Ignition

What Ignition is

Ignition sells to professional-services firms, moving a client from the first proposal to money in the bank, and standing in for the separate tools a firm would otherwise patch together for proposals, contracts, and billing.

The pitch is prospect to paid, which means bank or card details are captured while the proposal is being signed, so money is taken on schedule with nobody sending reminders.

The sectors named are agencies, consulting, advisory, bookkeeping, and accounting, firms that earn from repeat work under a standing agreement.

What you can do with it

Proposals are assembled and sent online, carrying terms and scope, with extra services added at that moment, and once it is signed both parties are bound.

Billing runs to the agreed schedule, and since payment details were taken at proposal time, money is collected automatically instead of by a monthly nudge.

Changes to scope can be charged straight away, which matters when work keeps drifting beyond what was first agreed. Anti-money-laundering checks sit alongside a pricing feature, and there are connectors through to accounting and practice-management software.

Who it is for

Service firms billing the same clients repeatedly and wanting to stop chasing invoices by hand are the audience, from sole practitioners up to mid-market and enterprise practices.

What it integrates with, and the sectors it covers, aim it squarely at accounting, bookkeeping, and advisory work. Consultancies and agencies on retainers fit too, as do financial advisers.

Practices that lose days each month to unpaid invoices are another case, along with firms that want billing to stop being a conversation.

What to watch out for

What it quotes includes growth credited to the pricing feature, stories from clients who are named, and how many customers it has. All of it comes from the vendor. Those numbers are plausible if a firm adopts the whole workflow, and they remain promotion rather than a prediction.

Automating collection removes friction on both sides: taking card details at proposal time and debiting them later should be spelled out in the engagement terms, because the permission to charge is carrying a great deal.

Holding card details alongside anti-money-laundering checks in one product concentrates sensitive financial material, so access control and the vendor's own handling terms carry more weight.

No prices on the homepage, but a brief trial needing no card, plus a sales route for bigger firms. One region is named as lacking payment support, so confirm it works where you are before signing up.