Practice management software pricing: seats, add-ons, and real TCO

Incumbents publish seat grids. Those numbers are honest enough as starting points and incomplete as a budget. The invoice that hurts is the one that appears after you add close automation, tax credits, e-sign packs, and a month of dual entry while the team still lives in Outlook. Named list prices live on the compare pages.

Sticker prices you can actually look up

These figures are from vendor marketing in 2026. They move. Verify on the vendor’s pricing page before you take them to a partner meeting.

• Public mid-market list prices in 2026 often land between about $50 and $150 per user per month before add-ons. Read the sourced rows on /compare.
• Small tax-shop suites are often cheaper all-in; confirm what is bundled versus portal and e-sign extras.
• ficary — owner product is Free to start, Pro through Stripe for bills, vendors, jobs, and purchase orders. Firm-platform pricing is not published because that product is not for sale as a finished suite yet.

A TCO worksheet that fits on a legal pad

1. Seats × 12. Count every human who will open the tool, including seasonal.
2. Add-ons. Close, tax workflow, AI copilots, SMS, and storage overages.
3. Payments and e-sign. Per-envelope and per-transaction fees compound.
4. Implementation. Four to six weeks of partner time is a real cost, even if the vendor calls onboarding “included.”
5. The ledger you still pay for. If QBO or Xero remains the book of record, keep that subscription in the total.
6. Switching tax. Firms keep a platform 7–10 years. Price the exit, not only the first year.

Questions that expose the real quote

• What is the all-in price for our current headcount with portal, e-sign, and time/billing turned on?
• What happens to price at 2× seats?
• Which features on the demo deck are a different SKU?
• Do you train models on our data, and where is that written?
• If we leave, do we get a full export of work, email, and files in a format another system can read?

How ficary will talk about price

We will not invent a firm SKU in a blog post. The owner product is live on Free/Pro. The enterprise practice track is a build with an isolation story — not a price list. When firm seats exist, the quote should survive a spreadsheet: seats, data plane, AI inference, and the ledger included, not bolted on. Until then, judge us on the books product you can click today.

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