Ignition (IgnitionApp) Reviews: 5.0/5 — Highly Rated

Ignition prices four plans from $39 to $399 a month, and at 100 clients the cheapest one is the most expensive. Every plan includes a fixed number of active clients and charges per client above it — $7 on Solo, $5 on Core, $3 on Pro, $2 on Pro+ — and those rates are steep enough that the overage is a nudge to upgrade rather than a place to live. A firm with 100 signed clients pays $599 a month on Solo, $349 on Core and $229 on Pro, where 100 sits comfortably inside the 350-client inclusion. The $39 plan costs that firm 2.6 times what the $229 plan does. To Ignition’s credit, every one of those overage rates is printed in its own comparison table — you just have to open it.

• What it is: Proposals, engagement letters, billing and payment collection for professional services firms.
• Best for: Accounting, bookkeeping and consulting firms that bill recurring clients on contracts.
• Pricing: $39–$399/month annually (US), plus $2–$7 per client over your plan’s inclusion. Verified August 2026.
• The honest catch: The meter is signed clients, and the overage rate makes staying put more expensive than moving up.

What Is Ignition?

Ignition — formerly Practice Ignition — is a client-engagement and revenue platform built for professional services, and overwhelmingly for accountants and bookkeepers. It does one loop end to end: you send a branded proposal with a services menu, the client signs it electronically, the engagement letter is generated from the same document, the billing schedule is created automatically, invoices go out and payments are collected without anyone chasing them.

That is the actual pitch, and it is a good one. The gap it closes is the one between “the client agreed” and “the client paid,” which in most small firms is a manual, embarrassing and slow process.

It integrates with Xero, QuickBooks Online, Zapier, Karbon, XPM and FYI, among others. The Findstack listing is thin — 10 user reviews at 5.0 out of 5 — so treat that score as directional rather than representative.

How Ignition Works

One meter governs the price: the active client.

Ignition defines this precisely, which is worth quoting because the definition is more generous than it sounds: “An active client is someone that has accepted a proposal with Ignition for any given month and still has an active service within its contracted period.”

Three consequences follow, and all three favour you:

• Proposals are unlimited on every plan, including Solo. You are not billed for pitching.
• Rejected and deleted proposals cost nothing, confirmed in Ignition’s own FAQ.
• Imported clients arrive as leads, not active clients, so migrating your book does not trigger a bill.

You pay for clients who signed and are still inside their contract. For a subscription-billing firm that is close to the fairest possible meter — it tracks revenue, not activity.

The plans then layer capability on top:

• Solo — 20 clients, 1 user, single e-signature, email and in-app support.
• Core — 50 clients, 3 users, bulk proposal sending, single-proposal renewals, and setup assistance plus a custom brochure design included.
• Pro — 350 clients, 15 users, 2 e-signatures, bulk renewals, video and landing pages in proposals, custom domain and email branding, proposal expiry dates, lead and client forms, the wider integration set, and 4-hour support response.
• Pro+ — 600 clients, unlimited users, 10 e-signatures, proposal reviews and approvals, deals pipeline, custom reporting via API, and 1-hour priority support.
• Enterprise — quoted.

Ignition Pricing

The page defaults to annual billing, so the prices you first see are the discounted ones. Prices exclude tax.

The overage rate decides your plan, not the plan price

Work out where each plan stops being the cheap option:

• Solo costs $39 for 20 clients and $7 for each one after. It reaches Core’s $99 at 29 clients — nine past its inclusion.
• Core costs $99 for 50 and $5 after. It reaches Pro’s $229 at 76 clients — twenty-six past.
• Pro costs $229 for 350 and $3 after. It reaches Pro+’s $399 at 407 clients — fifty-seven past.

So the honest reading of Ignition’s ladder is that overages are a grace period, not a pricing tier. You get a few clients of headroom, then the plan above becomes cheaper — usually while offering several times the capacity.

Run that at a realistic firm size and the effect is stark. At 100 active clients:

• Solo: $39 + 80 × $7 = $599
• Core: $99 + 50 × $5 = $349
• Pro: $229 — inside the inclusion, no overage
• Pro+: $399 — inside the inclusion, no overage

The $39 plan is the most expensive way to serve 100 clients and the $229 plan is the cheapest. Do not pick an Ignition plan by its headline price. Count your active clients and read down the column.

Solo is not simply “the cheap plan”

It has eligibility criteria that Ignition states clearly in the FAQ, and they exclude most firms:

• Your business must earn under $150,000 in annual revenue (£115,000 in the UK).
• It is limited to one user license.
• On signup you must connect Xero or QuickBooks Online and enable payments.

