assistiq

VIRTUAL ASSISTANT SERVICES · DATA ENTRY

A data entry virtual assistant built for accuracy, not the cheapest rate.

One dedicated operator, a documented accuracy process, and a supervisor who signs off before any batch comes back to you.

Built for teams that have been burned by cheap offshore data entry and want a record they can trust without re-checking it. Your CRM, spreadsheets, invoices, catalog, and lead lists kept accurate and current by one operator working from our managed office on Eastern Time, with double-entry verification on critical fields and supervisor spot-checks on every batch. We publish the price. We do not compete on the lowest hourly rate.

Free 30 minutes. No deck. We'll tell you in 10 if we're a fit.

DATA ENTRY SPECSERVICE SPEC
ACCURACY
Double-entry on critical fields, supervisor spot-checks, sign-off
SCOPE
CRM, spreadsheets, invoices, catalog, lead lists, cleaning, migration
TOOLS
Excel · Google Sheets · Airtable · your CRM
COVERAGE
24/7, scheduled per engagement, anchored on Eastern Time
ONBOARDING
7 days into your rules and templates
Flat monthly, published. Cancel any month.USD
0109Workflow

Six kinds of data entry, all run to the same accuracy bar.

Data entry is not one job, it is a dozen. What stays constant is the process around it: an operator who works inside your tools, a written rule set, and a supervisor who verifies the output before it reaches your system. The keystroke is the cheap part. The trustworthy record is the product.

01

CRM and spreadsheet data entry

New contacts, accounts, deals, and activity logged into your CRM or your master spreadsheet the same day they arrive, with the fields you actually rely on filled correctly and consistently. Names normalized, statuses set per your rules, source tags applied, no half-blank records waiting on someone to circle back.

02

Invoice and receipt entry

Vendor invoices and expense receipts keyed into your accounting system or tracking sheet with the amounts, dates, vendors, and account codes verified against the source document. Totals reconciled before the batch is handed back, so your bookkeeper inherits clean lines instead of a guessing game.

03

Product catalog and inventory data

SKUs, descriptions, prices, attributes, and stock counts entered and maintained in your catalog, ecommerce backend, or inventory sheet. Spec values checked against the source, units kept consistent, duplicate listings flagged before they ship to the storefront.

04

Lead-list building and research

Targeted prospect lists built field by field from the sources you approve, with company name, contact, role, and verified email or phone captured into your format. Bad rows dropped, formatting standardized, the list delivered ready to import rather than ready to clean.

05

Data cleaning and deduplication

The years of drift in your existing database addressed methodically: duplicate records merged on your match rules, inconsistent formatting standardized, dead and bounced contacts flagged, missing fields backfilled from the source. A change log accompanies the work so nothing is altered silently.

06

Transcription, forms, and migration

Handwritten intake forms, PDFs, business cards, and recorded notes turned into structured records. Inbound web-form and paper-form submissions processed into your system. And during a platform switch, records migrated and reconciled field by field so the new system opens with data you can trust on day one.

0209Accurate, not cheap

The cheapest keystroke is the most expensive mistake.

The market for data entry is full of pools selling hours at the lowest rate they can advertise. For some projects that is genuinely the right call, and we will tell you so. But the math that makes a rock-bottom rate look smart ignores the cost on the other side: the transposed amount that lands in your books, the mis-keyed email that bounces a deal, the duplicate that splits a customer history in two, and the hours your own team spends re-checking work that was supposed to save them time.

Assistiq is built for the buyer who has already paid that bill. One dedicated operator who learns your data instead of a different stranger each shift. A documented accuracy process instead of a promise. A named supervisor who is accountable for the error rate instead of a queue nobody owns. We do not price-match the cheapest offshore option, because the thing that makes it cheap is the thing that makes it cost you later. What we sell is a record you do not have to audit yourself.

This page is one task in a broader operations service. For the full menu and how the pieces fit together, see virtual assistant services.

0309Accuracy process

Accuracy is a process, not a promise.

Anyone can claim 99 percent accuracy on a sales page. What matters is the mechanism that produces it. At Assistiq the mechanism is four steps that run on every engagement. Field rules written into an SOP before any keying starts. Double-entry verification on the fields where a single wrong character is expensive. Supervisor spot-check sampling on every batch, with the error rate tracked over time. And a sign-off, with a change log, before anything returns to you.

The table below is the actual process. It is also the part a low-cost keystroke pool structurally cannot offer, because supervision and verification are exactly the costs they strip out to hit the rate.

