OfficeTools by CARET vs. TaxDome

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OfficeTools by CARET
Score 4.0 out of 10
N/A
OfficeTools Cloud is cloud-based accounting practice management software designed to enable firms to track client work and collaborate with their team anytime, anywhere, from any browser. OfficeTools is an CARET brand.
$59
per month
TaxDome
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
TaxDome is a tax practice management suite, featuring a range of features, including an internal communication platform, a secure portal to share client documents as well as a CRM and project management feature to help users and their teams to hit deadlines.
$50
per month per user
Pricing
OfficeTools by CARETTaxDome
Editions & Modules
OfficeTools Cloud
$59 ($49)
per month (billed annually)
OfficeTools Workspace
Contact for Pricing
A hub for client, team, and document management with online payments & practice management automations.
$50
per month per user
TaxDome Lite - CRM and client portal with document exchange, storage & e-signatures.
$300
per year for sole proprietors
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OfficeTools by CARETTaxDome
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
OfficeTools by CARETTaxDome
User Ratings
OfficeTools by CARETTaxDome
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
OfficeTools by CARETTaxDome
Likelihood to Recommend
CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
For a small office or team keeping track of multiple projects at once can be a challenge. OfficeTools provides an all-in-one affordable (less than $60 per month) and accessible (cloud based) project management solution to keep your team on task. If your organization uses products such as Quickbooks or Outlook you can easily integrate them into this software solution. I honestly cannot think of an organizational structure that would not benefit somewhat from integrating OfficeTools into their operations
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TaxDome
This is a great resource for tax firms with hundreds of clients.
Money wise however, this probably is not economically feasible for firms with only 1-2 tax preparers. It requires a lot of time and energy to build to really be fully operational.
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Pros
CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
  • Software Integration (i.e. Quickbooks, Outlook, etc.)
  • Project Management
  • Time Management
  • Billing/Invoicing
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TaxDome
  • Distinguish between accounts and mere contacts (for us, this is crucial in discriminating between retained clients and prospects who haven't onboarded with us).
  • Provides an editable PDF function
  • Offers buildable organizers and templates
  • Highly customizable pipelines that automate processes
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Cons
CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
  • Customizability (i.e. font size, workflows, etc.)
  • Increase access to trainings and educational enrichment opportunities
  • Customer Support (tends to be slow)
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TaxDome
  • Chat function - would prefer a pop-out window; limited overall function (only just got emojis, "enter" does not send the message)
  • Contact info is not embedded into the default account page, would like to see this first thing (since we use TaxDome in part as a CRM)
  • For large client databases, the search function is somewhat slow
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Usability
CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
No answers on this topic
TaxDome
Very easy to use and generally pretty customizable to suit our company's unique needs. We haven't gotten to the stage yet where we're able to test it out on our clients, but the expectation is that the interface should be user-friendly and actually better than what we were using before (SmartVault).
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Alternatives Considered
CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
OfficeTools is by far the easiest project management tool that I've ever used. It is very user friendly and easy to pickup. That cannot be said for other products that I've used in the past
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TaxDome
Compared to Insightly in particular, TaxDome far exceeds the capability of Insightly for two main reasons: 1) Insightly is a CRM only and does not offer the multitude of other capacities such as a client portal and forms. 2) TaxDome is specifically built for tax firms and has many customized options that are extremely well suited for our particular needs, as well as tax form templates for us to use.
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Return on Investment
CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
No answers on this topic
TaxDome
  • Saves money and time. The pipelines help automate many of our processes that we had to do manually.
  • Offers all-in-one (almost) hub. This also saves major time caused by jumping from app to app.
  • Again with time-saving and efficiency... Allows us to have both a client-facing portal and an internal portal so we don't have to switch back and forth between systems.
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