Debits vs the alternatives

The whole firm on one platform —
and one flat price.

Every other system meters something — per seat, per return, per client, per signature, per company. Debits is the only one that runs your tax work, your bookkeeping, and your back office for one flat price, with unlimited seats.

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How firms buy today

There are two ways to run a firm right now. Both cost more.

Whichever you pick, you end up paying more vendors, per more units, and logging into more places than the work actually requires.

Option 1 — an all-in-one suite

TaxDome · Canopy · Karbon

Great portal, CRM and workflow — but they don't prep the return, run the reasonable-comp study, clean the books, close the month or build the reports. You still buy those separately, and you pay per staff login, every year.

Per seat · often multi-year
Option 2 — a point-tool stack

SafeSend · RCReports · Uncat · Fathom · Ignition

Each does its one job well — but that's 5–7 logins, 5–7 invoices, and a different meter on every one: per return, per signature, per client, per company, per payment.

Metered per unit
The Debits way

One platform, one price

Tax production, the bookkeeping loop and close, reporting, and the CRM, proposals, billing and 1099s — all in one login. Flat pricing, unlimited seats, and you only pay for the clients you actually work on.

Flat · unlimited seats
Feature-by-feature

One column does the whole job.

The all-in-one suites fill the top rows but go blank on the production work. The stack fills the production rows but with a different metered vendor on each. Debits is the only full column.

Capability Debits TaxDome Canopy Point-tool stack
Client portal & document collection Portal tool
Smart tax organizers Partial SafeSend Gather
Return delivery & unlimited e-sign Partial SafeSend — per return
Reasonable-comp analysis — — RCReports — $1,500–$4,000/yr
Bookkeeping transaction loop — — Uncat — $9/client/mo
Month-end close & sign-off — — Double — $10–$50/client/mo
Financial reporting & packages — — Fathom — from ~$50/mo
Client CRM Not really covered
Proposals & engagement letters Partial Ignition — see below
Client billing — card & ACH Ignition / Anchor
1099 & W-9 service — — Separate tool
Unlimited team seats — — Mostly per-seat
No per-seat / per-return / per-signature meter — — Metered per unit
Self-serve — published price, no sales demo Partial Partial Often quote-gated
No multi-year contract to sign — Varies

Comparison reflects each product's category and publicly documented pricing model as of 2026. Competitor names are trademarks of their respective owners; figures shown are their published or widely reported list prices and can change.

The meter is the business model

Every rival charges by the unit. We don't.

Per seatTaxDome · Karbon · Canopy · Financial Cents
Per returnSafeSend
Per reportRCReports
Per clientUncat · Double
Per companyFathom · Reach Reporting
Per paymentIgnition · Anchor
Debits: one flat price. Unlimited seats. Dormant clients free.

The only variable is how many clients you actively work on — and the only add-on is optional KBA identity verification at $1 per signer.

Your stack, priced

What does your stack cost?

Tick what your firm pays for today, drag your size, and watch the two bills diverge.

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Estimate only — same conservative method as the savings calculator: competitors' published per-unit rates, low end.

Straight comparisons

Where the money actually goes.

vs TaxDome

Per-seat pricing (roughly $800–$1,200 per user, per year), billed annually and typically on a one-to-three-year contract. Every preparer and admin you add is another seat, every year — and it still doesn't prep returns, run reasonable-comp, or close the books.
Debits: flat tiers with unlimited seats, month-friendly, no multi-year lock-in — and the tax and bookkeeping production is built in, not bolted on.
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vs Canopy

Priced per user, per month — and per module. The sticker grows every time you switch on another piece (documents, workflow, billing, transcripts) for every user on the account.
Debits: no per-module and no per-integration fees, ever. Every capability is in the plan for every seat.
Debits vs Canopy, in full →

vs the tax stack

SafeSend bills per return / per signature, and RCReports is a $1,500–$4,000/yr subscription for one report type. Two logins, two invoices, two meters.
Debits: organizers, delivery, unlimited e-signatures and reasonable-comp are all bundled into the flat tax price — no per-return or per-signature charge.
Debits vs SafeSend, in full →

vs the books & billing tools

Uncat is ~$9 per client for the transaction loop alone; Double runs $10–$50 per client for the close; Fathom starts around $50/mo per company for reporting; Ignition stacks a monthly fee, per-active-client fees and a cut of every payment.
Debits: the transaction loop, month-end close, reporting, proposals and card + ACH billing are included — bookkeeping is a flat $5–$10 per company, practice ops come with every plan.
Debits vs Ignition, in full →
Full head-to-heads: TaxDome · Canopy · Karbon · SafeSend · Uncat · Fathom · Ignition

Works alongside your tax software

Debits is not a tax-prep engine and doesn't try to be. Keep UltraTax, CCH, Drake or Lacerte for the return calculation — Debits automates everything around it: the organizers, the delivery and e-sign, the reasonable-comp study, and the whole client relationship. No per-integration fee to connect it.

New platform, low-risk to try

The incumbents have a head start; we have a 7-day free trial, published pricing, no sales demo and no multi-year contract to regret. Import your full client list at no cost, switch from SafeSend, RCReports or TaxDome without a rip-and-replace project, and cancel anytime. See it work before you commit a dollar.

Stop paying by the unit.

Run tax, bookkeeping and the whole back office on one platform — flat, unlimited seats, free to try.

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