We will confirm your practice within one business day.
We will confirm your practice within one business day. Any questions in the meantime, email [email protected].
No certification course, minimum commitment or lock in. Start with one client or move across a portfolio.
One minute application. We confirm your practice and get you started.
We handle each move end to end - onboarding, migration from Xero or MYOB, opening balances and any catch up bookkeeping.
Transactions coded, receipts matched, accounts reconciled, exceptions dealt with, every entry logged. Your team keeps full visibility across every client.
With the processing handled, your people have more capacity for tax planning, reporting, forecasting, advisory and fractional CFO engagements.
Bookkeeping is essential, but the economics are difficult for any accounting practice. Clients will only pay so much for transaction processing, reconciliations and receipt chasing - and at those rates, using qualified onshore team members compresses margins and consumes capacity that could be offered to clients at substantially higher rates elsewhere in the practice.
That leaves firms with an awkward choice: accept poor recovery rates, charge clients more than they want to pay, or move the work offshore. Offshore delivery has become the most common answer. It reduces cost but creates another workforce to recruit, train, supervise and review - some clients are uncomfortable with their financial information being handled offshore, and inconsistent delivery sends work straight back to Australian accountants for rework.
Marbles gives you another option. We take responsibility for the bookkeeping layer while your accountants stay on the work that benefits from their qualifications, judgement and client relationships. That can materially change the economics of a practice.
An illustrative practice with 10 client facing accountants, each spending just 12 hours a week - a day and a half - on bookkeeping, reconciliations, file clean up and related processing.
No extra accountants, no extra desks, no larger bookkeeping team, no offshore operation to manage - and 20% of the released capacity is still unused in this example, available for new clients, business development, faster turnaround or simply taking pressure off the team. At 20 client facing accountants under the same assumptions, the improvement passes $1.2 million a year.
The point is not that every released hour instantly becomes a $300 advisory hour. It is that the economics of a practice change quickly when thousands of hours of qualified accounting capacity stop being consumed by processing work.
ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY.
Most practices do not have an advisory demand problem - they have a capacity problem. The partners know which clients need help with cash flow, margins, pricing and planning; the time to deliver it profitably is what is missing, especially when the first hours of every engagement go to cleaning up the books. Marbles keeps the underlying file current, so your accountant opens the client, reviews the numbers and starts the conversation. Monthly reporting, quarterly reviews and ongoing advisory become practical across a much larger share of the client base.
A $5,000 compliance client can be worth considerably more when the practice has the capacity to help them run the business as well as report on it: management reporting, cash flow forecasting, budgeting, board reporting, margin analysis, pricing, hiring decisions, capital planning. These services sit naturally with the relationship your practice has already built. Marbles takes care of the bookkeeping so you can focus on the important work.
Marbles separates client growth from bookkeeping headcount - as the client base grows, the bookkeeping layer scales underneath the practice while your internal team stays concentrated on accounting, tax and advisory. Not just more people doing more work: more valuable work from the people you already have.
Qualified accountants are expensive to recruit and difficult to replace, and their time is one of the most valuable resources in the practice. Spending it on chasing receipts, reconciling feeds and correcting coding is expensive even when the hours are billable. Marbles moves that work out of the practice, so your accountants spend more of their week reviewing, advising, planning and talking to clients - a better use of their training and a much more satisfying day to day.
Marbles helps your practice spend more time where clients value you most - understanding their business, giving advice and helping them make better decisions.
We keep the underlying books clean, current and moving, so your team has the financial foundation it needs to step into more advisory, planning and higher value conversations with clients.
The result is more time spent working with clients, not processing their books - and stronger, more valuable client relationships.
Client data is hosted in Australia.
Marbles operates within an ISO 27001 certified information security management system.
Bookkeeping is performed in Australia. Nothing is offshored.
Every bookkeeping entry and change is logged.
Your team can see the status of every client you have with Marbles.
We manage onboarding, migration from Xero and catch up work where required.
Every tier is free for your practice. Higher tiers add support, tooling and involvement as Marbles becomes a larger part of your practice.
Every client referred by your practice earns $49 + GST each month for as long as they remain an active Marbles customer. No cap, and no clawback if a client eventually leaves - the monthly payment simply stops. Full details in the partner referral terms.
RECURRING FOR AS LONG AS THOSE CLIENTS REMAIN ACTIVE WITH MARBLES
Grow without building an ever larger bookkeeping operation.
The application takes one minute.