Solarium vs Bench
Bench pairs you with a human team working monthly for $300+ a month. Solarium Bookkeeping's team, supercharged with AI, closes your books daily for a flat $100 a month.
Save $3,000+ a year and 10 hours a month with Solarium Bookkeeping.
In December 2024, Bench shut down overnight and customers were locked out of their own books until an acquisition restored access. That weekend is why we built Solarium Bookkeeping the way we did. Your books sync to QuickBooks Online, which you own, and your data exports any time. Our team, supercharged with AI, keeps your books current every day for a flat fee, so an owner-operator doesn't need a separate bookkeeper on retainer.
Solarium The lesson of the Bench shutdown is simple. Never let your books live only inside one company's software. Solarium Bookkeeping syncs your records to QuickBooks Online both ways, so a complete copy of your books sits in an account you control. If you ever leave Solarium, your records leave with you, clean and current. No lock-in, no lockout.
Most bookkeeping tools are built for the US first and bolt on Canadian features later. Solarium Bookkeeping starts from the Canadian small business. HST is a first-class feature, not an afterthought, and the workflows match how a Canadian café, shop, or salon actually operates.
Your books update as transactions come in, so you're not waiting on a monthly close to know where you stand. Hand us a PDF, a CSV export, a forwarded email receipt, or a photo of a paper receipt, and it gets filed.
$4,000
saved / year
I started considering getting a bookkeeper before going with Solarium. Now I get my books done daily without shelling out thousands a year.
Kevin A.
Owner of Vanilla Bite Bakery
270
receipts backfilled
I loved that Solarium Bookkeeping backfilled the shoebox of receipts we had. I had a huge cup of receipts that I was dreading to go through.
Hannah R.
Manager of The Carbon Snack Bar
20+ hours
gained back per month
We're on our second successful location now. I'm glad we handed off bookkeeping to Solarium Bookkeeping so we can focus on growth.
Nathan S.
Co-owner of Afro's Pizza
Solarium Bookkeeping is a full bookkeeping service, not software you learn. Our bookkeepers are supercharged with AI, which is how we do your books daily instead of monthly and charge one flat fee instead of billable hours. You send receipts however you like, we categorize and reconcile everything, and your accountant gets clean QuickBooks records at year-end. No hourly invoices, no month-end surprises, no shoebox.
$3,000+
saved per year
10+
hours returned per month
95%
answered within the hour
Switching takes a week, not a project. We bring your history in, backfill anything that's behind, and get you current. From day one your books sync to QuickBooks Online, so you always hold a copy of your own records.
See how Solarium Bookkeeping can save you $3,000 a year and give you more control and clarity over your small business.