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title: "What a CPA Firm Website Costs in 2026 | TechTailors"
description: "CPA website pricing across CPA Site Solutions, Build Your Firm, and CountingWorks PRO from their own published pages, next to TechTailors' Professional plan and the FTC Safeguards Rule story."
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updated: 2026-10-11
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# What a CPA firm website costs in 2026

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[Mac Goldman](https://techtailors.agency/blog/author/mac-goldman/)

Mac Goldman

Founder & CEO of TechTailors. Believes businesses deserve to own their digital infrastructure.

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August 28, 2026 · 8 min read

- [Comparisons](https://techtailors.agency/blog/tag/comparisons/)
- [Pricing](https://techtailors.agency/blog/tag/pricing/)
- [Accounting](https://techtailors.agency/blog/tag/accounting/)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

## The answer first

Accounting is the rare vertical where the website vendors publish their prices. In 2026 the template platforms run **$85.50 to $166.50 a month** (Build Your Firm, CPA Site Solutions), and the platform-plus-AI tier runs **$150 to $500** (CountingWorks PRO). A basic website costs **$6,500 to $15,000 on average** (WebFX’s 2026 web design pricing guide). A comparable site from TechTailors at the Professional plan, about 7 billable pages for a typical firm, is **$525 a month: $9,300 in year one on monthly billing, or $6,750 with annual prepay**, from a published rate card. The difference that lasts: at month 13 you own every account and can buy out the code. On the platforms, you own a subscription.

## What the incumbents charge

| Provider | Monthly | Setup | Contract | Notes | Source and date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [CPA Site Solutions](https://www.cpasitesolutions.com/pricing.php) | $90.00 Silver, $111.00 Gold, $137.00 Platinum, $166.50 Diamond | $0 ($99 on Diamond) | None; cancel anytime | “Additional HTTPS Website Security” is a $9.99/mo add-on; unlimited portal storage is $250/mo below Diamond | Primary: their pricing page, captured 2026-08-28 |
| [Build Your Firm](https://www.buildyourfirm.com/websites/accounting-website-types) | From $85.50/mo (Essential); from $108.00/mo (niche or custom) | $0 Essential; one-time fee on niche/custom | None | SSL and SEO included; content library and newsletter | Primary: their website-types page, captured 2026-08-28 |
| [CountingWorks PRO](https://www.countingworkspro.com/pricing) | $150 Starter, $200 Grow, $300 Premier, $500 Premier Plus (10% annual discount) | None listed | Monthly or annual | A client-journey platform with AI credits; the website is one component | Primary: their pricing page, captured 2026-08-28 |
| [WebFX](https://www.webfx.com/web-design/pricing/) (general agency, reference) | From $8,000/month (its own web design services) | Not published | Varies | Its 2026 guide puts an average basic website at $6,500–$15,000, and most businesses’ yearly web design spend at $501–$5,000 | Primary: WebFX’s 2026 web design pricing guide, re-checked 2026-09-30; also in our [benchmark library](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/benchmarks/) |

Credit where due: this vertical mostly does publish its numbers, which is more than the legal-website market manages. Read the fine print anyway. When HTTPS hardening is a $9.99 add-on and unlimited portal storage is $250 a month below the top tier, the sticker is only the start of the math.

There is also a sameness problem the price sheets never mention. These platforms sell the same templates and the same pre-written content library to thousands of firms; Build Your Firm and CPA Site Solutions both advertise the library as a feature. Google has no reason to rank the four-hundredth copy of the same tax-tips page, so the cheap sticker often buys an invisible site, and invisibility is the most expensive feature in this table.

## What TechTailors charges for the same job

A typical firm site runs about 11 actual pages: home, five services sharing one layout plus their overview page, team, about, contact, a resources page. Under [page-type pricing](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/) that is **7 billable pages** at the Professional plan’s $75/page/month: the services bill as one page, and the overview as one more.

| Line item | Monthly billing | Annual prepay (10-for-12) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Build fee (published rate card: 6 pages × $250 + 1 page-type × $750, Blueprint credited in full) | $2,250 | $1,125 (half waived) |
| Security-baseline setup (small band, one-time) | $750 | $375 (half waived) |
| Monthly plan ($525 a month) | $6,300 | $5,250 |
| **Year-one total** | **$9,300** | **$6,750** |

Plus the Cloudflare Business plan the baseline runs on: about $250 a month, roughly $200 on annual billing, billed by Cloudflare to your own account. We list it because hiding a cost you pay is how “as low as” pricing works.

