Website design for tax preparers
A tax preparer's website does most of its work in a few busy months, when people want this week's hours, what to bring, what a return costs and an appointment before the deadline. We build it around the season, with booking and your returning clients' upload one tap away. Go live before January on the Website launch: $499, owed only once you've approved a free first draft.
We usually recommend the Website launch: up to 5 pages, $499 once.
Hours that change with the season, a what-to-bring checklist, prices as you post them, and booking and returning-client uploads one tap away.
Tax-season hours, walk-in days, off-season appointments and extension-season hours on the first screen and in every footer, written in text search engines read and changed whenever your schedule does.
W-2s and 1099s, last year's return, photo ID, Social Security cards for everyone on the return, childcare and tuition statements, and a voided check for direct deposit: a list people can print or read in the car saves a second visit.
Your fees for a simple return, itemized deductions, self-employment, rental income or a business return, in your words, or what drives the price if you quote each one. People who can see a price book sooner.
A Book an appointment button opens your scheduler, whether that's Calendly or your tax software's, with the appointment types you offer, including drop-off and remote returns, so the calendar fills before the season does.
A Returning clients button opens your portal's secure upload, so this year's documents go where last year's went and not into an email or a text message thread.
Enrolled agent, CPA or Annual Filing Season Program participant, each written the way the IRS or your state board allows. An enrolled agent may say "enrolled to practice before the Internal Revenue Service"; no preparer should claim to be certified by the IRS.
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.
Most preparers say what matters on a handful of pages: services and prices, what to bring, hours and appointments, and a page for returning clients. That's the Website launch: up to 5 pages for $499, paid once when you launch.
Appointments book in your scheduler, documents go to your portal and signatures happen there too; the site's buttons open each one, and nothing personal passes through the website. Switch portals between seasons and we change the link.
Circular 230 (31 CFR §10.30) bars enrolled agents, and the other enrolled practitioners it names, from calling themselves "certified" or implying they work for the IRS. No preparer should use the IRS's name or logo to suggest a tie to it, either. We write your title the way the rules allow and nothing grander.
The IRS logo or seal, "IRS approved", or a page styled like a notice from the IRS suggests a connection you don't have. Your brand stays your own, and the IRS appears only by name, in plain words.
Lines like "maximum refund, every time" or "your refund tomorrow" promise what the tax law and the IRS decide. We say what you prepare, how you check it and when people will hear from you, and make no claims about money.
Last April's hours, last year's checklist or "walk-ins welcome" on a closed office send people elsewhere. We update hours, prices and the checklist at the start and end of each season as part of your small edits.
Three steps, and most of the work is ours.
The short form, or a chat with the team. Send photos, your logo, your menu: whatever you have.
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.
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.
One fee, paid once when you launch, from $499. Choose by how many pages your site needs, or ask for a custom quote.
A shop, café, trade or practice that needs the essentials done really well.
$499
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteRecommended
A growing business with more services, more locations or more to say.
$999
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteEverything in Website, plus:
A larger firm, a group or a launch that has to be exactly right.
$2,000
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteEverything in Pro, plus:
Bigger sites, several locations or brands, or special features.
Let's talk
a fixed quote from our team
Get a custom quoteEverything in Signature, plus:
See your site before you pay anything. No card needed to start.
No hourly rates and no surprise invoices: anything extra is on our price list and agreed first.
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.
Most tax preparers choose the Website launch: $499 once for up to 5 pages, paid only after you've approved a free first draft. Hosting, your domain and 4 small edits a month, enough for the season's new hours and prices, are the optional care plan at $49 a month. See every price.
Before the season, ideally in the fall: people start looking for a preparer as their forms arrive in January, and the busiest weeks run up to the April deadline. The first draft is free in 5 to 7 business days, so there's time to go live before your first appointment.
Through your portal, yes: a Returning clients button opens the secure upload in TaxDome, SmartVault, Drake Portals or whichever you use. Uploads land in the portal, and the website itself never touches them.
Yes, as you set them: a price per kind of return, a starting price, or what changes the price. People comparing preparers look for a price early, and seeing one makes the call to book easier.
Say what's true, in the words the IRS allows: an enrolled agent is "enrolled to practice before the Internal Revenue Service", and an authorized IRS e-file provider may say so. No IRS logo, no "IRS approved", and no "certified" in an enrolled agent's title.
We write the words for every page, on every launch. We start from your current checklist, your price sheet and a short call, keep the wording plain enough for a first-time filer, and you approve every page before it goes live.
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Tell us about your business and we'll do the rest. Questions first? Email hello@ciderwebsites.com.
You pay only when you launch.
