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The Classic Partners LLP · Virtual CFO

Retainership Services

One monthly engagement covering the accounting, payroll and filings your business owes — with a single person accountable for the calendar.

Quick answer

A retainership is a fixed monthly engagement covering a defined scope — accounting, payroll, GST and TDS returns, ROC filings and advisory access — instead of billing each filing as it falls due. It suits businesses whose compliance is recurring and predictable, and its main benefit is structural: one team holds the whole calendar, so nothing sits in the gap between your accountant, your consultant and your company secretary.

What we cover

What a retainership typically covers

Scoped at the start, delivered on a fixed calendar.

  • Bookkeeping and monthly close
  • Payroll processing with PF, ESIC, professional tax and salary TDS
  • GST returns, reconciliation and annual return support
  • TDS computation, challans and quarterly returns
  • ROC annual filings and event-based forms
  • Ongoing advisory access without per-query billing
Key components

How a retainership is structured

Defined scope, defined dates, defined ownership.

📋

Scope document

A written list of what is included and what is not, so there is no argument later about whether something was covered.

🗓️

Compliance calendar

Every recurring due date for the year mapped upfront, with reminders before each input is needed from you.

👤

Single point of contact

One relationship lead who knows your business, backed by specialists for tax, payroll and corporate law.

💬

Advisory access

Day-to-day questions answered as part of the retainer, so you ask them instead of guessing.

How we work

Our process

How the engagement starts and runs.

1

Compliance review

Establishing what your entity actually owes and what is currently pending or overdue.

2

Scope and calendar

Agreeing inclusions, the input dates you commit to, and the output dates we commit to.

3

Transition

Taking over records, portal access and pending filings, and clearing any backlog.

4

Monthly operation

Books, payroll, returns and filings delivered on the calendar, with a periodic status report.

Why choose us

Why a retainer beats per-filing work

What sets our approach apart.

Nothing falls between advisers

When accounting, payroll, tax and ROC sit with one team, there is no due date that each party assumes the other is handling.

Predictable cost

A fixed monthly fee against a written scope, rather than an invoice every time a deadline arrives.

Advice before the transaction

Because questions are included, you tend to ask them before signing rather than after, which is when the answer is still useful.

FAQs

Retainership Services questions answered

What people ask before engaging us.

Most retainers cover bookkeeping and the monthly close, payroll, GST and TDS returns, and annual ROC filings, together with advisory access during the month. Statutory audit, litigation, transaction work and one-off registrations are normally scoped and billed separately.
Pricing follows the scope and the volume behind it — transaction count, headcount, number of GST registrations and entity type — rather than a standard package. We quote after the initial compliance review so the fee reflects what your business actually needs.
Yes. A common starting point is accounting and returns only, with payroll or ROC work added once the basic cycle is running smoothly. The scope is reviewed periodically so it tracks the business rather than the original assumption.
We flag it, explain what it involves and quote for it before starting. Nothing outside the agreed scope is done and billed after the fact, which is the point of having the scope written down.

Want one team holding the whole calendar?

We will map your current obligations first, then propose a scope that matches them.

The Classic Partners LLP · Virtual CFO

Retainership Services

One monthly engagement covering the accounting, payroll and filings your business owes — with a single person accountable for the calendar.

Quick answer

A retainership is a fixed monthly engagement covering a defined scope — accounting, payroll, GST and TDS returns, ROC filings and advisory access — instead of billing each filing as it falls due. It suits businesses whose compliance is recurring and predictable, and its main benefit is structural: one team holds the whole calendar, so nothing sits in the gap between your accountant, your consultant and your company secretary.

What we cover

What a retainership typically covers

Scoped at the start, delivered on a fixed calendar.

  • Bookkeeping and monthly close
  • Payroll processing with PF, ESIC, professional tax and salary TDS
  • GST returns, reconciliation and annual return support
  • TDS computation, challans and quarterly returns
  • ROC annual filings and event-based forms
  • Ongoing advisory access without per-query billing
Key components

How a retainership is structured

Defined scope, defined dates, defined ownership.

📋

Scope document

A written list of what is included and what is not, so there is no argument later about whether something was covered.

🗓️

Compliance calendar

Every recurring due date for the year mapped upfront, with reminders before each input is needed from you.

👤

Single point of contact

One relationship lead who knows your business, backed by specialists for tax, payroll and corporate law.

💬

Advisory access

Day-to-day questions answered as part of the retainer, so you ask them instead of guessing.

How we work

Our process

How the engagement starts and runs.

1

Compliance review

Establishing what your entity actually owes and what is currently pending or overdue.

