We read your statement, do the accounting, and hand you finished books in seconds. You approve the few we flag. Real double-entry bookkeeping for contractors, churches, nonprofits, and service businesses, without the QuickBooks price or the QuickBooks homework.
No data entry. No debits and credits. No Sunday nights with a spreadsheet. Upload a statement and we take it from there, in seconds.
Bank export, PDF, Excel, or just snap a photo of the paper statement. Any format, any bank.
Every line is read, categorized, and posted as balanced double-entry accounting. Not overnight. Not within 2 business days. The moment you upload.
Anything we’re not sure about waits in a review queue for your one-click yes, so nothing is ever guessed onto your books. We learn from every answer, so next month there’s even less.
No account, no card. Press the button and see exactly what we do with a real bank statement.
QuickBooks raised its prices twice in 2026 alone — and says its new AI features are why. Count The Cost already does the books for you, at one flat price you lock in the day you join.
*QuickBooks Online published pricing, quickbooks.intuit.com, August 2026 (Simple Start $38, Essentials $85, Plus $140, Advanced $340). QuickBooks raised prices twice in 2026 — on May 1 and again on August 1, with the steepest increases on the Plus and Advanced tiers. Plus shown because that is the tier with job costing and project profitability, features included in every Count The Cost account.
Not generic accounting with your industry's name pasted on — the books your kind of business actually needs.
Accuracy is enforced by the system — not by hoping you remembered.
Record "money in," "money out," or "move money" — Count The Cost posts the balanced double-entry behind the scenes, so you never have to think in debits and credits.
Upload a CSV or OFX statement and high-confidence matches file themselves. Anything uncertain lands in a review queue for a one-click approval.
Profit & loss, balance sheet, and cash flow — fiscal-year aware, exportable to CSV, and ready to print or hand to your accountant.
Enter your statement ending balance and we run the checks a careful bookkeeper would: balance tied to the penny, nothing left uncategorized, duplicates flagged. One click locks the month — and if something is off, we tell you exactly what and why. We never force a match.
Every entry is balanced by the database itself, posted entries are permanent and corrected only by a reversal, and a full audit trail is preserved.
Manage many businesses from one login, switch between them instantly, and see each one’s net income and cash at a glance.
Real specifics, not just “bank-grade.” Here is exactly how your books are kept safe.
Every connection uses TLS 1.2+ in transit, and your data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest.
Database-level separation between every business — access is enforced on every row of every table, not just in the app.
Double-entry cannot be broken: the database itself rejects any entry that doesn’t balance — below the app, where no bug can reach.
Posted entries are permanent. Corrections post as reversals, never edits, so the history of your books stays preserved and reviewable.
Bookkeeping only. Bank feeds are read-only, invoice payments settle to your own accounts, and your bank keeps custody of your cash.
Export your entire book any time, in open formats. If you ever leave, your books leave with you.
Start with a 7-day free trial — cancel any time and pay nothing. After that it’s one simple price of $20 a month, or $200 a year, with everything included. Refer a paying customer and you get a month free, no limit. Your data always stays yours.
These are the kinds of books we handle — not tiers. Every one of them is the same product at the same price, with nothing held back for a higher plan.
Upload your first statement and watch this month reconcile itself.
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