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Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Socket team.

Your AML Requirements Are More Than an ID Check
Jonathan Gaunt
AMLCompliance

AML risk assessments don't have to be a chore when they feed onboarding and account management in your firm. The questions that keep you compliant are the same ones that help you price accurately, spot growth opportunities, and build your practice around your best clients.

How to Build a Pricing Menu for Your Accounting Practice
Simon Williams
PricingAIProfitability & Growth

Building a standardised pricing menu is the slowest, fiddliest job in a practice. This framework shows you how to begin standardising your pricing, and how Socket's new AI Pricing Agent turns a blank page into a draft menu in minutes.

New integration: Win in Socket, run it in Sodium
Amy Mall
Integrations

Socket now integrates with Sodium: win proposals in Socket and run your practice in Sodium, with clients, services, and pricing flowing across with no rekeying.

Socket Forms are live: build a form in seconds, capture leads and onboard clients without leaving Socket

You can now build onboarding and new lead forms in seconds. Generate with AI or use expert templates to capture leads, onboard clients, and collect data and feedback without leaving Socket. It's almost too easy to get started.

Rough notes or full transcript: AI generated proposals work with whatever you've got

How Socket's new AI proposal tool helps you save time and get proposals out the door while the deals still warm, all while generating proposal content that leads and renewals actually want to sign.

Socket now connects directly with Xenon Connect
Amy Mall
Integrations

Xenon Connect's bookkeeping insights now flow live into Socket, driving your pricing, proposals, and Price Monitoring with real client data.

Marketing to accountancy clients: the PECR rules every UK practice should know

The UK consent rules that apply when you contact clients about additional services, including the differences between individuals and corporate entities.

TaxScout is live: See your clients' HMRC tax position in one place, inside Socket

How TaxScout gives you filing status, amounts outstanding, upcoming deadlines, and payment history without logging into Government Gateway for each client individually.

Proposals Are Living Pricing Tools Not One-Time Documents
Jonathan Gaunt
ProposalsPricingProfitability & Growth

Most proposals are priced once and never revisited. This article covers the four repricing triggers that quietly erode your margins, and the framework for fixing it.

Socket x FYI integration: keep client data in sync, automatically

We’ve launched our integration between Socket and FYI so you can remove duplication and keep client records accurate, from proposal through to delivery.

MTD for Income Tax Is a Pricing Decision, Not a Compliance Exercise
Jonathan Gaunt
Making Tax Digital

MTD for IT is, at its core, a pricing decision. Handle it well and it can be commercially sustainable. Handle it badly and it quietly erodes margin, capacity, and your client’s confidence in your pricing.

How to Measure Customer Satisfaction For Accounting & Bookkeeping Practices

How to measure and improve customer satisfaction, so your practice can keep growing with word of mouth business and renewals.

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