Sydney Bookkeeping and Payroll From $25 a Week
We take the receipts, the bank feed, the bills and the payroll off your desk, then hand back reconciled books on the same date every month. Fixed fee, no lock-in, and your file stays in your name.
Five Questions Most Owners Cannot Answer on the Spot
Not because they are careless. Because the answers live in a bank app, an email folder, a shoebox and someone’s memory, and nothing pulls them together.
If more than two of these make you reach for your phone to check, the problem is not effort. It is that nobody owns the close.
Talk It Through With UsWhat did you actually make last month?
Not what landed in the bank, but what you earned after the bills that had not hit yet. Those are different numbers, and only one of them is true.
Who owes you money right now, and for how long?
Most businesses discover a 90-day-old invoice by accident. By then the conversation is awkward and the money is a maybe.
How much of the money in your account is already spoken for?
GST collected, super owed, PAYG withheld. It is sitting in your account looking like profit, and it is not yours.
Is your payroll actually right?
Correct award rate, correct super, STP filed on time. If nobody has checked in a year, the odds are not in your favour.
Could you hand your books to your accountant today?
If tax time involves a fortnight of digging and a bill for “additional work”, you are paying twice for the same job.
Four Parts of the Same Job
Plenty of bookkeepers will code your transactions. The value is in what happens around that: payroll that runs on time, an industry-shaped chart of accounts, and software set up so the reports mean something.
Bookkeeping Services
Bank feeds reconciled, bills and invoices processed, GST coded correctly, and a month-end pack that closes on a date you can put in the calendar.
Payroll Services
The full cycle run for you: timesheets checked against the award, payslips issued, STP filed with every run, and super scheduled before the quarterly deadline.
Explore PayrollIndustry Specialists
A tradie needs job costing. An NDIS provider needs participant-level claims. A café lives or dies on wages percentage. We set the books up for the business you actually run.
Explore IndustriesYour Software, Properly Set Up
Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks configured around your workflow, with the chart of accounts, bank rules and reports it should have had on day one. Or migrated cleanly if you are on the wrong one.
Explore SoftwareCheaper Than the Problem It Solves
Bookkeeping starts at $25 a week. For most businesses that is less than one hour of the time they currently spend on it, and it comes back to you as a reconciled file, a named bookkeeper and numbers you can act on while they still matter.
Your books stay in your own subscription, on whichever of the three you already use.
Follow One Month Through Our Close
Most bookkeeping is invisible until you ask for something. Ours runs to a published timetable, so you know what is happening to your numbers and when they will be finished.
Days 1–3 · Everything in
Bank and card feeds pulled, receipts collected from your app or inbox, supplier bills entered and matched to what was ordered.
Days 4–6 · Coded and matched
Every line coded to the right account with the right GST treatment. Anything we cannot identify goes on one short query list, not fifty emails.
Days 7–8 · Reconciled and checked
Bank, credit card and clearing accounts reconciled to the cent. Payroll, super and GST control accounts checked against what was actually filed.
By day 10 · In your inbox
A short pack: profit, cash position, who owes you, what you owe, and the one or two things we think you should look at. Two pages, not twenty.
Two Pages You Will Actually Read
A twenty-page report gets filed unread. So we send the five numbers that change what you do next, with a written note on what moved and why.
- Same date every month. By the 10th, without you asking. If we are going to be late, you hear it from us first.
- Written in English. “Your wages came in at 34% of sales, up from 29%”, not a variance table you have to decode.
- Set aside, not spent. The GST, PAYG and super you owe, shown separately from what is genuinely yours.
From First Call to First Close
Four steps, about two weeks, and nothing changes in how you work day to day. We fit around your existing file rather than rebuilding it, and if it does need rebuilding we will say so before you commit.
Free Consult
Thirty minutes on a call or in person. You describe the business; we ask what is currently painful and what tax time looks like.
File Health Check
We look inside your Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks file and tell you plainly what state it is in, and what it would cost to bring current.
Fixed Monthly Quote
A written scope and a fixed monthly fee. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices for “extra time” on a busy month.
First Close
We take over the day-to-day, run the first close, and walk you through the pack line by line so you know what you are reading.
Based in Sydney, Working Australia-Wide
We are based in Sydney and happy to sit across a table with you. But the work itself is cloud-based, so where your business is has never decided whether we can look after it.
Platforms We Work In
Industries Served
Monthly Close Date
To Reply to You
Your Books Should Look Like Your Business
Tradies & Construction
Job costing, subbie payments and progress claims that reconcile
NDIS Providers
Participant-level claims, price limits and an audit trail
Hospitality & Cafés
Wages percentage, split tenders and weekly rosters
Retail & E-commerce
Platform payouts, fees and stock that actually balance
Years Behind
Multiple periods unreconciled, and tax time looming
Growing Teams
First few hires, and payroll has become a real job
You get a named bookkeeper.
Not a ticket number and a different person each month.
What You Get Beyond Coded Transactions
Anyone with the login can categorise transactions. What is harder to find is someone who closes on time, tells you what the numbers mean, and flags the problem in week two instead of at tax time.
- A fixed close date. The 10th. Bookkeeping that arrives whenever it arrives is not a service, it is a hobby.
- Fixed monthly fees. Quoted in writing after we have seen your file. You can ask us a question without watching a clock.
- We work with your accountant, not around them. Clean books handed over in the format they want, so their bill goes down too.
- Your file stays yours. Your subscription, in your name, with you as the owner. Leaving us costs you nothing but a click.
Straight Answers About Your Numbers
Bookkeeper or Accountant: Which Do You Actually Need?
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Xero vs MYOB vs QuickBooks: An Honest Comparison
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Profitable and Broke: Why the Two Go Together
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Read the articleWhat Owners Ask Us First
The questions that come up in nearly every first conversation.
It depends on transaction volume, whether payroll is involved and what state the file is in, which is why we look before we quote. We work on fixed monthly fees rather than an hourly rate, so the number does not move because a month was busy. Book a free consult and we will quote your exact fee in writing after looking inside your file.
No, and we would rather say so plainly. Lodging a BAS on your behalf requires registration as a BAS agent with the Tax Practitioners Board, and we are not registered. What we do is prepare and reconcile everything so the BAS is a five-minute job for your registered BAS or tax agent: GST coded correctly, control accounts checked, and a reconciliation they can rely on. Most of our clients already have an accountant, and this is exactly how that relationship is meant to work.
It is normal, and it is fixable. We quote catch-up work separately from the ongoing monthly fee so you can see exactly what the backlog costs and decide how far back to go. In most cases we start with the current financial year to stop the bleeding, then work backwards. Nobody here will make you feel bad about it.
Usually not. We work across Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks, so whichever you are on, we can pick it up. We only recommend moving when the platform is genuinely holding you back, and then we show you what the migration involves and what it costs before you decide.
Both. We are Sydney-based, so if you are local we are glad to meet for the first conversation and whenever something warrants a face-to-face. The monthly work itself is done in the cloud, which is why roughly half our clients are outside Sydney and it makes no difference to the service.
Your accounting file stays in your own subscription with you as the owner. We work inside it as an invited user, and you can remove that access at any time. We use multi-factor authentication on every system we touch, and we never ask for your internet banking password. What we need is read-only bank feed access, which is a different thing.
Find Out What Your Books Would Cost
Thirty minutes, no obligation. Tell us what you run and we will quote you a fixed monthly fee in writing, starting at $25 a week, and tell you honestly if you do not need us.