Adding and Deleting Pages and Links

Let’s go over how to add or delete a page or a link.

Adding a Page

Before we begin, remember to log into your client portal and click the “Modify your site” button to get to your site manager. When you enter the site manager, you will be brought to the homepage for the website. To add a page to your site, click “Add Page” in the site manager navigation bar.

You can add any stock page from the “Add Page” list that will load. However, you can create your own custom pages by selecting custom page. After you have made your selection, be sure to click add or your page will not be generated.

Removing a Page

To remove a page, please be sure to be in your site map. If not, click “Site Map” in the site manager tool bar. From there, right click the page you want to remove and then left click delete.

**WARNING!!! If you remove a page that was not part of the CPA Site Solutions stock pages (aka Custom Pages), they are not recoverable! Only stock content pages can be restored and they can only be restored to their original content. Any content that was edited will be lost.**

Adding a link

Once again, make sure you’re in your site manager before we begin. From the site manager, click “Add Page” even though we are adding a link.

Once the add page window appears, you will want to scroll to the bottom of the add page list. There you will see a topic called “Custom Link.” Select custom link and then hit add. After you hit add, a new window will appear titled link settings. This is where you establish what your link will be titled, where the link will take you, and if you want the link to open in the existing window or in a new window/tab. You also have the option to link to an existing page on your site with the “Link Target” option. Once everything is filled out, be sure to hit add.

Removing a link

Removing a link is very similar to removing a page in your site map. To remove a link, right click the link you want to remove and click delete.

**WARNING!!! If you remove a link, it is permanently gone. There is no way to recover a link. Please be sure you have a copy of all important links you may need for the future saved somewhere in a document.**

Moving a Link or Page

To move a page or link on your sites navigation bar, click the Site Map located in the blue toolbar in the Site Manager. Once at the site map, simply left-click and drag your link or page to its appropriate location. The Site Map represents the order in which pages or links are displayed. If you have a vertical navigation bar, the site map displays the exact order of your pages and links as if they were displayed on your site. If you have a horizontal navigation bar, then the top of the Site Map list represents the beginning of your navigation bar on the left-hand side. Likewise, the bottom of the navigation bar represents the end of the horizontal navigation bar (right-hand side).

Additional Resources:

Adding Text

Adding Images

Using Keywords on Your CPA Website

Tackle Personalizing Pages First

Adding Images

In this tutorial, you will be instructed on how to insert an image on a page. After you have navigated to the page you want to edit, move your mouse over the area that you want to edit so it becomes highlighted in gray. Once you click the gray area, the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor will appear in a new window.

After the editor opens, you can then begin to insert a picture by clicking on the “Insert/Edit Image” button.

Once the button is clicked, another window will open where you can select an image or upload an image from your computer. If your image already exists on the server or you want to use some of our pictures already on the server, then you can just select them in the file/directory selection area. However, if you need to insert an image that is on your computer, first click upload.

Another window will then open where you can browse for a file on your computer. After you’ve located your file, be sure to hit upload so the picture/image uploads onto the server.

Now that you have your image uploaded, be sure your uploaded image is checked and then click Insert.

Your image should now be placed inside the WYSIWYG editor. From here, you can move your image virtually anywhere in the editing window by left-clicking the image and dragging the image to the location where you want it placed. To make your image larger or smaller, single left-click the image so a series of small boxes develop around the perimeter of the image. You can then left-click and drag a box to resize the image. To adjust how the text flows around the picture, right click the image and choose Image Properties.

From this window, you can make changes pertaining to how the image looks on the page in relation to the text. Once positioning adjustments have been made, click Apply and you’ll be brought back to the WYSIWYG editor. Be sure to click Save or your work will not be saved!

Additional Resources:

Adding and Deleting Pages

Adding Text

Using Keywords on Your CPA Website

Tackle Personalizing Pages First

Interactive Tax Organizer

Overview

The Online Interactive Tax Organizer is a dynamic web application that allows your clients to organize their tax information online, saving you time when preparing their taxes. You and your clients can securely access your client’s tax information anytime from anywhere, eliminating the time and expense involved in mailing paper organizers.

Logging into the Tax Organizer In order to log in to the Tax Organizer, click the “Login” button on the top of your website. If you don’t see the “login” button, click on the “login” link located on the bottom of your site. If you haven’t setup your portal yet, please see Portal Help.

Now select the “Tax Organizer” heading and you will be brought to the Interactive Tax Organizer Menu


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Setting it Up & Email Notification The “Setup Main Menu” link allows you to edit the information that appears on the welcome page of your Tax Organizer. Starting at the top, you are asked to enter a name for your organizer, i.e. “Tax Organizer”, “Forms Page”, “Forms”, etc. Remember, whatever name you choose will appear both at the top of the page and on the button or navigation link.

