Many of our clients did, it's awesome, and it's more famous than us.
You can keep your existing account, with all the data and the same login. We'll get the FreeAgent team to put your account on our dashboard, which makes no difference to you, except we'll have access and get billed for it (incorporating the cost into our fee).
As we work closely with FreeAgent we get a generous discount on their headline rates, so unless you've got loads of referrals, this tends to be the best way.
You're not.
If there's a ton of work for us to do on day 1, we'll agree an upfront fee for this.
After that, it's a rolling monthly deal, you're free to leave whenever you like, and can take your FreeAgent account back into private ownership/transfer it to a new accountant with ease.
We'll also finish off any accounts/tax returns in progress and agree a suitable switchover point...not that we have to do this much.
So what.
If you're using/keen to use FreeAgent, you must be pretty comfortable with the internet.
Many of our clients we've never met, probably never will. This doesn't stop us doing a great job.
Most things will be done online/via email, quickly and efficiently, with phone conversations for the occasional more in depth discussion.
If you want regular sit down meetings with your accountant we're probably not the firm for you.