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title: "CPA firm website design · Cider for Accountants"
description: "CPA firm websites: tax, audit and advisory pages, the industries you know, partners' credentials and your client portal linked. Free first draft, from $499."
url: "https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/cpa-firms"
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Website design for CPA firms

# CPA firm website design that *earns the first meeting*

A CPA firm's website is read by two people: the business owner deciding whether you understand their industry, and the client who needs the portal the week of a deadline. We give each practice and industry you serve its own page, with the portal and secure upload one tap away. That takes the room of the Pro launch, $999, due only after you sign off on a free first draft.

[Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/start?plan=launch_pro) [See the work](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/work)

- Free first draft
- Fixed price from $499
- Pay only at launch

We usually recommend the [Pro launch](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants#prices): up to 15 pages, $999 once.

## What a CPA firm website needs

Tax, audit and advisory on their own pages, the industries you serve, each partner's credentials, and the portal and secure upload in the header.

- **A page for each practice** Individual and business tax, audit and assurance, reviews and compilations, advisory and outsourced accounting, each on its own page that says who it's for and what an engagement covers. Business owners search for the service, not the firm's name.
- **The industries you know best** Construction, nonprofits, dental practices, restaurants, real estate: a page or a section for each industry you serve, about the questions those owners bring you, so a visitor sees their kind of business before they call.
- **Credentials that are exact** Each partner and manager with the credentials they actually hold (CPA and the states they're licensed in, EA, CMA, CFE) and the work they lead. Only licensed people carry CPA after their name, and the firm's name is the one on its permit.
- **The portal and secure upload, one tap away** Client login and Upload documents buttons in the header of every page open TaxDome, SmartVault or Canopy, beside a plain line that returns and statements never go by email. We link your portal; we never build one.
- **Consultations booked, not chased** A Book a consultation button opens your Calendly with the meeting types you offer, and a short inquiry form asks the kind of work and the size of the business, never a Social Security number or account details.
- **A careers page for the people you want** Your culture, your busy-season expectations, support toward licensure and the path to manager or partner, with a link to your job listings. Firms compete for staff as hard as for clients, and candidates read the site first.

## Sample sites we've designed

Sample sites for made-up businesses, designed to show what we do: open one on your phone and try it. On your site, booking and payment buttons open the tools you already use.

- [CPA firm Aldridge & Penn (opens in a new tab) Tax calendar Client portal Consultations](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/work/aldridge-penn)
- [Accounting studio for creatives and restaurants Carry the One (opens in a new tab) Scroll storytelling Flat fees Intro calls](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/work/carry-the-one)

[See all four of our accounting firm sites](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/work)

## The pages a CPA firm site usually has

- Home
- Tax services for individuals
- Business tax and accounting
- Audit and assurance
- Advisory
- Industries we serve
- Our team and credentials
- Careers
- Clients: portal, secure upload and tax calendar
- Contact and consultations

### Which plan fits

A firm with tax, audit and advisory practices usually wants a page for each, pages for the industries it knows best, its people and its careers, which is more than a small site holds. That's the **Pro launch**: up to 15 pages for $999, paid once when you launch.

### What we link

Engagement letters, documents, e-signatures and invoices stay in your practice management and portal software, and the site's buttons open them; consultations book through your Calendly. The website never stores a client file or takes a payment itself, and if you change portals we change the link.

- TaxDome
- SmartVault
- Canopy
- Calendly
- CPACharge
- Google Business Profile

## What to get right

- **"CPA" where the license doesn't reach** State boards decide which firms may call themselves CPAs, usually those holding a firm permit, and they set the rules for firm names. We use the name on your permit and put CPA only beside people you confirm hold an active license.
- **Claims the AICPA's code calls misleading** Promises of results, hints of influence with the IRS or a court, and a quoted fee you'd likely have to raise are the examples the AICPA's code (1.600) gives of misleading ads. We write what you do and for whom, never "the best CPA in town".
- **Documents invited by email** A Contact us form or a bare email address on the Clients page invites returns and bank statements into an inbox. We send every upload to your portal and keep the forms to names, contact details and what someone needs help with.
- **Industries listed, not explained** A list of every industry under the sun tells an owner nothing. Three or four you know well, each with the questions those clients bring and the work you do for them, show the experience a list only claims.

