Outsourced bookkeeping - tailored for your business
Outsourced bookkeeping is when a business hands its day-to-day accounting - bank reconciliation, accounts payable, invoicing, BAS preparation - to an external team instead of hiring in-house. It gives Australian businesses access to registered BAS agents without the overhead of employment or leave cover
When you want your bookkeeping completely taken care of
Your finance department
We become your accounts and finance department that takes care of chasing up customer payments, paying bills, managing your liabilities, and keeping on top of the numbers so that you know exactly where you stand
Free yourself from cashflow stress
Free yourself from stressing about cashflow, as our experienced team of accountants and bookkeepers take care of business for you - 365 days a year, and scaling with you as you grow
Scales with your business
Five employees or fifty, simple accounts or complex - same process, same dedicated team, same fixed monthly fee
Best for
Clear responsibilities
What we do, what you do
We will -
- reconcile your accounts and credit cards weekly
- enter your bills for payment
- schedule payments and manage your cashflow
- monthly management reports
- provide unlimited phone and email support
- prepare your Business Activity Statements (BAS)
- prepare year end workpapers
- reconcile balance sheet items to reduce your tax accounting work
- advise on best practice and improvements
- work with your accountant
You will -
- send us your bills and expenses through Dext
- answer any questions we have as they come up
- invoice your customers
- pay your employees
We can also -
- enter your sales invoices
- reconcile your sales across other systems you use
- call up your customers to take payments
- manage journals for accruals and provisions
- prepare custom weekly reports
Small Business
For owner-operators and small teams who need their bookkeeping taken care of so they can focus on running the business
- weekly reconciliation
- BAS preparation and lodgement
- monthly reporting
- unlimited support
- dedicated bookkeeper
Growing Business
For businesses scaling up with more complex accounts, multiple entities, or higher transaction volumes
- everything in Small Business plus
- accounts payable and receivable
- cashflow management
- year-end workpapers
- dedicated team with cross-cover
Getting started
How our outsourced bookkeeping service works
Business discovery and recommendations
- discuss your business, the current state of your bookkeeping on Xero, and your goals
- tailor a bookkeeping solution for you, customised for your business needs
- let you know if there's any cleanup work to do, and recommend apps to speed up our work. We agree to a start date for a smooth handover
On-boarding with your bookkeeping team
- introduce our bookkeeping team. We start reconciling your accounts in Xero and report what we learn along the way
- actively communicate with you to confirm our understanding of your business, to make sure we deliver on your goals
- invest time getting to know how you like to communicate and work with us to quickly find our flow together
Managing your bookkeeping on Xero
- work on your accounts on the days we agreed, and continue to do what we said we would
- give you peace of mind, by actively communicating when things come up
- chase you up for the things we need to complete your bookkeeping to a high standard, and send regular updates and reports
Continual improvement
- ask for regular feedback, and let you know if things change
- tweak how we work with you over time, and recommend improvements to our work together as Xero improves, or new apps are released
- add people to your bookkeeping team to maintain a reliable outsourced service as your business grows
Why Digit
Why choose Digit for outsourced bookkeeping?
Most outsourced bookkeepers do bank reconciliation and call it a day. We run your entire finance function - weekly reconciliation, BAS, cashflow management, supplier payments, and year-end workpapers that make your accountant's life easier
You get a dedicated team who knows your business, not a rotating cast of contractors seeing your accounts for the first time each month
Get in touchWeekly reconciliation, not monthly catch-ups
Your accounts are reconciled every week, not batched at month end when problems have already compounded. You always know where your cash sits - no guessing, no surprises at BAS time
A dedicated team, not a solo bookkeeper
Your account is managed by a team with cross-cover built in. When someone's on leave, your books don't stop. Different eyes reviewing the work catches things a single bookkeeper won't
Fixed fees, no lock-in contracts
We charge a fixed monthly fee based on your transaction volume and complexity. No hourly billing, no hidden costs. Month-to-month agreements - if we're not delivering, you can walk away
Registered BAS agents who take compliance personally
We lodge your BAS under our own registration with the Tax Practitioners Board. That means we're accountable for accuracy - not just doing data entry. Your BAS is lodged on time, every quarter
Unlimited phone and email support
Got a question about a transaction or need something checked? Just ask. We don't meter support calls or charge per enquiry. You'll hear back from someone who already knows your accounts
Year-end workpapers that save your accountant time
We prepare clean balance sheet reconciliations and year-end workpapers so your accountant doesn't have to untangle the books before doing your tax. Less time fixing means lower accounting fees
Real results
Private Media replaced their in-house accountant with Digit. Costs halved. Coverage doubled
Private Media publishes SmartCompany, Crikey, and The Mandarin. When their long-serving accountant resigned, COO Ai Mawdsley chose Digit's outsourced team model over hiring a replacement. Three specialists now cover everything the single accountant did - bookkeeping, payroll, BAS, management reporting - with cross-cover so nothing stops when someone's on leave
Read the full story"The agency model is ideal for small-to-medium businesses, not just from a cost perspective, but also in terms of mitigating the risks that come with single-point dependencies"
Who we work with
Bookkeeping services for Australian businesses doing $1M to $10M
Most bookkeeping services in Australia cover the basics - bank reconciliation and quarterly BAS lodgement. That gets you compliant, but it doesn't give you a finance function. If your bookkeeper can't tell you where your cash went last month, what's overdue from customers, and whether you can afford to hire next quarter, you're getting data entry rather than financial management
We work with businesses that have outgrown a solo bookkeeper but don't need a full-time finance hire. Professional services firms where time is billable and bookkeeping gets pushed to weekends. Trades and construction businesses juggling job costing, supplier invoices, and retention tracking. Health and wellness practices reconciling NDIS payments and split billing. Manufacturing businesses managing inventory, landed costs, and multi-step production workflows
The common thread is that the numbers have gotten complex enough to matter and messy enough to cause problems. Late BAS, missing invoices, reports that don't reconcile, key-person risk when one bookkeeper holds everything in their head. We see the same pattern across nearly every business that comes to us. Revenue is growing but the back office hasn't kept up
Our team handles bookkeeping, payroll, and BAS for businesses across Australia from our offices in Perth and Manila. Every engagement is Xero-only, fixed-fee, and month-to-month. We're a Xero Platinum Partner, registered BAS agent, and certified B Corp. If you're weighing up whether to outsource or hire in-house, or you want to understand what outsourced bookkeeping costs, those guides are worth reading before we talk
Your Outsourced Bookkeeping Services for Small Business | Digit team
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