Migrate · facts captured 2026-08-24

Leave Rightworks without losing the month.

Keep hosting if desktop tax still runs there. Map books with a CSV. Map firm clients on Practice → Import. Reconnect email. Do not move tax prep.

Nominative guide, not a partnership. No API keys, no endpoint list, no importer internals. Those stay behind login for clients. Tax prep stays last. ficary has not earned SOC 2, ISO 27001, or a HIPAA attestation.

The move

  1. Leave desktop tax and QuickBooks Desktop on the host if that is still the work.
  2. Export the books you want ficary to close. Map the CSV in Settings → Migration.
  3. Export the firm client list. Map it on Practice → Import.
  4. Reconnect email. Do not import mail from the host.

Stay on Rightworks when

Choose Rightworks when staff must open desktop tax or QuickBooks Desktop from anywhere.

Move when

Choose ficary when leftovers, as-of WIP, and a sanctioned-tool list matter more than a hosted desktop.

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Practice + books

Map a native export. Confirm counts.

Write us when you are ready to leave. Do not re-key a ficary workbook.