After you’ve made any necessary changes to the body text of the Tax Organizer Welcome Page, make sure to enter your email address in the space designated to send email notifications.

You can easily monitor your clients’ activity in the Tax Organizer by receiving email notifications when a new client registers, when a client starts a new tax organizer, and when a client submits a tax organizer. When you have everything the way you like it, click “Save”.



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Editing the Default Tax Organizer

You cannot edit a tax organizer on “Hold” or a “Published” tax organizer until you convert it to “Draft” status Click here for information on editing a tax organizer that is already published or on hold). A “Draft” tax organizer is an editable tax organizer that is still under construction and not viewable by clients.

Click the “Edit” icon, which is a pencil, in order to make changes to the default Tax Organizer.

In order to edit a question or section of the default tax organizer, scroll down to the questions and click the pencil icon next to the section or question you wish to edit.

In the Edit Question page you can re-arrange the section number or question number of the question. You can also change the text for the question and the type of answer field that it requires.

Make sure to check the respective boxes if the question is mandatory or you need to encrypt the response. It is a good idea to encrypt responses for highly secure information. However, the more fields that you encrypt, the slower your Organizer’s performance will be.

Click “Save” to save your changes and you’ll be brought back to the “Edit Form” page.


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Creating a New Tax Organizer From Scratch

A list of Tax Organizers shows up on the “Manage Organizers” page. To add a new tax organizer to the list, click the “Create a New Organizer” link.

Enter information such as the title of the tax organizer, a description, and confirmation page/email text.

A confirmation page is text that will appear after users submit their completed tax organizer. It is a good place to thank them for completing the organizer and you can also let them know that they can return to their tax organizer and edit their answers.

Select the checkbox titled “Send client confirmation email upon form submission with the following text:” if you’d like to have the tax organizer send your client a confirmation email.

Notice that you can enter the text for the Confirmation email. The Confirmation Email can be used to remind your client of any additional steps needed after completing the organizer like setting an appointment or sending a hard copy of receipts.

Enter the text for your default email that will automatically be sent out to any client who submits a tax organizer. You can also select whether you want the section and question numbers to display when a client views the tax organizer.

Now click “Create Organizer” and the new tax organizer shows up in your list of tax organizers.


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Uploading a New Tax Organizer

A Tax Organizer can also be uploaded using a CSV (Comma Seperated Value) file. If you want to create your own tax organizer, open Microsoft Excel and enter your organizer questions into the first row of the Excel table. Note: In order for a CSV file to upload successfully, all questions must be in a single row.

Once you have all of the questions entered, save the tax organizer as a CSV file. To do this, click Save and then select the option to save as a CSV file.

Go back to the “Manage Organizers” page of your Tax Organizer and click “Upload An Organizer Using A CSV File”.

Before the tax organizer can be created, you need to map the answer fields for each question in the CSV file. This is necessary so that the tax organizer can provide the proper spacing and options to correctly answer each question. Also, don’t forget to enter a name for your tax organizer.


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Adding a New Section and Questions

Now that we know how to make a new tax organizer, let’s learn how to edit it by adding a new section. In order to make edits to a Draft tax organizer, simply click the pencil icon next to the tax organizer you want to edit. You can edit any of the information that you entered when creating the tax organizer and you can also make changes to the sections and questions in the tax organizer.

Click the “Add Section” button and a new section is created where you can enter questions.

Now let’s add some questions to your new tax organizer by clicking the “Add Question” underneath the Section that you just created.

Start by either selecting the question number or accepting the default, which is simply in the order the questions are entered. The number 1.1.1 stands for Page 1, Section 1, Question 1. Select whether you want the question to be mandatory and whether you want to encrypt the response. Clients will not be able to move forward without filling in a response for a mandatory question.

It is a good idea to encrypt responses for highly secure information. However, the more fields that you encrypt, the slower your Organizer’s performance will be. Encrypting causes the server to pause to encrypt and unencrypt for viewing in-tax organizers. Therefore, encrypt only those fields that require encryption in order to maximize your client’s positive online experience.

Enter the question and then select what type of question it is by clicking the pull down menu. It is important to select what kind of question you’re asking so that the Tax Organizer can provide the correct spacing and support for answers. Let’s say you want to add a short answer question. Scroll down until you find the question type that says “Open Question (short answer)”. If you want to add a Yes/No question, select “Radio Buttons (Yes/no)”.

Once you have entered all of the sections and questions that you want the tax organizer to contain, click the “Save Changes” button and you’ll be brought back
to the “Manage Organizers” page.

If you want to preview exactly what the tax organizer will look like when you publish it, click the Preview icon, which is a picture of an eye. Note:
The place markers (i.e. “Organizer Title”, “Page Title”, “Section Summary”, etc.) will not appear in your published tax organizer. They are simply in the preview
to assist you in designing your tax organizer.