StageWhat happensWhat it catches
Field rulesBefore any keying starts, your team and our supervisor write the field rules into an SOP: required fields, formats, naming conventions, valid value lists, and how edge cases get handled.Inconsistent formats, free-text where a picklist belongs, and the slow drift that makes a database untrustworthy six months later.
Double-entry verificationCritical fields (amounts, identifiers, contact details) are entered, then re-checked against the source document. High-risk batches get keyed twice and the two passes compared for mismatches.Transposed digits, wrong account codes, mis-keyed emails, and the single-character errors that cost the most downstream.
Spot-check samplingThe supervisor pulls a sample from every batch and verifies each sampled record against the source. Error rate is tracked over time, and a batch that exceeds your threshold is reworked, not shipped.Pattern errors from a misread rule, fatigue mistakes near the end of a long batch, and quality drift before it reaches your system.
Supervisor sign-offNo batch returns to you until the supervisor signs off against the SOP and the sample passes. A change log documents what was added, merged, or corrected.Silent edits, unreviewed bulk changes, and the accountability gap that pure-headcount offshore pools leave open.

The boundary, stated plainly: the operator keys and verifies, the supervisor owns the quality bar, and your team owns the rules. We do not invent data, we do not guess at ambiguous source documents, and we do not ship a batch that fails the sample. Anything unclear gets flagged and answered, not keyed on a hunch.

A cheap record and an accurate record cost the same to type. They cost very different amounts to trust.

FROM THE OPERATIONS PLAYBOOK

0409Your tools

Your spreadsheets, your CRM, your rules.

The operator works inside the tools you already run. Excel and Google Sheets for master lists, trackers, and reconciliations. Airtable for structured bases and relational records. Your accounting system for invoices and receipts. Your ecommerce or catalog backend for product data. And your CRM for contacts, accounts, and pipeline. No new platform to learn on your side, no export and re-import dance.

The honest part: our operators are not fitted to your exact templates, your custom fields, or your Airtable base on day one, and we will not pretend otherwise. They arrive with strong spreadsheet skills, general CRM literacy, and documentation discipline. Your team teaches your specific setup and conventions during the 7-day onboarding, and our supervisor writes your field rules into an SOP so the knowledge belongs to the engagement, not to one person who might leave. That SOP is also what lets a replacement operator pick up your data without starting from zero.

0509Cleaning & migration

The mess you inherited, cleaned without breaking it.

Most databases do not fail all at once. They drift. Duplicate contacts pile up, formats diverge, dead emails linger, and fields that mattered three platforms ago go stale. A data entry virtual assistant who only adds rows makes that worse. The cleaning work is where supervision earns its keep, because every merge and every bulk change is a chance to lose data you cannot get back.

The operator deduplicates on your match rules, standardizes formatting, flags dead and bounced records, and backfills missing fields from the source, with a change log so you can see exactly what moved. When you switch platforms, the same operator migrates records field by field and reconciles the old system against the new one, so the new CRM or catalog opens with data you trust instead of a problem you imported. Cleaning and migration both run through the full accuracy process, with the supervisor signing off before the work is handed back.

If your data entry is mostly inside a single CRM, the CRM-specific version of this work, record hygiene, pipeline accuracy, and bulk updates inside the platform, lives on our CRM virtual assistant page.

0609A quiet advantage

When your source data is not all in English.

A lot of the raw material for data entry does not arrive clean and English. Handwritten intake forms from Spanish-speaking customers, invoices and receipts from Latin American suppliers, lead lists pulled from Spanish-language sources, notes a customer left in their own words. An operator who reads both languages natively keys that source correctly the first time instead of guessing, mangling an accented name, or kicking it back to you to interpret.

Every Assistiq operator is a native Spanish speaker who is also fluent in English, working from our managed office on Eastern Time with coverage scheduled per engagement around the clock, 24/7. For data entry that is a quiet accuracy advantage. For the rest of your operations it can be the whole point. If bilingual coverage is what you are really after, start at the category level on our bilingual virtual assistant page.

THE ACCURACY DISCIPLINE

Bad data does not announce itself. It sits quietly in the system until the wrong number, the dead email, or the split record costs you a customer. The verified record is the cheapest insurance you will buy this quarter.

0709Onboarding

Seven days, honestly described.

We do not claim the operator shows up already knowing your templates, your field rules, or your source documents. The onboarding is built around your team transferring exactly that knowledge, once, into an SOP that outlasts any individual operator and feeds the accuracy process. Here is the actual week.

Days 1-3 · Your team leads setup

Your team gives the operator access to your spreadsheets, Airtable base, or CRM and walks through your templates, field rules, naming conventions, and the source documents the data comes from. Our supervisor sits in and writes every rule into a written SOP for your account.

Days 4-6 · Shadowing and calibration

The operator processes a supervised sample batch, the supervisor checks every record against the source, and the two of them tune the field rules until a clean batch comes back consistently. Your edge cases get documented before they become errors.

Day 7 · First live batch, verified

The operator runs a first live batch end to end with double-entry on critical fields and the supervisor spot-checking the output. Anything ambiguous gets flagged, answered, and written into the SOP the same day.

Week 2 · Autonomous, still sampled

The operator runs your data entry on their own: the daily queue, the cleaning project, the migration. The supervisor stays in the background with ongoing spot-check sampling and an error rate tracked against your threshold.

