Solarium vs Your Bookkeeper

Why Business Owners Choose Solarium Over Your Bookkeeper

A traditional bookkeeper costs $300-500/mo and closes your books weeks after the month ends. Solarium does the routine work automatically, daily, for a flat $100/mo.

Save $3,000+ a year and 10 hours a month with Solarium.

The Short Version

A bookkeeper brings judgment and a human relationship. They also bring a monthly invoice, a back-and-forth for every receipt, and a close that lands days after the month ends. Solarium handles the routine work continuously, so your books are current and your costs are predictable.

Solarium Solarium
Your Bookkeeper
Flat $100/mo, predictable
Often $300-500/mo
Books update continuously, daily close
Days to weeks turnaround
HST built in, tracks collections and claims
Depends on the bookkeeper
PDF, CSV, email, photo receipt intake
You hand things over manually
Always on, 24/7
Business hours only
Unclear items flagged for your review
Judgment calls handled by them
AI learns your vendors and auto-categorizes
Manual categorization each time
Optional QuickBooks sync for your accountant
Depends on their setup

Why Solarium Stands Out Among Bookkeeping Services

Solarium isn't just a bookkeeping service, it's the leading AI bookkeeping platform designed to save you money and time and get accurate books that you can hand off to QuickBooks or your accountant. With receipt ingestion, auto-categorization, and reconciliation in one place, Solarium helps small business owners do more while spending less to keep books clean and real-time.

$3,000+

dollars saved per year

10+

hours returned per month

12,000+

auto-categorizations completed

Where A Human Still Helps

We'll be straight about this. A bookkeeper is genuinely useful for messy edge cases, year-end with a complex situation, or advice that needs a human read. Solarium flags the things it isn't sure about rather than guessing, so you stay in control of the calls that matter. Many owners keep an accountant for year-end and let Solarium handle the day-to-day.

Where Solarium Wins

Cost and speed, mostly. You're not paying a monthly retainer, and you're not waiting for someone to get to your books. The routine work, categorizing transactions, matching receipts, keeping HST straight, runs on its own.

Stop doing your books. Start running your business.

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