PRACTICE PLATFORM FOR CPA & BOOKKEEPING FIRMS

The operating system for the modern accounting firm.

Client onboarding, AI bookkeeping, document collection, e‑signature, and a portal your clients will actually use — on one client record, with an audit trail under all of it.

NOW ONBOARDING FOUNDING FIRMS · WHITE-GLOVE MIGRATION INCLUDED

Meridian Ledger & TaxBOOKKEEPING / BANK FEED / ACME LANDSCAPING LLCMARCH 2026
MERCURY BUSINESS CHECKING ••4821 · READ 12 PP · 214 LINES196 MATCHED18 FLAGGED
DateDescriptionSourceAmountAccountStatusTrace
03/02ACH DEPOSIT — GREENSCAPE HOLDINGS••4821+8,250.004010Service revenueMATCHEDA·EXACT
03/04HOME DEPOT #4821 ATLANTA GA••4821-412.196210SuppliesMATCHEDA·EXACT
03/07SHELL OIL 5744 MARIETTA GA••4821-86.446420FuelMATCHEDB·FIRM
03/11CHECK #1231••4821-1,500.00Needs client answerFLAGGED
03/12SQ *THE GARDEN CTR KENNESAW••4821-614.026210Supplies · suggestedFLAGGED
03/14USPS PO 3374400134 KENNESAW GA••4821-29.606250PostageMATCHEDC·GLOBAL
03/18TRANSFER TO SAVINGS ••7130••4821-5,000.001020Transfer clearingREVIEW
03/19WIRE OUT — BLUE RIDGE EQUIPMENT CO••4821-12,400.001510Equipment · suggestedFLAGGED
196/214 MATCHED · 18 FOR YOUR REVIEW · BALANCES AGREEReview 18 flaggedApprove matched
FIG. 01 — BANK-STATEMENT REVIEW · ACME LANDSCAPING LLC · MARCH 2026
BUILT FOR FIRMS

Practice software for CPAs and bookkeepers — not project software wearing a green eyeshade.

ONE CLIENT RECORD

Enter client data once. Portal, bookkeeping, documents, and work items all read the same record.

EVERY ACTION LOGGED

Actor, IP, timestamp — across documents, sign-offs, and books. Audit-ready by design.

ENCRYPTED BY DEFAULT

SSNs and EINs field-level encrypted. SOC 2-aligned controls on every surface.

01The Stack Problem

Your firm runs on five subscriptions and a spreadsheet.

Each tool holds a different copy of the client — one in the portal, one in the e‑sign vault, one in the task tracker, one in your inbox. You pay for the seats, and your staff pays the re‑keying tax between them.

TodayThe tax it chargesOn Taxly
Client portal & file requests (ShareFile-style)The tax it chargesClients email attachments anywayOn TaxlyBranded portal at yourfirm.taxlyportal.com— requests, uploads, messages
E-signature (per-envelope pricing)The tax it chargesEvery engagement letter meters the billOn TaxlyIn-house ESIGN/UETA e‑signature EARLY ACCESS
Task tracking (spreadsheet or generic PM tool)The tax it chargesNothing recurs by itself; tax season lives in someone’s headOn TaxlyRecurring work engine with CPA task types built in
Bookkeeping data entryThe tax it chargesStaff hours keying statements into the GLOn TaxlyAI reads the statements; your team reviews
Client back-and-forth (email threads)The tax it charges“Where do I upload this?” ×400 clientsOn TaxlyOne thread per client, inside the record

Every tool you retire is one fewer place your clients’ SSNs live. Consolidation isn’t just cheaper — it shrinks your attack surface.

Follow one client through Taxly.

From the first intake questionnaire to the signed engagement letter — here’s the year, on one system. (Screens shown: a seeded demo firm, “Meridian Ledger & Tax,” and its client “Acme Landscaping LLC.”)

02Onboard

Onboarding that doesn’t start with a blank email.

A guided wizard captures the entity, contacts, and services once — then it’s everyone’s single source of truth. Intake questionnaires go out as structured requests, not PDF attachments, and AI document processing pre-fills answers from the files clients upload. New client to working file in one sitting.

