Collective Pricing Overview

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Small-Business

$$$$

32% more expensive

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Collective Pricing Reviews

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Randy Z.

Semi Retired

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/18/2024

"Collective is a great solution for LLC/S Corps"

5/5

What do you like best about Collective?

I like the fact that Collective not only has experts in every field of Accounting, Bookkeeping, Tax and Payroll, they also have Member Relationship Managers who are dedicated to your account. Most of the time, these Member Relationship Managers are not just general, jack of all trades folks, but are also CPAs or ex-IRS or both, so they are able to answer most of your questions without having to pass the ball on. Time is saved and decisions can be made more quickly as a result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collective?

Some of the things that need improvement:

1. They need a phone app. It is a major inconvenience to not be able to check something on my iphone.

2. Answers to questions can take up to 5 days, they need a chat interface that would allow people to post questions, like a users forum. Might be faster. Email Q&A can be slow, Modern technology is way ahead of email only as a way of communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Collective:

Just do it! I believe, that if you signed up for Quickbooks or Xero (bookkeeping. Gusto (payroll), and used a tax preparer for your business, plus engaged a CPA, it would cost you more than going with Collective's 'all in' approach. I initially wanted to do everything myself (I have a financial MBA), but it's great to have Collective in the background, making sure everything gets done correctly and on-time. I researched at least 10 other companies for LLC/S Corp formation including LegalZoom, ZenBusiness, Incfile, Better Legal, Formations, and Collective was the best for entity setup too. Only charged me $100 which was the State filing fee, and I got some $500 off special that they offer semi-regularly. So Just do it, you won't regret it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Collective solving and how is that benefiting you?

Accounting, Tax, Payroll, and Bookkeeping can take up a lot of your time, especially if you are a one-member LLC or S Corp. My time is saved by Collective, and their CPA member relationship managers answer all my questions and keep everything running smoothly all the time. As there is legal advice on the tax side, it is possible to determine which tax strategies are viable for the S Corp and which are too risky. Thanks to Collective, I am able to spend more time doing the actual work in addition to handling other tasks that Collective doesn't handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/1/2025

"Accounting services are fine, product is barely better than a spreadsheet"

0/5

What do you like best about Collective?

Basic transaction aggregation

Reimbursement calculator

Quarterly tax estimates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Collective?

Sloppy product development

Poor customer service

Incredibly expensive for the little value they add Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Collective solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've been using Collective for about 6 months now. Throughout the product has been severely lacking and customer service has barely existed. They pitch you their services based on s-corp tax savings but struggle to deliver on basic day-to-day services.

Onboarding consisted of a group webinar in which we were told none of the material nor a recording could be shared. Promises were made of full-service onboarding with an onboarding rep and onboarding accountant--onboarding turned out to be fully self-services in the platform and an accountant only engaged at the end of the process. I never heard from an onboarding rep.

The product itself is fine, except that new releases don't seem to be tested at all and certainly have no communication along with them. Features are removed without notice and updates are constantly buggy. The resolution to one such bug was to remove an entire subset of transactions from the transactions history (of course, without any communication or notice in the platform).

Customer service is is spotty at best. Tickets have been closed without resolution and some drag on for weeks with only a templated "we're still working on it" response every so often. I've had CS try to close tickets when the issue wasn't resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.