Why Professional and not the cheaper plan? The FTC’s Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314) treats tax preparers as financial institutions, and IRS Publications 4557 and 5708 expect a Written Information Security Plan behind that. Your website is part of the covered surface. The Professional plan’s security baseline is the website chapter of that WISP as configuration: encryption everywhere, multi-factor sign-in on every admin surface, intake forms that collect name, contact, and topic and never a tax document, a signed agreement from every vendor touching data, and breach-notification readiness with the FTC’s timeline in the runbook. An annual review produces a one-page attestation letter your WISP file and your insurer can both cite. Elsewhere, HTTPS hardening is a $9.99 add-on; here it’s part of the plan. Compute your own numbers in the [calculator](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/calculator/).

## What the premium buys

TechTailors is a premium web studio, the deliberate opposite of an agency, priced above the template vendors on purpose. The extra money buys a site hand-coded for your firm, with no theme, page builder, or plugin CMS to patch. It is designed once, for you, rather than adapted from a library your competitors also rent. Performance carries a written guarantee: if a page drops below 96 in any Lighthouse category and we don’t restore it within 48 hours of your report, that page is free that month. The security work is graded A+ by three independent scanners, and you can [re-run every scan](https://techtailors.agency/security/) yourself.

The monthly plan is fully managed, priced so you never think about the site between tax seasons. Unlimited content edits and maintenance run for the life of your monthly plan. Security patches land without you asking, and technology upgrades are automatic at no extra cost, so your site never ages out into a rebuild quote. Every month we run a Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals health audit and email you the scores with a plain-language summary of what we worked on, so the invoice always has a story attached. The [SLAs are published](https://techtailors.agency/policies/support-sla/) with credits we track ourselves, and every plan carries a 99.9% uptime guarantee that credits automatically (hosted add-ons stack their own SLAs on top).

The catalog is deeper than a website shop’s, too: blogging on a CMS, e-commerce, digital advertising, CRO and A/B testing, analytics and ROI reporting, multi-language, site search, and custom integrations all live on the same published rate card, month-to-month after the first year. A firm that starts with seven billable pages never needs a second vendor to grow.

Search is where the gap pays for itself. Every build includes on-page SEO, a managed Google Business Profile, NAP citations, LocalBusiness schema, sitemaps, and GEO/AEO work for AI-driven search. TechTailors is founder-led by someone who came up through SEO. The local map pack for “CPA near me” is the kind of fight a fast, original site wins against the four-hundredth template. When a firm wants to press harder, [SEO add-ons](https://techtailors.agency/services/seo/) bolt on; the foundation never costs extra.

The service is personal because the company is: the person who built your site answers when you need something, on a published response clock: 24 hours on Professional, nights and weekends included. Clients text us directly. [Custom integrations](https://techtailors.agency/services/custom-integration/) run $250 one-time per service, which can retire a recurring middleware subscription in one invoice. Intake-to-portal automation is a natural first project. Discounts stack, too. Annual prepay is two months free and halves the build and setup fees, and a bulk discount takes up to $1,000 off per month as spend grows. The [referral program](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/) earns you up to $10,000 in invoice credit.

We also price the exits. The Blueprint is a fixed quote, and its deliverable is yours to keep even if you never sign. The build bills by milestone, so you never prepay work. And the 30-day guarantee is an exit, not a refund, from the remaining 11 months if the fit is wrong within 30 days of signing. The exit fee is zero, and offboarding is documented before you sign. The code buy-out is open from day one. Have us build the site and buy out the code at Go Live for the at-signing cap ($15,700 on a site billed at $525 a month), or stay managed and watch it fall to $9,400 after four anniversaries. Both paths are standard. The annual review states, in writing, when you should be paying us less; ask a template vendor for that sentence.

Because every build holds WCAG accessibility standards, an eligible small business may qualify for the federal ADA Section 44 credit of up to $5,000 a year (IRS Form 8826). The [calculator](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/calculator/) estimates it, and you, of all people, know an estimate is not tax advice.

