Run your firm from one place, and see which work actually pays.
Unicorn is practice-management software built by people who run a bookkeeping, payroll and tax firm. Clients, projects, timecards, documents, billing and profitability, together, with security built in from day one.
One screen, the whole firm
Sample numbers for an imaginary firm, to show the idea.
One recovered hour a week can pay for Unicorn.
Every firm leaks billable time: the ten-minute call nobody logged, the fixed fee that ran over, the work that sat unbilled until it was forgotten. Unicorn is built to find that time and get it onto an invoice.
Try your own numbers
An illustration, not a promise: results depend on your firm, your rates and how your team uses Unicorn. Monthly = rate × hours × people × 52 ÷ 12.
Time that never gets recorded
A one-click timer on every client and project catches the quick calls, emails and fixes.
Time that never gets billed
Finished work lands in a billing queue, and Unicorn alerts you when time sits unbilled for 30 days.
Fixed fees that quietly lose money
Every project shows estimated hours against actual, so you see which engagements to reprice.
Write-downs nobody tracks
Each write-down records a reason, by client, service and staff member, so patterns are easy to spot.
Hours spent chasing documents
Document requests send their own reminders, so staff time goes to billable work instead.
Clients kept at old prices
Profitability by client shows who costs more to serve than they pay, with the entries to prove it.
What's annoying you about your current setup?
Tap everything that sounds familiar. You'll see how Unicorn handles it, and if you request a demo, your picks come with it so we know what matters to you.
Pick a frustration.
Each one shows what Unicorn does about it, using features that work today.
How it works
Client portal
Clients upload documents, answer requests, message your team and see invoices, on a computer or a phone.
Projects that repeat themselves
Start from a library of 94 bookkeeping, payroll and tax services. Recurring work is created on schedule and assigned automatically.
Timecards and time off
Payroll clock-in, a timer for client work, time-off requests and balances that follow your own policies.
Billing without the gaps
Review unbilled time, write it up or down, invoice, record payments and export to QuickBooks Online or Desktop.
Profitability you can see
Hours, billable value and write-downs by client, staff member and office, with drill-down to the entries behind each number.
Set up in an afternoon
A step-by-step setup checklist, and your client list imported from a spreadsheet such as a QuickBooks customer export.
Built for firms that hold tax data
Designed around IRS Publication 5708 and the FTC Safeguards Rule, so the controls your written security plan calls for are already switched on.
- Two-factor sign-in for every staff member and client
- Encryption with a separate key for each firm
- Every upload scanned for viruses
- Nightly encrypted backups, with a restore test every quarter
- A security log of every sign-in and change, with a 90-day review
- Staff business hours and step-up checks before sensitive data
Request a demo
See Unicorn with your own questions in mind. We're also taking a small group of beta firms, who work directly with the people building Unicorn.
Pick what bugs you above and we'll include it with your request.
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