Fixed-fee accounting pricing. Clear scope.

Accountaire uses fixed-fee accounting pricing rather than hourly billing. Four plans cover most SMEs: Starter at $500 a month, Growth at $900, Professional at $1,500, and Enterprise scoped to the entity. The fee is agreed against a written scope before work starts, and it moves only when the scope does.

Hourly billing creates the wrong incentive on both sides. It rewards the slow month, it makes clients hesitate before asking a question that might turn into an invoice, and it makes the cost of the finance function impossible to budget. A fixed fee moves the risk of an inefficient month onto us, which is where it belongs, and it means a call in the middle of the month costs nothing to make.

What sits outside the monthly fee is stated rather than buried. Catch-up bookkeeping is quoted separately at a flat $200 per month of books cleared, because it is finite work with a defined end. Company incorporation is a one-off engagement. New sales tax or VAT registrations are quoted per registration. Whether you need one at all is set by the authority rather than by us: HMRC publishes when UK VAT registration becomes compulsory, and the UAE Federal Tax Authority publishes its own VAT registration rules. Software licences (Xero, QuickBooks, A2X, Dext) stay in your name and are billed by those vendors, so you keep the subscriptions if you ever leave. The obligations on both sides are set out in our full engagement terms and conditions.

Choosing a tier is mostly a question of transaction volume and whether payroll and reporting are in scope. Starter suits a solopreneur under 100 transactions a month. Growth adds payroll and quarterly VAT or sales tax filing up to 400 transactions. Professional adds monthly management accounts and a dedicated lead accountant up to 1,500. Enterprise is where multi-entity consolidation and fractional CFO work come in. If you pick the wrong one, we tell you at the scoping call rather than after the first invoice. The full accounting services directory shows what each service covers. Longer explanations of the filings each plan covers are on the Accountaire blog.