Clients, Contacts & Matters
Client and matter records with their lawyers, rates, practice areas and billing settings, cleaned of duplicates first.
PCLaw Migration
PCLaw to Soluno Migration Without Losing Your Books
Soluno is cloud software with full legal accounting built in, which makes it a natural move for firms that rely on PCLaw's general ledger. We know both systems and handle the migration end to end.
Work led by Saimoon Bhuiyan, a PCLaw Certified Independent Consultant
Why Soluno
Why PCLaw Firms Choose Soluno
The hardest part of leaving PCLaw is usually the accounting. Many cloud products handle time and billing well and leave the general ledger to separate software. Soluno keeps general ledger, receivables, payables, trust accounting and billing in one system, the way PCLaw does, and runs in a web browser with no server to maintain.
- Full legal accounting in one system, like PCLaw
- Trust accounting with three-way reconciliation
- Cloud-based: no server, no remote desktop
- Familiar structure for bookkeepers who know PCLaw
One Team for Both Systems
PCLaw specialists with hands-on Soluno experience
The people extracting your PCLaw data are the same people who set up and support Soluno.
- PCLaw data extraction and repair
- Soluno implementation and setup
- Staff training on Soluno
- Support after go-live
What Moves
What We Bring Across
Work in Progress
Unbilled time and disbursements by matter and timekeeper as of the cutover date.
Receivables
Outstanding invoices and balances by matter, so statements and collections continue without a gap.
Trust
Trust balances by matter and by bank account, reconciled three ways before and after the move.
General Ledger
Chart of accounts and opening balances, mapped account by account with your accountant's input.
Vendors & Payables
Vendor records and unpaid payables, so cheque runs carry on from the first week.
How It Works
From PCLaw to Soluno in Five Steps
- 01
Assessment & Scope
Review of your PCLaw data and a written scope: what moves, how accounts map, and the cutover date.
- 02
PCLaw Clean-Up
Integrity check, reconciliations and review of old balances, so only correct data is migrated.
- 03
Soluno Setup
Firm settings, chart of accounts, rates, tax, bank accounts, users and templates configured in Soluno.
- 04
Test & Train
A trial migration your staff can work in, with training on their own data before go-live.
- 05
Cutover & Validation
Final migration at month-end, balances matched to PCLaw, and support through your first billing run and first month-end.
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PCLaw to Soluno Questions
Opening balances for every general ledger account, plus open receivables, payables, work in progress and trust balances, are moved and reconciled. How much detailed transaction history is carried across is agreed during the assessment. The full history always remains available in a read-only copy of PCLaw.
Plan for four to eight weeks from the assessment to go-live, with the cutover itself done over a weekend at a month-end. Larger databases or data that needs repair take longer.
Some, but less than with most alternatives. Soluno's accounting is organised in a way that PCLaw users recognise. We train staff on a copy of your own data before go-live.
Yes. We work with every PCLaw version, including those the vendor no longer supports, and can extract data from databases that will not upgrade cleanly.
We repair it first. Database repair is the core of what we do, and it is done before migration so that the errors do not follow you into Soluno.
PCLaw to Soluno Migration guides
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