What goes into a quote, and what never appears on it
Pricing
AntChambers is licensed per installation rather than sold per seat per month. This page sets out exactly what a quote is made of, so that the number you eventually receive has no surprises in it.
The parts of a quote
Five components, and no others.
The licence
Per installation, banded by the number of fee earners recording time
One licence file for one firm. The band reflects the size of the practice rather than counting seats month by month, because a firm should be able to add an articled clerk without raising a purchase order.
Modules
Licensed individually
Core is always included. You license the modules you use — a firm running only timekeeping does not pay for the billing engine, and can add it later without a migration.
Support and updates
Annual, alongside the licence
New versions, security updates and a named route to a person who knows the product. Upgrades are applied when you choose; nothing is pushed into your installation.
Implementation
One-time, scoped to the migration
Installation, your firm’s branding and settings, importing clients, matters, people and rate cards, and bringing across historic time and bills where the source data supports it. Priced from what you actually have.
Managed hosting
Optional
If you would rather not run the server, we can operate a dedicated installation for your firm. It stays a single installation for you alone — never a shared service.
What every installation carries
Included, whatever you license.
- Every core capability: users, designations, granular permissions, firm branding and settings, the audit trail, notifications, file storage and currency handling.
- Your own database, your own files, your own backups.
- Offline licence verification — no activation call, no dependency on us being reachable.
- Security updates for as long as support is current.
- Your data, exportable, at any time, without asking.
Getting a number
Tell us the shape of the firm.
A quote needs three facts: how many people will record time, which modules you want on day one, and what you are running today that has to be brought across. That is usually a twenty-minute conversation and a written response the same week.
If you are comparing us against something else, say so and say against what. We will tell you where we are the weaker choice, because you will find out anyway and it is cheaper for both of us if you find out now.
Write to us and a person answers — usually the same working day.
- Sales and demos
- sales@antchambers.com
- Existing installations
- support@antchambers.com
- Partners and resellers
- partners@antchambers.com
Tell us the size of the firm, what you run today, and which of billing, timekeeping or matter records is hurting most. That is enough for a useful first call.
Questions this raises
Straight answers.
Why is there no price on this page yet?
Because a per-installation product with a migration attached is quoted, not bought from a card form, and a number without the scope behind it would mislead you. Tell us the size of the firm and which modules you need and you will get a written quote with the breakdown above.
Is it per user per month?
No. The licence is per installation, banded by the size of the practice. Adding a person mid-year is not a billing event.
What happens if we let support lapse?
The installation keeps running on the version you have, until the licence term ends. You stop receiving updates and support. When the licence itself expires, licensed modules stop registering and the installation falls back to core — with all your data intact and exportable.
Can we start with one module and add more?
That is the intended path. Most firms start with matters and timekeeping and add billing after a settled month. Adding a module is a new licence file, not a new deployment.
Is there a trial?
There is a working demonstration against sample data, and for firms at the shortlist stage a time-limited installation on a server of yours, seeded with your own client and matter list. That is more useful than a login to something generic.
See it against your own matters
A working demo takes about forty minutes. Bring a real fee note and a real timesheet week — we would rather show you the awkward parts than the polished ones.