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From the CarteFi Team
Thoughts on accounting software, transparent pricing, and building tools for modern businesses.
How to Know If a Client Is Actually Profitable
Most services firm owners can name their largest client by revenue, but not their most profitable one. The data needed to find out lives in three different systems -- which is why most small firms never assemble it.
Read more →The 28% Problem: Why Professional Services Firms Lose Almost a Third of Their Billable Hours
Industry data shows services firms fail to capture 10-28% of billable work. The leakage comes from delayed time entry, micro-task omission, scope creep absorption, and reflexive write-downs -- and disconnected tools make it worse.
Read more →Why Most Accounting Software Wasn't Built for Firms That Sell Time
General-purpose accounting tools assume a product business model. For professional services firms, that mismatch quietly erodes project visibility, billable capture, and profitability.
Read more →A La Carte Accounting: Why Modular Pricing Makes Sense
Why modular, a la carte pricing is a better model for accounting software. How picking your own modules saves money and reduces complexity.
Read more →CarteFi vs QuickBooks: What You Actually Pay
A real-world pricing comparison between CarteFi and QuickBooks Online. See what businesses of different sizes actually pay with each platform.
Read more →Why We Built CarteFi
The story behind CarteFi -- why we built an a la carte accounting platform and what we believe accounting software should be.
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