Tax Services Bureau
Financial Services Partner Program · For advisors & financial services firms

The plan your clients keep asking you for.

Every filing season a client asks what they should be doing differently, and every filing season the honest answer is “that is not what I do.” The Financial Services App is where that answer changes — under your brand, with licensed professionals performing the work.

Financial Services App

Included with every TSB partnership

Every partner gets all five Systems Apps — tax, audit, accounting, insurance, and financial services — not only the one that matches the practice today.

Your nameon the plan
Licensedprofessionals perform the work
Q4is a season of its own
The software — Financial Services App

The system this program runs on.

Planning is the highest‑value conversation in a tax practice and the one with nowhere to go. The Financial Services App is licensed to your firm and branded in your name, and it sits on the same platform as the return the plan is built from.

Branded to your firm

Your name on the system your team works in and on everything the client receives.

A seat for every advisor

Everyone working the relationship is in the same system on the same household.

Built from the return

The plan starts from the numbers you already have rather than from an intake form the client will not finish.

Runs on the planning calendar

The work that matters happens before December 31, not in April. The system is organized around that.

Cloud‑based and maintained for you

Nothing to install and nothing to keep current.

Structured as a revenue share

Where your firm is not licensed to perform the work, it routes to someone who is and a share of the engagement comes back to you.

The opportunity

What this program is worth to you.

Ongoing advisory relationships pay beyond the plan itself — median advisory retainers run about $4,500 a year, and asset‑based work is billed annually on top.

One referral is worth
$1,500

per plan, to you

Based on half of the $3,000 median fee for a standalone financial plan, per the 2024 Kitces advisor survey. Your 50% revenue share applies for the life of the client relationship, with no cap and no expiration.

At this volumeRevenue to you
5 plans a year$7,500
10 plans a year$15,000
25 plans a year$37,500

Illustrative, using published average engagement values and the 50% partner share. Not a guarantee, forecast, or earnings claim; what you earn depends on your client base, your market, and how many referrals you actually make.

Who this is for

Built for a specific kind of practice.

If one of these is you, this is the page that launches your practice.

  • An advisor who wants tax preparation feeding the practice
  • A tax office losing every planning conversation it starts
  • A firm referring investment and retirement work out for nothing
  • A practice that wants a Q4 season instead of a Q4 lull
  • A CPA firm formalizing advisory as a billable service line
  • A financial services firm consolidating onto one branded platform
What is included

The Financial Services Partner Program

Built two ways: for advisors adding tax preparation as the front door, and for tax practices that want advisory revenue without holding every license themselves.

01

Software & seats

The Financial Services App branded to your firm, a seat for every advisor, and the other four Systems Apps included.

02

A financial advising revenue share

Work your firm is not licensed to perform is handled by a licensed professional in the network, with a share of the engagement coming back to you.

03

Tax planning as a product

A Q4 service line with its own fee, sold to the base you already file for.

04

Marketing for advisory

Campaigns and content that sell a planning engagement, which is a longer and more consultative sale than a return.

05

Growth support

Pricing and positioning advisory work inside a tax practice, with mentorship from firms already running both. Available when you want it, never required.

Pricing is set on the call. Every practice comes in at a different size, a different volume, and a different mix of service lines, so we price the partnership against yours rather than publishing a number that will not fit you. Bring the output from the calculator and we will work from your figures.

The other four

One client. Five systems.

A plan is only as good as the return, the books, and the coverage behind it. The other four apps are how you see all of it.

Next step

See what this looks like on your numbers.

Run your own practice through the calculator, or book a 20‑minute fit call and we will do it with you.