Clients, documents, e-signatures, intake portals, invoices, and deadlines — the duct-taped stack of spreadsheets, email threads, and eleven browser tabs, replaced.
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Drop in an 8879 — the fields place themselves, ready for e-sign with IRS-accepted identity verification. Or drop any fillable form — nothing leaves your browser.
Forms library
Practice software charges per seat and hides the price behind a sales call. FinishTax is one flat monthly price for the whole firm — published right here, no call required.
Up to five preparers work the same pipeline on the Small Firm plan — assign clients, hand off tasks, see the same deadlines. Adding your seasonal hire adds $0.
A step-up identity ladder inside the signing flow — up to a government ID + selfie check at NIST IAL2, the rung IRS guidance accepts for remote 8879s. You choose the rung per envelope. Unlimited envelopes on every paid plan, $0 each, no DocuSign bolted on. The photo and selfie stay with our verification provider, Persona — your firm never stores them.
Upload, e-sign, message, and pay under your logo and colors — from any browser or phone, no app to install. Live in under a day.
Nothing for your clients to download — the portal runs in whatever browser they already have open, on a phone or a desktop.
And the rest of the toolkit — included, never an add-on:
Handling Social Security numbers and signing 8879s remotely comes with real obligations — encryption, signer identity checks, a written security plan under IRS Pub. 4557. FinishTax already built them in, so you're not assembling them yourself.
One client · one whole season
Not a feature tour — the real app, screen by screen, following one example client from first hello to filed-and-paid. Meet Maria Rivera.
Maria is one of 52 clients on the account. On a flat firm price, adding her — or your seasonal hire — is $0. No per-seat math, ever.
Maria opens her firm-branded intake and completes it in Spanish. One toggle flips every question — no separate site, no translator, no phone tag.
W-2, 1099-INT, 1098 — all filed under Maria, ready the moment you open her file. Nothing buried in your inbox, nothing to chase down.
Her 2025 tax organizer comes back answered, so you start the return with the whole picture instead of a shoebox of receipts and a game of email tag.
You choose the identity rung per envelope, up to a government ID plus a selfie at NIST IAL2, right inside the signing flow. That is the rung IRS guidance accepts for remote 8879s, with no DocuSign bolted on and $0 per envelope.
Maria's final 1040 stays locked behind her invoice. She pays in the portal, it downloads — you never hand over a return you haven't been paid for.
Every client, every deadline, and exactly what needs attention today — the one screen you keep open all season long, instead of five tabs and a spreadsheet.
That's the whole season — one client, one flat price, one place. See what it costs ↓
Pick a form from the built-in library — 8879, W-4, W-9, I-9, W-4P, VA-4, 8821 — or upload any fillable PDF. FinishTax detects every field and places it for you, labeled "Social security number," not "f1_05[0]".
The same engine powers employee forms — W-4s, I-9s, W-9s — in bulk. Your client signs with a guided walkthrough that won't let them miss a field, and bulk send fans one template out to up to 50 recipients — each getting their own copy.
Real app, real data flow — no cuts around the rough edges.
I prepare tax returns at a small firm. This January I'll be at the same desk you will — printing an 8879 that should have come back signed a week ago, watching the drop-off pile grow while the phone rings.
FinishTax started as our own fix: one screen that showed which clients were missing documents, which returns were stalled on a signature, and who hadn't paid. I write software, so I built that screen. Other preparers saw it over my shoulder and asked what it was.
Shopping for practice software as a buyer left me with a short list of standing refusals — they're the point of the product:
And honestly: there's no native mobile app yet — clients use the portal from their phone's browser — and we're new. That's exactly why the free tier and month-to-month billing exist: run a season through FinishTax, and if it doesn't hold up, walk away having risked nothing but an afternoon. See what we're building next on the roadmap.
— The founder · a working tax preparer
The first 10 firms get FinishTax for $39 a month for as long as they stay — the price never changes. And the founder does your setup with you, personally: client import, portal branding, your first e-sign envelope.
a limited number of spots, honestly counted. When they're gone, they're gone.
Add up what you're already paying for — see what one flat FinishTax plan replaces it with.
See how FinishTax stacks up head-to-head: TaxDome · Canopy · Karbon · SafeSend · Financial Cents · Liscio
Vendor prices above are each vendor's published list price, verified against its own public pricing page on August 6, 2026. They exclude negotiated rates and multi-year prepay discounts, and vary by plan tier — the point is that you're stacking per-seat subscriptions when one flat FinishTax plan would do. TaxDome includes its own e-signature and document storage, so the default stack only describes a firm that kept DocuSign and Dropbox anyway; uncheck those two and the difference is $2,400 a year rather than $4,020.
Free for up to 3 clients — no credit card, no time limit. Every paid plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
All paid plans include a 7-day free trial · Save 20% with annual billing · Cancel anytime, no contracts.
Every plan — even Free — includes a publishable firm website: four templates, your photo, your address at finish.tax.
Founding firm? $39/mo for life — see above.
The questions every preparer asks before switching.
Yes for remote signing that uses an identity check IRS guidance accepts — knowledge-based authentication or verification at NIST IAL2 — as described in Publication 1345. You choose the check per envelope, from an emailed one-time code up to a government ID + selfie at NIST IAL2. Unlimited envelopes on every paid plan, with no per-send fees.
Import your client book from CSV in minutes, brand your portal, and send your first organizer the same afternoon. No 6–8-week onboarding project.
No. Clients get a link to your branded web portal — upload, e-sign, pay, and message from any browser or phone. Nothing to download on your end either: FinishTax runs entirely in the browser.
Your data is stored in encrypted cloud storage on every plan, including free. Social Security Numbers are encrypted by FinishTax with AES-256-GCM before they reach the database; see our Security and Privacy Policy pages for details, including what's sent to our AI document classifier and when.
Yes — the Small Firm plan ($79/month) supports up to 5 team members with a shared client pool, task assignment, and a team activity log. The Agency plan supports unlimited team members. Billing is per-account, not per-seat.
A working tax preparer at a small firm — FinishTax started as the firm's own fix, not a pitch deck. Read the letter above, or the full version on the About page.
No demo call, no contract, no six-week setup project. If FinishTax doesn't make next season lighter, walk away having risked nothing but an afternoon.
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