How much does a bookkeeper in Southport cost? From $347 per month ($80 a week) for the Essentials package, or $650 per month ($150 a week) for Professional. A one-off BAS lodgement is a fixed $150. No hourly rates and no surprise invoices.
How quickly can you take over my books? Most Southport businesses are onboarded and reconciled within two weeks of handing over file access — sooner if a BAS deadline is close.
| Area | Registered BAS Agent | Focus here | Software |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southport QLD 4215 | 26308439 | Professional & allied health | Xero · MYOB · QuickBooks |
Bookkeeping for Southport businesses
Southport is the Gold Coast’s central business district and the mix of businesses here reflects it. Law firms and professional practices along Nerang Street and Scarborough Street. Allied health and medical clustered around the Gold Coast University Hospital and the Southport health precinct. Retail and food operators in and around Australia Fair. Marine trades and light industrial running down Ferry Road toward the Broadwater.
What those businesses have in common is that the books are rarely the owner’s strong suit, and the BAS deadline arrives four times a year whether the reconciliation is done or not. We take the whole lot off your desk: transaction coding, bank and credit card reconciliation, accounts payable and receivable, payroll, and a profit and loss you can actually read at the end of every month.
Everything is handled by a registered BAS agent. That matters for two reasons — the work is covered by professional indemnity insurance and the Tax Practitioners Board code of conduct, and lodging through an agent buys you extra time on most quarterly BAS deadlines.
Why Southport businesses choose us
You get a person, not a call centre
You deal with the same bookkeeper every month. We know your file, your suppliers and your quirks, and you can ring and get an answer the same day rather than logging a ticket and waiting.
Fixed fees, agreed up front
Monthly packages at a set price. You know what bookkeeping costs before the month starts, which makes it a line item you can budget rather than a variable you dread.
Local, and happy to come to you
Southport is a short drive for us. If it is easier to sit down together with the shoebox of receipts, we will come to your office. If you would rather never see a bookkeeper in person again, the whole engagement runs remotely and neither of us loses anything.
Bookkeeping prices for Southport businesses
| Service | Price | Best suited to |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials package | $347/month ($80/week) | Sole traders, consultants and small companies with straightforward transaction volumes |
| Professional package | $650/month ($150/week) | Growing practices with payroll, higher volumes and tighter monthly reporting |
| BAS lodgement (one-off) | $150 | Southport businesses that keep their own books and want the BAS lodged properly |
| IAS lodgement | $66 | Monthly PAYG withholding or instalment obligations |
| Superannuation lodgement | $50 | Super guarantee processing and lodgement |
Packages are month to month. If your volumes change we reprice openly rather than quietly adding hours to an invoice.
BAS lodgement for Southport businesses
Most Southport businesses lodge quarterly. Lodging electronically through a registered BAS agent gives you the concessional dates below rather than the standard ones — roughly four extra weeks on three of the four quarters.
| Quarter | Standard due date | Lodged through a BAS agent |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 — July to September | 28 October | 25 November |
| Q2 — October to December | 28 February | 28 February (no extension) |
| Q3 — January to March | 28 April | 26 May |
| Q4 — April to June | 28 July | 25 August |
For a Southport service business that invoices in stages, those four extra weeks are usually the difference between lodging a guess and lodging a reconciled figure.
If you lodge monthly, the activity statement is due on the 21st of the following month. The December statement is the exception — businesses under $10 million turnover reporting GST monthly through an agent have until 21 February.
We do not lodge on the last afternoon. Your figures are finalised and sent to you for sign-off with time to query anything before it goes to the ATO.
Southport industries we work with
Professional services and legal
Work in progress, disbursements recharged to clients, and the GST treatment that goes with them. If you bill in stages or hold funds on behalf of clients, we make sure the GST lands in the right quarter and the trust-side discipline is reflected properly in the accounting file.
Medical and allied health
The Gold Coast University Hospital precinct has pulled a great deal of allied health into Southport. GST-free medical services sitting alongside taxable services is the most common coding error we fix in these files, and it is exactly the kind of thing the ATO notices. We also handle service-entity arrangements between practitioners and the practice entity.
Hospitality and retail
Australia Fair and the Scarborough Street strip. High transaction counts, daily takings reconciliation, and award-based payroll with penalty rates and casual loading.
Marine and light industrial
Along Ferry Road and toward the Broadwater. Subcontractor payments, taxable payments annual reporting where the work is construction-related, and fuel tax credits where vehicles and plant qualify.
Onsite bookkeeping in Southport
We visit clients across the Southport CBD, the Australia Fair precinct, the Nerang Street and Scarborough Street offices, the health precinct around Olsen Avenue and Parklands Drive, and the commercial strips along Ferry Road and Queen Street. Tell us where to meet you and we will be there.
Onsite is genuinely useful for the first handover, for a catch-up job where the paperwork is physical, or for training a staff member on your file. Ongoing monthly work almost always runs better remotely, and costs you less.
Payroll, Single Touch Payroll and payday super
Single Touch Payroll reporting every pay run, award interpretation, allowances, leave accruals, terminations and the end-of-year STP finalisation by 14 July.
Since 1 July 2026, payday super requires super contributions to reach each employee’s fund within seven business days of payday rather than quarterly. For Southport practices still working to the old quarterly rhythm this is the biggest payroll change in years, and the penalties for late contributions are not discretionary. If your payroll is not yet set up for it, that is a conversation worth having now rather than after the first missed deadline.
Catch-up bookkeeping and overdue BAS
If you are several quarters behind, you are in more company than you think. We take Southport files that have not been reconciled in two years and bring them current.
We bring the file current, lodge the outstanding statements in the right order, and where there is a genuine reason for the delay we can approach the ATO about a payment arrangement or a remission of penalties on your behalf. Catch-up work is quoted as a fixed price once we have looked at the file, so you know what getting clean costs before you commit to it.
Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks
We work in Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks, with Hubdoc for receipt capture so paperwork is photographed once and filed automatically. If you are still running the business out of a spreadsheet and a shoebox, we will get you set up on software properly, migrate the history, and train you on the bits you actually need to touch.
More on the services behind this page
Each of the services on this page has a full guide of its own: bookkeeping on the Gold Coast, BAS lodgement and due dates, payroll, Single Touch Payroll and payday super, and Xero setup and migration. Full fees are listed on our pricing page.
Nearby suburbs we also service
We work with businesses right across this part of the Gold Coast:
Southport bookkeeping FAQs
How much does a bookkeeper cost in Southport?
From $347 per month for the Essentials package or $650 per month for Professional. A one-off BAS lodgement is $150.
Do you come to my office in Southport?
Yes. We visit clients throughout the Southport CBD, Australia Fair, the health precinct around Olsen Avenue and the Ferry Road commercial strip. Ongoing work usually runs remotely.
Do you work with medical and allied health practices?
Yes, and it is one of our stronger areas. GST-free medical services sitting alongside taxable services is the coding error we fix most often in Southport health files.
Do you handle payroll and payday super?
Yes. Pay runs, Single Touch Payroll reporting, award interpretation and super — including the payday super rules that took effect on 1 July 2026.
Talk to a registered BAS agent in Southport
Call 0488 993 679, email admin@precisionbasandbookkeeping.com.au, or book a free 20-minute chat. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit before you commit to anything.