  • WIZARDguided entity + contact intake
  • QUESTIONNAIREStemplate library, 1040 organizer preset
  • AI PREFILLuploaded docs answer questions automatically
Meridian Ledger & TaxCLIENTS / NEW CLIENT
1 Entity2 Contacts3 Services4 Portal
Acme Landscaping LLC
S-Corporation
••-•••4821FIELD-ENCRYPTED
December 31
Services & assignments
Bookkeeping — MonthlyBOOKKEEPING TEAM
Sales Tax — Quarterly (WA)TEAM QUEUE
Tax Return — Form 1120-SM. CHEN
Payroll
AI PREFILL ONBackContinue
FIG. 02 — CLIENT ONBOARDING · ENTITY & SERVICES · 1 OF 4
03Collect

A portal your clients will actually use.

Every firm gets a branded portal at yourfirm.taxlyportal.com. Clients see exactly what you need from them — document requests, questionnaires, messages — and nothing else. Files land in the right folder on the right client, already logged. Fewer “where do I send this?” calls; zero attachments in your inbox.

THE PORTAL IS A FIRM FEATURE — YOUR BRAND, YOUR CLIENTS, OUR RAILS

Meridian Ledger & Tax · Client PortalACME LANDSCAPING LLC
Open requests3
March 2026 bank statementsDUE 04/10
DOCUMENT REQUEST2 OF 3 UPLOADED
Drop files here or browse
2025 tax organizerSAVED 12 OF 20
QUESTIONNAIRE
Engagement letter — TY 2025Review & sign
SIGNATURE
FIG. 03 — CLIENT PORTAL · OPEN REQUESTS · ACME LANDSCAPING LLC
04Book

Bank statements, read by AI. Reviewed by you.

Upload a statement PDF and Taxly parses it page by page, then categorizes every line through four tiers — exact merchant match, fuzzy match, your category rules, and only then a flag for human review. You approve, post journal entries, and close the period. Live bank feeds via Plaid are rolling out to early-access firms.

  • PARSEpage-by-page statement extraction
  • CATEGORIZEmerchant → fuzzy → rules → flag
  • CLOSEJE posting, batch approval, period close

PLAID BANK FEEDS · EARLY ACCESS

Transaction reviewACME LANDSCAPING LLC · MARCH 2026ALL 214MATCHED 196FLAGGED 18
196 MATCHED SELECTEDApprove & post 196Review 18 flagged
DateDescriptionAmountTierAccount
03/02SITEONE LANDSCAPE SUPPLY #211-1,284.50T1 · EXACT6210Materials & Supplies
03/03WEX FLEET FUEL 004-882-412.09T3 · RULE6420Fuel
03/06HOME DEPOT #4512-318.77T2 · FUZZY6210Materials & Supplies
03/10SQ *GREENSCAPE NURSERY-206.13FLAGGEDSelect account
03/11JOHN DEERE FINANCIAL PMT-1,730.00T1 · EXACT2510Equipment loan
03/13CHECK #1183-950.00FLAGGEDSelect account
03/14USPS PO 4471-28.40T2 · FUZZY6250Postage & shipping
03/16STRIPE TRANSFER ST-88213+4,120.00T3 · RULE4010Client payments
196 LINES POST TO THE GL ON APPROVAL · JE BATCH 2026-03-BK · EVERY ACTION LOGGED
FIG. 04 — TRANSACTION REVIEW · 4-TIER CATEGORIZATION · 18 FLAGGED
05Run

The month’s work, generated before anyone asks.

Recurring rules turn each client’s services into work items automatically — monthly bookkeeping, quarterly sales tax, the annual return — with CPA-native types and statuses, not generic to-dos. Board or table, yours or your team’s queue. Nothing lives in someone’s head through March.

WorkMERIDIAN LEDGER & TAX · ALL CLIENTSTABLEBOARDMARCH 2026
Not Started4
MLT-214
Monthly Bookkeeping
Acme Landscaping LLC
BOOKKEEPINGDUE 04/15
MLT-209
Sales Tax Return — Q1
Acme Landscaping LLC
SALES TAXDUE 04/30
MLT-206
Payroll — Semi-monthly run
Bluebird Dental PLLC
PAYROLLDUE 03/31KT
+1 more
Waiting on Client3
MLT-198
1040 Organizer follow-up
Harper Household
TAX RETURNDUE 04/01MC
MLT-187
Form 1120-S — missing docs
Riverbend Cafe LLC
TAX RETURNDUE 03/16MC
+1 more
In Progress5
MLT-201
Monthly Bookkeeping
Riverbend Cafe LLC
BOOKKEEPINGDUE 04/15JW
MLT-184
Form 1065
Nolan Bros. Builders
TAX RETURNDUE 03/16MC
MLT-179
Annual report (WA)
Bluebird Dental PLLC
ENTITY COMPLIANCEDUE 04/30KT
+2 more
Ready for Final Action2
MLT-176
Form 1120-S
Acme Landscaping LLC
TAX RETURNDUE 03/16MC
MLT-168
Sales Tax Return — Feb
Riverbend Cafe LLC
SALES TAXDUE 03/25JW
FIG. 05 — WORK BOARD · 5 SERVICES · 31 TASK TYPES BUILT IN
06Sign & Prove

E-signature without the per-envelope tax.

