Software costs eating your partnership draw?
Accounting firms run heavy on per-seat SaaS. Practice management, ledger systems, CRM, document storage, e-signatures. The per-user fees compound fast across your team, and most of it has a self-hosted open source equivalent that does the job.
R 165K
Typical annual licence spend
Across 7 common accounting tools
R 149K
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The accounting stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical accounting firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Accounting stack
7 tools · R 165K/yr in licences
Replace
DocuSign
E-Signatures · R 60K per year
With
DocuSeal
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 54K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 165K
Estimated OSS hosting
R 17K
Annual savings
R 149K
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where the accounting bleed starts
Three things we hear on every accounting discovery call.
Per-seat licensing eats small firms alive
R200 to R2,000 per accountant per month for the stack adds up to six figures a year by the time you include partners, associates, and admin staff.
POPIA exposure across every client file
Financial records, IDs, tax numbers, bank statements. Multiply across every client. One badly configured SaaS vendor and you have an Information Regulator problem.
Foreign SaaS, foreign currency, SARB paperwork
USD-denominated tools mean FX volatility on every renewal. Self-hosted kills the exposure.
How we handle the accounting edges