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Publishing – Putting on Hold – Drafting a Tax Organizer

Once you have your tax organizer the way you like it and you want to make it available to your clients, select the box next to the tax organizer title and then hit “Publish”. To publish more than one tax organizer at once, select as many boxes as necessary next to the tax organizer titles.


If you no longer want a tax organizer to be available to your clients, select the box next to the tax organizer title and click the “Put on Hold” button. If you don’t need to make any more changes to a draft tax organizer, you can put it on hold using the same process.


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Editing an Already “Published” Tax Organizer

Let’s say that you have edits that you want to make to a “Published” tax organizer or a tax organizer on hold. In order to convert the tax organizer to Draft status, you must make a duplicate of the tax organizer. Click the edit icon next to the tax organizer you want to duplicate and then scroll down to the bottom where it says “Duplicate Form”.

Enter a title for the “new” tax organizer and then hit “Duplicate”.

As you can see, the original tax organizer still exists on the “Manage Organizers” page, but a duplicate with Draft status has also been created.

Note: Once a tax organizer has been “Published” it can not be edited without making a duplicate copy.


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Managing Client Accounts

Click the “Manage Responses” page in order to monitor your clients tax organizer submissions.

Adding/Editing Client Accounts

Clients are organized in a comprehensive list including their name and optional client number. The pencil icon next to a client allows you to edit that client’s Login Information.

Clients can be added to the Tax Organizer by creating a Portal Account for them. Help on how to
do so can be found here

Emailing Client’s Login Credentials

You can email your client’s login credentials directly to them by clicking “Email Login Info”. This is a useful tool if a client forgets his/her username and password.

Removing a Client Account
If you want to delete a client’s account from the Tax Organizer, click the “Delete” button. Otherwise, click Save and you’ll be brought back to the “Manage Responses” page.


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View/Edit Client Response

Click the Submissions icon next to a client’s name to view a summary of the client’s activity.


From this page you can see which tax organizers a client has viewed, completed or are in progress. By clicking “In-Form” in the Review category, you can view the date that the tax organizer was submitted by the client, and view and edit the client’s responses.


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Exporting Client Response Data

“CSV” (Comma Separated Value) allows you to see your clients responses in a table format and export the data to another software. To export a tax organizer response in CSV format, click “CSV” under the “Export” column. You can either save it to disk or open it with the default application, Microsoft Excel.


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Importing Client Data

You can also import client data from your computer or tax programs. In order to import client data (anything from name, address, phone numbers to social security numbers) into the Tax Organizer, you must save/export the data as a Microsoft Excel CSV file.

Note: In order for a CSV file to upload successfully, all questions must be in a single row, and all answers must be in a single row directly below the question row. The CSV file should look like this:

Once you have a CSV file on your computer that contains the client data you want to import, click “CSV” in the “Import” column.

Click “Browse” and search through your computer until you’ve found the CSV file that you want to upload. Click “Upload File” and the CSV file will be uploaded into the Tax Organizer.

Before the CSV file is fully uploaded into the Tax Organizer, the questions must be mapped. Mapping the CSV file responses is important in order for the Tax Organizer to determine which answers match up with each question.

Once imported, you can view the submission by clicking “In-form” or print by clicking the print icon.

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Email Marketing System Help

 

Overview

Your monthly emailed newsletter and the tax due date reminder system are both functions of the email marketing system. The Email Marketing System is a powerful and flexible system that helps you keep in touch with your clients, converts web visitors into long-term clients, and automates many of your firm’s unbillable tasks.

Features of the Email Marketing System are:

1. Automatically welcome your clients and prospective clients to your website.

2. Automatically send your clients your monthly email newsletter.

3. Manage your contact list of clients.

4. Send custom email messages to your contact list.

5. Create campaigns of sequential e-mail messages to send to your contacts.

 

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Logging In

The first step will be logging in to Firm Portal. For instructions on how to do this please click here.

Once you are logged into the Portal, click the Email Marketing System button as pictured below:

This will bring you to the Email Marketing System main menu.

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Editing the Emailed Newsletter

1. Once you’re logged into the Email Marketing System interface,  you’ll click on the “Messages” button at the top of the Dashboard page to see the list of messages in the system.

2.  Click on the message you want to edit (note- the subject line uses the ~mycompany~ variable to pull in your firm name.  When clients see the message it will show up as Your Company’s November Newsletter, for example)

3. You can use the WYSIWYG editor to change the formatting of the text, delete and/or add your own text to the newsletter.  !!IMPORTANT!!  If you are pasting copy into the editor from any external source (such as Microsoft Word or Outlook) you’ll need to use the Paste from Word feature.

4.  Once you have finished your edits, click the “Save Message” button below the editor.

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Customizing the Emailed Newsletter’s Look

By default, your newsletter will pull in your company logo and a color template that matches the colors of your website.  If you want to modify the template so that it uses different colors than your website template, you can modify the template number.

