On August 31, 2026, Clio permanently shuts off its LawPay integration. You have to move something. Move to payments with no monthly fee and eCheck capped at $50, built into billing software you own.
Two companies stopped needing each other. You got the eviction notice.
Clio Payments arrives. From that day, every dollar flowing through LawPay is a dollar Clio would rather process itself.
AffiniPay, LawPay's parent company (now called 8am), acquires MyCase, a direct Clio competitor. The partnership is now a rivalry with a shared login.
Clio announces it will kill the LawPay integration. Firms that spent years wiring the two together learn they have one summer to rewire.
Permanently. Neither company asked what you wanted. That is what it means to build your practice on other people's platforms.
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LawPay's published pricing versus Slipstream, the payment processing built into TimeNet Law
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Credit and debit cards
Per transaction
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2.99% + $0.30 | 2.95% + $0.30, Apple Pay included |
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eCheck (ACH)
Where the real money moves
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1%, no cap | 1%, capped at $50 per payment |
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Monthly fee
What you pay before processing anything
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$20 / $70 / $149 plans | $0 |
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"Pass-through allocation" fee
A monthly surcharge, set at their discretion
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$7.99/month (was $4.99) | None |
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Setup fee
The cost of getting started
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See their pricing page | $0 |
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The cap's track record
What happened to eCheck limits over time
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Had a $10 cap. Removed it. | Written commitment: the $50 cap never goes up. If economics allow, it goes down. |
LawPay figures are from LawPay's public pricing page as of July 2026. Slipstream figures are from the TimeNet Law pricing page. If LawPay changes its pricing, believe their page over ours.
A client pays a $25,000 settlement invoice by eCheck. Same client, same invoice, same 1% rate.
Shipped in TimeNet Law 6.2, July 2026. Processing runs on Stripe.
Every emailed invoice gets a Pay by Card button and a Pay by eCheck button. Cards, debit, and Apple Pay. The client clicks, pays, done.
When a payment arrives, it posts to the right invoice on the right matter, and your Mac notifies you. No re-keying. No matching deposits on a Friday afternoon.
Right-click any invoice to copy a card or eCheck payment link. Paste it into an email, a text, wherever the client is.
One guided form. Stripe texts you a verification code, your money deposits to your firm's bank account automatically, typically about two business days after each payment.
Clients enter card numbers on Stripe's secure checkout, encrypted in transit. Card numbers and bank accounts never touch TimeNet Law or your Mac. Your firm never stores a card number, so your firm can never leak one.
TimeNet Law includes full accounting and IOLTA reconciliation, and retainer and trust workflows continue to work exactly as they always have.
See every step with screenshots: the Slipstream tutorial
The LawPay shutdown is not a fluke. It is what platforms owned by investors do.
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Ownership
Who the company answers to
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LawPay belongs to 8am, formerly AffiniPay, which also owns MyCase | Independently owned for 23 years. The last independently-owned legal billing app. |
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How you pay for the software
Rent versus own
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Monthly plans, forever | $479.99 one-time purchase per user |
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Where your firm's data lives
Clients, matters, invoices
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Their servers | Your own Mac |
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Trying it
What it costs to find out
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Sign up | Free trial, no credit card required |
Coming from Clio itself, not just LawPay? Read the full TimeNet Law vs Clio comparison
TimeNet Law is not a LawPay drop-in.
If your plan is to keep Clio and simply swap payment processors, Slipstream is not that. It does not plug into Clio. Nothing will after August 31; that is the whole point of what Clio did. Firms staying on Clio get Clio Payments, on Clio's terms.
Slipstream is payments built into TimeNet Law, which is legal billing software. The pitch is not "replace one processor." The pitch is: move the whole workflow. Time, billing, invoices, and payments in one native Mac app, purchased once, with your firm's data on your own machine.
That is a bigger move, and switching is real work. Clio's own report puts the average cost at $24,861. Which is exactly why a forced migration is the moment to choose software nobody can force you out of again. Try it with your real workflow first. The free trial requires no credit card.
"You did not choose this deadline.
You do get to choose what comes after it."
Yes. Slipstream is payment processing built into TimeNet Law, the Mac-native legal billing app that has been independently owned for 23 years. Cards and Apple Pay run at 2.95% + $0.30, eCheck runs at 1% capped at $50 per payment, and there is no monthly fee and no setup fee. Every emailed invoice gets Pay by Card and Pay by eCheck buttons, and payments post themselves to the right invoice on the right matter.
Clio announced on May 5, 2026 that it will permanently shut off its LawPay integration on August 31, 2026. Firms that run billing in Clio and payments through LawPay have to move something before that date: either move payments to Clio Payments, or move the whole billing workflow somewhere else. The full backstory is here.
As of LawPay's public pricing page in July 2026: LawPay charges 2.99% + $0.30 on cards, 1% on eCheck with no cap, monthly plans of $20, $70, or $149, and a $7.99 per month "pass-through allocation" fee set at their discretion. Slipstream charges 2.95% + $0.30 on cards and Apple Pay, 1% on eCheck capped at $50 per payment, with zero monthly fee and zero setup fee. On a $25,000 invoice paid by eCheck, that is $250 at LawPay and $50 at Slipstream.
Yes. TimeNet Law includes full accounting and IOLTA reconciliation as built-in features. Slipstream payments deposit to your firm's bank account, typically about two business days after each payment, and retainer and trust workflows in TimeNet Law continue to work exactly as they always have.
Processing runs on Stripe. Clients enter card numbers on Stripe's secure checkout, encrypted in transit. Card numbers and bank account numbers never touch TimeNet Law or your Mac, so your firm never stores a card number and can never leak one. The Slipstream tutorial walks through the whole flow.
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Slipstream is not a standalone processor that plugs into Clio. It is payments built into TimeNet Law's billing. If you are staying on Clio, your path is Clio Payments. The case for Slipstream is moving the whole workflow: time, billing, invoices, and payments in one app you own, on your own Mac. The free trial requires no credit card.
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