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.
QuickBooks charges more every year for you to do the bookkeeping yourself. Software that does the work should cost less, not more.
*QuickBooks Online published pricing, quickbooks.intuit.com, July 2026 (Simple Start $38, Essentials $75, Plus $115, Advanced $275). 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.
Start with a 7-day free trial — cancel any time and pay nothing. Your first month is $1, then it’s one simple price of $20 a month with everything included. Refer a friend and get a month free, no limit. Your data always stays yours.
Upload your first statement and watch this month reconcile itself.
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