Tier 1
Starter
Solo owners and small operators.
$149/month
Best fit if:
- Transactions: under 50/month
- Monthly expenses: under $10K
- Accounts: 1-2 accounts
Service Area · Ybor City
Bookkeeping Services for Ybor City Small Businesses
SoFlo360 is a Florida-based bookkeeping firm serving Ybor City small businesses remotely. We're an hour east in Polk County, the work runs entirely online, and we're built for the restaurants, bars, venues, and shops that give Tampa's historic 7th Avenue district its character. Hospitality businesses with messy cash, tips, and late-night sales that still need a clean monthly close.
How We Work
How we work with Ybor City-area businesses
Ybor City is hospitality-first. Restaurants, bars, music venues, event spaces, and the retail and creative shops between them. That world runs on cash, tips, cover charges, and late-night sales, which is exactly the kind of bookkeeping that gets out of hand fast if nobody's reconciling the POS against the bank every month. We handle that remotely: bank feeds, document upload, monthly close, sales-tax tracking. We're not in Ybor. We're an hour east on I-4. But the work is identical and there's no location markup.
Industries
Ybor City industries we work with
Where we tend to fit best in the Ybor City market, by industry. If your category isn't listed, it's still worth asking. About half our work is in industries we don't have a dedicated page for yet.
Restaurants
Restaurants & cafés
Independent restaurants and cafés along 7th Avenue and the surrounding Ybor blocks. Food cost, labor, tips, daily sales, and Hillsborough County sales tax tracked monthly, with POS reconciled against bank deposits.
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Bars & Nightlife
Bars, clubs & nightlife
Ybor's bars, lounges, and music venues. Cover charges, bar sales, tips, and event nights tracked cleanly, with the cash side reconciled so the monthly numbers are real.
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Event Venues
Event & hospitality venues
Event spaces, social clubs, and hospitality operators booking weddings, festivals, and private events. Deposits, deferred revenue, and vendor 1099s handled so each event closes cleanly.
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Retail & Creative
Retail & creative shops
Cigar shops, boutiques, galleries, and studios in the historic district. Inventory, retail sales tax, and clean owner-draw books for the small independent operators that make Ybor what it is.
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Short-Term Rentals
Short-term rental hosts
Airbnb and VRBO owners in Ybor and the Channel District. Per-property tracking, the Hillsborough tourist development tax, and clean Schedule E or C books per unit.
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Real Estate
Real estate agents & teams
Solo agents and small teams working the Ybor, Channel District, and downtown Tampa redevelopment market. Commission income, splits, MLS dues, and Schedule C or S-corp-ready books.
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How remote bookkeeping works
Being in Ybor City doesn't change how the engagement works. The same four steps carry every client from first call to year-end.
01
Free consultation by video or phone
We start with a free 30-minute conversation about your business, the shape your books are in, and what you actually need. You don't have to prepare anything.
02
Secure document upload
Through the secure client portal you hand over bank statements, prior tax returns, and the QuickBooks file if one exists. Encrypted and secure.
03
Monthly bookkeeping rhythm
Each month we reconcile the bank feeds, categorize every transaction, and send your reports. Questions are handled by email or short calls as they come up.
04
Year-end hand-off to your CPA
A clean year-end packet goes to your CPA or tax preparer, whoever that is. Their job is the return. Ours is making it easy.
Pricing
Ybor City pricing. Same as the rest of Florida.
What a business in Ybor City pays is exactly what a business anywhere else in Florida pays. Fixed, transparent, no location adjustment in either direction. See the full breakdown for tier inclusions, complexity adders, and cleanup pricing.
Tier 2
Growth
Established small businesses ready for a real monthly close.
$399/month
Best fit if:
- Transactions: 50-200/month
- Monthly expenses: $10K: $50K
- Accounts: 3-4 accounts
Tier 3
Scale
Larger or more complex businesses.
$799/month
Best fit if:
- Transactions: 200-500/month
- Monthly expenses: $50K: $200K
- Accounts: 5+ accounts
For complexity adders, cleanup pricing, and the FAQ, see the full pricing breakdown.
Ybor City FAQ
Common questions from Ybor City-area business owners.
We're based in Polk County, about an hour east on I-4, and the entire engagement runs online. Bank feeds, cloud accounting, video calls, monthly reports. Almost everything in modern bookkeeping runs remote. Bank feeds, document upload, cloud accounting, video calls. Most of our Ybor City clients have never met us in person, and video covers every conversation from onboarding through year-end.
A few reasons. One: no city-office overhead. We work remotely from Polk County, so you're not paying for a Ybor City storefront. Two: we're built specifically for smaller businesses (solo owners and small teams under a few hundred transactions a month) so we're not priced around the mid-market work larger firms structure around. Three: the engagement is a fixed monthly close, not billable hours. If you're a high-volume, multi-entity operation, a larger firm may genuinely fit you better. And we'll tell you that up front.
Yes. We set the books up to track Florida state sales tax (6%) plus the Hillsborough County discretionary surtax (1.5%) correctly per transaction. For vacation rentals, the county tourist development tax also applies, and we track it per property. We prepare each return so it's ready to file; the filing itself is normally done by you or your CPA.
Ybor City is Tampa's historic Latin Quarter (built by Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants) and Spanish is still part of the neighborhood's everyday business life. We offer Spanish-friendly support. Calls, emails, and document review can run in Spanish whenever that's easier for the client.
For our purposes, yes. Anywhere in Hillsborough County (Ybor City, the Channel District, Tampa Heights, V.M. Ybor, and the broader Tampa core) is what we mean by 'Ybor City-area' on this page. The work is identical and the pricing is identical. There's no location markup.
That's fine. Your QuickBooks Online file is yours. We don't lock it down and we don't trap data. We deliver a clean year-end packet to whoever takes over, and switching costs you nothing on our end. Just give us 30 days' notice.
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Ybor City small business? Let's talk.
Thirty minutes, free. We review the state of your books and recommend what to do next. Take it by phone, video, or email.