How much does a lead cost for accounting firms with RankMeHi?

We have not published a price for accounting firms yet. Our published rule sets it: at most 5% of your average first engagement, never above the lowest price a lead marketplace publishes for the same enquiry, and written into the agreement before you sign. Before that there is a $490 founding-partner setup, which covers the design and a fast five-page site, live within 21 days of receiving your content or the setup is refunded, and $99 a month for hosting, the call-tracking number and your lead ledger. Your first three approved leads are free.

What counts as a billable lead for an accounting firm?

A new individual or business client, in your service area, asking about a service you offer, on a call over 60 seconds or through a form or text describing a real need such as a return, a notice or monthly books. Existing clients, vendors, job seekers, spam, wrong numbers, repeat contacts within 90 days and anyone outside your area are never billed. You can reject any lead within seven days with one tap.

Does the website ask clients for tax documents or Social Security numbers?

No. The form asks only for contact details and what help is needed. Documents and identification go through your own secure portal once you take the client on. Calls to the tracking number carry a spoken recording notice and the firm decides what it stores. The form is designed to collect the minimum; review it with whoever handles data security for your firm.

Do you work with other accounting firms in my city?

No. We take one partner per specialty in each city, so your enquiries are never shared with another accounting firm nearby. If your city is already taken we will tell you on the first call, and the fixed-price website project is still open to you.

CPA and bookkeeper marketing · pay per lead

Accounting firm marketing that bills for new clients, not tax-season noise.

A fast accounting firm website, service pages and your Google Business Profile for a $490 founding-partner setup. After launch you pay only for enquiries from new clients you approve.

Get my per-lead price What counts as a lead

$490 founding-partner setup, $99 a month, first three approved leads free. One accounting firm per city.

5%
at most, of your average cpas & bookkeepers job: the cap on the price per approved lead, written in before you sign
RankMeHi partner terms, confirmed 27 Sep 2026
26%
have no tap-to-call link on the homepage
RankMeHi study of 662 Orange County business websites. Crawl 25 to 26 Sep 2026; PageSpeed Insights, mobile, 26 Sep 2026.
79%
of sites take more than 4 seconds to show their main content on a phone
RankMeHi study of 662 Orange County business websites. Crawl 25 to 26 Sep 2026; PageSpeed Insights, mobile, 26 Sep 2026.

Why accounting firms lose calls

What a accounting firm's site has to do differently.

In one lineCPAs & Bookkeepers marketing from RankMeHi is a site, local SEO and a Business Profile built at cost, billed at a price set by the 5% rule per lead the accounting firm approves.

Accounting enquiries come in waves. From January to the April deadline individuals look for someone to file their return, and the calls that matter most arrive late: a missed extension, an IRS letter, a first year of self-employment. The rest of the year belongs to small businesses that need monthly bookkeeping, payroll, a new entity set up or someone to clean up a year of messy books.

So the site we build for an accounting firm separates the two: a tax page that says plainly whether you are still taking new returns this season, and business pages for bookkeeping, payroll and advisory work, with the industries you know best. Credentials matter here, CPA or enrolled agent, so they are on every page, along with fixed fees if you publish them.

What we build

Six things every accounting firm site gets, written for your jobs.

The same build as our fixed-price project: designed in Figma, shipped as a fast static site, edited in a CMS your team can use. These are the parts specific to your trade.

01
Tax preparation
Individual and business returns, extensions, and whether you are taking new clients this season, kept up to date.
02
IRS letters and back taxes
For the person holding a notice: what to send you, how quickly you respond and what representation involves.
03
Monthly bookkeeping and payroll
What a monthly package includes, the software you work in and how clients send documents.
04
Industries you serve
Contractors, restaurants, medical practices or whichever trades you know, each with the problems you solve for them.
05
Credentials and fees
CPA, EA or bookkeeper credentials for each person, and fixed fees or starting prices if you choose to publish them.
06
An enquiry form without documents
Contact details and what help is needed. No Social Security numbers and no tax documents on the website.

