How much does bookkeeping cost in 2026?
Hourly rates, in-house salaries, online services and AI — real prices, and where the surprises hide.
SortKai keeps the books for accounting practices, retailers and service providers. Documents arrive on their own — phone photos, emailed invoices, POS reports, direct feeds — an AI agent reads and checks every line, and a person reviews and signs each month’s close. We do the bookkeeping. Your accountant delivers better advice.
We process, reconcile and quality-check your clients’ records. You receive a completed bookkeeping pack — trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, bank reconciliations and the supporting documents — plus the open questions only you can settle. The client relationship and professional control stay yours.
We connect to your POS platform — Square, Shopify, Clover, Toast, Lightspeed and others — and pull the end-of-day reports ourselves; daily sales, card settlements and payouts are reconciled against what the bank actually deposited — POS, cash, card and bank in one set of books — and each month a trial balance and P&L handed to your accountant.
Contractors, clinics, agencies and consultancies: supplier bills, expenses and the invoices you issue captured as they happen, POS settlements and payouts matched to the bank — and each month a trial balance and P&L handed to your accountant.
Automation handles the repetitive work, our team handles quality, and your accountant keeps final control. Four steps — this is the whole service.
Snapped in our mobile app, emailed in, or collected from your POS and portals — every document is captured and filed automatically.
The agent reads every document — any layout, any quality — and checks the numbers before anything moves.
Entered daily into your accounting platform — or the one we manage for you — under the right accounts. Anything the agent isn’t sure about waits for a person.
Every account matched to the bank monthly; a person reviews and signs. Trial balance and P&L by the fifth business day.
Capture software reads your paperwork but leaves the bookkeeping to you. Traditional bookkeepers do the books but type everything by hand. SortKai does both — and a person signs off.
SortKaiHourly rates, in-house salaries, online services and AI — real prices, and where the surprises hide.
$9–$16 per invoice and 9-day cycles, per published benchmarks — and what actually changes with an AI agent.
What the software automates, what it can't, and when doing it yourself genuinely works.
Hand the bookkeeping to an agent that people check — and give your accountant clean, reconciled books to advise from. A free consultation first, onboarding after. Tell us about your business and platform; flat quote in writing within one business day.