For Accountants & Bookkeepers · Australia-wide

You did not become
an accountant
to chase documents.

Every practice has the same October: the same forty clients, the same third reminder, the same work compressed into the same eight weeks. We build the site that brings you better clients and the automation that collects, chases and files without you being the one doing the asking.

0 Australians searching practice management software the profession knows the systems are the bottleneck
0 Where most of the year’s work compresses into because collection is manual
0 Reminder most clients need before sending records each one sent by a human, today
0 Number of times data gets entered portal to practice software to Xero, once

The Real Problem

The bottleneck is not the work. It is getting the paperwork.

Ask a principal what limits the practice and they will say capacity. Watch the practice for a week and it is almost never capacity. It is the two hundred hours a year spent asking clients for things they already agreed to send, and the way that pushes everything into a compliance-season crush that then costs overtime and goodwill.

The second problem is the client mix. Practices that market generically get generic clients: price-sensitive, once a year, no advisory work, and the ones most likely to leave for someone $200 cheaper.

  • Document chasing done by humans. The reminder is a task on someone’s list rather than an automation, so it happens when they get to it, which in October is never.
  • Onboarding that takes a fortnight. Engagement letter, ID verification, ATO authorisations and software access all handled by separate emails, each one waiting on a reply.
  • The same client typed into four systems. Website enquiry, practice management, Xero, and the ATO portal.
  • A site that sells compliance. "Tax returns, BAS, bookkeeping" is what every other firm says, so price becomes the only variable a prospect can compare on.
  • Advisory that never starts. The work that pays best needs headroom to sell, and the compliance crush eats every hour of headroom the practice has.

These compound. The chasing creates the crush, the crush kills advisory, and the lack of advisory keeps you competing on the price of a tax return.

What We Build For Accountants

Collection that runs itself, so the year stops bunching up.

We are not going to tell you which practice management system to buy. We connect what you have, then remove the manual steps between it and everything else.

  • Automated document collection. A client portal that requests exactly what each client type needs, then chases on a schedule you set, escalating politely. The reminders stop being someone’s job.
  • Onboarding that finishes in days. Engagement letter, ID verification, authorisations and software invites triggered in one sequence from a single form, each step firing when the previous one completes.
  • Xero and practice software connected properly. We do this in our own business, not just for clients. Our admin panel posts expenses to Xero with the receipt attached, so we know exactly where these integrations break.
  • Positioning that is not "we do tax returns". Pages built around the client types you actually want, whether that is trades on the tools, medical practices, property investors or SMSFs, so the right prospect self-selects and price stops being the only comparison.
  • Deadline automation. Lodgement dates, BAS cycles and client-specific obligations tracked and surfaced before they are urgent rather than after.
  • Advisory made visible. Landing pages and intake for the work you want more of, so it is something clients can ask for rather than something you have to sell in a meeting you do not have time to book.
  • You own all of it. Domain, hosting, code, data and automations, in your name.
How we automate practices →

The Process

How it runs,
start to finish.

01

Audit the chase

We map what happens between a client agreeing to send records and the records arriving, and count the human touches. Then we multiply by your client count. That number usually ends the debate about whether this is worth doing.

  • Collection process mapped
  • Human touches counted and costed
  • Onboarding timed end to end
02

Fixed quote

One number, approved before anything starts. Software licences stay in your name and are listed separately at cost.

  • One price, no hourly billing
  • Licences separate, never marked up
  • Timeline you can plan around
03

Build and connect

We build the site and portal, then connect them to your practice management system and Xero. We stage it so nothing goes live mid-lodgement.

  • Portal and collection live
  • Practice software connected
  • Staged around your calendar
04

Hand over and support

Logins, a walkthrough for the whole team, and a 30 day defect period. Support optional and quoted first.

  • Everything in your name
  • 30 day defect period
  • No lock-in

What It Costs

Cost the chasing first. Then read the quote.

Take the hours your team spends each year requesting and chasing client records, multiply by their cost, and you have the number that matters. For most practices it lands between fifteen and forty thousand dollars a year in salaried time, spent on work that produces nothing billable.

