FastBots

Progettato per commercialisti e contabili

The Accountant Chatbot That Handles Repetitive Client Questions

Most enquiries to an accounting firm are the same handful of questions — deadlines, fees, what documents to send, whether you work with limited companies. FastBots learns your firm's services and process once, then answers those questions on your website day or night. When a question needs real judgement, your team can step in through live chat.

Harper & Lane Accountants
Self assessment feesSwitch accountant?VAT helpDocuments neededBook a call
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Pacchetti di design
Syngenta
Pinkpop
Babor
Salvataggio dei grandi felini
Holiday Inn
Mansory
Università di Miami
Università dell'Arizona
Rentokil Initial
Metodo Wim Hof
Royal Caribbean
Wiley
UBB
Biglietti online
Wild Fork
Ciao Parigi

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Domande molto frequenti poste dai commercialisti

What is an accountant chatbot?

An accountant chatbot is a website assistant trained on your firm's own information — services, fees, deadlines, onboarding steps and FAQs. It answers prospective and existing client questions in plain English, captures new-client enquiries, and passes anything sensitive to a real person on your team.

What can it actually answer for an accounting firm?

General questions about your services, pricing tiers, what documents you need, key tax deadlines, software you support and how onboarding works. It won't give specific tax, VAT or accountancy advice — it sticks to your firm's information and routes anything that needs professional judgement to a team member.

Will it replace our reception or admin team?

No. It handles the repetitive enquiries that interrupt focused work — pricing, document checklists, deadline reminders — so your team spends time on real client work. When a conversation needs human judgement, live chat on the Business plan lets someone take over the same chat.

Quanto tempo ci vuole per installarlo?

Most firms have a working chatbot in under an hour. Point it at your website, add a few PDFs or onboarding documents, write a short instruction about tone and what not to answer, then paste one line of code on your site.

Perché FastBots

Perché i commercialisti utilizzano FastBots

Answers Client Questions Outside Office Hours

Prospects often research accountants in the evening. The chatbot answers questions about services, fees and onboarding at 9pm so the enquiry isn't lost to a competitor by morning.

Captures New-Client Enquiries With Context

When someone asks about switching accountants or starting a limited company, the bot collects their name, email, business type and a short brief — so your team isn't starting from zero on the call.

Explains The Document Checklist

Clients constantly ask what to send for self assessment, year-end accounts or VAT. The bot walks them through the list you've trained it on, so less time is spent chasing.

Ricorda alle persone le scadenze importanti

Trained on your own deadline summaries, the bot can tell visitors when self assessment, corporation tax or VAT returns are due — without giving regulated advice on their specific situation.

Hands Off To A Real Person When Needed

On the Business plan and above, live chat lets a team member take over the same conversation when a prospect has a more involved question or wants to discuss fees properly.

Acts As An AI Agent For Onboarding Intake

FastBots is a chatbot first, but with Zapier or Make connected it works more like an AI agent — gathering business type, turnover band and contact details, then pushing that into your CRM or spreadsheet once the chat ends.

Stays Inside Your Firm's Information

You decide what sources it can use. Trained on your website and uploaded documents only, it won't invent fee quotes or guess at HMRC rules — it points clients to the team for anything outside its remit.

Replies To Routine Email Enquiries

On the Business plan, the bot can answer incoming emails using the same training — useful for the repetitive 'what do you need from me?' messages that flood the inbox in January.

Situazioni reali

Dove si guadagna da vivere

Pricing And Package Questions

Visitors ask about self assessment, limited company packages or bookkeeping fees. The bot shares your published pricing and offers to book a call for anything custom.

Passare da un altro commercialista

Explains your switching process — professional clearance, requesting records, onboarding timeline — and captures the prospect's current accountant and business details.

Domande sulla compatibilità del software

Confirms whether you work with Xero, QuickBooks, FreeAgent or Sage based on what you've told it, without claiming a native integration you don't have.

Document Upload For Onboarding

With file uploads turned on, prospects can send a recent set of accounts or an ID document during the chat — useful for kicking off onboarding before the first call.

Self Assessment Season Triage

Handles the January wave of 'when do you need my information?' and 'have you received my docs?' style questions, freeing your team for the actual returns.

VAT And Payroll Service Enquiries

Answers whether you offer VAT registration, MTD filing or monthly payroll, and what's included — then captures the enquiry if the prospect wants a quote.

Acquisizione di contatti fuori orario

Quietly collects evening and weekend enquiries with a clear next step, so prospects feel handled even when the office is closed.

Internal Knowledge For Junior Staff

A private chatbot trained on your firm's procedures, fee policy and onboarding checklists — useful for junior staff who'd otherwise interrupt a senior.

Provalo gratis

Sound Like It Would Save Your Team A Few Hours A Week?

Piano gratuito, senza carta di credito. Crea il tuo primo chatbot in pochi minuti.

Configurazione

Pubblicalo sul tuo sito in pochi minuti

https://harperlane-accountants.com
  • /servizi/autovalutazione
  • /services/limited-company
  • /prezzi
  • /switch-accountants
  • /onboarding/documents-checklist

Indirizzalo al sito web della tua azienda

Drop in your domain and FastBots crawls your service pages, fee guide and FAQs. Add any PDFs, onboarding packs or Google Docs you want it to read.

