# Ignition

> Proposals, engagement letters and automatic billing for firms

Ignition is a proposal and billing platform for accounting firms, agencies and other service businesses. Clients accept a proposal and its engagement letter online and give their payment details at the same time, after which Ignition raises invoices and collects payments on the agreed schedule. Plans are priced by the number of active clients, with a 14-day trial.

- **Category:** E-Signatures & Proposals
- **Made by:** Ignition (since 2013)
- **Website:** https://www.ignitionapp.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Ignition is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $39 per month for up to 20 active clients, billed annually ($49 monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of every feature, including up to $10,000 in fee-free payments; no credit card needed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Solo | $39 per month for up to 20 active clients, billed annually ($49 monthly) | 1 user and 1 e-signature per proposal; extra active clients $7 each. Only for firms under $150,000 a year in revenue that connect Xero or QuickBooks. |
| Core | $99 per month for up to 50 active clients, billed annually ($149 monthly) | 3 users, bulk proposals, single proposal renewals, set-up help and a custom brochure design; extra active clients $5 each. |
| Pro | $229 per month for up to 350 active clients, billed annually ($279 monthly) | 15 users, 2 signers per proposal, bulk renewals, custom domain and email branding, forms, Zapier and practice-software links; extra clients $3 each. |
| Pro+ | $399 per month for up to 600 active clients, billed annually ($499 monthly) | 20 users, 10 signers per proposal, proposal reviews and approvals, deals pipeline, advanced reports, reporting API and 1-hour support; extra clients $2 each. |
| Enterprise | Custom | For multi-office firms: a tailored client and user package, unlimited document signing, AI price insights and high-volume payment discounts. |

Read from https://www.ignitionapp.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ignition before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 18% to 34% with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page marks annual billing as 20% off Solo, 34% off Core, 18% off Pro and 20% off Pro+: Core is $99 a month billed annually against $149 monthly. Source: https://www.ignitionapp.com/pricing
- **25% off for 6 months, until October 31** (Other savings): A banner shown to US visitors offers 25% off for 6 months to mark the end of tax season, ending October 31. It links to a demo request. Source: https://www.ignitionapp.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Proposals with options:** Branded online proposals with up to 3 options, add-ons and a preloaded library of services. Core and higher plans send proposals in bulk.
- **Engagement letters:** Engagement letter or contract terms go with each proposal, from an industry-standard template or your own wording, and are accepted with it.
- **Automatic billing and payments:** Clients give card or bank details as they accept; invoices and payments then run one-off, recurring, hourly, quarterly or yearly.
- **Accounting sync:** Creates invoices in Xero or QuickBooks Online and imports unpaid ones. Pro adds Gusto, Karbon, Xero Practice Manager, ProConnect and Zapier.
- **Scope changes and renewals:** Change the scope of a signed proposal and bill for out-of-scope work. Core renews proposals one at a time; Pro and Pro+ renew them in bulk.
- **AI Price Insights:** Price benchmarks and suggestions drawn from proposal data, sold as an add-on at $349 a year for 200 insights in the US.

## Good for

- Accounting, tax and bookkeeping firms billing clients on recurring engagements
- Agencies and consultants that want payment details collected at signing
- Firms on Xero or QuickBooks Online that want invoices created for them

## Worth knowing

- Prices follow active clients, those with an accepted proposal still in its term: Solo covers 20, Core 50, Pro 350 and Pro+ 600, then $2 to $7 per extra client.
- Payments carry fees: 2.5% + $0.30 for standard cards, 3.6% + $0.30 for Amex and premium cards, and 1% + $0.30 for ACH, capped at $5 plus 0.3% above $3,000.
- Solo and Core allow 1 signer per proposal; signing documents other than proposals starts on Pro, with 500 a year, and is unlimited on Pro+.
- Zapier and practice-software links start on Pro. The deals pipeline and online forms are $49 a month add-ons below Pro+ and Pro.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Ignition is for firms that send the same kind of proposal every year: the client picks an option, accepts the engagement letter and hands over card or bank details in one go, then the invoices go out on schedule by themselves. That saves a lot of chasing. But it's priced well above plain proposal tools, and as a signing tool it's thin.

- **Value for money: D.** Graded against its own alternatives. Solo is $39 a month billed yearly ($49 monthly) for 1 user and 20 active clients, and only for firms under $150,000 a year. That's two to three times PandaDoc's $19 or Better Proposals' $13 a user. Core is $99 for 3 users.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day free trial of every feature with no card needed, including up to $10,000 in fee-free payments. That's enough to send real proposals and collect a first payment. There's no free plan.
- **Features: C.** Proposals with options, engagement letters, payment details taken at signing, then automatic invoicing and Xero or QuickBooks sync. It goes past proposal tools on billing, but signing is thin: 1 signer per proposal on Solo and Core, and other documents only from Pro.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. There's a services library to fill, engagement letter wording to settle and Xero or QuickBooks to connect before the first proposal goes out.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Xero, QuickBooks Online and Slack on every plan, and Gusto, Karbon, Xero Practice Manager and Zapier from Pro. No phone or desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ignition's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among e-signature and proposal tools

- Ignition's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 1 of the 20 other e-signature and proposal tools we grade, and level with 4.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 1 of 20) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $39 a month, against a middle price of $11 for the category: 18 of the 20 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 9 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/e-signatures

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Your call.** You could make the core of Ignition for yourself: quotes and estimates, invoicing and templates. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $468 a year.

- You could make: Quotes and estimates, invoicing and templates: an app builder makes these well.
- You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Xero, QuickBooks Online and Slack among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Xero, QuickBooks Online, Slack, Zapier, Gusto, Karbon, Xero Practice Manager, Financial Cents

**Tags:** Quotes and estimates, Invoicing, Templates, AI features

## Alternatives

- [PandaDoc](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pandadoc): Proposals, quotes and contracts with e-signatures and tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ignition-vs-pandadoc)
- [Better Proposals](https://toolgpa.com/tools/better-proposals): Proposal builder with e-signatures, payments and open tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/better-proposals-vs-ignition)
- [Prospero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prospero): Proposal software with templates, tracking and built-in e-signatures. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ignition-vs-prospero)
- [Docusign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/docusign): E-signature service for sending, signing and tracking agreements. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/docusign-vs-ignition)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.ignitionapp.com/pricing
- https://www.ignitionapp.com/api/pricing.json?overrideRegion=us
- https://www.ignitionapp.com
- https://www.ignitionapp.com/about

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ignition
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).