What you pay for

What counts as a cpas & bookkeepers lead, and what never does.

The rule is the same for every trade: a new customer, in your service area, asking about a service you offer, on a call over 60 seconds or through a form or text describing a real job. Here is what that looks like for you.

Billed at your written price

A small business owner in your area calls about monthly bookkeeping and the call runs over a minute
A form from someone who received an IRS notice and has not worked with the firm before

Never billed

An existing client asking whether their return has been filed
A software vendor or payroll provider pitching a partnership
A seasonal preparer asking about tax-season work
Anything you reject within seven days, one tap, no reason needed
Your first three approved leads

Cost of a lead

What a cpas & bookkeepers lead costs, side by side.

No price is published for accounting yet: it will be at most 5% of what an average first engagement is worth to you, never above the lowest marketplace price, agreed before signing.

Ways a accounting firm buys leads
Aspect	Price per lead	Shared with others	You approve first	A site you keep
Shared-lead marketplaces in general	Set by the marketplace	Three to five businesses	No	No
Retainer agency	Same fee with or without leads	Usually not	No	Usually
RankMeHi pay-per-lead partner	Set by the 5% rule, first three free	Never, one partner per city	Yes, seven days	Yes

Marketplace figures are the public price ranges on their pricing pages, read on 27 September 2026. The RankMeHi price is the published partner rate. Compare cost per lead across trades.

Proof

What we can show, honestly.

We have not published a result for accounting firms yet. The lead logs we can show are from an auto glass shop and a collision shop, and the method is the same: a fast site, a tracked number and a form that logs every enquiry. That is why the first partner in each field gets founding terms.

See the lead logs we do have

How it works

From first call to first lead in 21 days.

Four steps, and the money only starts moving at step three.

01
Free audit and a yes or no
Day 1
We check your demand, who answers the phone and whether your city is open. You get a written audit of the current site either way.
You getA price per lead in writing, and a straight answer on fit.
02
Design and build at cost
Days 2 to 21
A five-page site designed in Figma and built on a static stack, with the tracking number, call recording and the quote form wired in. Live within 21 days of receiving your content or the setup is refunded.
You getA fast site that is yours to keep, and a Business Profile pointed at it.
03
Leads land in your ledger
From launch
Every call and form arrives within the hour with the recording or the form text attached. Reject anything with one tap within seven days.
You getExclusive leads, and the first three free.
04
One invoice a month
Monthly
One line per approved lead, after the month ends, under the cap you set. New service and area pages are added as the ledger shows what converts.
You getA bill that only grows when the phone rings.

Questions

Questions accounting firms ask first.

: We have not published a price for accounting firms yet. Our published rule sets it: at most 5% of your average first engagement, never above the lowest price a lead marketplace publishes for the same enquiry, and written into the agreement before you sign. Before that there is a $490 founding-partner setup, which covers the design and a fast five-page site, live within 21 days of receiving your content or the setup is refunded, and $99 a month for hosting, the call-tracking number and your lead ledger. Your first three approved leads are free.
: A new individual or business client, in your service area, asking about a service you offer, on a call over 60 seconds or through a form or text describing a real need such as a return, a notice or monthly books. Existing clients, vendors, job seekers, spam, wrong numbers, repeat contacts within 90 days and anyone outside your area are never billed. You can reject any lead within seven days with one tap.
: No. The form asks only for contact details and what help is needed. Documents and identification go through your own secure portal once you take the client on. Calls to the tracking number carry a spoken recording notice and the firm decides what it stores. The form is designed to collect the minimum; review it with whoever handles data security for your firm.
: No. We take one partner per specialty in each city, so your enquiries are never shared with another accounting firm nearby. If your city is already taken we will tell you on the first call, and the fixed-price website project is still open to you.
: We have not published a result for accounting firms yet. The lead logs we can show are from an auto glass shop and a collision shop, and the method is the same: a fast site, a tracked number and a form that logs every enquiry. That is why the first partner in each field gets founding terms.