AscendBooks

Partner programme · for accounting firms

Your clients get enterprise ERP. You get none of the servers.

A managed enterprise ERP platform built for accounting practices. Your firm runs its clients’ day-to-day accounting on it; WIZAG runs the hosting, the migrations, the reports and the support underneath.

For accounting and advisory firms serving SME clients across Kenya and East Africa.

How the partnership divides. Your firm keeps: The client relationship, Advisory and interpretation, Day-to-day accounting operations, Your brand, in front of the client. WIZAG runs: Hosting and the ERP environment, Backups, monitoring, performance, Data migration and go-live, Reports, customisation, support. To the client it is one service.

Your firm keeps

  • The client relationship
  • Advisory and interpretation
  • Day-to-day accounting operations
  • Your brand, in front of the client

WIZAG runs

  • Hosting and the ERP environment
  • Backups, monitoring, performance
  • Data migration and go-live
  • Reports, customisation, support

Why partner

Sell the capability. Skip the platform.

Most practices reach the same ceiling: the next tier of client needs a real system, and building one is not a reasonable thing to ask an accounting firm to do.

  • Enterprise ERP without the capital

    Offer your clients a structured, audited ERP environment without buying servers, hiring specialists or taking on a platform to maintain.

  • More clients, no more IT overhead

    Adding the tenth client costs you what adding the second did. The platform absorbs the growth rather than your operations team.

  • Insight, not just bookkeeping

    Structured dashboards, multi-entity consolidation and AI-assisted processing let you sell analysis rather than compliance work.

  • A technical team behind yours

    Our technology and analytics people handle the parts your practice was never set up to do — and they answer to you, not to the client.

How it works

Four steps, and only one of them is yours

Setup, migration and everything afterwards sit with us. What stays with your firm is the work your clients are actually paying you for.

You scale the relationship. We scale the infrastructure.

  1. 01

    We set up your environment

    A managed enterprise ERP environment configured for your practice and the way it works.

  2. 02

    We migrate the client data

    Handled end to end — mapping, validation, reconciliation and go-live support, so the opening balances agree before anyone relies on them.

  3. 03

    Your team runs the accounting

    Day-to-day operations stay with your people. The client deals with you, as they always have.

  4. 04

    We keep it running and improving

    Support, customisation, optimisation and maintenance — continuously, not as a project that ends.

What we run for you

Nobody at your firm becomes the administrator

The three things that turn a licence into a working service — and the three most likely to consume a practice that takes them on alone.

Data migration

Mapping, validation, reconciliation and go-live support, handled end to end. The part that most often goes wrong, done by people who have done it before.

Hosting and support

A fully managed enterprise ERP environment with backups, monitoring and performance management. Nobody at your firm becomes its accidental administrator.

Reports and customisation

From decision-focused reporting through to system changes, aligned to how your clients actually operate rather than how the software ships.

On the platform

Move the conversation past bookkeeping

  • Reporting, analytics and business intelligence

    Structured dashboards, multi-entity consolidation and financial analytics — so a client conversation can move past what happened to what to do about it.

  • AI-integrated workflows

    Uploaded documents are extracted, validated and converted into structured accounting transactions, which takes the manual keying — and the keying errors — out of the process.

  • Structured ERP architecture

    Audit trails, system controls and defined processes, so the same work is done the same way across every client and every month.

We migrate them from

Whatever a client arrives on. Mapping, validation and reconciliation are ours to handle, and the balances agree before anyone relies on them.

  • QuickBooks
  • Tally
  • Sage 50 / Pastel
  • Excel-based systems
  • Other accounting systems

What your firm gains

Growth that does not cost you an IT department

  • Zero infrastructure responsibility, and no capital tied up in it
  • Faster onboarding for new SME clients
  • ERP specialists on demand — support, reports, customisation
  • Recurring revenue that expands with the client base
  • A model that scales rather than one that strains
  • Enterprise-grade capability behind a practice of your size
Two partners of an accounting practice at a meeting table, one holding a tablet and explaining a point while the other listens, a notepad and pen in front of him.

Is this you?

Built for firms that are already growing

The programme suits practices at a particular point — enough clients that the current approach is straining, and enough ambition that the next tier is the target.

Onboarding is deliberately limited each quarter. Migrations and environment setup are done properly or not at all, and that puts a ceiling on how many firms we can take on at once.

  • Serve a growing or increasingly complex client portfolio

  • Want new revenue from AI-enabled and advisory services

  • Would rather access enterprise capability than build it

  • Are looking to differentiate in a crowded market

Bring the client you cannot serve yet

The quickest way to judge this is against a real prospect — one your practice has had to turn down, or one you are carrying on spreadsheets and would rather not be.

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