Accounting & Tax

A Delaware accounting & tax practice

Chasing signatures and documents by hand, client by client — gone.

July 22, 20264 min read
3–6 hrssaved per week during tax season

No live link included — the client's portal handles real client financial documents, so we're sharing an overview of what was built rather than a public link.

Before and after: chasing signatures, documents, and payment links by email one at a time, versus a self-serve dashboard for e-signatures, payments, and secure document upload

Signatures, payments, and document requests moved from the inbox into one self-serve dashboard.

A small accounting and tax practice was doing almost everything by hand: emailing engagement letters and waiting on signatures, requesting tax documents over email and hoping nothing sensitive sat in an inbox too long, and building a payment link one at a time for every client. On top of that, their website had stopped working, and they weren't even sure which of several old GoDaddy accounts actually owned their domain — so for a stretch of time, they effectively had no working website at all. During tax season, the manual back-and-forth alone could easily eat 3–6 hours a week — time that should have gone to actual client work.

What We Built

  • Tracked down which of their several GoDaddy accounts actually owned the domain, and recovered access to it
  • Rebuilt the website from scratch, since the old one had stopped working
  • Set up a professional business email
  • Built a private dashboard where they can see every new lead and where it stands, generate a payment link for a client in a couple of clicks, send engagement letters for clients to sign online, and let clients upload tax documents through a secure, one-time link that automatically deletes itself 30 days later
  • Connected a payment system so clients can pay directly on the site
  • Added a clear list of services and transparent pricing packages, so prospective clients know what's offered and what it costs before they ever call
  • Set up their Google Business Profile and made the site easy for AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity to find and recommend

The Result

Most of the manual chasing — signatures, document requests, payment links — now runs through a self-serve flow instead of living in their inbox. Recovering the real domain and rebuilding the site meant they finally had a working website again instead of a dead one. The auto-deleting document system also cuts down on how long sensitive tax documents sit around, reducing real security and liability exposure. And listing services and pricing up front means fewer "how much do you charge" phone calls — prospective clients already know before they ever reach out.

Why It Matters

We take data security seriously and build every system with privacy best practices in mind — especially for a business handling sensitive financial documents. Self-serve doesn't mean less careful; it means the careful parts (signing, storage, payment) happen automatically instead of by hand. For more on the automations we typically build for accounting and professional-services firms, see our industry automation playbooks.

See it in action

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