That is the number the quote should be compared against, not against the cost of a website. The website is the smaller half of what we build here.

  • Fixed quote before we start. You approve a number and that is the number.
  • Staged around your calendar. Nothing goes live in the middle of a lodgement period. We work backwards from your busy season.
  • 30 day defect period. If something does not work as specified, we fix it at no charge.
  • Client data handled properly. Financial records get the same treatment as any sensitive data: encrypted, access controlled, and never used to train an AI model.
  • We will talk you out of it. Under about eighty clients, the collection automation often does not pay for itself yet. We will tell you and quote the smaller job.

Why Us For This

We run this in our own business.

Our own admin system reads receipts, extracts the line items, codes them, and posts them to Xero as spend money transactions with the receipt attached. We built it because we were doing it manually and it was stupid.

That matters because Xero integrations look simple in a demo and break in reality, on tracking categories, tax rates, account codes and the order operations have to happen in. We have already hit those walls with our own books, which is a different kind of knowledge from having read the API documentation.

How we connect systems →
1xData entered once, not four times
DaysOnboarding, not a fortnight
0Reminders sent by a human
100%Owned by you, portable

Free · 3 minutes

What is the document chasing actually costing?

Six questions about how work enters your practice. Three minutes. Question two is the one most principals have never actually costed.

  • How many reminders does an average client need before records arrive?
  • How many staff hours a year go into requesting and chasing documents?
  • How long from a new client saying yes to being fully onboarded?
  • How many systems does one client get entered into?
  • What proportion of revenue is advisory rather than compliance?
  • Which client types does your site actually speak to?

You get the findings in writing whether or not you engage us, with the fixes you can make yourself listed first.

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Questions

What practices ask us
before they start.

Do we have to change practice management systems?

No, and we would rather you did not. Migrating practice management systems is expensive, disruptive and rarely the actual problem. We connect what you already run, whether that is Xero Practice Manager, FYI, Karbon, MYOB or something older, and remove the manual steps around it. If your system genuinely cannot expose the data we need, we will tell you, but that is much rarer than software vendors would like you to believe.

How does the document collection automation actually work?

Each client type gets a checklist of what you need from them. The system sends the request, gives them a portal to upload into rather than an email thread, and then chases on a schedule you set, escalating in tone and eventually flagging a human. Everything arrives filed against the right client in the right place. The change people notice is not the speed, it is that nobody on your team has to remember to follow up.

When is the wrong time to start this?

Four to six weeks before a major lodgement deadline. We stage builds around your calendar and work backwards from your busy season, because going live with a new client portal in the middle of October helps nobody. The best time to start is right after a compliance season, while the pain is fresh and the diary is open.

Will this help us sell advisory work?

Indirectly, and that is the honest answer. Automation does not sell advisory. What it does is give back the hours the compliance crush was eating, and make the advisory services something a client can find, understand and enquire about without you raising it in a meeting. Firms that make advisory visible and have the headroom to deliver it get more of it. Firms that only free up the time usually fill it with more compliance.

Is our client financial data safe?

Client financial records get treated as sensitive throughout: encrypted in transit and at rest, access limited to the people working on your build, credentials held in an encrypted vault rather than email, and never used to train an AI model. Our privacy policy names every provider we use and where each one processes data, so you can assess us the way you would assess any other supplier holding client information.

How much does it cost?

It depends on how many client types need their own page and collection checklist, which systems we are connecting, and how much of the onboarding sequence you want automated. We quote a fixed price before starting, and software licences stay in your name at cost rather than being marked up.

Do you work with practices outside Albury Wodonga?

Yes. We are based in Albury and work with accounting and bookkeeping practices across Australia. The build runs over video calls and screen shares, which is how most practices prefer it.

Cost the chasing. Then decide.

Apply for a free practice audit. We map your collection and onboarding process, count the human touches, and give you the annual cost in writing. No obligation, and the findings are yours either way.

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