Pilot

Pilot

Done-for-you bookkeeping and tax for startups

Pilot is a service, not software: a team keeps your books in QuickBooks Online each month and can file your business taxes. Bookkeeping starts at $99 a month billed yearly for companies with up to $100,000 in monthly expenses. Pilot is for funded startups and online businesses. For a shop that only needs software to do the books itself, it is more than you need.

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Cost at your size

Pilot costs $99 a month whatever the team size.

Pilot costs $76 more than the median accounting tool for one seat ($23).

Pilot pays for itself if it saves 3.5 hours a month at $30 an hour, our assumption.

Change assumptions

Figures from the vendor's published prices. How we calculate prices

What Pilot connects to

Expense management

Point of sale, payroll & HR, e-commerce, banking, invoicing & payments and expense management tools in our catalog · found on vendor and marketplace pages, October 2026 · 1 of 1 checked by us

The vendor lists 10,000+ integrations

Sources

Getting help with Pilot

How to reach them
  • Live chat: every plan
  • Email: Core and up
  • Phone: Core and up
Hours
Hours not published
Onboarding
  • Dedicated team; dedicated CFO on Custom (Core and up)

We found no public status page for Pilot.

From Pilot's support and pricing pages, October 2026 · checked by us 2026-10-14 · How we gather this

Sources
  • Live chat: “Support through in-app messaging” (pilot.com/pricing)
  • Email: “Support from your dedicated team in-app, email, and over the phone” (pilot.com/pricing)
  • Phone: “Support from your dedicated team in-app, email, and over the phone” (pilot.com/pricing)
  • Onboarding: “Support from your dedicated team in-app, email, and over the phone” (pilot.com/pricing)

What reviewers say about Pilot

Each site has its own reviewers, so we show the scores side by side and never average them. App ratings cover the mobile app only. Scores read Oct 28, 2026. How we show reviews

Why people pick it

  • A team does the books
  • Tax filing from the same people

Where it falls short

  • Costs more than software
  • Built around startups

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