For solo CPAs and small accounting firms
CPA website design in St. Louis and St. Charles County, MO
New clients usually show up already knowing your name, because an attorney or another client passed it along. They still look you up before they call. Your website is where that referral gets confirmed or quietly goes cold, and that is a different job from chasing strangers. We build and host the site it lands on, from here in St. Charles County.
What a small accounting firm actually needs from its website
The right basics, done properly and kept running.
The referral checks you out first
Somebody who was handed your name gets one look at your site before deciding whether to call. At that moment the site only has to confirm they were told the truth about you. It is a narrower job than a marketing campaign, and a less forgiving one.
Email on your own domain
You ask people to send you the most sensitive paperwork they own. A gmail.com return address makes that a harder ask than it needs to be, and it quietly undercuts everything else printed on the card. Managed business email puts everyone at the firm on your own domain instead.
A contact form that actually delivers
Forms that silently drop submissions are more common than most owners realize, and for a firm whose busiest intake window is short, a dropped inquiry is a client who went somewhere else. It is worth knowing exactly where yours delivers, and worth testing it before the season starts.
What you get, and what you keep
You can take it all with you
If you ever leave, we help you move your domain out and hand over an export of your site files. Plenty of firms have found out too late that a marketing vendor held both, and getting them back turned into a fight.
Yours won't look like every other CPA site
Several of the national vendors that build only accounting sites advertise libraries of prebuilt designs, and sell content plans that publish the same tax articles across their client base. Sites on the same plan can end up looking alike and running the same article at the same time. Yours gets built for your practice, and the words on it stay yours.
Timing runs on your calendar
A website meant to matter in February has to be finished well ahead of February, and nobody at the firm has attention to spare once returns start coming in. Firms thinking about January are usually better off starting the conversation in the fall.
Nothing for you to patch
Your site runs serverless on AWS. There is no WordPress installation quietly aging in the background, and no plugin updates falling to whoever is least busy that week.
You review everything first
You see a working demo before anything goes live. Wording changes happen at that step, while they are cheapest, and nothing gets published that the firm has not read.
Local support, same people
When the firm needs a change, you contact the people who built the site. Update credits cover ongoing changes, in 5 business days on Starter, 72 hours on Standard and 48 on Pro.
How it works
Demo first, live second, billed third. You're not paying for hosting until your site is actually up.
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1. We talk about your practice
A short call about who you serve, the work you want more of, and what the site needs to do. No pitch deck.
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2. We build and host a demo
You and anyone else at the firm review a working demo before launch. Content changes happen here, while they are cheap.
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3. You go live, and billing starts
The one-time build fee plus your monthly plan, which runs $25 to $40 depending on what the firm needs. Domain, DNS, SSL and email are configured as part of the launch.
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4. We keep it running
The firm does the accounting. We keep the website online and quick, with changes handled through update credits.
Questions about accounting firm websites
If yours isn't here, call +1 (636) 362-6221 or email yourfriends@adamsdigital.com and you will reach a person, not a queue.
How much does a website cost for a small accounting firm?
A one-time build fee plus monthly hosting, both published on our pricing page rather than quoted only after a call. Hosting runs $25 a month on Starter, $30 on Standard and $40 on Pro, and annual payment earns a discount. Starter is a single page, so a firm that wants service pages and bios for the people in the office is looking at Standard or Pro.
Do you work with solo CPAs, or only larger firms?
Solo and small firms are who this is built for. A sole practitioner and a four-person firm need the same things from a website, and neither one has somebody in the building whose job is the website.
What should a CPA firm have on its website?
Who you serve, in their words rather than in filing terminology. Individual returns and business work attract different clients, and running them together as one long list of services leaves a prospect to work out which kind of firm you are. Add the people, how to reach you, and where you practice. Clients hire a person they are about to hand their financial life to, so a real photo and a direct paragraph beat stock imagery of calculators.
When is the best time to redesign an accounting firm website?
Well before filing season, because a site that is meant to matter in February has to be finished in advance of it, and nobody at the firm has attention to spare once returns start arriving. Firms thinking about January are usually better off starting the conversation in the fall.
What happens to our website and domain if we leave?
You go, and they go with you. We help you move your domain out and give you an export of your site files to take to any compatible service. Some stock images get stripped on the way out for licensing reasons, and we would rather say that up front than have you find it later. It is worth putting that question to any vendor before signing, because plenty of firms have discovered late that the answer was no.
Why not use one of the companies that only builds CPA websites?
Plenty of firms do, and the tradeoff is worth understanding before you sign. Those vendors advertise libraries of prebuilt accounting designs, one of them up to 250 of them, and several also sell content plans that publish the same tax articles and newsletters across their client base. Sites on the same plan can end up looking alike and running the same article in the same week. It gets you online quickly, which is worth something. It also makes you harder to tell apart from the firm across town, right at the moment somebody is checking whether you are the one they were told to call.
Do you write the tax content for our website?
No, and that is deliberate. Syndicated tax content is a large part of what makes accounting websites interchangeable, and you are the authority on what your firm should say about its own work anyway. You supply the substance, we handle how it reads on the page and how quickly it loads.
Our clients send us sensitive documents. How does that work with the site?
Every site we host is served over HTTPS, and the contact form is built for someone saying hello rather than for attachments. Client documents generally belong in a dedicated portal instead, and many firms already have one through their tax software. Tell us what you are using and we will point the site at it, rather than creating a second place for sensitive files to end up. If you don't have one, say so when we talk and we'll work out where that should live.
Can you set up email for everyone at the firm?
Yes. Managed business email is $6 per user per month on your own domain, billed per mailbox with no minimum. A sole practitioner buying a single mailbox is a perfectly normal account. Adding a staff member or a seasonal preparer later is a quick request rather than a project.
We already have a website. Can you take it over?
Usually, yes. Transferring your domain in costs the same as registering a new one, with no transfer fee on our side. Tell us what you are on now and we will tell you honestly what moving it involves.
Tell us what your firm needs
We're in St. Charles County and we've looked after local businesses' websites since 2010, first as Rogue Networks and as Adams Digital since 2021. Send us a note, or ring +1 (636) 362-6221. Plan details are on our pricing page, what hosting includes is on our hosting page, and our published accessibility statement covers this site.