One seat, everything on it.

Where these numbers come from

A cost calculator with no stated method is an advert. Here is ours, so you can check it.

They are published list prices, each read off the vendor’s own page

Most are charged per user per year; the ones sold as a firm-wide plan are added once rather than multiplied by your headcount. Nearly every firm negotiates something off list, so treat the total as an upper bound on what you pay and a lower bound on the mess.

• TaxDome Business $1,200 per user per year · pricing page, checked Sep 30, 2026
• Canopy Plus $1,308 per user per year · pricing page, checked Sep 30, 2026
• TheTaxBook WebLibrary Plus $199 per user per year · pricing page, checked Sep 30, 2026
• DocuSign Standard $360 per user per year · pricing page, checked Sep 30, 2026
• Zoom Workplace Pro $170 per user per year · pricing page, checked Sep 30, 2026

CCH Document, CCH Engagement, TicTie Calculate, TaxGPT, RCReports are not in the total

We could not read a per-user yearly list price for them on the vendor’s own site: some sell on quote, some by the engagement or workstation, and some pages could not be loaded. A number we cannot cite is worse than no number, so they are left for you to add.

Your side is $129 per user per month, and that is the whole number

Billed monthly. There is no annual rate to discount against, no tier above it, and no module priced separately — all 18 are on every seat. The comparison is a single line because the offer is.

Two things are metered on top, and neither is in the total

IRS-compliant KBA identity verification is charged per verification, and postage on physical mail is charged per item. Both are usage you would be paying someone for anyway, but they are not in the seat and they are not in the figure above.

We do not replace your tax preparation software

Drake, Lacerte, ProSeries, UltraTax CS and CCH Axcess prepare returns; LedgerOS runs the practice around them and files what they export. That bill does not go away, which is why it is not in the list to tick.

The list is a starting point, not a claim about your firm

It is pre-ticked with what a typical small firm runs. Untick anything you do not have — even the cheapest line on it, Zoom Workplace Pro at $170 per user per year, is only in your total if it is genuinely in your stack.