Ease vs Collective
Collective is built for self-employed solopreneurs. Ease is built for doctors and clinicians. Both replace your CPA. Only one understands your practice.
Strong for solopreneurs.
Built for doctors.
Collective is a strong all-in-one back office for self-employed entrepreneurs. The team is solid. The product works. If you sell e-commerce, consulting, or design services as a sole proprietor, Collective is a reasonable choice.
If you are a doctor or clinician, Ease is built for you. The bookkeeping rules, the entity work, the legal templates, the tax positions, and the payroll flows are all built around how clinical practices actually run.
Collective treats every solopreneur the same. Ease does not.
Feature Comparison
Who Should Pick What
Pick Collective if...
You are not in healthcare.
The product is built for designers, consultants, freelancers, coaches, and e-commerce operators. The S Corp tax savings story Collective tells is strong, and they execute it well. If you’re not a doctor or clinician who is W2 or operating your own business that does not involve patient relationships, licensure, or clinical compliance, you are not the customer Ease was built for.
Pick Ease if…
Your income comes from clinical work.
You have patient payment processing with HIPAA considerations. Malpractice premiums. CME, board recertification, and licensure renewals. Potential MSO-PC structure work. Employment agreements with clinical clauses. Referral relationships that touch the Anti-Kickback Statute. Collective's playbook does not cover any of this. Ease was built for it. The agent also does the work; with Collective you log in and review what a bookkeeper did.
Pricing Compared
What you actually pay
Collective
$199 – $349/mo total
$199/mo for the LLC tier. $349/mo for the S Corp tier. Personal tax filing is a separate annual fee on the S Corp plan. Payroll add-on is $15 per additional employee per month.
Ease
$299/mo
Ease Agent and FinancialOS. $99/mo for the first 3 months for the first 250 verified clinicians. Tax filing runs $1,000 to $2,500. Team payroll add-on is $10 per team member per month.
SWITCHING
Switching from Collective in Three Simple Steps
Connect your accounts.
Ease pulls in your bank and credit card history. Your existing books from Collective import in one step.
Review with your bookkeeper.
On the $499 plan, your dedicated bookkeeper walks through the prior year with you and reconciles the open period.
Tell Ease what you need.
Set up payroll, patient payments, and entity registrations through the agent. Most practices are fully migrated in under two weeks.
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