hour of your time is worth. Only your numbers go in: no averages, no guesses.
Your Time on the Books
Example
Your plan above: Starter, $500 a month, $6,000 a year.
Your time comes to $100 a month more than your plan.
Change your planCompare
KeyLine, Doing It Yourself, or a Bookkeeper on Staff
How You Pay
- KeyLine
- One flat price a month
- Doing It Yourself
- With your own time
- A Bookkeeper on Staff
- A wage, plus payroll taxes and any benefits
A Year of It
- KeyLine
- From $6,000, with Starter
- Doing It Yourself
- Your hours times your rate. Work it out above
- A Bookkeeper on Staff
- $50,670, the median wage, before payroll taxes and benefits
Books Closed Every Month
- KeyLine
- In every package
- Doing It Yourself
- Up to you
- A Bookkeeper on Staff
- If you make it part of the job
A Monthly Look at Your Numbers
- KeyLine
- A personalized review call with Crystal
- Doing It Yourself
- Up to you
- A Bookkeeper on Staff
- If you set one up
Hiring, Training and Time Off
- KeyLine
- None
- Doing It Yourself
- None
- A Bookkeeper on Staff
- Yours to handle
The wage is the median for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in May 2025, from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks, read October 1, 2026.
One time
One-Time Prices and Add-Ons
Diagnostic Review
Normally $99, now Free with the New Client Offer
A close look at your current books and setup, including your average month over the last three, which sets your package. Credited in full when you sign up for a monthly package.
Catch-Up or Cleanup
from $500 the first month that needs catching up, usually the current or previous month, plus $200 for each additional month
Half is paid up front and half on delivery.
How catch-up worksInvoicing Add-On for Starter
$150
A month. Plus sales tax.
Questions
Questions About Prices and Terms
What Counts as a Transaction?
A transaction is every line that comes in through your bank, your credit card or QuickBooks, whether it’s a credit, a debit, an ACH, a deposit or a direct deposit. Each line counts as one.
Is the Price the Same Every Month?
Yes. Each package is one flat price a month, never billed by the hour. Annual renewals can rise 3 to 5 percent, with 30 days’ notice.
Which Package Fits Me?
The one whose limits cover both your accounts and your transactions. Your package is set by your average month over the last three, which the Diagnostic Review reads, so one busy month doesn’t move you up and a slow one doesn’t move you down. If you’re between two, ask on the free consultation.
Does Standard Cost Less Without Invoicing?
No. A package is priced by the size of your books, not by which services you use. Standard’s light invoicing is the same work as Starter’s invoicing add-on, and Standard costs the same whether you use it or not.
Are There Setup Fees?
The Diagnostic Review is $99, and it’s credited in full when you sign up for a monthly package. Onboarding and Tech Setup is $250 one time. Through November 30, the New Client Offer makes the Diagnostic Review free and onboarding $200 for the first five new clients.
Is Sales Tax Added?
Only on invoicing and accounts payable. Texas taxes them as data processing, on 80 percent of their charge, so your invoice shows them on a line of their own, with the tax added to that line alone. The bookkeeping itself, your reports, the review call, the Diagnostic Review and onboarding have none, and neither does catch-up that sorts and reconciles past months. So Starter on its own has no sales tax.
The Comptroller’s pages behind this, read October 1, 2026:
How Do I End a Package?
Send a letter signed by the owner saying you’d like to end your package, with 30 days’ notice.
What If My Business Is Bigger Than Plus?
Plans above Plus run $1,500 to $2,500 a month, depending on what your books need. KeyLine looks at your books first, to be sure it’s a fit.
Do You Prepare Tax Returns?
No. KeyLine does bookkeeping, not tax returns or CPA work. Your own tax preparer files your returns.
Book or call
Not Sure Which Package Fits?
A free consultation, 30 minutes, by phone or video, or in person nearby.