Recommendations that know your firm
We aim to suggest the most relevant apps for your firm's profile, size and current stack, and to get sharper with every rating firms share.
About SummaStack
Every firm deserves technology that works as hard as its people.
SummaStack brings together two of the most trusted names in accounting education. Our aim is to give every firm, from the sole practitioner to the multi-office practice, the clarity to choose, run and keep improving the software behind its work.
Why SummaStack? The name honors Luca Pacioli's Summa (1494), the first printed guide to double-entry bookkeeping and the book that earned him the title “father of accounting.” Summa means “the sum”: every tool your firm relies on, added up in one place.
Who we are
Built by the profession, for the profession
The leadership the CPA profession needs for change and the knowledge and connections you need for what’s next.
Since 1903, the California Society of CPAs has worked to increase the value and protect the integrity of the CPA profession. As the largest statewide CPA association in the nation, it educates, advocates for and connects the accountants who keep California's businesses and communities running.
- Serving the profession since
- 1903
- Largest statewide CPA association in the U.S.
- No. 1
Your Gateway to Expert Accounting Education
The largest free provider of continuing professional education for the accounting profession. Live webinars every day on tax, accounting standards, practice management and technology keep CPAs, EAs and bookkeepers current, at no cost.
- Members
- 500,000+
- CPE credits issued
- 10 million+
Why we joined forces
The profession runs on software. Choosing it shouldn't feel like a gamble.
Firms spend weeks weighing tools they can't try, sorting vendor pitches from word of mouth. A wrong pick costs months of migration, frustrated staff and hours that should have gone to clients.
CalCPA and CPAacademy.org joined forces to change that. Together we're set on equipping every firm with what it needs to run its operations today and keep improving them tomorrow, with the profession's own voice behind every recommendation instead of a vendor's.
What we're building toward
Where we're headed
A directory you can trust
Our goal is a curated marketplace of the best tools for accounting firms, with detailed profiles, honest reviews and transparent ratings.
Insight from firms like yours
We're working toward showing how apps fit together and which stacks firms of your size and focus rely on.
A profession that decides together
We want every review to come from a real firm, so each firm's experience helps the next one choose with confidence.
Where we are today: picks are chosen by our editors, and scores start from their judgment. They become fit ratings as firms rate the apps they use. How recommendations work
Our promise
Independent, from day one
No paid placement
Payment or sponsorship never moves an app up a list or changes its score.
Learn moreVendors don't grade themselves
A vendor's own reviews and ratings of its products never count.
Learn moreNo guessing
When we don't know something about a product, we say nothing rather than fill the gap.
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Get in touch
We'd like to hear from you
Questions about SummaStack, a product you'd like listed, a listing that needs fixing, or an idea for working together. Send us a note and someone from our team will reply by email.
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