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What is DIY bookkeeping really costing you?

Most owners price the cost of doing their own books at zero. It isn't. Drag the sliders and watch the charts reveal the time you're spending, the opportunity cost at your own hourly rate, and the sales you aren't closing while you reconcile.

Your inputs

Transactions per month250
01,500
Hours on books each week6 hrs
030 hrs
What you value your time at$75 / hr
$25$500

Sales perspective

If those bookkeeping hours had been spent selling instead, how much revenue would you have produced?

Annual sales (current run-rate)$500,000
$50k$5M
Hours you work in the business each week45 hrs
10 hrs80 hrs
Your sales per working hour
$214
$500,000 ÷ 2,340 hrs / yr

Cost at your own hourly rate

Annual time cost
$23,400
312 hrs × $75/hr
Cost per transaction
$8
What each line is costing you to record

Sales you're leaving on the table

Foregone
$66,667
Realized sales$500,000
Foregone sales$66,667

Your sales per working hour: $214. Multiply by 312 bookkeeping hours and that's the revenue you didn't make.

True annual cost of DIY bookkeeping
$90,067
Time cost$23,400
Foregone sales$66,667

Time cost at your hourly rate plus the sales you didn't make because you were in the books instead of in the business.

Charts update live as you drag the sliders. This is a directional estimate to frame the conversation — actual savings vary by transaction complexity, software in use, and the state of the existing books.