That last requirement is the one to notice. Solo is not a standalone plan you can trial in isolation — it requires you to route your billing through Ignition’s payment rails from day one. Reasonable for the price, but it is a commitment rather than a toe in the water.

The annual saving badges are, unusually, all correct

Ignition prints a different saving percentage on each card rather than one “up to” number across the top. Checking each against the monthly prices:

• Solo: $49 → $39 is 20.4%, badged 20%
• Core: $149 → $99 is 33.6%, badged 34%
• Pro: $279 → $229 is 17.9%, badged 18%
• Pro+: $499 → $399 is 20.0%, badged 20%

Every one is accurate to the rounding. That is rarer than it should be — most vendors print a single “up to” figure that no plan actually reaches — and Ignition deserves the credit. It also means Core carries by far the best annual discount, which is worth knowing if you are choosing between Core and Pro at the margin.

Region changes more than the currency

The same page in the UK is not a translated version of the US one:

• Overage rates are +$7/$5/$3/$2 in the US and +£4/£3/£2/N‑A in the UK.
• Pro+ includes 600 clients in the US and unlimited clients in the UK.
• Annual discounts run 20/34/18/20% in the US and 26/20/23/25% in the UK.
• Solo’s revenue ceiling is $150k against £115k.

If you are comparing notes with a colleague in another market, you are not comparing the same product. Check the selector at the top of the page matches where you actually bill.

Payment fees are a second, separate cost

Ignition collects your money, and it charges for that. The published direct debit schedule is 1% + $0.30 capped at $5 on the first $3,000 of a transaction, plus 0.3% on everything above $3,000, uncapped. Ignition’s own worked example: a $5,000 payment costs $11 in fees.

The cap is genuinely good at small ticket sizes — a $2,000 invoice costs $5 to collect, an effective 0.25%. The uncapped tail is what to watch: a $50,000 payment costs $146, and the effective rate climbs toward 0.3% as invoices grow. Still far below card processing, but not free, and firms billing large annual engagements should model it.

Two further caveats Ignition states plainly. Card processing rates are not published on the pricing page at all — only the direct debit schedule is. And “payment transaction fees are charged on a monthly basis regardless of whether you are on a monthly or annual subscription. You’ll be charged the current payment rates offered at the time” — so an annual commitment does not lock your processing rates.

What actually decides your cost

• Your active client count, which is the only meter and should choose your plan outright.
• How far past the inclusion you sit, since $7 or $5 per client compounds quickly.
• Payment volume and average invoice size, because of the uncapped 0.3% above $3,000.
• User count — 1, 3, 15 or unlimited, and a hard stop on Solo.
• The two $49 add-ons, Deals pipeline and Online forms, unless your plan already includes them.
• Your region, which changes the overage rates, the Pro+ ceiling and the discounts.
• Not proposal volume. Proposals are unlimited everywhere, and unaccepted ones are free.

Who Should Use Ignition

Ignition fits an accounting, bookkeeping or advisory firm with recurring contracted clients and a chronic problem getting paid on time. That is a specific customer and Ignition is built precisely for them: the proposal, the engagement letter, the billing schedule and the collection are one object rather than four, and the Xero and QuickBooks integrations mean it slots into the stack these firms already run.

It fits badly for project-based businesses that bill ad hoc rather than on contracts — the active-client meter assumes ongoing engagements — and for anyone who wants proposal software alone. At $229 a month for the plan most firms land on, Ignition is expensive if you only use the front half of it.

Honest Pros and Cons

What works well:

• Unlimited proposals on every plan, including the $39 tier, with no charge for rejected or deleted ones.
• Imported clients arrive as leads, so migrating your book does not trigger a bill.
• Every annual saving badge is accurate, and stated per plan rather than as a single “up to” number.
• Overage rates are published in the comparison table, per plan, in a single row.
• The whole loop is one product — proposal, engagement letter, billing schedule, invoice, payment.
• Core includes setup assistance and a custom brochure design, real onboarding help at $99.
• Direct debit fees are capped at $5 on the first $3,000, which is cheap for typical invoices.
• 14-day trial, no credit card, with up to $10,000 collected fee-free.