1.  Click on the Templates link from the top navigation.

You will see the default template set for your newsletter.


3. To choose a different one, select from the “Select a New Template” number list.

This will give you a preview of what your new newsletter template will look like

4.  To save this template for further use, click the “Save Template” button

 

 

Scheduling a Message to Go Out/Customizing the Newsletter’s Time of Delivery

By default, your newsletter is set to go out on the 10th business day of each month.  (Due to the high volume of newsletters the system sends, it may get put in the queue on the 10th but not send until the 11th or 12th).  If you want to schedule the message to go out at a different date, follow these instructions:

1. Click on the “Scheduled Message” link in the dashboard navigation

2.  Click on the “Edit” button next to the message you want to change the send time for.

3.  On the next screen you’ll have several options.  Please see the corresponding numbers below the image for additional information:

1- If you want to change the message that is being sent out you may select a different message from the drop-down here
2-  To change the list of subscribers that the message is scheduled to send to, use this drop-down to choose a new group
3- To schedule a new send-time, click in the “Date to Send” field.  This will pop up with a calendar
4-  Click on the new date you want the message to send out on
5- If you want to select a specific time you can drag the “Hour” and “Minute” boxes to set a specific time
6- When you’ve adjusted the necessary information, click “Done.”

4.  Click on the “Save Scheduled Messages” button to save your changes


To create a new scheduled message, the process is very similar. 

1.  First, click on the link in the dashboard for “Add A New Scheduled Message”

2. On the next screen you’ll have several options.  Please see the corresponding numbers below the image for additional information:

1- To choose a new message, click on the drop-down menu next to “Messages.”
2-  To select a list of subscribers that the message is scheduled to send to, use this drop-down to choose a new group
3- To schedule a send-time, click in the “Date to Send” field.  This will pop up with a calendar
4-  Click on the new date you want the message to send out on
5- If you want to select a specific time you can drag the “Hour” and “Minute” boxes to set a specific time
6- When you’ve adjusted the necessary information, click “Done.”

3. Click on the “Save Scheduled Messages” button to save your changes

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Editing the Welcome Email to Your Firm’s Website

When someone signs up to receive your newsletter from your website, they will get an automatic “Welcome” message sent to you from your Email Marketing System.  This section will go over how to edit that message.

1.  Click on the “Messages” button at the top of the Dashboard page.

 

2.  From the list of messages, choose the “Newsletter Welcome Message.”  (note- the subject line uses the ~mycompany~ variable to pull in your firm name.  When clients see the message it will show up as Welcome to Your Company’s  Newsletter, for example)

3. You can use the WYSIWYG editor to change the formatting of the text, delete and/or add your own text to the newsletter.  !!IMPORTANT!!  If you are pasting copy into the editor from any external source (such as Microsoft Word or Outlook) you’ll need to use the Paste from Word feature.

 

 

 

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Adding Contacts to Newsletter Subscribers

There are two ways that you can add new subscribers to different campaign lists.  You can add them individually, thus allowing you to enter additional information besides just an email address.  Or, you can bulk-import a list of just email addresses.

(**Please note that all contacts added to the system will each get an email notification asking them to verify that they want to receive your email messages.  The contact will not be actively receiving messages until they’ve clicked that verification link.)

Add individual clients
1.  To add individual contacts, click on the “Add A New Contact” drop down under the “Contacts” menu at the top of the Dashboard page.

2.  Fill out as much information as you wish for the client on the left-hand side.  On the right-hand side you can select which of your campaign lists you want to add this user to, then save the contact.

3.  You’ll then be taken to a screen that shows the status of the client.  As long as they’re checked off as “active,” the system will attempt to send a newsletter to the client.


Importing a list of clients

You can import a list of contacts to your Email Marketing System , instead of adding them individually.

1.  First, click on the “Import List of Contact” drop-down link under the “Contacts” menu in the Dashboard.


2.  Here, you will need to paste in a list of addresses, one per line.  Most email clients allow you to export a list of contacts to an Excel spreadsheet or .CSV file.  You can simply copy the column of email addresses from those documents and paste them into the box in the Email Marketing System, select which campaign lists to subscribe them to, then click the Import Contacts button.

You’ll then be brought to a screen that shows that the contacts were uploaded.

The Email Marketing System will send an auto-message to each contact that was uploaded in the bulk import.  Once they have verified that they want to receive the email they will become an “active” contact, listed in your contact list.

 

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Removing Contacts from Contacts List

1.  To delete contacts from your contact lists, you’ll click on the “Contacts” link at the top of the Email Marketing System Dashboard.

2.  To show more than the default 10 contacts per page, use the drop-down menu to show more contacts.

3.  Click on the “X” to the right of the contact(s) that you want to delete from the system.

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Creating and Sending a Custom Message

You can create your own messages in the Email Marketing System and set them up to go out to your newsletter contacts, or other contact lists you’ve set up.

