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ACCOUNTING PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

What is Accounting Practice Management Software Anyway?

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Accounting Practice Management Software is...


Accounting practice management software is an all-in-one solution for accountancy, tax professionals and bookkeepers. It should bring together all of your practice’s mission-critical functions in one place.


At Canopy, that means it’s an end-to-end platform that lets you choose the components (see our list below) that your firm needs and integrates seamlessly with other software solutions (cough, QBO, cough).

Not all accounting practice management solutions are created equal. Learn what differentiates Canopy from the competition and why thousands of accounting firms have chosen us to unlock the firm they've always wanted. 

Key Components of Canopy Practice Management Software:

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Client Engagement


Client Management centralizes all the information you have about your clients—client directory, client records, intra-firm communications about clients, shared (and synced) calendars, and all communication and sharing directly with your clients. Your firm is client-centric, so it makes sense that Client Management is the core module of Canopy that our other modules plug into.

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Document Management

 

Document Management is your one-stop-shop for any and all documentation. Your documentation (and especially your clients’) shouldn’t be spread across all creation like Voldemort’s horcruxes. Canopy’s centralized system makes it easy to store, organize, work on documents, share them with clients (if you want), and even use eSign if necessary.

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Workflow


Workflow software is your central hub for figuring out how to manage your day (maybe we should’ve called it Day Management?). It helps you track everything you and your team are working on (currently and upcoming), set up and automate processes in your firm, view and manage the tasks at a high level, and track productivity. And did we mention it’s all trackable by client, whether you’re at your desk or on the go? (It is.)

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Time & Billing


Time & Billing software is where work becomes revenue. It helps you turn your tracked time into invoices, invoice clients (hourly or fixed rate), and run reports. Canopy makes sure it’s simple to share invoices and collect payments from your clients. Nobody’s doing this work for their health, after all.

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Canopy Payments


Canopy Payments helps you consolidate systems, provide a seamless client experience, get paid faster, and gain valuable insights. Allow your clients to pay their invoices securely and directly in the Client Portal (on the web or mobile apps) with any major credit card or ACH–at competitively low rates!

Time and Billing license required.

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Insights

 

Insights help you make data-driven decisions. Without data, you're shooting in the dark and there's no knowing how your business decisions are helping or hindering your firm. With insights on clients, tasks, billing, and time, you can dive deep into any area of the business. Each dashboard is available based on purchase of the corresponding module. A pro license gives you access to custom reporting.

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The switch to Canopy made a huge impact on our tech deck. It just made it easier for our team to be in one place, cutting out redundant systems and improving overall efficiency.”

Dave Fischer | CEO | Accountability Services

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software eliminated with Canopy

71%

reduction in firm-wide tech stack

“At Canopy, our mission is to help accountants to focus on what drew them to the profession in the first place: being accountants. They want to apply their expertise to delivering real value to clients–not chasing documents, renaming PDFs, and sending invoices. We were already making these tasks easier, but with AI we’re now automating them away entirely.”
Davis Bell, CEO of Canopy
“Canopy is by far the most intuitive and effective software solution we have implemented to run our practice. The ease of use and the clarity is something that set Canopy apart from our prior software vendors. We can quickly glance over the firm just by clicking a few tabs, from reviewing team members progress on tasks to what clients owe us money - its simple in Canopy.”
Anthony Carullo, Partner at Lizza & Carullo CPAs & Advisors
Why should I choose Canopy as my Practice Management Software?

Practice Management is the single most important tool in an accounting firm’s tech stack. Why? Because it’s where work, clients, documents, time, and billing come together to be tracked, started, found, shared, and more. It’s the system that makes sure lag times, administrative busy work, and confusion are kept to a minimum. Practice management is also the source of valuable, live data– aggregated client information, files, money in and money out, projects and their status. Because it’s at the center of your tech stack, it should also have bank-level, SOC 2 type II security (check) and granular user controls and permissions (check). 

Canopy is your firm’s central operating system. It combines client data, tasks, billing, and documents in one secure hub—accessible by both team members and clients.

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