Pricing

The calculator estimates your recurring monthly fee. Catch-up work, your initial strategy meeting, and personal tax returns are quoted separately in a short call.

Yes. After a first call to confirm we're a fit, we bring your books current, then hold a one-time initial strategy meeting ($500) to align your accounting with your goals. From there, your monthly service begins.

Catch-up work is priced by how many months need to be brought current, with a clear amount quoted in your proposal before we start. It's scoped separately from your monthly fee.

Payroll is priced from a base fee, with per-employee pricing above a set headcount. Larger teams pay more.

A much cheaper quote usually means a smaller scope. A return filed once a year, transactions entered with no one thinking ahead about your taxes, little contact in between, and no one catching problems before they get expensive.

Cheap accounting often turns out to be the most expensive kind. We've seen it all: missed deadlines, omitted deductions, non-existent planning. These phantom costs don't show up on the cheaper accountant's invoice, but they cost you far more than choosing the right option would have. Our clients tend to find savings that more than cover our fees. One agency owner described "immediate savings and a source of business strategy" she'd never had with a previous firm.

Larger firms often generate higher quotes, where your work passes through many hands. The extra layers increase your fees and lead to a less personalized experience, where no one is truly handling your account.

Venti sits deliberately in between: more present and proactive than the cheap option, more personal and right-sized than the big-firm option. We're built for owners who want a partner, not just a preparer.

Watch for marked-up software and year-end hand-off fees between a separate bookkeeper and preparer at other firms. Because we handle both, those don't appear.