Nothing to drop off and no office visit. The same virtual bookkeeper does your books online every month, anywhere in British Columbia.
How it works
Almost every part of bookkeeping already happens online. Working remotely is not a compromise on an in-person process, it is how the work is done now.
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We work inside your accounting file as an invited user, the same way you would add an employee. You control that access from your own account and can withdraw it any time. Your records stay in your platform. We never copy them into ours.
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We work inside your accounting file, not a copy that gets emailed back and forth. One version of your books, open to you, current today.
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Email them, forward them, or attach them to the transaction in the app on your phone. There is no envelope to fill up and no monthly trip to hand it over.
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GST returns to the CRA and PST returns to the BC Ministry of Finance are filed online. That part of the job was never in-person, wherever your bookkeeper sits.
What a month looks like
We categorize transactions as they come in, so nothing piles up into a month-end scramble. If something is unclear we ask while you still remember what it was.
We reconcile the accounts against the statements, close the month, and send you a profit and loss and a balance sheet with the figures that moved marked.
GST, PST, payroll remittances, T4s, WorkSafeBC — whatever is in your plan is prepared and filed on schedule. You are not the one holding the deadline calendar.
Remote or local
Not whoever is free at the local firm this quarter. You explain how your business works once.
A question does not have to wait for an appointment, and answering it does not cost you a trip across town or an hour of billable time.
The file is online, so you can open it from anywhere. No waiting on an emailed PDF to know where you stand.
Sitting across a desk. If a monthly face-to-face is what you value most, a local firm is the right choice and we will tell you so.
Where this works
Nothing here depends on being nearby, so where your business sits does not change the scope or the price. We work with businesses across Metro Vancouver — Vancouver, North and West Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey and Coquitlam — out through the Fraser Valley to Langley and Abbotsford, over to Victoria and Kelowna, and well past the highway into the Interior, the Island and the north. We are based in West Vancouver. That is a fact about us, not a limit on you.
Questions
The rest are on the main page, or put yours in the form and we will answer it in the reply.
A bookkeeper who does the usual monthly work online: categorizing transactions, reconciling the accounts, closing the month, reporting, and filing GST, PST and payroll. Virtual, remote, online and outsourced bookkeeping all describe the same arrangement. You give access to your accounting file, and nothing is dropped off or collected.
Your records stay in your own platform, whether that is QuickBooks Online, Xero or Sage 50. We never copy them elsewhere. We work in that file as an invited user: you grant the access, you can revoke it any time, and every action is logged against that user.
Whichever way suits you: email them as they arrive, forward them in a batch, or photograph and attach them to the transaction in your accounting app. QuickBooks Online, Xero and Sage 50 all support attachments against a transaction, so the receipt stays with the entry.
Call or email and you get the same person, not a queue. No meeting required to get an answer. If your plan includes a quarterly review call, that one is scheduled. Everything else we answer as it comes up.
Yes, that is the other name for it. Outsourced bookkeeping means the work is done by a practice outside your business rather than by someone on your payroll, which is what this is. You get the function without the hire: no salary, no source deductions, no WorkSafeBC, no cover to arrange when one person is away, and no gap when they leave. What you should ask of any outsourced arrangement is who actually does the work each month — here it is the same person, not whoever is free.
Yes, at the same service and the same price. We are based in West Vancouver and work across British Columbia, the Interior, the Island and the north included. Nothing depends on being nearby, so location does not change the scope or the number.
A fixed-fee bookkeeper quotes one monthly fee for a defined scope, and the fee does not rise when a month takes longer. An hourly bookkeeper bills for the time used, so the total varies. We charge a fixed monthly fee, set by transaction volume, the accounts to reconcile, what needs filing and which sales channels you use, and the quote is in writing.
Across British Columbia, the Lower Mainland included, yes, at the same service and price. Elsewhere in Canada the bookkeeping is the same work, but PST and other provincial rules stop at the provincial border, so ask before assuming we are the right fit.
No. On spreadsheets, a desktop file, or nothing at all, migration is part of setup and is quoted before it starts. We work in QuickBooks Online, Xero and Sage 50, and Shopify and Stripe connect to all three.
About three minutes. A written scope and a fixed monthly price within one business day. No sales call, and nothing is set up until you say yes.