TonoFormulario di riservaModulo di contatto

Voce della Camera

Calm, professional and plain English. Answer from the firm's website and documents only. Never give specific tax, VAT or accountancy advice — for anything that needs professional judgement, offer to pass the question to a qualified accountant on the team.

Stabilisci il tono e i limiti

Tell it to stay calm, professional and never give specific tax advice. Set a fallback message like 'one of our accountants will follow up' for anything outside scope.

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src="fastbots"
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Inserisci una riga nel tuo sito

Copy the embed snippet into your website — WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow or custom HTML. The chat widget appears in the corner, ready for client questions.

Confronto imparziale

How FastBots Compares For Accountants

Most firms weighing this up have already tried a generic contact form, an outsourced answering service, or simply letting evening enquiries pile up in the inbox. Here's how an accountant chatbot trained on your own content compares.

FastBots
A partire da 39 $ al mese
Servizio di segreteria telefonica
Per-call or monthly
Solo modulo di contatto
Gratuito
Domande relative al servizio e alle tariffe
From your own pricing and service pages
trained on your site
Reads a script, escalates the restNo — visitor waits for email
Disponibile 24 ore su 24, 7 giorni su 7
Compresi la sera e nei fine settimana
Often office hours onlyForm goes to inbox
Captures Structured Enquiries
Name, business type, brief
Yes, with custom lead form
Sì, per telefono
Campi del modulo di base
Human Takeover In Same Chat
Live chat on Business plan and up
Yes, on Business plan
Call gets transferredNo, switches to email
Knows Your Onboarding & Documents
From PDFs and website
trained on your content
Only what's in the script
No
Cost Model
What you actually pay
Flat monthly from $39Often per-call chargesFree, but slow follow-up

Il confronto si basa sulle alternative più comuni. Altri strumenti potrebbero presentare caratteristiche diverse: si consiglia di verificare sempre i prezzi e le funzionalità attuali prima di prendere una decisione.

Provalo gratis

Build A Bot For Your Firm On The Free Plan First

Piano gratuito, senza carta di credito. Crea il tuo primo chatbot in pochi minuti.

Che giornata fantastica! Non usiamo il software da molto tempo, ma oggi ci ha aiutato a generare il nostro primo contatto. Sono davvero colpito dal potenziale di questo software. Grazie!
R
Robert P. Swift
Fondatore, Griffin and Johnson Tax Prep

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Il chatbot fornirà consulenza fiscale?

No, and we don't recommend setting it up to. FastBots is positioned as an information and intake tool — it answers questions about your firm's services, process, pricing and what documents you need. For anything that depends on a client's specific circumstances, it should route the question to a qualified accountant on your team.

Does it integrate natively with Xero or QuickBooks?

Not as a native data integration. The bot can confirm that your firm works with Xero, QuickBooks, FreeAgent or Sage if you've trained it on that, but it doesn't pull client data from those tools. For sending captured leads into a CRM or spreadsheet, Zapier or Make workflows handle that once the chat ends.

Can clients upload documents through the chat?

Yes, if you turn on file uploads. Supported types include PDFs, Word documents, CSVs and common image formats — useful for receiving a recent set of accounts or an ID document at the start of onboarding. Anything sensitive should still follow your normal secure-document process.

Will it replace our admin team or receptionist?

No. The goal is to absorb the repetitive enquiries — fees, deadlines, document checklists — that interrupt focused work. Your admin team still handles the conversations that need judgement, and live chat lets them step into any chat that needs a human touch.

Can it book consultations for us?

It can't book directly into a calendar mid-conversation. What it can do is capture the request — preferred date, business type, what the prospect wants to discuss — and send it to your team by email or into your scheduling tool through a Zapier or Make workflow. You can also share your existing booking link in the chat.

How does the human handover work?

On the Business plan and above, live chat lets your team claim a conversation when the bot can't answer or the visitor asks for a person. They see the full chat history, reply in real time, and you set availability hours so it's only offered when someone's around. Outside those hours, the bot collects details for follow-up instead.

How do we make sure it doesn't make things up?

You control the knowledge sources. Train it on your website and approved documents only, write a clear custom instruction telling it to stick to firm-specific information, and set a fallback message for anything it doesn't know. You can also review chat history and the Knowledge Assistant flags questions the bot couldn't answer well.

What happens during self assessment season?

The bot is most useful in January, when the same questions arrive constantly — 'have you received my docs?', 'what do you need from me?', 'when's the deadline?'. Trained on your process and document checklist, it answers most of these on its own and captures the rest as enquiries for your team to triage.

Quanto costa?

The free plan covers 1 chatbot and 50 messages a month — enough to build and test a bot for your firm. Paid plans start at $39/month for the Essential plan. Live chat, email replies and auto-retraining come in on the Business plan at $89/month.

Can it work as an AI agent rather than just a Q&A bot?

Yes, in a layered way. FastBots is an AI chatbot first, but with live internet search turned on or a Zapier or Make workflow connected, it behaves more like an AI assistant — gathering details across a conversation, deciding when to escalate, and pushing the captured information into your CRM or onboarding tool once the chat ends. It doesn't take live actions like booking or invoicing mid-conversation.

Build Your Firm's Chatbot Today

Start on the free plan, point it at your website, and see how it handles your most common client questions before paying a penny.

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  • Set up in under an hour
  • Upgrade only when ready