The operator extends your team rather than standing in for it. Your team still owns the rules and the source of truth, your supervisor relationship sits with our embedded supervisor, and what changes is that the records get kept accurate and current without anyone on your side doing it after hours.

0809What it costs

Published price, no quote gate.

Most managed VA agencies in this category hide the number behind a sales call. We publish it. The Operator tier is $1,497 per month, flat. One full-time operator at 40 hours per week, working from our managed office on company equipment, with an embedded supervisor, the full accuracy process, a 3-operator warm bench behind them, and a 5-business-day replacement SLA if it is ever needed. No annual contract, and a 7-day money-back guarantee on Starter and Operator.

Starter at $897 per month covers a steady part-time queue or a one-time cleaning project at 20 hours per week. We deliberately do not publish a per-record or rock-bottom hourly rate, because a verified record from a dedicated, supervised operator is a different product from cheap keystrokes, and pricing it like the latter would misrepresent what you get.

For the locked tier table across every service, see the pricing page. For verified market rates across the bilingual VA category, see the LATAM bilingual VA market-rate report.

0909Questions

Common questions about data entry.

01What does a data entry virtual assistant do?
A data entry virtual assistant keeps your records accurate and current so your team is not doing it after hours. The work spans CRM and spreadsheet data entry, invoice and receipt entry into your accounting system, product catalog and inventory data, lead-list building from approved sources, data cleaning and deduplication of an existing database, transcription of forms and notes into structured records, inbound form processing, and field-by-field migration support during a platform switch. The point of difference is the accuracy process around the keying: field rules written into an SOP, double-entry verification on critical fields, supervisor spot-check sampling on every batch, and a sign-off before anything is handed back. The operator works inside your tools and follows your rules, and the supervisor owns the quality bar.
02How is this different from cheap offshore data entry?
The honest difference is what happens after the keystroke. A low-cost offshore keystroke pool sells hours at the lowest possible rate, with a different person on your file each shift and no one accountable for the error rate. The math looks great until a transposed amount lands in your books or a mis-keyed email bounces a deal. Assistiq runs the opposite model: one dedicated operator who learns your data and your rules, a documented accuracy process with double-entry verification and spot-check sampling, and a named supervisor who signs off on every batch. We do not compete on the lowest hourly rate, and if a rock-bottom keystroke rate is the only thing that matters for your project, we are not the right fit and we will say so on the call. What you are buying here is a record you can trust without re-checking it yourself.
03Which tools and systems do you work in?
Operators work directly inside your tools: Excel, Google Sheets, Airtable, your accounting system, your ecommerce or catalog backend, and your CRM. Honest answer on the specifics: our operators arrive with strong spreadsheet skills, general CRM literacy, and disciplined documentation habits, and they are not fitted to your exact templates, your custom fields, or your Airtable base on day one. Your team teaches your specific setup during the 7-day onboarding, and our supervisor writes your field rules and conventions into an SOP so the knowledge belongs to the engagement and survives any single operator. That same SOP means a replacement operator never starts from a blank page.
04How do you keep the accuracy high?
Accuracy is a process, not a promise. First, field rules are written into an SOP before any keying starts: required fields, formats, valid value lists, and how edge cases are handled. Second, critical fields such as amounts, identifiers, and contact details are verified against the source document, and high-risk batches are keyed twice and the passes compared. Third, the supervisor pulls a sample from every batch, checks each sampled record against the source, and tracks the error rate over time, so a batch that exceeds your threshold is reworked rather than shipped. Fourth, nothing returns to you until the supervisor signs off and a change log documents what was added, merged, or corrected. The result is a verified record, not a pile of fast keystrokes you still have to audit.
05How much does a data entry virtual assistant cost?
Assistiq pricing is flat monthly and published, which by itself separates us from the quote-gated agencies in this category. Starter is $897 per month for one operator at 20 hours per week, a sensible way to run a cleaning project or a steady part-time queue. Operator, where most data entry engagements sit, is $1,497 per month for one full-time operator at 40 hours per week, working from our managed office on Eastern Time with an embedded supervisor and the full accuracy process. We do not publish a per-record or rock-bottom hourly rate because that is not the service. You are paying for a dedicated operator, supervision, and a verified output, not for the cheapest possible keystroke. There is no annual contract, and Starter and Operator carry a 7-day money-back guarantee.
06Can you clean up and migrate our existing database?
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons teams start. Cleaning means deduplicating on your match rules, standardizing inconsistent formatting, flagging dead and bounced contacts, and backfilling missing fields from the source, all with a change log so nothing is altered silently. Migration means moving records into a new platform field by field and reconciling the two systems so the new one opens with data you can trust rather than a mess you imported. Both run through the same accuracy process: an SOP up front, verification on critical fields, supervisor spot-checks, and a sign-off before the work is handed back. For a steady cleaning queue, many teams start on Starter and step up to Operator for a full migration.
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