Why should I consider web-based tax software?

Why use a fully hosted tax solution?

            There are many advantages to using web-based tax software. The most immediate benefit is being able to work from just about any location.

How web-based tax software benefits you:

1. You can work from anywhere
2. No updates, no installation
3. No worrying about your computer crashing, data backups and encryption
4. Easy collaboration with coworkers and clients

What does this really mean?

Scenario 1
Imagine it’s 1 AM, you just got home and finished getting ready for bed. You suddenly remember that your client actually was eligible for the credit you were researching before you left the office, but you forgot to add the form before you left.
            With standalone software, you’ll have to drive back to the office, start your computer up, wait for the updates to download and install, and then open the form and fill it out. Then come back home around 3, and get less sleep. Or you can write a note to yourself on a piece of paper, and hope you don’t lose it for tomorrow, and worry about it all night.
              With Orange Tax Suite Pro, you can finish brushing your teeth while your home PC boots up, log in to your account, and add the form. You’ll be in bed and sleeping easier in ten minutes.
Total Savings: 2 Hours, and much better sleep

Scenario 2:
Your best employee Pam calls in to the office. Her six year-old has the flu, and is not going to school. She needs to stay home to make sure he’s okay as well. You can see the list of to-do items piling higher as the minutes pass.
            With standalone software, you’re out a day of work, unless you drag Pam into the office with her kid, or even if she has the software at home, she’s losing time updating it and calling you to email her the files. If she can be back tomorrow, you’ll both have to work longer to make up for her absence.
            With Orange Tax Suite Pro she puts her kid to rest, logs in, and doesn’t miss a beat. With all you clients documents stored in secure web folders, you can still work together as if she were in the office.
Total Savings: 10 Hours and a relieved star employee

Scenario 3:
After lunch, you get an email from one of your clients with a document attached to it. When you open the document, you suddenly start getting web browser pop-ups for all sorts of things. You close them, but they keep coming back. When you try to restart your computer, you hear your hard drive spin, then stop. Your computer beeps at you and does nothing. You call your client and he tells you that his computer has been wiped out by a crazy virus, and he’s been getting the same kind of calls all day. Worse still, he says that some of his private documents have been appearing in the emails being sent out.
            With standalone software, you spend the next five hours trying to update the old computer you have lying around, and installing the new software and all the updates. Then you take your backup drive, and plug it in, copy the files over, and spend the rest of the day catching up to where you were before you opened the email attachment.
            With Orange Tax Suite Pro, you calmly turn off your computer, hook up your old computer, update the web browser, and log back in. In less than twenty minutes, you’re back to where you were before lunch. Everything was saved from the moment you entered it. You don’t have to worry about lost files, or your server getting hacked for your clients’ data.
Total Savings: 5+ Hours, and countless gray hairs