1.  From the Dashboard, click on the “Add A New Message” drop-down link from the “Messages” menu.


2.  Fill out the Title (this is what shows up in the Email Marketing System as the title of the message), Subject (this is what will show up as the subject line of the email when it’s sent to your clients) and the message body by using the What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor.

3. Save the message by clicking the “Save Message” button

4.  If you’d like to send yourself a test message to see how it looks, click on the message in the Messages screen.

5.  If you plan to send this message using the newsletter template (link to section about templates) click on the “yes” button next to Use Template at the bottom of the screen.  Fill in your email address and then click “Send Test Message.”

 

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Creating New Email Marketing Lists/Campaigns

You can create a new list of campaign subscribers from your contact list, or you can upload a list of subscribers to a particular campaign list.

1. The first step is to set up a new list.

2. On the next screen you’ll have several options  The only one you need to fill out is the “Title” field (1) and you’ll need to click the check box next to “Active” (2).

You’ll no tice the * next to From Name, From Address and Reply To Address.  These fields do not need to be filled out.   If they aren’t, they will automatically use the information listed in the Firm Info. section of the Email Marketing System (located in the navigation at the top of the screen).  If you want the information to be specific to the campaign, and not reflect what is used for the other messages, you can add in a new From Name, From Address and Reply To Address that will be used just for this campaign.

Please also note that the Subscribe Redirect and Unsubscribe Redirect also do not need to be filled out.  These are used when someone subscribes to the campaign (via your website) or unsubscribes from the campaign (by opting out after the message is sent).  If you fill in either field, the user will be directed to the indicated website after subscribing or unsubscribing.  The redirect’s must be a complete URL such as http://www.cpasitesolutions.com

Finally, click on the “Save List” button (3).

3.  To add new users to this new campaign, you have two options.  You can either import a list of contacts and choosing the new campaign as the campaign to subscribe them to (see Adding Newsletter Subscribers) or, you can choose individuals from your main contact list to subscribe.  In this option, you’ll click on the “Contacts” link in the top navigation.

4.  Click on the contact that you want to subscribe to the new campaign.

5.  Check off the box for the new campaign to add the subscriber to the list and save the contact.

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Seminar Registration

Adding a Seminar

To add Seminars to your page, please follow these steps:

1) Log into the Firm Portal (click here for instructions) and click on Modify Website.

2) At the top of the page, click on the Add Page button.

3) In the “Add A Page” screen, select Seminars from the list and click the “Add” button.

4) Click the Edit Seminars box:

and you will be able to change the way your seminars are displayed (in list form).

The first step is to click on the New Seminar option.  This will allow you to add a new seminar to the list.

5) In this window, you will see many options, explained in detail below:

Seminar Title: This is the title of the seminar. For example, “Learn QuickBooks the Easy Way!”
Seminar Date & Time: The date and time on which the seminar is to be held.
Location (City, State) A brief description of where the seminar is to be held, generally “City, State”.
Cost: The fee you wish to charge for admission to this seminar.
Your E-mail: The e-mail address where people can contact you for more information about this seminar.
Paypal E-mail: If you’ve set up the Pay My Fee Page with a PayPal account, you can create a link to that page by entering the email address associated with your PayPal account here.  Once a registrant registers for the seminar, they will see a “Pay Now” button if you’ve entered that email address here.
Brief Description: A brief description of the seminar.
Detailed Description: A full, detailed description of the seminar.

6) When finished entering the seminar details, click Save

7.) You’ll then see your seminar listed on the screen.


From here you can either add a new seminar by clicking the New Seminar button, edit the existing seminar by clicking on its title, or delete the seminar by clicking on the X box.  You can close out of the seminar editing screen and your changes will be saved.

8) Click Publish and your seminars will be updated on your webpage.

 

What Your Client Sees

When your clients click on the Seminars page of your website they will see a list of seminars you have entered in the site manager:

When the client clicks on the title of the seminar they’d like to register for, they’ll be prompted to enter their contact information:

After the client clicks “sign up” they’ll see a “Thank You!” screen.  If you don’t have the PayPal feature set up, the client will then be re-directed back to your seminars page.  If you do have the PayPal feature set up, the client will see the Pay Now button.

The client can then click the button to be brought over to the payment page.

Please note that if a client does pay for the seminar, there is not a direct link between your payment page and the seminar page.  The seminar administration section has a box that can be checked off when someone pays for a seminar, but this has to be checked off manually.  It will not get checked off automatically if someone clicks the “Pay Now” button and pays.


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Seminar Administration

Go back to Site Manager and bring up your Seminars page.


When you click the highlighted box, a window pops up that shows you a list of your seminars. From this window you can create new seminars or edit existing ones.


Click the link that displays the number of subscriber(s) to you seminar. This presents you with a list of people that have signed up to attend the seminar. You can see who has paid, how many people are attending and the contact information for each participant.

