Co-Delivery for Accounting Firms
Win the clients you’d otherwise have to turn away.
Co-delivery for accounting firms means you keep the client while we handle the platform switch behind the scenes. Every quarter, accounting firms lose deals that should have closed. The prospect is a strong fit. The pricing works. The relationship is right. Then the firm asks what they’re running on, and the conversation goes sideways. They’re on Sage Intacct, you’re a QuickBooks shop. They’re on NetSuite, your team doesn’t touch ERP. They’re on Dynamics GP, your tech stack doesn’t include it. The deal moves to the next firm on their list.
SaaS Direct removes that barrier. We migrate new client books from any source platform onto the system your firm is built around, so platform mismatch stops costing you accounts.
15,000+ migrations · 90+ source systems · Big 4 trained team · We never take your client
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Lost Deals
The Lost Deal You’re Tired of Losing
A referral lands in your firm’s pipeline. Discovery goes well. Pricing aligns. The prospect wants to switch. Then they mention the system they’re currently on, and now you’re in one of two bad positions.
Walk Away
You walk away from the deal, knowing a competitor will close it.
Take It Anyway
You take the deal anyway and absorb the operational drag, retraining your team on a system you don’t specialize in, slowing down your standard onboarding, and putting the relationship at risk before it even starts.
Both options cost you. The first costs you a client. The second costs you margin, team morale, and delivery quality on every other client in your book.
A $30k/yr client lost to a platform mismatch is $150k over five years.
Process
How Co-Delivery for Accounting Firms Works
The model is straightforward. You qualify and close the client on your terms. We handle the system transition before you start serving them.
You qualify the client
You qualify the client and define the destination platform (the system your firm operates on). You’re included on the qualification call from the start.
You introduce SaaS Direct
You introduce SaaS Direct as your migration partner during onboarding or scoping. You’re cc’d on the intro and every message that follows.
We execute the migration
We execute the migration from the client’s current platform to your preferred stack. Typical timelines are 4-6 weeks for standard scopes, with multi-entity engagements running 6-10 weeks. You get a status update at every migration milestone.
You onboard the client
You onboard the client on your standard stack, the way you do every other engagement. We stay available if migration questions come up during onboarding.
Ongoing support
We can stay involved for technology advisory, integration work, or system optimization, or hand off completely. Your call.
Source Systems
Source Platforms We Move From
We move clients off virtually any general ledger or ERP platform, including
If a client is on a platform we haven’t named, ask. We’ve executed migrations off 90+ source systems.
Destination Systems
Destination Platforms We Move To
If your firm specializes in any of these, we can land your client there
Why SaaS Direct
Why Firms Choose SaaS Direct as a Co-Delivery Partner
We don’t compete with you
We have no bookkeeping arm, no fractional CFO offering, no tax practice. Your client stays your client.
15,000+ migrations executed
Across SMB, mid-market, multi-entity, and franchise environments. Whatever you’re handing us has likely been done before.
Big 4 trained team
Audit defensibility, controls discipline, and reporting integrity are not afterthoughts. They’re the methodology.
Single accountable partner
One point of contact through scoping, execution, and stabilization.
Multi-platform fluency
We’re not a QuickBooks shop or a NetSuite shop. We’re a migration shop. That means we can route any client onto your preferred system without bias toward our own technology stack.
Data security is built in
Migrations run over encrypted connections, and access to client data is limited to the engagement team for the duration of the project.
Every migration is validated before handoff
We reconcile trial balances, transaction counts, and account mappings between source and destination, so you’re not taking our word for it.
Co-Delivery
What Makes a Good Co-Delivery Engagement
This model works best when:
- The destination platform is decided (or the client is open to a recommendation from your firm)
- The migration scope is bounded (transaction-level data move, not a multi-year transformation)
- The firm wants to retain the client relationship and ongoing services
- Speed matters (typical clients need to be operational on the new system within 4 to 10 weeks)
If you’re not sure whether a specific opportunity fits, that’s what the discovery conversation is for.
What Firm Partners Are Saying
Real feedback from the firms we’ve partnered with on client migrations.
“We brought SaaS Direct in to support a client migration where reporting integrity and structural clarity were essential. From planning through execution, the project was managed with strong communication and technical precision. Our client now benefits from cleaner data, improved cross-entity visibility, and a system that supports informed decision-making instead of manual workarounds. From a firm standpoint, that’s the standard we expect in a complex engagement.”
Financial System Migration FAQ
Will you try to take my client?
Do I refer the client, or do you work through me?
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What does this cost?
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Start a Co-Delivery Conversation
If you have a prospect on a platform your firm doesn’t specialize in, or a current client who needs to migrate before you can fully take them on, let’s talk. We’ll scope the migration, propose a timeline, and let you focus on what your firm does best.
48-hour response on new inquiries · Proposal within 5–7 business days · 30-minute scoping call