Finye vs Ignition
Ignition wins and bills the work; Finye runs the practice that delivers it — and the two can sit side by side.
Ignition (formerly Practice Ignition) is best known for turning proposals into signed engagements and then into automated billing and payments. It is very good at the “win the work and get paid” part of running a firm. Finye sits in a different part of the practice: it is the operating system your team works in every day — client records, work items, recurring jobs, compliance deadlines, a client portal and invoicing.
The clearest way to think about Finye and Ignition is by the job each does best. Ignition's centre of gravity is the front of the engagement: scoping services, sending a professional proposal, capturing the client's signature and payment details, and then automating the invoices and collections that follow. If your priority is standardising how you price and get paid, that is Ignition's home ground.
Finye's centre of gravity is delivery and client service. Once work is won, it has to be done: requests tracked, jobs assigned, deadlines watched, documents collected, approvals gathered and clients kept in the loop. Finye turns each client request into a work item on a board, generates recurring jobs like quarterly BAS automatically, tracks Australian lodgment obligations and their due dates, and gives clients a portal to upload documents, approve work and pay invoices. It also handles engagement letters and e-signing (via Annature or DocuSign) and can raise invoices with Stripe or Square.
Because they focus on different stages, many firms happily run both — Ignition for proposals and billing automation, Finye as the practice's day-to-day workspace. If you would rather consolidate, Finye covers engagement letters, invoicing and payments alongside the workflow, portal and compliance tracking that Ignition does not aim to provide. Finye does not, however, replace a proposal-and-pricing engine as deep as Ignition's, and it is not a bookkeeping ledger or tax-lodgment tool.