If the client has submitted payment– either by mail, at your office, or by using your Online Payment page, you can check off the “Paid?” box.  This box does not get checked off manually if someone pays online, it has to be checked off by you once you receive notification that the payment was made.

Please note that you can not delete subscribers from this list.  The only way they will be removed is if you delete the entire seminar, which is not recommended unless you want to get rid of the seminar completely.


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Adding Text

Before adding text to your website, we highly recommend that you watch this quick video on how to paste text from Microsoft Word or any other software platform. Please be sure to use the “Paste From External Source” feature every time in order to avoid your web pages from producing errors.

After you have logged into your Site Manager (clicking “Modify Your Site” in the client portal), navigate to the page you would like to add text to. Once there, use your mouse to click on the area that you would like to edit and add text. An area that is considered editable will become highlighted in gray when the mouse rolls over the area.

Once you have clicked the highlighted area that you want to edit, a new window will pop up. This is the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. With the WYSIWYG editor, you can edit the content of your highlighted section with an interface that is similar to Microsoft Word. With the editor opened, you should be able to add content by clicking inside the box and start typing. Many of the formatting options such as font, alignment, bullets, color, bold italics, and underline are just like Microsoft Word.

To take content directly from Microsoft Word, we must use a different process than just pasting in text. After opening your WYSIWYG editor, go to your Microsoft Word document, click anywhere in the document and hit Ctrl-A. This will select all the content that resides in your word document. After all your content is selected, hit Ctrl-C to copy your highlighted content.

Now head back to the WYSIWYG editor and click the Paste From Word clipboard icon. This icon looks like a clipboard that has the Microsoft Word logo on top of it. Please note that if you are directly pasting from Microsoft Word, you must follow these instructions or your page will likely become corrupt!

Once the window for pasting your content from Microsoft Word appears, hit Ctrl-V to paste the content into the “Paste from external source” editor. When the content is in place, click Insert.

Now that you have clicked Insert, the “Paste from external source” window will close and you will return to the WYSIWYG window. Be sure to hit save to apply your changes to the area that you have edited.

Additional Resources:

Adding and Deleting Pages

Adding Images

Using Keywords on Your CPA Website

Tackle Personalizing Pages First

Editing Internet Links

Editing Your Internet Links Page Video

It’s very easy to edit your Internet Links page using the custom link management tool built into the SiteManager. Log into the internet links page through the SiteManager, and click the the ‘Click here to edit…’ text to open the editor.

Rearranging links on the list is simply a matter of clicking the reorder icon ( ) to the immediate left of the link’s title. A new option will appear to the left of the link list, asking you to choose the new location. The last prompt will ask if you want to place the link above or below the target location. Choose, click ‘OK’ and the link will reorganize itself.

Adding new links is equally simple. To the right of each link is a chain link icon (  ), which you can use to add a new link to the line below.

You simply need to fill out the form, with the URL of the site, the link title and a brief description of the site and click the ‘Save’ button.

You can use this same process to add new folders for your links. To the right of each folder is a new folder icon ( ), which you can use to add a new folder to the line below.

You simply need to type up the folder title and click the ‘Save’ button to add the new folder.

If you need to change this information in the future, you can click the pencil icon (  ) for any link on the list, or you can entirely delete a link/folder by clicking on the trashcan icon ( ).

Portal Help – Managing Accounts

Modifying Firm Users

Here is a video on how to add firm users:

Here is a video on how to add Client Users:

To modify a Firm User, first log in to the Portal as the Firm Administrator, using your CPASiteSolutions Control Panel Username and Password.

Click on “Add/Modify Firm Users” in the Portal menu.

1. Select a firm user from the drop down menu.
2. Click “Portal Login Information” to edit the firm user’s password.
3. If you have an Online Accounting subscription enter your firm user’s information.
4. Modify the firm user’s access rights.
5. Click save when you are finished.

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Deleting Firm Users

To delete a Firm User, first log in to the Portal as the Firm Administrator, using your CPASiteSolutions Control Panel Username and Password.

Click on “Add/Modify Firm User” in the Portal menu.

Select the account to delete from the drop down menu. Click on “Remove this account?” in the Portal menu.

Type “YES” and click “Delete Account”.

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Modifying Clients

To modify a Client User, first log in to the Portal as the Firm Administrator, using your CPASiteSolutions Control Panel Username and Password.

Click on “Add/Modify Client Users” in the Portal menu.

1. Select a client from the drop down menu.
2. Click “Portal Login Information” to edit the client’s password.
3. If you have an Online Accounting subscription enter your client’s information.
4. Modify the client’s access rights.
5. Click save when you are finished.

If the client has “Secure File Exchange” access rights you can set what firm user is notified when a client uses the “Secure File Exchange”.

