Remote bookkeeping for small businesses
We handle your bookkeeping so you can focus on your business. Guaranteed response within 2 business days, and plain-English reports you'll actually understand.
Honey Bear Financials is a remote bookkeeping firm based in New Albany, Indiana, serving small businesses across the United States. We work with service businesses, e-commerce sellers, home services contractors, professional service firms, and healthcare practices doing roughly $150K to $3M in annual revenue. Our team is led by Alex Clifton, a three-time QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor, and we handle the day-to-day bookkeeping work so you can focus on running and growing your business.
Every plan we offer is built around two promises: your books are closed on time, and you get a response to every email and inquiry within two business days. No rotating account managers, no ticket queues, no waiting a week for a reply about a categorization question. You work directly with a dedicated bookkeeper who knows your business, understands your industry, and can give you a clear, plain-English answer about where your money is going.
Our service menu is intentionally simple: Monthly Bookkeeping for businesses that want ongoing financial clarity, Quarterly Bookkeeping for self-managing owners who only need periodic oversight, and Comprehensive Bookkeeping for businesses that want full-service support including AP/AR, payroll integration, sales tax filing, and custom reporting. If your books are behind, our Bookkeeping Cleanup service catches you up — typically within two to four weeks — so we can transition you smoothly onto an ongoing plan. Add-on services like QuickBooks Online setup and 1099 filing are available as one-time engagements.
Pricing is flat-rate and monthly. There are no surprise invoices, no hourly billing, and no long-term contracts. Annual pre-pay clients get two months free. If you are not sure which plan fits, book a free 30-minute consultation below and we'll walk through your current setup, point out anything that looks off, and recommend the right tier — even if that recommendation is “you don't need us yet.”
Two core services that cover most small businesses — whether your books are current or need catching up.
Best for: Ongoing financial clarity
Best for: Catching up on messy or behind books
Three flat-rate monthly tiers. Pick the level of involvement you want — switch up or down anytime.
$149/mo
Light-touch oversight for owners who self-manage their day-to-day books. Quarterly review, reconciliation, and reporting.
View Quarterly$399/mo
Our most popular plan. Full monthly close with P&L, Balance Sheet, plain-English owner summary, and a monthly check-in.
View Monthly$699/mo
Everything in Monthly plus AP/AR, payroll integration, sales tax filing, and custom reporting with video walkthroughs.
View ComprehensiveA 30-minute call to understand your business, where your books stand, and which plan is the right fit.
We connect to your QuickBooks, organize your accounts, and establish your workflow. Most clients are up and running within a week.
Your books are reconciled and categorized. You get reports and a plain-English summary — with guaranteed response to any questions within 2 business days.
$199 one-time
We set up your Chart of Accounts, connect your bank, import vendors and customers, and give you a one-on-one training session.
Included with Comprehensive
Accurate payroll integration and reconciliation — timely disbursements, proper tax withholding, and clean records every pay period.
Included with Comprehensive
Custom reporting with personalized video walkthroughs so you understand exactly where your money is going and where to improve.
We work with owner-operated small businesses across a handful of industries we know well. In home services — plumbers, electricians, HVAC contractors, landscapers, and roofers — we keep job costing, vendor payments, and crew payroll organized so you can see margin per job and know which work is actually profitable.
For professional services firms — law offices, consultants, marketing agencies, and designers — we handle trust accounting where applicable, track client retainers, and produce clean P&Ls broken out by practice area or client when that helps you price better.
In e-commerce and online businesses, we reconcile Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, and Stripe payouts, separate platform fees from gross revenue, and track inventory cost of goods so your tax return doesn't come back with surprises.
For healthcare and wellness practices — dentists, chiropractors, med spas, and therapists — we manage insurance receivables, separate clinical from administrative spend, and keep books HIPAA-aware so you can grow without losing visibility.
We also serve clients remotely across cities including Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Lexington, Nashville, and dozens of others throughout the Midwest and beyond. If you run a small business that fits the description above, we can almost certainly help — and if we can't, we will tell you that on the consult call and point you somewhere that can.
Most small business owners we talk to are not unhappy with their bookkeeper because the math is wrong. They are unhappy because nobody is talking to them. Reports show up late, or do not show up at all. Emails sit for a week. Questions get answered with jargon. The owner ends up running their business with a vague feeling that something might be off, but no clear way to check.
We built Honey Bear Financials to fix that. Our 2 Business Day Response Guarantee means every email gets a reply within two business days — not eventually, not when we get to it, but reliably. Our monthly close happens within the month, not three months later. Each month you get a Profit & Loss, a Balance Sheet, and a short plain-English owner summary that explains what the numbers mean and flags anything unusual before you have to ask.
You also get one bookkeeper. The same person, every month, who knows your accounts, your vendors, your payroll quirks, and the way you like to be communicated with. When your CPA needs something at tax time, we talk to them directly so you do not have to play middleman. When something changes in your business — a new revenue stream, a hire, an acquisition — we adjust your books and your reporting around it.
If that sounds like the kind of bookkeeping relationship you want, the next step is the same as it is for every client: book a free 30-minute consultation, tell us about your business, and we'll tell you honestly whether we are a fit.
Business owners who switched to Honey Bear Financials
Working with Alex at Honey Bear Financial has been a game-changer for my business. She’s incredibly knowledgeable about bookkeeping, QuickBooks, and all the little details that keep me on track.
Allison Cooper
Cooper Law
Legal ServicesAlex helped me in Quickbooks. I had an accounting error and had no clue where I went wrong. She fixed the error and got me going again! Quickly, effective and cost efficient!
Brooke Shreves
E.J. Willman & Sons Plumbing
Home ServicesAlex is a great resource for small business owners. As a CPA, I appreciate how she communicates with me and keeps me informed so we can both serve the client better.
Sarah Hunter
DMLO CPAs
CPA & DirectorWhether you're ready to talk or just want to see where you stand, we've got you.
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