Advisor Alliance: Digits Accountant Partner Program

Digits has introduced their new Accountant Partner Program. This Advisor Alliance feature is one way we here at Insightful Accountant can assist you in improving your business related to the various apps by making you aware of opportunities to partner with those App developers. 

In many cases, working with App developers can discount your cost or the cost to your clients, earn you more revenues through promotional assets and opportunities, and, by providing training and possibly product certification, increase your confidence in using, recommending, and integrating their products with your clients' software.

Recently we wrote a two-part First Look series on Digits. In Part 1 of that series, we introduced you to Digits, the first end-to-end accounting platform purpose-built for the AI era. At its core is a proprietary Autonomous General Ledger®—a powerful engine that automates client bookkeeping, reporting, invoicing, and bill pay, helping firms eliminate repetitive tasks and scale more efficiently. In Part 2 of our First Look at Digits, we examined many of the functional areas of Digits.

This feature focuses on the NEW Digits Accountant Partner Program. This program  is designed to help firms reinvent their practices around AI. Unlike generic partner programs that simply offer discounts or listings, the Digits Accountant Partner Program equips firms to build truly AI-native accounting practices, where Digits continuously learns from every client and every accounting action taken to accelerate automation across the entire firm.

A Partnership Program as Unique as Digits Itself

As a Digits Partner you’ll still receive free access to Digits for your own firm, Digits for Firms Dashboard, and partner-only discounts on Digits software. However you will also receive exclusive access to work 1:1 with the Digits Accountant Solutions Team to ensure every question is answered and every need is met.

Digits' new Partner Program is the fastest and smartest way to put the latest AI innovations to work for your clients and your firm. It's also free, and has no quotas for participation.

The program is centered around helping your accounting firms move into the AI-native world. It is not just about how to use Digits software, but also about how to structure your firm to take advantage of the software appropriately. For example, it even includes 'Firm-specific' AI models that capture the uniqueness of your practice and scale it across your client portfolio.

Focused on Training for Your Firm

The Digits Accountant Partner Program is also centered around training and enablement of your accounting firm. The intent is to meet accountants where they are in their adoption of AI tooling. Some firms want to start new and build their entire firm around AI-native platforms like Digits. Others are assessing what a migration would look like to bring current clients on legacy platforms over to Digits. Digits has paths that your accounting firm can take to meet any these needs.

Partner Training Opportunities:

• Access to weekly webinars: free one-to-many live training with live Questions and Answers.
• One-to-one Enablement: work directly with Digits' enablement team of accountants and CPAs to understand both product use and firm structuring. 
• Email Question Support: have a question, email support is available for your one-off questions.

Three Training and Certification Levels:

• Product mastery: mastering the Digits product.
• AI and its accounting applications: understanding AI and how it applies to accounting.
• Firm structuring for AI: structuring accounting firms to take advantage of AI-native features and functionality.

Training Recognition:

• After completing training, firms receive certifications and badges that can be used on websites, social channels, and other marketing.
  • Public badging to reflect your partnership tier for your website along with other partner identification materials
  • Public badging to reflect your certification tier for your website, along with other certification materials
  • Referral of companies to accounting partners who meet the Digits training and certification criteria
  • Co-marketing support through joint materials created by Digits design team to drive clients to partners together
• A Coaching Certification allows firm leaders to be certified as coaches to train other accountants within their firm.

Digits Listens to Accountants

Much of our First Look Part 1 feature was about the process Digits followed in developing their product based on the input from hundreds of accountants, bookkeepers and business advisors. They took an approach of "let's find out what the accountants, bookkeepers and consultants want, and then build a product to fit that"rather than the approach of "building a product, then trying to convince accountants, bookkeepers and consultants they needed it." 

The Digits Accountant Partner Program continues this tradition by honoring the importance of "feedback." To put it simply, "feedback is one of the most important aspects of the Partner Program."  Digits' intent is to work deeply with the profession to understand what is needed to drive the outcomes firms are looking for.

Feedback from the Partner community, regardless of the channel by which it is received, will be prioritized in a special queue to  ensure it is assessed faster than other product priorities. To ensure feedback opportunities, Digits offers multiple channels including:

• In-product Feedback tools
  
• Support Forums
• Enablement Team
• Email
• Direct email access to the CEO

More Benefits for Partners

• Free Digits Subscription for Your Accounting Firm
• Free Demo Client with test data for internal testing for client demonstrations
• Dedicated Digits Sales team members
• Zoom Scheduling Availability with Digits U.S.-based team members
• Digits Help Access at Digits.com
• Partner Discounts* available to Clients
• Partner Discounts: they can Package Digits with their Services
• Digits Discounts (noted with * above) differ by Partnership tier
  • Silver = 10%
  • Gold = 15%
  • Platinum = 20%
  • Elite = 25%
• Partners can become 'Approved/Certified' Digits installers

Why You Want To Be a Digits Accountant Partner

• Access to firm dashboards and user roles
• Free Digits access for your firm’s books
• Exclusive plans and pricing
• A dedicated success team
• Full migration support
• Firm-wide training and enablement
• Discounts that scale as you grow
• Joint co-marketing and sales enablement
• Certifications and badges to use on websites and socials
• Ability to provide direct product feedback to the engineering team

Accessing the Digits Accountant Partner Program

To explore the Digits Accountant Partner Program further, and and Sign-up as a Partner, head over to the official Partner webpage. And, if you would like more information about Digits AI Accounting, check out the Digits website

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