Soluno Is Now Actionstep Legal Accounting. What Changed, and What to Evaluate Now.

Soluno is now Actionstep Legal Accounting. The soluno.legal site carries that headline and routes its menu links to Actionstep.com, and Actionstep’s product page states plainly that “Actionstep Legal Accounting is the product formerly known as Soluno.” Actionstep acquired Soluno in 2023. Existing customers can still sign in through the Soluno cloud portal.

If you run a firm on it, the practical question is which parts of your setup a rebrand touches and which parts it doesn’t.

What has actually been announced

Three things are on the record.

The name. Soluno now carries the Actionstep Legal Accounting name. Actionstep describes it as “same great platform, just with a different name.”

The corporate ownership, since 2023. Actionstep announced the acquisition in September 2023. The rebrand is the visible end of a transition that has been running for a while.

The web presence. soluno.legal is now a rebrand landing page rather than a product site. Support content and marketing material live on Actionstep properties.

Actionstep’s current product page describes a fully integrated general ledger, client ledger, chart of accounts, trust accounting, and reporting, and notes that the Legal Accounting platform is available in North America only. That is the description of the product as it stands today, not a change announcement.

What appears unchanged

Sign-in still works through the existing portal. The platform is described as the same product under a new name. Nothing public indicates a data migration requirement, a forced move to a different application, or a sunset date for the current environment.

Say the limit out loud: absence of an announcement is not a commitment. A rebrand page is a marketing artifact, and it does not speak to your contract, your renewal terms, or a product roadmap. The right posture is neither alarm nor assumption.

What to check now

Five things, in the order they matter for a firm currently running on it.

1. Your contract and renewal date. Pull the agreement. Confirm who the counterparty is now, what the renewal terms say, and how much notice you owe if you decide not to renew. Corporate changes rarely alter a contract on their own, and knowing the terms costs an afternoon.
2. Your support path. Note the current support channel and confirm it works before you need it urgently. Bookmark it. Support routing is the thing that most often shifts during a brand consolidation.
3. Your export options. Ask, in writing, what a full export contains: trial balance, general ledger detail, chart of accounts, and individual client trust ledgers with running balances and matter attribution. Request a sample file. This is worth doing regardless of what happens next, because it is the same question you should be able to answer about any system holding your books.
4. Your trust records against your jurisdiction’s retention rule. Trust record retention periods vary by state, so check your state bar’s rule for the period that binds your firm, then confirm your accessible history covers it.
5. Your roadmap questions, asked directly. Regional availability, feature investment, and integration plans are fair questions for an account manager. Ask them and write down the answers.

How to evaluate without overreacting

A rebrand is not a reason to switch. Switching legal accounting software is a genuine project with a general ledger migration, a trust history migration, and a period where your books exist in two places. It is worth doing for a real reason and not worth doing for a logo.

If you do decide to look, the useful frame is what your firm needs the accounting layer to do, not what happened to a vendor’s name. Two questions carry most of the weight. Who besides your staff needs to work inside the general ledger, and what does an exit look like from any product you’re considering? Our post on what QuickBooks handles for attorneys and where a firm needs more sets out where the accounting system’s job ends, and our guide to legal billing software for QuickBooks firms by firm size sorts the options if a QuickBooks Online setup is one of the paths you want to compare.

For firms working with an outside bookkeeper or fractional controller, add one more question to the list: whether that person can work in the system without a new login, a new learning curve, and a new bill to you. Our guide to law firm workflows for external bookkeepers covers what that relationship needs.

Frequently asked questions

Is Soluno shutting down? Nothing published says so. soluno.legal describes the product as continuing under the Actionstep Legal Accounting name, and sign-in through the existing portal still works. Confirm your own situation with your account manager rather than relying on a marketing page.

When did Actionstep acquire Soluno? Actionstep announced the acquisition in September 2023. The public rebrand of the Soluno name to Actionstep Legal Accounting came later.

Do I have to migrate to Actionstep’s practice management product? No public statement requires it. Actionstep describes Legal Accounting as a platform in its own right. If you want certainty about your specific plan, ask for it in writing.

Will my pricing change? Pricing is a contract question, not a rebrand question. Read your agreement and confirm renewal terms directly with the vendor.

Should a rebrand make me switch software? On its own, no. A general ledger and trust history migration is a substantial project. Switch when the product stops meeting a need you can name, and use the moment to confirm you could export cleanly if you ever chose to.