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.
Three pains specific to accounting.
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.
Your typical stack
About R165 144 a year.
Accounting firms typically run this stack. Click any tool to see the open source replacement and the migration plan.
What we do for accounting
Savings is just the start.
Accountingfirms also come to us for the security, compliance, and build work that goes with the stack swap. Here's what that usually looks like.
The things your sector cares about.
POPIA compliance
Client financial data is special-category information under POPIA. Self-hosted Nextcloud, LibreOffice and Odoo keep it on SA infrastructure you control.
SARS audit trail
Immutable logs, version history, and retention controls. We configure Odoo and Nextcloud with the document retention policies SARS expects.
Multi-partner access
Proper role-based access control without per-seat licence fees. Unlimited users on self-hosted stacks.
Free audit. No pitch.
A 30-minute call. We look at your current stack, your headcount, your compliance posture. You get a written assessment with exact Rand numbers. You decide from there.