Ignition + Karbon

Create clients, trigger work, and assign work automatically in Karbon—right from the moment a proposal is accepted in Ignition.

No contracts. No credit card required.

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Ignition + Karbon integration features

Automatically create new clients in Karbon the moment they're engaged in Ignition—no waiting for proposal acceptance.

Link your Ignition services to Karbon work templates and watch work items populate automatically as soon as proposals are signed.

Choose whether workflows are created and who they're assigned to—giving you total control without the manual admin.

Avoid duplicates with intelligent client matching and warnings to check if contacts already exist.

Eliminate repetitive data entry and empower your team to start work immediately by auto-mapping work in Karbon—no manual setup required.

How the Ignition + Karbon integration works

Connect Karbon

Sync Ignition with Karbon from the Apps tab.

Map services

Link Ignition services to work templates in Karbon. 

Auto-create work

When a proposal is accepted, Ignition creates and assigns work items in Karbon. 

Keep clients in sync

Ignition will link or create clients in Karbon and continually update records.

  • "Ignition and Karbon are the backbone of our firm to streamline operations. Automating engagements, payments and client onboarding has delivered massive efficiency gains and been a game-changer for our growth."
    Justin Kurn avatar
    Justin Kurn
    Chief Revenue Officer, Dark Horse CPAs
  • "Now, I just click, require payment upfront, and bam. That thing goes out in 10 seconds. And I don't think about it. I don't manage accounts receivable or handle payments; Ignition has totally changed that for me."
    Dawn W. Brolin avatar
    Dawn W. Brolin
    CPA, CFE, Owner, Powerful Accounting
  • "Before Ignition, our team worked 8-hour weeks during tax season. After Ignition, they’re doing 40-hour weeks. Since signing up with Ignition in 2017, we have increased our service offerings by 100%, so two-fold."
    Dan Gertrudes avatar
    Dan Gertrudes
    CEO, GrowthLab Financial

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Frequently asked questions

The integration brings client engagement, payments and workflow management together into a unified solution. Firms can create and sync clients automatically, trigger work items in Karbon the moment Ignition proposals are signed, and keep records in sync—saving time, speeding up client onboarding and getting paid for work faster.

Ignition is a best-in-class recurring revenue and billing automation platform that seamlessly handles client engagements, billing and payments. Karbon is a practice management system that handles client work and communication. By pairing the two solutions together, firms can automate the entire client engagement lifecycle, creating a seamless hand-off from signed agreement to payment to delivery.

Ignition offers advanced proposals, billing and payments automation for scaling firms. With features like bulk proposals & engagements, upsell of packages and services, auto-price increases, flexible payments methods, and automatic payment processing, Ignition helps firms maximize revenue, cash flow and efficiency.

Ignition creates or updates client and contact details in Karbon and automatically creates work items based on the services mapped to Karbon work templates. Financial data does not sync.

Yes. You can choose to create work when a proposal is sent, when it is accepted, or disable automatic creation and trigger it manually.

No. The Karbon integration is included on Pro and Pro+ / Enterprise plans. See plan details here

Navigate to Settings → Apps in Ignition, select Karbon, and follow the on-screen steps to connect your Karbon account and map services to work templates. A step-by-step guide is available in the support centre.

Simply reconnect using the new integration in Ignition. Your existing mapped services will remain; follow the on-screen migration wizard to complete setup.

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