Truss at gettruss.io is tax workflow software for accounting firms, from the organizer through delivery. Staff send a zero-login link and a checklist built from prior-year data. Photos convert to PDF, get renamed, and can be split. One click builds a bookmarked workpaper in return order, with tick marks, stamps, and a 10-key tape in the browser. Delivery asks the client to review, e-sign, see estimates, receive K-1s, and pay. Stripe Checkout can take a card or ACH on that link, and you can hold the PDF until they pay. A Windows app sends a file in from the tax software with a right-click. The phone app, on iOS and Android, scans paper onto a project QR code.

It sits beside the tax software. It works with UltraTax CS, CCH Axcess, CCH ProSystem fx, Lacerte, Drake, ProSeries, ProConnect, ATX, and GoSystem Tax RS. It is not the ledger. QuickBooks is there for firm invoices, client payments, and a trial balance on each entity. The product says QuickBooks, not Online versus Desktop, and Xero is not included. StanfordTax is the organizer and binder, without the Windows assembly app or Stripe at delivery. Soraban documents field-level entry into the tax software. TaxDome is the practice suite if the organizer is only one piece of how the firm runs.

Firms stick when the organizer, the binder, the signature, and the invoice were four products. Optional AI prep routes a 1040, described as L-0 to L-2, to Filed, Byron, or Magnetic and returns it to the tax software for review. Truss says that prep stays in the United States, so a section 7216 offshore consent is not required for that work. GruntWorx and K1x are optional extraction paths. Someone at the firm still reviews before the return goes out.

AI checklists use prior-year data so the client is not asked for everything. Questionnaire answers update the checklist. Engagement letters can go out in bulk with merged fields. Clients open an expiring magic link. They do not need a portal password. Uploads of JPG, PNG, and HEIC convert to PDF, then smart rename and smart split tidy the file.

Checklist from last year's return

Instant Workpaper builds a combined, bookmarked PDF in return order. Reviewers use tick marks, stamps, notes, and a 10-key tape in the browser. The audit log records who did what. Multi-layer sign-off is three stages in the same workspace. The homepage lists this review across UltraTax CS, CCH Axcess, Lacerte, Drake, ProSeries, CCH ProSystem fx, ATX, and GoSystem Tax RS.

One bookmarked workpaper

Delivery covers review, e-sign, estimated payments, K-1 distribution, and the invoice in one client experience. Return types named on the homepage include 1040, 1120-S, 1120, 1065, 1041, 990, 706, and 709. Stripe Checkout takes card or ACH. You can pass the convenience fee through or absorb it, mark a check as paid, and block the download until payment clears.

Sign, K-1s, and Stripe payment

The desktop app is Windows only. Right-click Send to Truss, or print from the tax software and send the file, and assembly starts: outlines, K-1 splits, and client packets. Files open back in Excel or Adobe and save into Truss. The iOS and Android app scans paper to a project QR code and does not keep firm credentials on the phone. The web app still does review and delivery.

Windows send and phone scan

AI Prep routes L-0 to L-2 individual returns to Filed, Byron, or Magnetic. Truss says the return comes back review-ready in your tax software, prep stays in the US, and a section 7216 offshore consent is not required. You see a price before you send the return. That price is not published on the site. GruntWorx OCR and K1x extraction are separate paths on the same page.

Domestic 1040 prep when the week spikes

Truss (gettruss.io) runs tax organizers, binders, e-sign, and Stripe payment for firms. Windows and phone apps. No public subscription price.

Truss Review: Tax Organizers, Binders, and Delivery

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AI prep, priced per return in the product

DataSnipper lives inside Microsoft Excel. You import PDFs, scans, and images, run OCR, then snip figures from the document into the workbook with a link back to the source page. Form extraction, document matching, version comparison, and Find All Sums cover the sample-testing work that usually means flipping between a PDF and a spreadsheet.

Pricing is quote-only, sold per user. Start includes document import, OCR, snips, form extraction, document matching, version comparison, Find All Sums, comments, and SSO. Accelerate adds Excel Agents, an agent builder, DocuMine (ask questions of a document set), AI extractions, and connectors for SharePoint, OneDrive, Xero, QuickBooks, and SAP Concur. Elevate adds company templates, directory sync, guest access, retention policies, advanced export, and premium support. Financial Statement Suite (statement procedures and tickmarks) and UpLink (client PBC requests without a client login) are separate add-ons.

This is for external audit, internal audit, tax, and financial control teams that already work in Excel. It is not a general ledger, not a receipt app for a 10-person company, and not something you can buy from a self-serve pricing page. If you need DIY bookkeeping, look at Kick or QuickBooks. If your team already tests samples in workpapers, DataSnipper keeps the evidence attached.

Click a figure in a PDF and drop it into Excel with a cross-reference back to the page, so reviewers can open the evidence from the cell.

Snip to source

Pull repeating fields from invoices, bank statements, or confirmations, and match workbook rows to supporting documents.

Form extraction and document matching

Check that totals add and compare two versions of a statement or workpaper without a manual tick-and-tie.

Find All Sums and version compare

Run end-to-end tests (revenue samples, royalty calcs, tests of details) with an agent; your team reviews the output instead of building the sample from scratch.

Excel Agents (Accelerate+)

Ask a question across a pile of uploaded documents and get answers with citations, useful when the support file is 80 pages and you need one clause.

DocuMine

Add-ons: request PBC files from clients without a login, and run statement procedures with firm-wide tickmarks.

Bookkeeping and accounting software

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