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Your clients stop ignoring document requests.

A system that asks each client for exactly what you need, follows up on its own schedule, and tells you the moment a file lands — so your team stops being a collections department.

Document Collection — Tax Season 2025

Collected

28

Outstanding

10

Overdue

3

Harbor Point LLC

1120-S

All documents in

Complete

Delgado & Sons

1065

Reminder sent · 2d ago

Chasing

Northwind Studio

Sch. C

All documents in

Complete

Vela Holdings

1120

No reply · 9 days

Overdue

Cedar Lane Café

Sch. C

Reminder scheduled

Chasing

The problem

Why this work is quietly expensive.

11 hrs

saved per staff member, per close

Illustrative — based on ~40 active clients and 3 manual touchpoints each.

Every tax season and every onboarding starts the same way: a checklist of documents, an email, and then silence. Someone on your team has to remember who hasn't replied, send the third reminder, and re-explain what a "prior-year depreciation schedule" is.

The work isn't hard. It's that it never ends, it's invisible until something is late, and it pulls your most expensive people into secretarial follow-up. A 40-client season can mean 300+ individual chase emails, most of them manual.

The cost isn't just hours. It's the close that slips because one client sat on a bank statement for three weeks and nobody noticed until day 18.

How the automation works

Step by step, on your existing tools.

1

Request goes out, personalized

Each client gets a clean request listing only the documents they specifically owe — pulled from their engagement type, not a generic blanket list. Links go straight to your existing portal.

2

Follow-ups run on a cadence you set

If a document isn't in by day 3, the system sends a polite, on-brand reminder. Day 7, a firmer one. It stops the instant the file arrives — no client ever gets chased for something they already sent.

3

Files land where they belong

Uploads are filed against the right client and the right item automatically. Your team doesn't sort an inbox — the checklist just turns green.

4

You see status at a glance

A single board shows who's complete, who's outstanding, and who's gone quiet past your threshold — so a partner can step in before it's a problem.

Connects to the tools you already run:

TaxDomeGmailQuickBooksLiscio

What's included

Everything in the system.

Built, connected, tuned, and maintained — not handed over as a template you have to run yourself.

Per-client document checklists mapped to engagement type

Automated reminder sequences with your firm's wording and cadence

Live collection dashboard (complete / outstanding / overdue)

Auto-filing into your existing portal or document store

Slack or email alerts when a client crosses your overdue threshold

Quarterly tuning of cadence and wording based on response data

Questions

The things firm owners ask first.

Straight answers. If yours isn't here, it's the first thing we'll cover on the call.

Ready to stop running document collection by hand?

A focused 15-minute call. We look at how you do this today and show you exactly what the automated version looks like on your tools.

Built for US & Canadian firms with 2–20 staff.