HandiSoft Cloud is an accounting platform offered by the Sage company in Australia. It offers an integrated suite of functions that is designed for Australian accountants and tax preparation agents which are designed to streamline compliance, boost productivity and track client workflows. The suite of services offered includes access to Microsoft Office applications and provides an integrated solution for practice management including job and task management, timesheet management, invoicing and payment functions, and document and data storage and management.
HandiSoft provides accounting practices with a client-centered platform for engaging with customers that optimizes the use of resources and maximizes taking advantage of future business opportunities. The product comes with Microsoft Office integration built-in, offering seamless integration with Microsoft applications (such as Word, Excel, and email. It facilitates client and team collaboration, workflow automation, and management and offers the ability to integrate with Salesforce and AppExchange (which offers access to over 3000 additional applications) through codeless configuration.
The product is offered on a monthly subscription basis, the cost of which is determined by the number of users that require access. Sage provides free cloud server support from a helpdesk located in Australia. Because the product is hosted over the internet using cloud technology, users have secure access to the system from anywhere there is an internet connection available. The company also uses a private cloud server in an ISO accredited data center to ensure customer’s security and privacy. Data security is paramount with full server backups completed every 24 hours as well as the maintenance of a rolling 14-day history of the client’s data.
HandiSoft provides a flexible and scalable solution enabling customers to add and remove user accounts, change data storage options and add or remove Microsoft software licenses as their needs change. The company offers a free service to migrate customers’ existing data to their cloud server ensuring minimum downtime for practice when implementing HandiSoft cloud. The product has been designed for firms that are looking to end the hassles of maintaining their own servers and ensuring backups and maintenance are being performed regularly by offering a complete software as a service offering.
HandiSoft cloud is aimed at smaller practices that want to take advantage of digital transformation but are having difficulty knowing where to start in streamlining their businesses. One of the advantages it offers in this regard, for example, is in the compliance area by offering automated tax preparation and lodgement services, accounts preparation, and analytics reporting functions.
