Some services such as annual accounts require 12 months of work, no matter which month of your clients financial year you begin the work.

The alignment fee helps you to confidently communicate any catch up costs that are required to your client. You can calculate the alignment fee on any proposal containing this type of work. This ensures you don't lose out financially on services you charge annually.

When you create a proposal, the difference between your start date and end date may be under 12 months.

If this is the case, when you select the Annual Accounts Service in the proposal, the alignment fee will apply by default.

You can present this to your client in the meeting and provide them with the option to pay this monthly or as a one off cost. 

The fee will then be presented in the table of fees within the proposal and explained beneath this.

You can tweak how the alignment fee is presented to your client and which line items and proposal types you want to apply the fee too.

On this page, you can specify which services you would like the alignment fee to apply to and how you would like to present it.

Add any line items or sections that you would like this fee to apply to into this box.

Choose which proposal types you want to apply the fee too, alternatively you can type in all proposals.

Dictate how you would like the alignment fee to be presented when creating a proposal.

The above text appears as follows when you create a proposal.

Construct the explanation for the alignment fee as you'd like it to appear in your clients proposal document.

There is a monthly and one-off field so you can tweak the explanations depending on the payment method your client chooses.

For example, altering the monthly description above would transform as follows in your clients proposal.

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