Accounts Payable Services & AP Automation Providers in Lewiston, ME

Outsourced Bookkeeping Solutions is a bookkeeping and accounting support practice in Lewiston, Maine. It serves small businesses as well as individuals who want help keeping their money in order. The firm offers hands-on, service-based assistance rather than a software product, and its work spans payables and receivables, payroll, sales tax, tax-packet preparation and personal budgeting.

Payables and receivables

Many owners have more pressing priorities than making sure suppliers are paid on time or chasing customers who are slow to pay. The firm presents this routine work as something it can take over so that owners can put their energy into building and growing the business. A client may hand off the payables side, the receivables side, or both.

Because the same team also keeps the books and produces financial statements, payment activity feeds directly into records that stay current.

Services offered

• Management of accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Bookkeeping, with account reconciliation on a schedule matched to the client
• Preparation of financial statements
• Payroll processing and report filing
• Sales tax calculation and filing
• Cleanup of records and assembly of a tax packet for a client's current accountant
• Personal budgeting and financial planning
• QuickBooks consulting and staff training
• Custom spreadsheets, one-time cleanups and other special projects

Flexible ways to engage

Payroll can be handled weekly, every two weeks, monthly, quarterly or annually. The firm can prepare and issue live payroll, calculate checks for the business to hand out, or log payroll the client has already paid so that liabilities can be worked out and reported. For sales tax, clients can supply ready information, or the firm will do the legwork each period so returns go in accurately and on time.

Bookkeeping support can be arranged monthly or quarterly, or concentrated at year end when a business simply needs everything pulled together for taxes. Companies that already work with an accountant can have their messy books tidied and receive a thorough tax packet, which is meant to save them the fee of having the accountant do that cleanup.

Short-term and project help

Not every business wants a lasting arrangement, and the firm says so plainly. It takes on one-time projects, and it can step in when a regular bookkeeper has left or is away for a period, such as for health reasons or parental leave. In those cases it covers the role until the person returns or a replacement is hired.

Approach and client feedback

The firm calls itself a group of creative problem solvers and encourages prospects to describe whatever obstacle they have hit. New clients are offered a free one-hour consultation to talk through their needs and decide whether the fit is right, and the firm can be reached by email, phone or text.

One published review credits a simple, adjustable budget spreadsheet with helping the client manage payments to many lenders each month and easing the worry that came with paying bills. It reflects the firm's emphasis on practical tools that are easy to maintain.