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Stop overpaying for less. The real cost is not just the subscription. It's the billing work, reconciliation, missed changes, and renewal friction left behind after the signature. Anchor removes all of it for a flat $5.
See why modern accounting firms are switching to Anchor
for an all-in-one billing & payments experience.
Migrate your agreements, billing, and payments to Anchor in days, not weeks.
No disruption to your firm or your clients.
Anchor's migration team rebuilds your agreements from your existing Ignition data, so you don't touch anything.
Launch agreements, contacts, and services at scale for 50+ clients through a dedicated, hands-on migration service
Our dedicated, hands-on migration service team will run QA together with you to make sure all is setup correctly
Clients reconnect their payment methods quickly, most with just a single confirmation.
Agreements run on Anchor, billing happens automatically, and reconciliation is fully handled.
No subscriptions, no hidden fees. Just $5 per payment received.
Integrations
Connect to the tools your firm already runs on, so your books and the rest of your stack move together, in real time.
Stay accurate and up-to-date at all times with an automatic real-time data sync with QuickBooks Online.
Connect QuickBooks →Stay fully synced with our Xero native integration, every invoice, payment, and reconciliation flows back to your ledger automatically.
Connect Xero →Connect Anchor with thousands of popular apps and automate your billing workflows without writing a single line of code.
Explore Make scenarios →Connect Anchor with thousands of popular apps, so you can automate your work and have more time for what matters most.
Browse Zaps →Works with QuickBooks, Xero, Zapier, Make, and more.
See how Anchor is helping accounting firms get paid faster
and focus on what matters most.
“Once my templates were built out, I can have a proposal out the door in less than 60 seconds. The support and customer service are fantastic, one of the best in the software 'sphere' I work in.”
Anchor has allowed me to provide clients the ability to choose the package that works for them while automatically collecting payment monthly. It has removed me for collecting payment which has been a huge time saver as a solo firm runner."
Anchor has been awesome since we've started using it! I like that you can build out your templates, and send very professional and customizable proposals to clients. I've gotten great feedback from clients overall, and I like the different features Anchor has to offer. It's also very inexpensive and offers tremendous value.
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ditched complex pricing for one flat $5 fee.
Anchor charges one flat rate, $5 per successful payment, with no monthly subscription. Ignition uses tiered monthly plans ($39 to $499+ on its published pricing) that rise with your client count and feature tier, so your cost grows as you do. With Anchor, you pay only when you collect.
Before Anchor charges you a dollar, Ignition has already charged the subscription fee. And that's before a single payment is processed. Anchor's pricing is flat: $5 per successful payment, no monthly subscription, no ACH fees.
Ignition's pricing: a subscription ($39–$499/month) before billing a single client, plus transaction fees that grow with payment size (1% capped at $5 for base, but 0.3% uncapped above $3,000), plus optional add-ons. A $10,000 invoice on Ignition costs $26 in transaction fees alone. On Anchor, it costs $5.
For a firm processing 250 payments a month at typical sizes:
Anchor = $1,250/month flat.
Ignition = ~$1,750/month , $229–$499 subscription + transaction fees + potential add-ons. The gap is real, it is calculable, and it compounds.
Anchor is the leading proposal-to-paid automation platform built for service businesses - primarily accounting, bookkeeping, and tax firms. It automates the entire financial relationship with clients from initial proposal through to collected and reconciled payment.
The signed agreement becomes the live operating system for billing, payment collection, scope changes, price increases, and reconciliation.
Ignition automates billing well. Invoices go out, payments collected.
That part works. The gap shows up the moment anything changes. A new service, a price adjustment, a scope update.
Ignition's agreement is frozen at the point of signing. So firms end up either sending the client a brand new agreement to sign, or making the change informally outside the system : a phone call, an email, nothing official.
Either way, the agreement is no longer the source of truth. Anchor's agreement is a live, two-sided contract that governs all downstream billing automatically and can be properly amended with client acknowledgment.
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Most do, within the first week. On both Anchor and Ignition, clients enter a payment method once when they accept an agreement, so the step is familiar. The difference is that Anchor's team sequences your rollout so billing is not interrupted during the move.
Migration is quick and seamless. Anchor's team recreates your agreements from your existing Ignition data rather than rebuilding client by client, and works at whatever pace suits your firm, so you can move quickly or phase it over time. Any client who hasn't reconnected yet can keep billing on Ignition through the transition, so no revenue is lost.
On Anchor, you amend one live agreement and billing updates automatically. On Ignition, a mid-engagement change typically means sending a new proposal or handling it off-system, because the signed agreement is fixed at signing
All of them. Anchor bills fixed, recurring, hourly, and unit-based work straight from the live agreement, including variable charges, without anyone confirming each amount by hand. As your engagements shift between retainers, projects, and hourly work, billing keeps running without manual steps.
Anchor uses bank-level encryption, doesn't store card or bank-account details on its servers, and keeps a full activity log visible to both you and your client. Payments are handled to the standards firms in regulated, fiduciary work require.
When you receive a payment, and only then, Anchor deducts $5 from the funds you receive. Anchor is completely free to use throughout the entire process, including unlimited agreements, users, clients, and invoices.
Absolutely not!!! We developed Anchor knowing that the only constant in a business is change. You can add dynamic payment options, add new services in the middle of a billing cycle and address different billing dates, deliverable quantities and hour based caps. Anything that can be invoiced on paper, can be billed & collected with Anchor.
Yes! Anchor makes it easy to add your existing clients to the platform with ready-made templates. Plus, our team of success managers will help you migrate your clients over to Anchor. The entire set up takes just a few minutes and your clients will be up and running before your next billing cycle