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Deleting Clients

To delete a Client User, first log in to the Portal as the Firm Administrator, using your CPASiteSolutions Control Panel Username and Password.

Click on “Add/Modify Client Users” in the Portal menu.

Select the account to delete from the drop down menu. Click on “Remove this account?” in the Portal menu.

Type “YES” and click “Delete Account”.

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Modifying Administrators

To modify a Firm Administrator, first log in to the Portal as the Firm Administrator, using your CPASiteSolutions Control Panel Username and Password.

Click on “Add/Modify Administrators” in the Portal menu.

1. Select an administrator from the drop down menu.
2. Click “Portal Login Information” to edit the administrator’s password.
3. If you have an Online Accounting subscription enter your administrator’s information.
4. Modify the administrator’s access rights.
5. Click save when you are finished.

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Deleting Administrators

To delete an Administrator, first log in to the Portal as the Firm Administrator, using your CPASiteSolutions Control Panel Username and Password.

Click on “Add/Modify Administrators” in the Portal menu.

Select the account to delete from the drop down menu. Click on “Remove this account?” in the Portal menu.

Type “YES” and click “Delete Account”.

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Firm Administration

To modify Firm Administration, first log in to the Portal as the Firm Administrator, using your CPASiteSolutions Control Panel Username and Password.

Click on “Firm Administration” in the Portal menu.

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Additional Resources:

QuickSend: The Quickest Way to Receive Client Files Securely

Using the Download All Files Feature

Firm User File Vault Help

Client User File Vault Help

Secure File Transfer (Legacy)

Note: “This section has been discontinued. Please upgrade to the latest version by calling 800-896-4500 or emailing support@cpasitesolutions.com”
To begin using Secure File Transfer, click on the File Transfer link in your website, and enter a user name of admin with a password of admin

If your log-in screen doesn’t look like the above picture, click here for instructions on installing the new Secure File Transfer tool.

Note: Your client, when logged in will see only the following:

You are now logged in as the administrator (you can change the user name and password at another time if you so desire), and should see a screen that looks like the graphic below (click the labeled parts to jump to the description):


Download/ Delete/ View Files:

To the left of each listed file there are two or three icons that can be clicked for file interaction. If the file is a graphic, a PDF or other viewable file type, a View File icon will be available. Click this to open a separate view window to look at the file. Click on the icon in the middle to download the file to your computer, or click the trash can icon on the right to delete the file from the secure file area.

You have a finite amount of space available in your secure file transfer area (available space will be noted in the top right corner), so once you no longer need certain files in your file transfer area it is a very good idea to delete them.


Add User:

Click this button to add a new user zone to the File Transfer. Enter a user name (may not contain spaces) and a password (must be between 5 and 20 characters).

Keep in mind, the user name and password is case-sensitive, so unless specifically requested, it’s best (and easier to remember) to use all lower-case characters.

User Email: If you want the user to be sent an email when you have uploaded a file to their file transfer zone, add the email address in this field.

Acct. Email: If you wish to be sent an email when the user uploads to this account, place your own email address in this field.


Edit User:

Click this button to edit the settings for a user.

A small window will pop open and give you a pull-down menu to select a user from. Selecting a name will bring you to the next screen:

From here you can edit the password, user email or acct. email.

Delete User:

To delete a user from the File Transfer area, click the Delete User link, select the user from the pull-down menu and click the Delete User button.


Edit Notification Message:

Click this button to edit the user notification message. This is the message that will be sent to the user/administrator when a file is uploaded (see red-marked area in the picture below). If you wish to change the message, change the noted message text and click the Save Changes button.


Help:

This button will bring you to the page you are reading right now.


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Document Manager (Legacy)


Note: “This section has been discontinued. Please upgrade to the latest version by calling 800-896-4500 or emailing support@cpasitesolutions.com”

Overview

The online Document Management System provides your clients with 24/7 access to vital company information like employee data, corporation papers, legal documents, tax returns, financial statements, and scanned source documents.

Any file can be placed in the Document Manager, including: extremely large QuickBooks Backup Files, Microsoft Word Documents, PDF Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, Video Files, Music and Audio Files. All files on the Online Document Storage System are backed up daily and archived in our secure data-center.


Logging into the Document Manager

In order to log in to the Document Manager, click the “Login” button on the top of your website. If you don’t see the “login” button, click on the “login” link located on the bottom of your site. If you haven’t setup your portal yet, please see Portal Help.

Now select the “Secure File Exchange” icon from the menu to get into the Document Manager.


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Managing Client Accounts

To add clients to the Document Manager, you must first set them up in the Firm Portal. Instructions on how to do so can be found here.

Now let’s say that you want to modify a client in the Document Manager. Click on the “Client Logins” button.

As you can see, the Document Manager provides the client’s name, company, email address and username.

To edit a client’s login information, click the “Edit Login” button, which is the pencil icon on the right side of the table. This brings you to the “Add/Edit Client Login” screen where you can edit the name, company, email address, username and password.

