Comparison
The honest version: these two are built on different beliefs about whose money it is. That difference matters more than any feature list.
Ignition is a mature, well-funded product with a genuinely strong story around billing and getting paid. If collections are your biggest problem, it is a serious option and you should look at it properly.
But there is a design decision underneath it that firms often only notice later, so it is worth putting front and centre.
Ignition collects your fees through their platform. That is the product working as intended, and it is what makes their automated billing possible.
Power Pricing deliberately does not. When a client signs, we create the client and the draft invoices in your Xero, and the direct debit mandate is set up on your GoCardless or Adfin. Your money goes from your client to your bank. We never hold it, never route it, and take no percentage of it.
We do not take a cut of your fees, because we are not in the middle of them.
This was a decision rather than a limitation. Becoming a payment facilitator would have meant becoming a regulated business with a very different set of incentives, and a tool that earns from your billing has a reason to want that billing to run through it. We would rather charge a software fee and be indifferent to how much you collect.
Ignition's pricing is tiered and, on the plans most firms end up on, carries per-client and per-user components. That is not a criticism, it is a model, but it does mean the number you sign up on is not usually the number you settle at.
Power Pricing charges per plan, not per client. Take on fifty new clients and your bill does not move. Engagement letters, AML and KYC, three-option pricing and the CRM are all in it.
Ignition is a global product used across many countries and tax systems. Power Pricing only does one country.
That shows up in the detail: engagement letters written to UK professional body expectations, AML risk assessment built to what a UK firm actually has to evidence, VAT schemes and MTD for Income Tax in the pricing engine, and Companies House and HMRC assumed throughout rather than configured in.
Both products believe your fees should be collected automatically by direct debit rather than chased. We agree completely on that.
Where we differ is who does the collecting. Our view is that your client relationship, your bank account and your cashflow should not have a software company sitting in the middle of them. Yours may differ, and that is a legitimate position to take. It is just worth taking it on purpose rather than discovering it at the first reconciliation.
This page does not quote Ignition's fees. Their pricing is theirs to change, and a comparison page carrying a competitor's price becomes misleading the moment they update it.
What is worth comparing is the shape: whether the fee moves as you add clients, whether the things you need are included or bought separately, and whether anybody takes a percentage of what you collect. Ours is on the pricing page, in full.
The same honest treatment of GoProposal and Socket, and how switching actually works if the rebuild is what has been stopping you.