Monthly
$27/month — $18.90 for founding members
Unlimited quotes and proposals
Quoting a cleanup before you've seen the books?
Stop Guessing Your Cleanup Fees
Answer a short questionnaire during the discovery call. PriceTheMess returns a Mess Score, an hours range, a fixed fee with a risk buffer, and a page that shows your client why.
- Price a messy file before the discovery call ends
- Get a low / expected / high range, not a single number, with a buffer for what you can't see yet
- Send the reason with the price, a client page that explains the fee without revealing your hourly rate
When we launch, your first quote is free. No credit card.
Founding members keep 30% off for as long as their subscription stays active. Limited to the first 50 subscribers.
Built for QBO & Xero bookkeepersNo bank connectionsYour hourly rate stays private
You already know how this ends
Every number below comes from a real cleanup someone had to price. See how many you recognize.
60%
You open the file and most of it says 'misc'
Every single transaction has to be researched before a single figure can be trusted.
9 months
The owner swears the books are current
The last reconciliation was in February. It's November, and $17.3k is still sitting uncleared.
8 hours
You're already in, and you haven't hit the halfway mark
You quoted a flat fee. You wanted to cap it at 15 hours. You're going to eat the rest.
$12,000
The number is right. Saying it out loud is the hard part
Three years of catch-up on a trust account nobody reconciled. The client was shocked.
None of this is a pricing problem.It's a not-knowing-what-you're-walking-into problem.
The Founding
- 30% off any plan, for as long as your subscription stays active
- A direct voice in the roadmap, so you tell us which features come next
- Your founding number, shown on your account for good — claimed by the first 50 subscribers, and it stays that way
Annual
$270/year — $189 for founding members
Unlimited quotes and proposals
Two months free — save 17%
Mess Pack
Pricing announced at launch
5 quotes, no subscription — for occasional cleanups
One pack per account
Founding members keep 30% off for as long as their subscription stays active. Limited to the first 50 subscribers.
When we launch, your first quote is free. No credit card.
What PriceTheMess Covers
Scope the real job
The Mess Check covers accounts, payment apps, statement formats and reconciliation status, so the quote reflects the actual file.
Estimate a range of hours
Low, expected and high, so a surprise has room inside the quote.
Set a fee you can defend
Built from your rate, your project minimum and your buffer. You can edit every number.
Account for the unknowns
Missing statements, mixed personal spending and slow client responses are part of the questionnaire.
Put scope in writing
Assumptions, exclusions and repricing triggers appear on the quote before the client signs.
Show the client the reasons
The client page lists what's driving the fee. Your hourly rate never appears.
Four ways to price a cleanup. Three of them are guessing.
Most tools help you present a price. PriceTheMess helps you work out the price first.
Built for cleanup complexity
PriceTheMess
Yes: scores payment apps, reconciliation gaps, missing docs
- Generic proposal tools
- No: generic service packages
- Excel template
- Partly: static formula
- Estimate by feel
- No
Handles uncertainty
PriceTheMess
Low / expected / high range + buffer
- Generic proposal tools
- No
- Excel template
- Usually a flat buffer
- Estimate by feel
- No
Explains the price to your client
PriceTheMess
Client page, hourly rate hidden
- Generic proposal tools
- Polished layout, no reasoning behind the number
- Excel template
- No
- Estimate by feel
- No
Scope protection in the quote
PriceTheMess
Repricing triggers on every quote
- Generic proposal tools
- Generic terms
- Excel template
- No
- Estimate by feel
- No
PriceTheMess scores the mess, prices the risk and explains the quote in one flow.
What You Get
- 1
The Mess Check
A guided discovery questionnaire you fill in during the call.
- 2
Mess Score (0–10)
A complexity rating with the 3–5 drivers behind it, visible to you.
- 3
Safe Quote
Hours low, expected and high, a recommended fixed fee, a suggested deposit and a conditional timeline.
- 4
Scope Creep Shield
Assumptions, exclusions, client responsibilities and repricing triggers, written into the quote.
- 5
Quote Defense Page
A shareable link and PDF showing the current state of the books, the complexity drivers, the included work and what could change the price. Your hourly math never appears.
- 6
My Numbers + saved quotes
Set your rate, minimum and buffer once. Save and duplicate past quotes for the next similar file.
A real proposal page, exactly as your client receives it.
How Access Works
- 1
Create your free quote.
Start with a real client file. No card, no call.
- 2
Get the full result.
See the scope, price and client page before choosing a plan.
- 3
Keep quoting.
Choose Monthly, Annual or a Mess Pack after your first free quote.
Price Your Next Cleanup With Confidence
- Start your first full quote free
- 30% off any plan while your subscription stays active
- Scope, price and client page included
- No credit card for your first quote
Monthly
$27/month — $18.90 for founding members
Unlimited quotes and proposals
Annual
$270/year — $189 for founding members
Unlimited quotes and proposals
Two months free — save 17%
Mess Pack
Pricing announced at launch
5 quotes, no subscription — for occasional cleanups
One pack per account
Founding members keep 30% off for as long as their subscription stays active. Limited to the first 50 subscribers.
When we launch, your first quote is free. No credit card.
Nobody talks about this out loud. They type it at 11pm.
Real words from working bookkeepers, posted publicly. Nobody was paid to say them.
The price you regret
I've definitely underpriced a few over the years and regretted it later.
Need help evaluating the scope of work to properly value my time.
The moment you send the number
They were shocked by the amount.
I honestly have no idea if that's a fair price or if I'm being overcharged.
What was actually in the file
I swear close to 60% of their expenses are just coded as misc
the last bank rec was done in February. It is now November.
You're not the most expensive bookkeeper.You're the first one who explained the price.