## Month 13: what you hold

Month 13 is only the comparison point. Every account is yours from day one, and the buy-out can be exercised at Go Live as easily as at year four.

| At month 13 | TechTailors | Typical accounting-web platform |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Domain and DNS | Your registrar, your Cloudflare zone | Vendor-managed domain optional at ~$30/yr; transfer varies |
| Hosting | Our Cloudflare account, until a buy-out moves the site to yours | The vendor’s platform |
| Analytics history | Your accounts, exportable free | Vendor dashboards |
| Content | Yours, exportable | Template content is licensed, not yours; your own writing varies |
| The site code | Buy-out any time; the price drops at every anniversary you stay | Template platform; no ownership path |
| Cost to leave | Zero exit fee, documented offboarding | Rebuild; month-to-month vendors at least let you go quickly |

## When each option is the right call

**Build Your Firm at $85.50** is the honest budget answer for a solo practitioner or EA whose clients come from referrals and who wants a credible, maintained presence with no ownership ambitions. **CPA Site Solutions** fits firms that want the content library, portal, and newsletter machine in one monthly plan and accept the add-on math. **CountingWorks PRO** is a practice-growth platform more than a website; evaluate it as software for your client journey, with the site as one feature. **WebFX and general agencies** make sense at multi-partner scale where the marketing budget is five figures a month. **TechTailors** is the right call when the Safeguards Rule is real for you, or when your insurer asks questions a template vendor cannot answer in writing. It also fits if you want an asset that competes: a design no other firm runs, SEO included with the build, owned accounts, a documented baseline with an annual attestation, and a code buy-out whose price falls every year you stay.

## Verify us

Our one public client site is live and testable: [goldmanchiropracticcenter.com](https://goldmanchiropracticcenter.com/), with [its PageSpeed results](https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoldmanchiropracticcenter.com) one click away, the same monthly test behind our [Lighthouse guarantee](https://techtailors.agency/policies/support-sla/). The [full rescue story, with the before-and-after walkthrough](https://techtailors.agency/case-studies/goldman-chiropractic/), shows how that site got this way. Our own security posture is graded by three independent scanners at [/security](https://techtailors.agency/security/). Want to test us without a sales call? Run your current site through the [website health checker](https://techtailors.agency/website-health-checker/), price your firm in the [calculator](https://techtailors.agency/pricing/calculator/), or order the free [Agency Audit](https://techtailors.agency/agency-audit/). The [full series](https://techtailors.agency/blog/tag/comparisons/) runs the same math for law firms, advisors, medical practices, and therapists.

## Sources

CPA Site Solutions pricing page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · Build Your Firm accounting-website-types page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · CountingWorks PRO pricing page (primary, captured 2026-08-28) · WebFX web design pricing guide (primary, re-checked 2026-09-30; also in our benchmark library). Screenshots dated and stored in our repository.

Prices verified 2026-08-28 (WebFX re-checked 2026-09-30); re-checked quarterly.

Quick answers

## Frequently asked questions

### How much does a CPA firm website cost per month in 2026?

The vertical template vendors publish their prices: Build Your Firm from $85.50/month, CPA Site Solutions $90 to $166.50, CountingWorks PRO $150 to $500. A basic website costs $6,500 to $15,000 on average (WebFX's 2026 web design pricing guide). TechTailors' Professional plan for a typical 7-billable-page firm site is $525 a month, with every number published.

### Does the FTC Safeguards Rule apply to my accounting firm's website?

If you prepare taxes, the FTC treats you as a financial institution under the Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314), and IRS Publications 4557 and 5708 expect a Written Information Security Plan. Your website is part of that surface: encryption, MFA on admin access, minimal intake forms, vendor agreements, and breach readiness all belong in the WISP. TechTailors' Professional baseline is that set, configured and documented before Go Live, with artifacts your WISP can cite.

### Should client tax documents go through my website?

No. The website's forms should collect name, contact, and topic only; tax documents, Social Security numbers, and return data belong in a dedicated portal under your own account. That boundary is written into the Professional plan's form-handling control, and it is the difference between a marketing site and a liability.

### Why does TechTailors cost more than the accounting template vendors?

Because it is a different product. TechTailors is a premium web studio, the deliberate opposite of an agency: hand-coded sites instead of a shared template library, performance guaranteed in writing (a page below 96 on any Lighthouse category that we don't restore within 48 hours of your report is free that month), security graded A+ by three public scanners, and SEO included with every build, from a managed Google Business Profile to LocalBusiness schema, led by a founder with a deep SEO background. Annual prepay narrows the gap with two months free and half off the build and setup fees.

### Is a template accounting website good enough?

Often, yes. A solo practitioner whose clients come entirely from referrals is well served at Build Your Firm's $85.50 a month, and we say so. Pay more only for what lasts: performance, a documented security baseline your insurer and your WISP can use, and a buy-out on your terms: at Go Live, or cheaper every year you stay.

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