Paprel

Design Partner Program

Build the category with us

Paprel is embedded accounting infrastructure in active development with a focused group of platform, fintech, and accounting-led teams. Founding design partners get founding pricing, direct architecture access, and real roadmap influence — in exchange for candid feedback and a reference once you're live.

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The exchange

  • Founding-partner pricing, locked inCandid feedback as you build
  • Direct roadmap influenceA reference call or quote when you're live
  • Hands-on integration supportPermission to use your logo + a short case study

What founding partners get

A seat at the table, not a support queue

Direct architecture access

Work with the team designing the ledger and API — shared Slack and working sessions, not a ticket queue.

Shape the roadmap

Webhook events, reporting models, and integration patterns get prioritized around your real workload.

Guided integration

Reference implementations and hands-on help mapping your workflows onto a double-entry ledger.

Founding pricing

Locked-in founding-partner rates, honored as you scale — and as the product matures around you.

Who it's for

A design partner is usually a team that…

  • You're embedding accounting or a ledger into your own product — not buying a standalone tool.
  • You're a vertical SaaS, fintech, or marketplace team with real transaction volume or a concrete launch date.
  • You want direct input into the API surface, data model, and audit controls.
  • You can move — a technical owner who can integrate in weeks, not quarters.

How it works

From apply to live in weeks

  1. 01

    Apply

    Tell us what you're building and your timeline. We reply within 48 hours.

  2. 02

    Architecture review

    A working session on deployment mode, data model, OAuth, and MCP scope.

  3. 03

    Sandbox

    Self-serve keys, your first journal in minutes, validated against your data.

  4. 04

    Guided integration

    We build alongside you — reference patterns, reviews, and direct access.

  5. 05

    Production & reference

    Go live, then share what worked: a quote, a logo, a short story.

Before you apply

Questions partners ask

How many design partners are you taking?
A small, deliberate cohort — enough to harden the product against real workloads, few enough that each gets direct, hands-on attention from the team building Paprel.
What does it cost?
Founding-partner pricing, locked in and honored as you scale. We'd rather earn a long-term partner than a short-term invoice; the exchange is candid feedback and a reference once you're live.
Is Paprel production-ready?
Yes — the same primitives run NewLedger, our own accounting product, in production today. Design partners help us harden the API surface, audit model, and reporting against more workloads before broad availability.
What do you need from us?
A technical owner who can integrate, honest feedback through the build, and — once you're live and happy — permission to reference you with a logo, quote, or short case study.
Primary Fit

Built for platforms embedding accounting into their product

Paprel is designed for SaaS, fintech, marketplace, and accounting-led products that need ledger-backed accounting workflows inside their own product experience.

Platform Teams

Evaluate embedded accounting for your product

Explore how SaaS, fintech, and business software teams can bring accounting, reporting, and automation into their own product with Paprel.

Best for product teams, engineering leads, and platform operators

Explore Embedded Accounting

Implementation Teams

Plan a governed rollout

Review deployment models, permissions, reporting, audit history, OAuth, and MCP-ready workflows before bringing accounting into your product roadmap.

Best for product, engineering, security, and finance stakeholders evaluating platform rollout

Talk Through Rollout