What to watch:

• At 100 clients, Solo costs $599 a month against Pro’s $229. The headline price is misleading at scale.
• Overages are only viable for a handful of clients — 9 on Solo, 26 on Core, 57 on Pro — before the next plan is cheaper.
• Solo requires under $150k revenue, one user, and connected accounting plus enabled payments.
• Card processing rates are not published on the pricing page.
• Transaction rates are not locked by an annual subscription.
• The 0.3% fee above $3,000 is uncapped — a $50,000 payment costs $146 to collect.
• US and UK plans differ structurally, not just in currency: Pro+ is capped at 600 clients in the US and unlimited in the UK.
• Plans do not auto-downgrade; if your client count falls you must change the plan yourself.
• Only 10 user reviews on the Findstack listing, so the 5.0 rating is thin evidence.
• The affiliate landing page promises “exclusive referral discounts may apply” without naming a figure — assume nothing until you see it at checkout.

Ignition Alternatives and How It Compares

• PandaDoc is the stronger pure proposal and e-signature tool, and much cheaper, but it stops at the signature and does not bill or collect.
• Bonsai covers proposals, contracts, invoicing and payments for freelancers and small agencies at a fraction of the price, with less depth on recurring engagements.
• Xero and QuickBooks Online are the ledgers Ignition sits on top of, and both do recurring invoicing natively — worth testing before adding a layer.
• FreshBooks bundles proposals, invoicing and payment collection into one cheaper product for smaller service businesses.
• Karbon and Practice Protect are the practice-management neighbours accounting firms usually evaluate alongside Ignition rather than instead of it.

The honest comparison: if you only need proposals, Ignition is the wrong shape and PandaDoc is cheaper. If you only need invoicing, your ledger already does it. Ignition earns its price when the handoff between those two is where your firm leaks time and cash — which, for a lot of accounting practices, it demonstrably is.

The Verdict

Ignition is a well-built product for a well-defined customer, and its pricing is more honest than most: overage rates published in the table, per-plan discount badges that all check out, unlimited proposals, and no charge for pitching or importing.

The trap is arithmetic rather than concealment. The plan ladder rewards moving up far earlier than the prices suggest — nine clients past Solo’s inclusion and Core is cheaper, twenty-six past Core’s and Pro is cheaper. A firm that anchors on the $39 card and grows into it will be paying $599 a month for something that costs $229 one column to the right.

Count your active clients first, then pick the plan whose inclusion covers them with room to grow. For most established accounting and bookkeeping practices that is Pro, and Pro is where the product is complete anyway — custom domain, branded email, forms, expiry dates and the wider integration set all start there. Then model your payment volume separately, because the 0.3% above $3,000 is a real line item on large engagements and it is not covered by your subscription discount. Take the 14-day trial, which needs no card and lets you collect $10,000 fee-free — enough to run one real billing cycle and see whether the money actually arrives faster.

FAQ

How much does Ignition cost?

Four US plans on annual billing: Solo $39, Core $99, Pro $229 and Pro+ $399 per month, with Enterprise quoted. Monthly billing is $49, $149, $279 and $499. Each plan includes a set number of active clients — 20, 50, 350 and 600 — and charges $7, $5, $3 and $2 respectively for each client above that. Two add-ons cost $49 a month each (Deals pipeline and Online forms) unless your plan already includes them, and AI Price Insights is $349 billed annually. Prices differ by region.

What counts as an active client in Ignition?

Ignition defines it as someone who has accepted a proposal and still has an active service within its contracted period — so you are billed for signed, live engagements, not for activity. Proposals are unlimited on every plan, unaccepted and deleted proposals cost nothing, and imported clients arrive as leads rather than active clients, so migrating your existing book does not trigger a charge.

Which Ignition plan should I choose?

Choose by client count, not by price, because the overage rates flip the ranking fast. At 100 active clients you would pay $599 on Solo, $349 on Core and $229 on Pro — the cheapest plan is the most expensive answer. The break-even points are 29 clients for Solo against Core, 76 for Core against Pro, and 407 for Pro against Pro+. Since Pro also unlocks custom domains, branded email, forms, proposal expiry and the wider integration set, most established firms should start there.

Who qualifies for Ignition’s Solo plan?

Solopreneurs only, and there are three conditions. Your business must earn under $150,000 in annual revenue (£115,000 in the UK), the plan is restricted to one user license, and at signup you must connect Xero or QuickBooks Online and enable payments. It is not a general-purpose entry tier — it is a specific offer for one-person practices willing to run their billing through Ignition from the start.

What are Ignition’s payment processing fees?

For direct debit, 1% + $0.30 capped at $5 on the first $3,000 of a transaction, plus 0.3% on the portion above $3,000, uncapped. Ignition’s worked example: a $5,000 payment incurs $11 in total fees. That is cheap on ordinary invoices — a $2,000 collection costs $5 — but the uncapped tail matters on large ones, where a $50,000 payment costs $146. Note that card rates are not published on the pricing page, and transaction fees are billed monthly at prevailing rates regardless of whether your subscription is annual.