#pricing
Pricing plans, comparisons, and value propositions
QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Gold and Platinum now charge $1 to $3 per unique employee paid each month, per company file, on top of a February 2026 subscription increase that lifted Pro Plus to $1,149 a year. Worked all-in totals for 12-, 45- and 120-person businesses, five renewal myths, and four options before your next renewal date.
Intuit raised QuickBooks Online prices on August 1, 2026 for renewals — Essentials to $85, Plus to $140, and Advanced to $340 a month (70%). Learn which plans changed, how the per-user and per-company math stacks up, the 12-month renew-vs-downgrade-vs-switch framework, and the bookkeeping checklist to keep your audit trail and cutoff clean.
Starting July 1, 2026, Connecticut's SB 3 requires the first price a business advertises to include every mandatory fee except taxes and government charges. Here is how small businesses rewire pricing displays, checkout flows, and bookkeeping to comply.
A side-by-side comparison of Xero and QuickBooks Online pricing, user limits, invoicing caps, inventory, payroll, and reporting after Intuit's August 2026 QuickBooks Online price increase, with a decision framework and migration cost checklist for small businesses.
QuickBooks Online plans rose 13–70% for 2026 — Plus went from $90 to $110–$115/mo and Payroll added another ~20%. Here is the plan-by-plan cost, how to check your renewal date, and a four-phase migration plan to move your books without losing history.
Wave Accounting moved automatic bank feeds, collaborator access, and receipt scanning behind its $16-19/month Pro tier on June 1, 2026, leaving legacy free-plan (Starter) users to enter transactions manually or pay to keep those features.
The diameter × height × multiplier formula that most bowl turners use to price work ignores cracked blanks, drying time, and overhead — accounting them correctly as a separate spoilage loss (not folded into COGS) reveals whether a shop's pricing actually covers its real costs.
Gutter cleaners charge $0.75–$2.50 per linear foot, but healthy 35–50% residential margins depend on height-tier pricing, route-level job costing, and an off-season cash reserve. A practical bookkeeping guide covering second-story multipliers, revenue per route-hour, insurance costs, and Section 179 equipment deductions.
Full-service horse board runs $650–$1,600 a month nationally, yet a 30-horse barn's real costs can near $60,000 monthly — here's how to build a per-horse chart of accounts, handle vet and farrier pass-throughs, recognize board revenue correctly, and stay clear of the IRS hobby-loss rule.
Professional organizers juggle hourly billing ($75–$150/hr), flat packages, and monthly retainers ($425–$475) — and each needs different bookkeeping. How to use deferred revenue for deposits and retainers, track the 2026 IRS mileage rates (72.5¢ then 76¢/mile), and build a chart of accounts that separates income by pricing model.
In 2026, Maryland, Connecticut, and New York enacted the first U.S. laws restricting surveillance pricing — algorithms that use personal data to charge individual customers different prices. Here's what each law bans, the loyalty-program and cost-based carve-outs, and a compliance checklist for small businesses using dynamic pricing tools.
Under ASC 606, usage-based revenue is recognized as customers consume the service — not when they pay. How the stand-ready obligation, variable consideration, and the right-to-invoice practical expedient apply to metered API and SaaS pricing, with journal entries for prepaid credits, overages, and unbilled receivables.
