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What is april?
Founded in 2021, april provides embedded tax infrastructure for financial platforms. Its products cover filing, tax planning, estimation and tax-data insights through APIs and hosted experiences.
april is an embedded tax platform rather than a conventional consumer tax website. Financial companies integrate its white-label filing, planning and data products through APIs, event handlers, webhooks, SDKs or a hosted URL. The platform ingests partner data to prefill tax workflows, supports document uploads and offers a task-based interface that can be branded to the partner’s experience. Its purpose is to place tax guidance inside the financial products where customers already manage money.
The product range includes DIY and expert filing, tax-impact simulations, refund estimation, quarterly-payment tools, equity transactions, Roth conversions, retirement income and tax-transcript data. april says its engine supports federal and state filing and received IRS e-file authorization in all 50 states in 2025. AI features help extract and query tax information, but filing depth, support and available pricing vary by partner implementation.
april sells to fintechs, banks, wealth-management firms, payroll providers and other platforms that want to add tax without building a tax engine. Publicly named partners include Robinhood, PayPal and Nasdaq Private Market, while the company says its platform is embedded in more than 50 financial apps. Enterprise pricing is quote-based, and consumer fees depend on the partner platform and its commercial arrangement.
Key features
Embedded filing
White-label DIY and expert filing experiences can be embedded in web and mobile financial products.
Tax planning
The platform calculates personalized tax effects for equity transactions, Roth conversions and retirement income.
Tax data API
Consent-based transcript access can provide up to seven years of tax data for financial-product personalization.
AI data extraction
AI features extract information from uploaded documents and help prefill tax workflows.
Equity simulation
Equity Simulator models income, capital-gains and alternative-minimum-tax effects in real time.
Tax payment tools
Real-time APIs support refund estimation and quarterly-payment experiences.
Hosted deployment
Partners can launch a hosted tax experience through a URL when a deeper integration is not required.
april pricing
april does not publish a standard enterprise price. Its help center says filing costs depend on how a user accesses april and that partner platforms may apply different pricing structures. A platform fee may be charged before submission, with refunds generally applying when the IRS does not accept the return.
| Plan | Price | What's included |
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| Enterprise | CustomScope is quoted | Embedded filing, tax planning, tax-data products, APIs, hosted experiences and implementation support |
Free trial: No public free trial; partner and enterprise terms are quoted.
Pros & cons
Pros
- Covers filing, planning and tax data rather than only annual return preparation.
- API, webhook, SDK and hosted deployment options support different integration strategies.
- IRS e-file authorization across all 50 states supports broad US filing coverage.
- Public partnerships demonstrate use in investing, payments and financial-services workflows.
Cons
- Enterprise pricing is not published and requires a sales conversation.
- It is built for embedding, so individual taxpayers cannot generally buy it as a standalone app.
- Feature availability and user pricing can vary by partner implementation.
- Complex-return support and customer service depend on the integrated experience.
Who is april best for?
- Fintechs embedding tax filing into an existing app.
- Banks and wealth platforms adding year-round tax planning.
- Payroll and investment platforms building tax-aware customer journeys.
- Product teams seeking hosted or API-first tax infrastructure.
Coverage and use cases
Integrations
Notable customers
Frequently asked questions
How much does april cost?
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Enterprise and platform pricing is custom. april’s help center says end users may pay a platform fee before submission, with pricing determined partly by the partner platform.
How does april work for a financial platform?
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A partner embeds april through APIs, SDKs, webhooks, event handlers or a hosted URL. Partner data can prefill workflows, while users complete filing or receive planning and tax-data insights inside the partner experience.
How does april compare with Column Tax?
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Both provide embedded tax filing for financial platforms. april also markets year-round planning, equity simulations, tax-transcript data and real-time tax APIs, so the better fit depends on the required filing scope and integration model.
What integrations does april support?
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april offers APIs, SDKs, webhooks and hosted deployment, with support for Android, iOS and React Native integration. Publicly named platform relationships include Robinhood, PayPal and Nasdaq Private Market.
Who is april for?
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april is for fintechs, banks, wealth managers, payroll providers and other companies that want tax inside an existing product. It is not primarily a standalone tax application for consumers or a desktop tool for individual preparers.
Is april secure and accurate?
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april’s developer materials describe SOC 2 Type 2 coverage across five categories, along with NIST- and TRUSTe-related controls. Its Trust Center lists 2025 SOC 1 and SOC 2 documents; buyers should review the partner implementation and applicable tax-professional controls.
Sources
Facts and pricing verified on October 19, 2026. Vendors change pricing often, so confirm with april before buying. How we research
