The free Retainer / Package Builder
Vendor blogs publish prose ranges and leave you to guess where your client lands. This builder does the beginner's version of the math honestly: a base by transaction volume, an adder per account, step-ups for payroll and sales-tax filing, a floor under every package and a ceiling sanity check against the published top — and it shows you every line, so you learn pricing instead of copying a number. The anchor is the modal monthly fee of $250–$499/mo, inside the full published range of $300–$2,500/mo (Relay 2026 pricing guide / October 2026).
Tell it the client's size and what the work includes. It builds three monthly packages — Starter, Growth, Full-Service — with the math lines showing, anchored to the modal monthly fee of $250–$499/mo inside the full published range of $300–$2,500/mo (Relay 2026 pricing guide / October 2026). Monthly close and reports are in every package. No login, nothing uploaded.
Sales-tax filing included
Floor rule built in: no package is priced under $200, and none above the $2,500 published top.
Why three packages? A client choosing between three prices is choosing between sizes of yes. The Starter must be a real service — books, monthly close, reports — or the ladder is a trick. Price the middle as the one you expect most clients to take.
| Published figure | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Modal monthly fee | $250–$499/mo | Relay 2026 pricing guide / October 2026 |
| Full published monthly range | $300–$2,500/mo | Relay 2026 pricing guide / October 2026 |
| Hourly bookkeeping | $30–$90/hr | Relay 2026 pricing guide / October 2026 |
Behind on a client's books instead? Price the catch-up first with the Cleanup Price Calculator. The pricing thinking, in words: how much to charge for bookkeeping.