My approach is grounded in community care — and in clear, predictable support.
The Rising Tide Model
My pricing is designed to support long-term sustainability for my clients and for my own practice. This structure is deeply influenced by the writings of Robin Wall Kimmerer, as well as the Green Bottle Method.
Rather than using a flat rate for everyone, I use a flexible pricing structure that adjusts with your business’s ebbs and flows. When a business is just getting established, this structure helps keep bookkeeping accessible and manageable. As a business becomes more financially stable, pricing scales accordingly.
In practice, this means that a thriving month supports steady support for others. I think of this as a form of mutual aid within a professional framework. Everyone contributes based on their capacity, the work remains sustainable over time, and, if all goes well, we can build a more resilient community of small businesses. After all, All Thriving Is Mutual.
Specific details and examples are below, but this philosophy guides everything that I do.
How it works
For each monthly bookkeeping period, my fee is calculated as a fixed percentage of your gross revenue, subject to a minimum fee. That’s it! While the fee will fluctuate, it typically stays the same in proportion to your income.
I offer two tiers of services based on your business’s support needs, and the difference in the fee percentage and minimum charge reflects the difference in complexity of the work.
Tier 1 Services -
1% of gross revenue per period
This tier of services includes the basic bookkeeping that all small businesses need to attend to, such as:
logbook maintenance
transaction categorization
financial report generation
reminders about tax payment deadlines
support for tax payment planning
The minimum fee per period for this tier is $35.
Tier 2 Services -
1.5% of gross revenue per period
This tier of services includes all the services listed in tier 1, with the addition of payroll services for small s-corp businesses.
The minimum fee per period for this tier is $50.
To support my goal of having fair fees, I take into consideration the type of business you run.
Gross revenue is the total amount that your business brings in during a particular period.
However, for product-based businesses, I take a slightly different calculation of gross revenue. For these clients, I deduct the cost of goods sold from their gross revenue, and calculate their fee based on that number instead. I do this because I feel that it is fair, and results in fees that make sense.
In practice, this looks like:
a therapist earning an average of $7,000 a month would pay an average fee of $70 for once-a-month Tier 1 service (or $35 twice for twice-a-month check-ins).
a florist earning $15,000 a month during the busy season, and spending $5,000 on their cost of goods sold, would pay an average of $100 each month for Tier 1 service, but in the winter, their fee would go down to match the reduced income.
a performer earning an average of $2,500 a month would typically pay the minimum fee of $35 for each monthly check-in with Tier 1 service.
a massage therapist who earns an average of $3,500 each month would sometimes pay the minimum fee of $35, and on busier months would pay a bit more.
Keep in mind that these are only examples, just to illustrate how the pricing model works. The fees you pay will depend on the revenue your business brings in. Final pricing and services are governed by the Bookkeeping Services Agreement provided during onboarding.