EARLY ACCESS

Engagement letters and consents get signed in the same portal your clients already use — ESIGN/UETA-designed consent flow, a tamper-evident certificate sealed with a cryptographic signature, and the final PDF held in write-once storage for the retention period. No third-party e‑sign bill, no envelope counting.

Meridian Ledger & Tax · Review & signENGAGEMENT LETTER — TY 2025 · 3 PP
I agree to use electronic records and signatures for this engagement.
TypeDraw
Dana R. Acme
DANA R. ACME — OWNER, ACME LANDSCAPING LLC
By clicking “Click to Sign,” I agree this electronic signature is the legal equivalent of my handwritten signature.
SHA-256 SEAL · CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION ON FINALIZEClick to Sign
FIG. 06 — SIGNATURE ENVELOPE · KMS-SEALED CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
07Security

Built like you’ll be audited. Because you will be.

You hold SSNs, EINs, and bank data for every client you serve. Taxly is designed so that protecting them is the default, not a setting.

TENANT ISOLATION

Every firm’s data is partitioned and every request re-verified against the firm it claims. Cross-firm access isn’t a permission — it’s not a path that exists.

FIELD-LEVEL ENCRYPTION

SSNs and EINs are encrypted as fields, on top of encryption at rest and TLS in transit.

COMPLETE AUDIT TRAIL

Every view, upload, edit, and signature is logged with actor, IP, and timestamp — and you can read the log.

SIGNED & SEALED EVIDENCE

E-sign completions are hash-sealed with an asymmetric key and stored write-once. Tamper-evident, independently verifiable.

We say “SOC 2-aligned,” not “certified,” until the audit is done. You’d insist on the same distinction.

08Who It’s For

Built with practitioners, not just near them.

Taxly started with a simple observation: the average small firm pays for five systems that don’t talk, then pays again in staff hours making them talk. We built the system we kept hearing firms describe — one client record, AI where it saves hours, an audit trail everywhere. Founding firms shape the roadmap directly.

— THE TAXLY TEAM
FOUNDING FIRMS PROGRAM

Early firms get white-glove migration, direct access to the team, and a locked rate.

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09Pricing

Per-seat. No meter running.

PER SEAT

One price per team member. Clients and their portal access are always free.

NO ENVELOPE FEES

E-signatures, document requests, questionnaires — included, uncounted.

FOUNDING RATE

Firms that join during early access lock their rate. In writing.

One conversation and you’ll have a number — no “contact sales” theater.

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Frequently asked questions

What does migration actually look like?
You export your client list, we import it; onboarding wizards handle entities, contacts, and services. Most firms run Taxly parallel to their old stack for one cycle, then cancel the subscriptions it replaced. Founding firms get white-glove migration — we do the import with you.
Does Taxly replace my tax software?
No. Drake, UltraTax, Lacerte — your prep software stays. Taxly replaces everything aroundit: collection, bookkeeping, task tracking, e‑signature, the client portal, and the email threads gluing them together.
Is my clients’ data safe?
Field-level encryption for SSNs/EINs, encryption at rest and in transit, per-firm tenant isolation, and a complete audit trail with actor, IP, and timestamp. SOC 2-aligned controls throughout. Full detail in Security.
Does the AI train on my clients’ data?
No. Statement parsing runs on AWS Bedrock under our account; your data is used to do your work, not to train models — ours or anyone else’s.
Is the e-signature legally binding?
It’s built to the ESIGN and UETA playbook: explicit consumer consent, signer authentication through the portal login, intent affirmation, and a tamper-evident, cryptographically sealed certificate of completion. It’s in early access while our counsel completes final review — we gate it the way you’d want us to. (IRS 8879 e‑file authorization is on the roadmap, not shipping today.)
What does it cost?
Per-seat, with clients free and nothing metered. Founding firms lock their rate. Book a demo and you’ll leave the call with a number.
10 · GET STARTED

Run the whole firm from one system.

A 30-minute demo with the people who built it. Bring your worst client-onboarding story.