LawPay is a payment processor for law firms with a published monthly fee and per-transaction rates. LawAOS is a practice platform: it raises invoices, records payments, keeps trust ledgers and takes card payments through the firm's own Stripe account once connected.
LawPay's pricing page lists $19/month plus per-transaction rates, and its pages describe trust-account-safe processing. LawAOS does not process payments itself; it records them against invoices, posts them to the ledger and, with Stripe Connect set up, gives clients a pay link.
- Choose LawAOS when
- You want invoicing, trust ledgers, three-way reconciliation and the general ledger in one place, and you are content to take cards through your own Stripe account.
- Choose LawPay when
- You need card processing designed around trust and operating account separation, eCheck, or client financing, or your practice software already integrates with it.
LawPay's pages cover processing and invoicing. Reconciliation and the ledger live elsewhere; in LawAOS they are in the product.
Every panel below is rendered from the product’s own components with fictional records for Okafor & Byrne LLP.
Payments settle against the invoice
Part payments set an invoice to Partial and full payment to Paid, from the payments recorded. Overpayments become client credit, not a negative balance.
Client money reconciles three ways
Each client has a ledger. The database refuses a drawdown larger than the client's cleared balance, and a filed three-way reconciliation compares the statement, the book and the sum of client ledgers.
Every LawAOS cell names a shipped module. Every LawPay cell comes from LawPay's own pages, read in September 2026; a row those pages do not mention says "not confirmed".
| LawAOSShipped modules | LawPayVendor's own pages, September 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting paid | ||
| Card payments on invoices | Through the firm's own Stripe Connect account, once set up | |
| Processing kept separate for trust and operating funds | Not offeredNot claimed; card payments settle to the firm's Stripe account | |
| Processing rates | Set by Stripe, not LawAOS | 2.99% + $0.30 per transaction |
| Billing and records | ||
| Create and send invoices | ||
| Time tracking | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages | |
| Client trust ledgers and three-way reconciliation | Guided, filed as an append-only record | Not confirmedReconciliation not claimed on its pages |
| Practice management | Via integrations | |
| Pricing | ||
| Published price | $29-$119/user/month | $19/month |
- Included: shipped in the product
- Offered in some form: depends on the plan, a separate product or an integration
- Not confirmed: not found in public documentation at the snapshot date
- Not offered: a well-known absence
Read on LawPay's own site in September 2026. Vendor plans change; check the sources below before you buy. If a cell is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- LawPay: pricing (www.lawpay.com/pricing) (read September 2026)
- LawPay home page (www.lawpay.com) (read September 2026)
- LawPay: features (www.lawpay.com/features) (read September 2026)
- LawAOS
The payment lands in the books
A recorded payment updates the invoice status, posts to the general ledger and shows in aged receivables and collection figures.
- LawAOS
Trust is reconciled where it is kept
Client ledgers, cleared and uncleared funds and three-way reconciliation live in LawAOS, next to the matter.
- LawPay
Where LawPay is ahead
LawPay is built around keeping trust and operating funds apart at the processor, offers eCheck and client financing, and integrates with many practice systems. LawAOS does not process payments itself.
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