An AgencyZoom alternative with a proven import path

Why agencies look at switching from AgencyZoom

We don't know your contract or your invoice, so we won't guess at what you pay or what your plan includes. Your own paperwork is the source of truth. What we can tell you is what usually makes an agency start looking at any system:

• Per-user or per-agent pricing that grows every time you hire a producer or a service rep
• Plan tiers where the feature you need sits one level up
• Add-on modules for rating, commissions, certificates or a client portal, each priced separately
• Data ownership — where your book lives, and what you can take with you if you leave
• Support — a ticket queue, or someone who knows what a bad renewal week looks like
• Branding — whether clients see your agency or someone else's name

If none of those bother you today, you probably don't need to switch. If one of them does, the checklist below helps you put real numbers next to it.

What the import covered

The agency we moved had customers, policies and open leads in AgencyZoom. All three came across from the export, and we reconciled the totals in the new system against the export before the agency went live. We don't claim more than that: what a different account's export contains is something we confirm from the file.

What to evaluate in any replacement

Fill in the AgencyZoom column from your own contract and invoice, and ask every vendor you talk to (including us) the same questions.

What we can stand behind about DarkHorse AMS

• $250 per month, flat. No per-agent pricing and no tiers. See what's included.
• One-time fees only for data migration or email setup, quoted upfront.
• Your own server, your own data. The system runs on a server deployed for your agency, and the agency owns its data.
• White-label. Your logo, colors and agency name on every screen and email.
• Built by working agency owners and used every day at Signature Insurance, an independent agency in Kentucky. Our story.
• Quoting: a comparative rater for personal auto and home. Commercial quoting goes through Quotamation or, optionally, Bold Penguin, under your own contracts.
• Everything else in the core platform: ACORD 25 certificates, IVANS carrier downloads, a client portal, and commission statement parsing with producer splits.

Who it isn't for: health-only agencies. DarkHorse AMS is built for independent property & casualty agencies.

How moving from AgencyZoom works

This is the migration we can speak to from experience. We have imported customers, policies and open leads from an AgencyZoom export into a live agency and reconciled the counts to the export.

1. Send us an AgencyZoom export. We look at what it contains.
2. We tell you exactly what comes across before you commit.
3. We deploy your system on your own server, branded as your agency, with your carriers and quoter wired in.
4. We import and reconcile. Customers, policies and open leads are loaded and the counts are checked against your export.

What a given export contains depends on your account, so we confirm it from your file rather than assume. If AgencyZoom is only one of several tools you run, add up the monthly cost of all of them when you compare against a single flat fee.

DarkHorse AMS is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by AgencyZoom. AgencyZoom and all other product names belong to their respective owners.

Other systems you may be comparing: Applied Epic, AMS360, HawkSoft, EZLynx. Or see the full comparison guide and how switching works.

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