John Higgins

CPA Site Solutions claims to be the largest provider of websites for accountants with over 7,000 firms using the platform. The company was founded in 1999 to help accountants take advantage of the internet. They believe so strongly in the service that they will setup your website and email accounts and give you two months to work with it and if you’re not happy with the results you owe nothing.

Web Builder CS is part of one of the most comprehensive suites of cloud based applications to run your tax or accounting practice with. The Thomson Reuters CS Professional Suite consists of 16 integrated applications including tax preparation, payroll processing, client accounting, document management and more.

GetNetSet, LLC (GNS) specializes in providing web sites for accounting and tax firms. Unlike many of the other solutions reviewed, GNS does not directly integrate with tax and accounting software. While that may sound like a negative, it actually can be a positive attribute in that they have built their system generically to work with other systems. GNS offers a very comprehensive website development feature set.

So where do you place your firm's website on your list of priorities for your firm? Do you see it as a necessary evil that has to be dealt with just to “be in the game?” Or, do you see it as the gateway to serving your clients for the coming years? Chances are you are probably somewhere in the middle.

Document Storage to the Cloud

The evolution of DMS over the past ten years has been slow but steady, which is just fine because it takes time for a firm to implement all of the extended functionality.

With 140,000 apps available for the iPad and thousands for other tablets, the devices make sense for many practices.