September 2006 Improvements CPASiteSolutions

New This Month...
  • New Secure File Exchange / Online Document Management System
  • Online Customizable Tax Organizer (Beta)
  • Email Marketing System Enhancements

New Secure File Exchange and
Online Document Management System

The Online Document Management System provides clients with 24/7 access to tax returns, financial statements, scanned source documents like W-2's and stock transactions. Clients can safely store vital company information like employee data, corporation papers, and legal documents. All files are backed up daily and archived in our secure data-center.

All Types of Documents
Any file on a local computer can be placed in the Online Document Management System. Including extremely large QuickBooks Backup Files, Microsoft Word Documents, PDF Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, Video Files, Music and Audio Files.

Organized Documents
The accountants and clients can organize their documents into separately named file folders. The folders are organized in hierarchy of Cabinets, Folders, Sub-Folders, and Documents.

For Example…

Cabinet (Firm Documents)
    - Folder (Procedures)
            - Sub-Folder (New Clients)
                    - Document (Interview Questions.doc)
                    - Document (Engagement Letter.doc)
                    - Sub Folder (New Client Setup Instructions)
                            - Document (New Client Paperwork.doc)
                            - Document (Setting up New Client in Tax Software.doc)

Your firm gets 4 Filing Cabinets that can hold an unlimited number of folders, sub-folders and documents. Here's a list of the Filing Cabinets and their functions.

My Documents
Each of your staff members get their own private "My Documents" filing cabinet to place their own working documents and reference material. Only the individual staff member can access, create, edit, or remove documents from this filing cabinet.

Firm Documents
All of your staff members share documents in the "Firm Documents" filing cabinet. This is a great place to post firm procedure documentation and firm-wide notices. All staff members can add, edit or remove documents in this filing cabinet.

Client Documents
This filing cabinet allows each of your staff members to access the documents stored in each of the client's "My Documents" filing cabinet. In this filing cabinet your staff members can quickly drill down into any client's filing cabinet to find, download, print, modify, or remove any of their documents.

Public Documents
All of your clients and staff members can read and print documents in the "Public Documents" filing cabinet. But only your staff members can add or remove "Public Documents". This is a great place to post general workpaper forms and other questionnaires that clients can print and complete.

Online Demo
See the Firm side of the Document Manager
Username: guest
Password: guest
Then click on "Document Manager" button on the top menu.

See the Client side of the Document Manager
Username: guest
Password: guest
Then click on "Document Manager" button on the top menu.


Online Customizable Tax Organizer (Beta)

The Online Interactive Tax Organizer provides you with revolutionary new way to collect, share and utilize your clients' tax data.

This "next generation" 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.

The Online Interactive Tax Organizer is fully customizable and allows you to securely interact with your clients right on your Website. This gives your clients the ability to add data to their organizer, and if they don't have all the data at their fingertips, they can come back and add additional information later.

The Online Tax Organizer acts as the central repository for all your client tax data. Whenever there's a change to their tax situation it's easy for your client or staff to quickly update the organizer so it's always current... Making tax time a lot less taxing.

How it works...
Your clients log into your secure, password-protected, online tax organizer to compile, edit and store their tax data whenever it's convenient for them. Your staff can also login and review, edit, print or download the tax data making it easy for your clients and staff to work together.

Completely Customizable
You have the choice of using our standard tax organizer or you can completely customize it to meet your client's needs. You're in total control. You can create multiple organizers, one organizing Real Estate transactions, one organizing Stock transactions, one organizing interest income, and so on.

Room To Grow
You can create and store up to 200 Tax Organizers per client. And the Online Tax Organizer allows you to support up to 10,000 clients. So you'll always have enough capacity to store as many Tax Organizers as you need.

Find Missing Deductions
The Online Tax Organizer also allows your clients to view and compare last years tax data with this years making it easy to find missing data and deductions.

Be at the Forefront
Having this "next generation" Online Tax Organizer on your site conveys to your clients that you're at the forefront of tax technology.

Here's a summary of what you get with our Interactive Online Tax Organizer.
  • Clients can organize their tax data throughout the year at their convenience instead of having to do it all at one time.
  • Provides a central repository of tax data for both your clients and staff that is accessible from anywhere at anytime.
  • Reduces data entry errors because data is typed and can be imported directly into your tax software.
  • Saves staff time by not having to enter handwritten tax data into your tax software. * Your tax software must have the ability to import excel or .csv files.
  • Gives you extra time to file the return because you no longer have to wait for the tax organizer to come in the mail.
  • Easily find omissions by displaying last year's data for comparison.
  • Online Client Registration.
  • Email notification of client registrations and completed tax organizers.
  • Extremely easy to use and customize.
  • Secure 128 bit SSL Environment
  • Lots of room to grow. Store up to 2,000,000 tax organizers on your site. Enough for 10,000 clients each having 200 organizers.
Please take a look at a sample of the online interactive tax organizer.

Username: taxclient
Password: password

Email Marketing System Enhancements

Send and Bounce Logs
We added "Send and Bounce Logs" to the Email Marketing System so you can see exactly when your messages were sent. You also can see if message bounced back from the recipient's mail server.

New Delivery Methods
Getting emailed newsletters delivered is a difficult task. Email servers across the world are fighting a war on SPAM (unsolicited email). Unfortunately there's no standard way of identifying what is "good" email and what is "bad" email. Each email server handles it a little differently.

We spent an entire month evaluating mail server responses and constantly tweaked our delivery system to ensure your newsletters get delivered.


Recent Improvements

If you think you've missed one of our recent improvements, you can click on the link below to read our previous improvement letters.
http://www.cpasitesolutions.com/updates/

How To Modify Your Website

If you'd like help adding new features, modifying pages, or adding pages, please click on the link below to read our complete listing of website modification instructions. http://www.cpasitesolutions.com/help

As always, please feel free to call or email us if you need help.

Thank you,

Ken Marshall
ken@cpasitesolutions.com
800-896-4500 x500 New Extension

Chris Lewis
chris@cpasitesolutions.com
800-896-4500 x102

Dan Worthing
dan@cpasitesolutions.com
800-896-4500 x103

Kevin Montanaro
kevin@cpasitesolutions.com
800-896-4500 x104

Bob Rayl
bob@cpasitesolutions.com
800-896-4500 x105

Kevin Leary
kevinl@cpasitesolutions.com
800-896-4500 x106