Ignition
Ignition is a client engagement and commerce platform that lets accounting and professional-services firms send proposals, automate engagement letters, and bill and collect payments in one workflow.
What is Ignition?
Ignition, formerly known as Practice Ignition, is a client engagement and commerce platform aimed primarily at accounting, bookkeeping, tax, and professional-services firms. It combines proposals, digital engagement letters, recurring billing, and payment collection so firms can standardize how they price, sign, and get paid. It integrates with tools such as Xero, QuickBooks Online, and various practice-management apps.
Best known for: Automating proposals, engagement letters, and get-paid workflows for accounting and bookkeeping firms.
Key features
- Digital proposals with integrated engagement letters and e-signatures
- Automated recurring and one-off invoicing
- Built-in payment collection via card and direct debit
- Bulk client renewals and pricing management
- Integrations with Xero, QuickBooks Online, and CRMs
- Reporting on revenue, proposals, and client engagements
Who Ignition is best for
- Accounting and bookkeeping firms
- Tax and advisory practices
- Professional-services firms billing recurring clients
Ideal team: Solo to mid-sized accounting, bookkeeping, and professional-services firms that want to automate proposals, engagement letters, recurring billing, and payment collection instead of chasing invoices manually.
Ignition pricing
Solo
$39/flat / mo
- Built for solopreneurs and independent practitioners
- 1 user with a capped number of active clients
- Requires connecting Xero or QuickBooks Online with payments enabled
Core
$99/flat / mo
- For growing firms with a small team
- Multiple users and a higher active-client allowance
- Proposals, engagement letters, and automated billing
Pro
$229/flat / mo
- Serves a larger client base with more users
- Recurring invoices, billing automation, and bulk renewals
- Custom branding and multiple e-signatures per proposal
Pro+
$399/flat / mo
- Built for large, multi-partner practices
- Deal tracking and approval workflows for governance
- Highest user and active-client limits
Costs to watch before you commit
- Payment processing fees of roughly 1% + $0.30 per transaction apply on all plans, on top of the subscription.
- Advertised discounts (up to ~30%) require committing to annual billing rather than monthly.
- Plans are tiered by user seats and active-client counts, so growth can force an upgrade to a much pricier tier.
- The lowest Solo tier is only available if you connect Xero or QuickBooks Online with payments enabled and stay under a revenue threshold.
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