Daxable vs. QuickBooks Live: Compare the Scope

Daxable and Intuit Expert Full Service Bookkeeping both offer monthly bookkeeping. The useful question is who will do the work your business needs, at what scope and fee. This Daxable-authored comparison checks Intuit's official pages on August 30, 2026. It is not an independent ranking.

Which Intuit service are we comparing?

QuickBooks Live appears in older articles and Intuit help pages. The current Full Service offer assigns a dedicated bookkeeper to maintain the books. Expert Assisted provides guidance while you manage them. Compare Full Service with a monthly bookkeeping engagement, not the lower-touch coaching option.

What does each service cost?

Intuit's Full Service page advertises a starting price of $300 per month after an initial cleanup fee. Its help page describes expense-based tiers and periodic reassessment. Confirm your current quote, cleanup charge and QuickBooks subscription costs; the older $200/$400/$600 figures previously shown here are not presented as today's offer.

Daxable bookkeeping starts at $299 per month. The written scope accounts for entities, transaction volume and reporting detail. Historical cleanup is assessed separately. A Dedicated Finance Team starts at $1,500 per month; controller or fractional CFO support starts at $2,500. Those are separate service levels, not extras automatically included for $299.

Are certification and industry experience different?

Intuit says its bookkeepers hold active QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor certification and that it matches clients with industry experience. These are not features we can fairly mark as absent. A certificate alone does not establish who can design or review your particular reporting workflow.

Daxable uses documented QuickBooks Online workflows and assigns staff according to verified experience and credentials. Its primary audiences are real estate and property management, construction, and home-service businesses. Ask to see the proposed reporting scope and the assigned team's relevant credentials before choosing.

What should property owners and contractors ask?

For a rental portfolio, specify the properties, legal entities, mortgages and owner transfers that must reconcile. A property manager should distinguish corporate operations from owner funds and deposits. Confirm the source records and reconciliation responsibilities rather than treating 'real estate experience' as a complete scope.

For construction, bring one active job with its estimate, approved changes, billings, retainage and committed costs. Ask how the provider will connect those records to reporting. WIP review and accounting-policy decisions require explicit ownership. Industry matching does not, by itself, confirm every deliverable.

Daxable scopes property, job and service-line reporting around the available records. For HVAC and plumbing, that can include separating service work from installations and reconciling field-system receipts. Your agreement should state which workflow is included, who supplies missing inputs and who reviews exceptions.

Can you speak with your bookkeeper?

Intuit describes video appointments and messaging, with bookkeeper availability within weekday Pacific-time hours. It is not an email-only service. Daxable agrees a communication plan during scoping. Ask about meeting frequency, response expectations, escalation and backup coverage. Neither a dedicated bookkeeper nor a software support window establishes a 40-hour employee allocation or round-the-clock bookkeeping support.

Are 1099s and tax filing included?

Intuit's Full Service FAQ excludes creating or sending 1099s and filing income or sales-tax returns. General tax-resource guidance is available, which is different from doing the filing. Separate Intuit products should not be counted as included in this bookkeeping plan.

Daxable can organize contractor records for the year-end handoff. Any 1099 preparation or filing responsibility, fee and limit must be expressly confirmed; this comparison does not promise free filing. Daxable does not provide income or sales tax-return filing, tax advice, audits or legal advice.

When do you need more than bookkeeping?

Intuit offers business and financial coaching, but its bookkeeping service should not be assumed to include a fractional CFO engagement. Likewise, Daxable's base bookkeeping is not its CFO service. If reliable books already exist but cash, pricing or growth decisions remain difficult, compare forecast outputs, scenarios, meetings and decision responsibilities separately.

Bring both firms the same brief and request a written scope. Choose the proposal that covers the records, reporting and working relationship you actually need. Neither a one-dollar starting-price difference nor a column of checkmarks establishes better value.

Compare the same scope, including setup, software and reporting responsibilities. A starting price is not an all-inclusive quote.