I worked as a quickbooks live bookkeeper doing clean-ups last year. $21 an hour in Georgia. Most of the books were not cleaned up within a month. And many were paying $200 once they switched to monthly but Quickbooks was really talking about raising fees depending on complexity because they were losing money. They just wanted to get people in. Also- they go through a whole process to weed people out so it really is for super small, barely any payroll, maybe like 3 bank accounts. They did struggle getting good talented accountants though lol. I left after 8 months, just wanted to better learn QBO and have some health insurance while building my firm.
I can say a lot of the clients going to these services are PITA clients that you don't really want to work with anyway...esp the price shoppers they don't value our expertise. A lot of the cleanups people are getting after leaving QBLive is b/c the clients never gave them the right documentation. Even though a lot of these services say you get a dedicated person that is sorta true as clients get moved around and employees get moved around/quit so you often are getting new people to work with. On the flipside intuit is a great place to work for bookkeepers and tax pros that need benefits and steady income while growing their firms. It pays a lot more than most local jobs in my area so there is that plus.
Look ma, I'm an influencer! Reason #3 is something I hadn't thought of before. I imagine they have a good training program so coming out of TT, they'd be good candidates!
Hey Jason. Have you dealt with QB bookkeeping live? It's a disaster! Loan payments as an expense item, ppp loans still on balance sheet when they are forgiven, even had someone import the wrong credit card into another's account.
@@contractorskeeperllc I had a real mess to clean up for a client that came over from QB Live... Bench pretty bad too with two clients having the wrong accounts in the system and even one checking account that didn't exist :P