## How it works

Three steps, and most of the work is ours.

1. 5 minutes **Tell us about your business** The short form, or a chat with the team. Send photos, your logo, your menu: whatever you have.
2. 5 to 7 business days **Get your free first draft** Screenshots for computer and phone and a private preview link (2 to 3 business days with priority, overnight with rush). Ask for changes in plain words until it's right.
3. When you're ready **Approve, pay and launch** Pay the fixed launch fee only when you're happy. With the care plan, we put the site live on your domain and look after it; without it, we hand you the files to host yourself.

## CPA firms: fixed prices

One fee, paid once when you launch, from $499. Choose by how many pages your site needs, or ask for a custom quote.

### Website launch

A shop, café, trade or practice that needs the essentials done really well.

$499

one time, paid when you launch

[Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/start?plan=launch_small)

- **Up to 5 pages**
- 5 rounds of changes
- Every page's words written for you
- Designed around your photos and logo
- Built to work beautifully on phones
- Search-ready titles and descriptions
- Hosted by us on the care plan, or yours to host

Recommended

### Pro launch

A growing business with more services, more locations or more to say.

$999

one time, paid when you launch

[Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/start?plan=launch_pro)

Everything in Website, plus:

- **Up to 15 pages**
- Unlimited rounds of changes
- A senior designer on the project

### Signature launch

A larger firm, a group or a launch that has to be exactly right.

$2,000

one time, paid when you launch

[Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/start?plan=launch_signature)

Everything in Pro, plus:

- **Up to 30 pages**
- Unlimited rounds of changes
- A senior design lead as your one contact
- Logo design (worth $149)

### Custom

Bigger sites, several locations or brands, or special features.

Let's talk

a fixed quote from our team

[Get a custom quote](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/start?plan=custom)

Everything in Signature, plus:

- **More than 30 pages**
- Several locations or brands in one project
- Special features, scoped with you
- A fixed price agreed before you commit

- **Free first draft** See your site before you pay anything. No card needed to start.
- **Fixed prices** No hourly rates and no surprise invoices: anything extra is on our price list and agreed first.
- **Yours to keep** Once it's paid for, the site and its files are yours, and a domain we register is in your name. Let us host it, or take it anywhere.

## Questions about CPA firm websites

**How much does a CPA firm website cost?**

Most CPA firms choose the Pro launch: $999 once for up to 15 pages, enough for each practice, your industries and your team, paid only after you've approved a free first draft. A sole practitioner often fits the Website launch at $499. Hosting, your domain and 4 small edits a month are the optional care plan, $49 a month. [See every price](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants#prices).

**Can clients reach our portal from the website?**

Yes. Client login and Upload documents buttons on every page open TaxDome, SmartVault, Canopy or whichever portal you use, and the portal does the encryption, the storage and the e-signatures. No file ever passes through the site.

**How should our credentials appear?**

As your state board and the AICPA's code allow: the firm name on your permit, CPA only after licensed people's names, and other credentials, such as EA or CFE, written the way their issuers use them. Give us each person's details and we lay them out for you to check.

**Can we have a page for each industry we serve?**

Yes, and it's worth it: a page on construction accounting or nonprofit audits answers a different search than a page on tax. On the Pro launch they fit beside your practices and your team; a firm with several offices gets a [custom quote](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/start?plan=custom).

**Who writes the service pages?**

We write the words for every page, on every launch. We start from your engagement letters and a short call with a partner, and every page comes back to you for review, so nothing on the site offers a service you don't provide.

**Will business owners find us when they search for a CPA nearby?**

Pages that say what you do and where, your office details the same everywhere and fast pages on a phone all help, though no one can promise a place in search results. SEO & AEO care, added to the care plan, carries that work on every month.

Updated October 12, 2026

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## Your CPA firm website: the first draft is free

Tell us about your business and we'll do the rest. Questions first? Email [hello@ciderwebsites.com](mailto:hello@ciderwebsites.com).

[Start your site](https://ciderwebsites.com/accountants/start?plan=launch_pro)

You pay only when you launch.