Pilot: plans, prices and score

Pilot sells monthly bookkeeping with a published entry price. It ranks third in the service rankings, and ecommerce outsourcing lists it tied for second among services for sellers. I have priced services out for my businesses and have not hired one.

For the price context, bookkeeper pricing lays out the monthly fees across services, and bookkeeper wages gives the federal wage a quote can be held against.

Plans and score

Essentials costs $99 a month and covers cash-basis bookkeeping from bank and card data, with accounts reconciled and books closed monthly. Core and Custom are quoted. A 15-day trial is listed. It rates 4.7 from 143 G2 reviews. Scope earns a high level because bookkeeping, catch-up and tax work all sit under one vendor.

Past months of unrecorded books are the job many buyers bring, and catch-up work explains the order of work, with cleanup answers for related questions. The wider set of cost answers sits in the hiring and pricing section.

Who should look elsewhere

Xendoo earns a higher contract-terms level, because it has no annual contract. 1-800Accountant and Bookkeeper360 earn the top scope level, and Bench earns a higher price-transparency level. All the scored services are on the services scorecards list.

Pilot does bookkeeping, and the advice side is different. Bookkeeper versus accountant explains the split. Sellers who run an online store should also read bookkeeping for Shopify and Amazon sellers.

Quick answers

Owners with more than one business can read several companies, one owner. Software is the cheaper alternative to a service, and accounting software, ranked lists the options, including the QuickBooks Online verdict for the ledger Pilot works in natively.