You can also control whether or not the client has access to the Client Interactive Center and if they receive email notifications for Document Manager activity.

Click Save and you’ll be brought back to the “Client Logins” page.

Now let’s go back to the “Client Login” page. Notice the “Active” column on the left side of the table. This indicates whether or not a client has been given access to the Document Manager. In order to enable or disable access to the Document Manager, without deleting a client from the list, simply check/uncheck the “Active” checkbox.

There are two ways to delete a client. You can click the delete button in the “Add/Edit Client Login” screen, or simply click the trashcan icon.

Now let’s say that a client or someone in your firm forgets his/her username or password. Don’t worry about it! All usernames and passwords are stored in “Firm Logins” or “Client Logins”. Simply click the edit icon next to the client and you can view their username and password.

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Organizing Files in File Cabinets

You can add, delete, edit, organize and view personal files, firm files, client files and public files. These files are organized on the left side of the screen under the four filing cabinet categories: “My Documents”, “Firm Documents”, “Client Documents” and “Public Documents”. These filing cabinets can hold an unlimited number of folders, subfolders and documents

“My Documents” stores and organizes documents that only the individual staff member logged in can access.

“Firm Documents” stores and organizes documents that are available to your entire firm. This is a great place to post firm procedure documentation and firm-wide notices. Any staff member can add, edit or remove documents in the “Firm Documents” filing cabinet.

“Client Documents” allows each of your staff members to access all documents stored in each of your client’s “My Documents” filing cabinet. If your client wants to share a document with you, they can login to their Document Manager and upload the file. You can then click “Client Documents” and view the file in their respective client folder.

“Public Documents” are documents available to your entire firm and all clients but only the firm’s staff members can add or remove files. This is a great place to post general work-paper forms and other questionnaires that clients can print and complete.


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Create a Folder

Let’s start by viewing the files in the “Firm Documents” filing cabinet. Click the “Firm Documents” button on the left side of the window.

Files and folders can be organized by name, description, size or date. In order to add a folder, click the “Create A Folder” button.

A window pops up that asks you to enter the name of the folder and an optional description of the folder. Writing a brief description of the folder’s contents is a helpful way to manage your documents.

Click “Save” and your new folder appears in the list of documents.


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Loading Files into Document Manager

Now let’s click the folder and add a file.

Click the browse button and search through your computer until you’ve found the file that you want to add.

Again, you can add a description if you want to further label the file. Once the file you want is selected and you’ve entered a description, click “Upload File”.

As you can see, the file is now uploaded and you can view the name, description, file size, and date last updated.


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Ordering More Storage Space

Now let’s say that you want to add a file but your Document Manager is full. In order to request more storage space in the Document Manager, simply click the “Order More Space” button and follow the instructions for requesting more space.


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Downloading Files from Document Manager

Downloading files from the Document Manager is as easy as clicking the filename. Once you’ve found the file you want, click it’s name and a window will ask you to select whether you want to Open the File or Save it to Disk.

If you just want to view the file, click “Open With” and choose the appropriate program to view the file. If you want to save the file to your computer, select “Save to Disk”. You will be asked where you want to save the file. Once you have chosen your desired location, click “Save” and a copy of the file is now stored on your computer.


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Editing and Deleting Files

If at anytime you want to change the file name or description, click the pencil icon, which is the “Edit File” button.

If a document is outdated or you don’t want it to be viewable anymore, you can delete it by clicking the “Delete a File” button. The “Delete a File” button is a trash can icon, which can be found next to the “Edit File” button.


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Transferring Accounts From Secure File Exchange

If you already have accounts managed in Secure File Exchange, you can easily update to Document Manager and transfer the account data. This is done by downloading all of the files in Secure File Exchange to your local computer and then uploading them into Document Manager.

The first step in moving your documents from Secure File Exchange to Document Manager is logging into your Secure File Exchange. Although you may have rearranged the link location, the Secure File Exchange link is generally found under the “Resources” menu on your website.

Enter the administrative username and password. It is important that you log in as the administrator so that you have access to all accounts in your Secure File Exchange.

As you can see, all accounts show up in a list containing each individual file that is stored and organized with Secure File Exchange.

The next step is to download each file onto your computer. In order to download a file, click the “download” button to the left of the file.

Organizing the files might be easier if you create a separate folder on your local computer for each account and then download the files to their respective folder.

Once all files have been downloaded to your computer, it is time to upload the files into the Document Manager.

Create all of the accounts in Document Manager that were contained in Secure File Exchange. Click here for instructions on how to create an account in Document Manager.

Make sure to re-create the usernames and passwords for each account and organize their folders in the proper location. Click here for information pertaining to Document Manager organization.

Now upload the files from your computer into the newly created account folders. Click here for instructions on how to upload files into Document Manager.


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