Industry · Accountants & CPAs

Web Design for Accountants and CPA Firms

Your traffic triples in February and falls off a cliff in May, and most CPA websites are built as though only February exists. I build accountant and CPA websites for Hagerstown and the four-state area that convert hard during tax season and spend the other nine months selling the advisory and bookkeeping work that actually pays the bills.

The job

CPA Websites Built for Tax Season and the Nine Months After

A 1040 client is worth a few hundred dollars once a year. A small business on monthly bookkeeping with quarterly planning is worth thousands, every year, forever. The website should be recruiting the second one even while it is handling the rush of the first.

What the site has to do

Accountant Website Design That Wins Better Clients

01

Service Tiers With Starting Prices

Individual returns, business returns, bookkeeping, payroll, advisory, audit support. Starting-at pricing filters out the person shopping against a $79 storefront.

02

A Page for Business Owners, Not Just Filers

S-corp elections, quarterly estimates, entity structure, clean books. This is where the margin is and where the searches are far less competitive.

03

Secure Document Handoff

Say how documents move—encrypted portal, not email attachments. Clients are handing you their entire financial life and almost no CPA site addresses it.

04

Deadlines, Availability, and Whether You Are Taking Clients

“Accepting new business clients through March 1.” Scarcity that is actually true converts better than any headline about trusted expertise.

Questions

CPA Website Questions

How do I get more business clients and fewer one-off returns?

By building the site for business owners rather than filers. S-corp elections, quarterly estimates, entity structure and clean books — those pages attract the monthly bookkeeping and advisory clients who are worth thousands a year instead of a few hundred once.

Should I list prices?

Starting-at prices, yes. It filters out the person shopping against a $79 storefront and it signals that you are a professional practice rather than a seasonal shop.

What about the traffic spike in tax season?

The site should convert hard in February and keep selling in June. Same pages, but the advisory and bookkeeping content is what keeps the phone ringing once the rush ends.

Do clients care how documents are handled?

They should, and saying so builds trust. Naming the encrypted portal you use, and stating plainly that you do not want tax documents emailed as attachments, is reassurance almost no CPA site bothers to offer.

Can the site say I am not taking new clients?

Yes, and honest scarcity converts well. “Accepting new business clients through March 1” is more persuasive than any headline about trusted expertise — as long as it is true.

Build a CPA Website That Works All Twelve Months

Tell me who you file for and who you would rather be advising. I’ll build the site that shifts the mix.