For accountants
the month arrives closed, and you are paid for bringing it
Bookkeepers, accountants, tax advisors and finance consultants: put a client on Orla and the autopilot pays the routine inside a mandate they sign, while you keep the judgement. The month reaches you closed on a checklist, as files for Xero or QuickBooks, and you earn 25 percent of the subscription every month the client stays.
The month
Handed to you closed
on a checklist, in your own codes
- October
- Ready to close · 8 of 10
- Rows without a category
- 0
- Balances match the bank
- Yes
- Receipts missing
- 3 · noted
- One page for the month
- Close it, reopen it, and see what is still missing before you do.
- Your own codes
- Map Orla's categories to your chart of accounts and download the journal.
- Changed after the handoff
- A row added, edited or deleted once the month is handed over marks the month changed, so the client sends it again.
- Every client at once
- Keep several client spaces, and the switcher opens on all of them together.
The seat
The Accountant seat
the whole picture, none of the authority to pay
- Reads
- Accounts, rows, reports, aging, exports
- Runs
- Invoices, pay links, contacts, documents
- Records
- An incoming payment
- Never
- Moves money out, signs, approves
- Off the rosters
- Taking the role removes a person from every approval roster there is.
- In the log
- Every action the seat takes lands in the audit log.
- Less, if the client wants
- An observer seat, or nineteen toggles on the person's card, each its own answer.
- VAT and the tax centre
- Returns, capital gains by lot, and the lines behind every figure.
The autopilot
What it leaves you
a receipt for every payment it made
- Hetzner, €84, Tools budgetPaid by itself on its date, inside the mandate
- Ana Ferreira, $1,600, DeliverySigned by Mira, one of two signatures
- New payee, Lumen PrintWaited for a person, then a sanctions check
- Research agent, $38 of $50Its own wallet, inside its cap
- Who decided
- Every payment carries the rule, the budget and the person or the line that let it go.
- The routine, not the judgement
- Orla pays what the mandate says. Whether the structure is right is still your call.
- Anything odd waits
- A new payee, changed bank details, an amount four times the usual: a person, always.
- Nothing to reconcile twice
- A payment Orla made is matched to the bank's own row, not booked again.
The money
25 percent of the subscription
paid monthly, for as long as they stay
The share keeps paying while you stay beside the client, and that is the arrangement we want. The share is of the subscription only. The autopilot's 0.25% and the add-on packs are outside it.
What you earn
A percentage of the subscription your client pays. Add-on packs are left out of it on purpose: an AML check is a vendor's unit we pass on at close to cost, so there is nothing there to share.
- 25 percent of the subscription
- Every month, for as long as your client stays with Orla.
- From their second paid month
- The first month is where refunds and week-one departures live.
- Ten clients
- Roughly two to six thousand dollars a year if they sit on Pro or Scale.
- Business plans
- 25, 69, 199 and 499 dollars a month, which is what the percentage is taken from.
How it reaches you
The same shape the programs you already know use, with the part they stop at removed: there is no twelfth month here.
- Monthly
- Once the client's payment for that month has cleared.
- A 50 dollar floor
- Below it the balance carries to the next month, so no fee is spent moving it.
- Bank transfer or USDC
- Your choice, and you can change it.
- It ends when they do
- The share stops with your client's last payment, and never runs at a loss for either of us.
What you do not do
The billing relationship stays between Orla and the company, which keeps you out of it when something goes wrong with a card.
- No reselling
- Your client pays Orla directly, on their own card.
- No invoices to chase
- We pay you on the terms we send, and you never chase us for them.
- No quota
- One client is a partner too. Nothing expires if you bring nobody this quarter.
- No exclusivity
- Keep recommending whatever else you recommend.
- Not your own company
- The share is not paid on a company you own, direct or work for.
The honest part
This does not replace you
and the share is built so we cannot want it to
Orla closes a month on time and pays the routine inside the client's mandate. It cannot tell a client's structure is wrong or defend a position to a tax office: that work is yours, and the share keeps you next to the client in month twelve.
Payments leave from the client's own accounts inside the mandate. Bank feeds and exchange keys are read only.
Questions
Partners ask
the short answers
How do you know the client came from me?
Two ways, and we use whichever one is true. You get a link that marks the signup as yours, and where the link did not do it, because the client signed up on their own or came back weeks later, we record it from the conversation instead. There are no promo codes in Orla, so the record is kept on our side, and we will always tell you which of the two applied.
When and how am I paid?
Monthly, once your client's payment for that month has cleared, by bank transfer or in USDC, whichever you prefer. Anything under 50 dollars carries to the next month, so no transfer fee is spent moving it. The share starts with your client's second paid month.
Can the terms change after I join?
Not for you. The terms carry a date, and the clients you brought under them keep those terms for as long as they stay. A later version applies to partners who join under it, and never backwards.
What happens if my client leaves?
The share ends with their last payment. It is a share of what they pay, so it can never run at a loss for either of us.
Is Orla accounting software that competes with my tools?
No. It is the layer before accounting: bills, payments, invoices, documents, the month you close and the files you hand on. There is no double entry ledger and no consolidation, and that is on purpose.
Do I need to know crypto?
No. Banks, statements in any language, cards and invoices are the everyday part. The exchange and wallet rails are there for the clients who already have them, and they are read only.
Can I try it on my own books first?
Yes, and we would rather you did. Write to us and we will open a space for your own practice before you put a client anywhere near it. That space is yours to use; the share is for the clients you bring, not for a company you own or work for.
What is the share taken from?
The subscription your client pays. The autopilot's 0.25% and the add-on packs are outside it: an AML screening is a vendor's unit passed through at close to cost, and the autopilot's fee follows the client's payments, not your work.
Does the autopilot pay my client's bills without them?
Only inside the mandate the client signs: a budget per job, limits per payment and per day. A new payee, changed details or anything past a budget waits for a person, and your seat never signs.
Read next
- Month-end for the accountant
The month closed and handed over
- About Orla
Who is behind it, and what it cannot touch
- For finance teams
Who write the rules, not the payments
Tell us about one client
and we will tell you if this fits
One email is enough: what your practice does, roughly how many clients, and what eats the most hours in your month. If Orla is wrong for them, we will say so.