2

Scope and calendar

Agreeing inclusions, the input dates you commit to, and the output dates we commit to.

3

Transition

Taking over records, portal access and pending filings, and clearing any backlog.

4

Monthly operation

Books, payroll, returns and filings delivered on the calendar, with a periodic status report.

Why choose us

Why a retainer beats per-filing work

What sets our approach apart.

Nothing falls between advisers

When accounting, payroll, tax and ROC sit with one team, there is no due date that each party assumes the other is handling.

Predictable cost

A fixed monthly fee against a written scope, rather than an invoice every time a deadline arrives.

Advice before the transaction

Because questions are included, you tend to ask them before signing rather than after, which is when the answer is still useful.

FAQs

Retainership Services questions answered

What people ask before engaging us.

Most retainers cover bookkeeping and the monthly close, payroll, GST and TDS returns, and annual ROC filings, together with advisory access during the month. Statutory audit, litigation, transaction work and one-off registrations are normally scoped and billed separately.
Pricing follows the scope and the volume behind it — transaction count, headcount, number of GST registrations and entity type — rather than a standard package. We quote after the initial compliance review so the fee reflects what your business actually needs.
Yes. A common starting point is accounting and returns only, with payroll or ROC work added once the basic cycle is running smoothly. The scope is reviewed periodically so it tracks the business rather than the original assumption.
We flag it, explain what it involves and quote for it before starting. Nothing outside the agreed scope is done and billed after the fact, which is the point of having the scope written down.

Want one team holding the whole calendar?

We will map your current obligations first, then propose a scope that matches them.

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The Classic Partners LLP · Virtual CFO

Retainership Services

One monthly engagement covering the accounting, payroll and filings your business owes — with a single person accountable for the calendar.

Quick answer

A retainership is a fixed monthly engagement covering a defined scope — accounting, payroll, GST and TDS returns, ROC filings and advisory access — instead of billing each filing as it falls due. It suits businesses whose compliance is recurring and predictable, and its main benefit is structural: one team holds the whole calendar, so nothing sits in the gap between your accountant, your consultant and your company secretary.

What we cover

What a retainership typically covers

Scoped at the start, delivered on a fixed calendar.

  • Bookkeeping and monthly close
  • Payroll processing with PF, ESIC, professional tax and salary TDS
  • GST returns, reconciliation and annual return support
  • TDS computation, challans and quarterly returns
  • ROC annual filings and event-based forms
  • Ongoing advisory access without per-query billing
Key components

How a retainership is structured

Defined scope, defined dates, defined ownership.

📋

Scope document

A written list of what is included and what is not, so there is no argument later about whether something was covered.

🗓️

Compliance calendar

Every recurring due date for the year mapped upfront, with reminders before each input is needed from you.

👤

Single point of contact

One relationship lead who knows your business, backed by specialists for tax, payroll and corporate law.

💬

Advisory access

Day-to-day questions answered as part of the retainer, so you ask them instead of guessing.

How we work

Our process

How the engagement starts and runs.

1

Compliance review

Establishing what your entity actually owes and what is currently pending or overdue.

2

Scope and calendar

Agreeing inclusions, the input dates you commit to, and the output dates we commit to.

3

Transition

Taking over records, portal access and pending filings, and clearing any backlog.

4

Monthly operation

Books, payroll, returns and filings delivered on the calendar, with a periodic status report.

Why choose us

Why a retainer beats per-filing work

What sets our approach apart.

Nothing falls between advisers

When accounting, payroll, tax and ROC sit with one team, there is no due date that each party assumes the other is handling.

Predictable cost

A fixed monthly fee against a written scope, rather than an invoice every time a deadline arrives.

Advice before the transaction

Because questions are included, you tend to ask them before signing rather than after, which is when the answer is still useful.

FAQs

Retainership Services questions answered

What people ask before engaging us.

Most retainers cover bookkeeping and the monthly close, payroll, GST and TDS returns, and annual ROC filings, together with advisory access during the month. Statutory audit, litigation, transaction work and one-off registrations are normally scoped and billed separately.
Pricing follows the scope and the volume behind it — transaction count, headcount, number of GST registrations and entity type — rather than a standard package. We quote after the initial compliance review so the fee reflects what your business actually needs.
Yes. A common starting point is accounting and returns only, with payroll or ROC work added once the basic cycle is running smoothly. The scope is reviewed periodically so it tracks the business rather than the original assumption.
We flag it, explain what it involves and quote for it before starting. Nothing outside the agreed scope is done and billed after the fact, which is the point of having the scope written down.

Want one team holding the whole calendar?

We will map your current obligations first, then propose a scope that matches them.

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