This page is half a comparison, on purpose. It states the job a firm hires accounting practice management to do, and what Accute does against that job. It quotes no CCH Axcess pricing and describes no CCH Axcess features, because we have not run their software through a firm season and would be guessing in public if we did.
Accounting practice management
Run practice management inside the same vendor suite as tax and audit, so the firm buys one stack instead of assembling one.
That is the job. A firm shortlisting CCH Axcess is shopping for it, and so is a firm shortlisting Accute. Everything below is what Accute does about it, and how you can check each answer rather than take it.
Three, answered in full, in the words we would use to a partner on a call.
Accute is the alternative we can speak for. Accute answers that with the suite it belongs to rather than with a longer feature list. Identity, the client portal and the audit trail are shared across FinACEverse, so the tax, audit and bookkeeping products read the same client record Accute writes. Adding the next capability is a switch on an existing account, not a second procurement and a second client list to reconcile.
It depends on whether the firm expects to add services. Accute is one product inside the FinACEverse suite, and the suite shares one identity, one client portal and one audit trail. A firm that later adds tax filing, audit automation or a bookkeeping close is not onboarding a second vendor, reconciling a second client list, or asking its clients to learn a second login.
No. We have not run CCH Axcess through a firm season, so we publish no pricing for it and make no claims about its features. This page states the job firms hire accounting practice management to do and what Accute does against that job, which is the only half we can be held to. For the other half, read what CCH Axcess publishes itself.
Every line here describes a mechanism that exists in the product today, stated precisely enough to be wrong. Hold us to each one in a trial.
Firm sign-in is a redirect to the FinACEverse account gateway rather than a password Accute keeps of its own, which is what makes one identity across the suite a fact rather than an intention.
Portal access is granted to the client contact record, so a firm that later adds another FinACEverse product is not issuing that same client a second login to learn.
Accute writes its own events into the FinACEverse firm audit chain under product-namespaced action names, so the suite's record of who did what is one chain rather than one per product.
Third-party connections come from one catalogue with OAuth brokered centrally, rather than each integration keeping its own hand-pasted credentials.
Programmatic keys are per firm, stored only as a hash, individually labelled, revocable, and stamped with the time they were last used.
Questions decide this category. Put every one of them to CCH Axcess, to Accute, and to anything else on your shortlist, and buy whichever answers them on a screen rather than in a sales deck.
The rules every page in this family is written under, printed here because you may never see the index.
Plans change, currencies differ and term discounts move the number. A price we captured once and never re-checked would be presented as current while being wrong, so we publish none. Every vendor below publishes its own pricing, and that page is the only one worth reading.
We have not run their software through a firm season, so we are not in a position to say what it does or does not do. Anyone who tells you otherwise about a product they have not used is guessing in public.
What each entry states is the job a firm hires the category to do, and what Accute does against that job. That half is ours, it is testable in a trial, and you should hold us to it.
So: no CCH Axcess pricing on this page, and nothing about what CCH Axcess does or does not do. CCH Axcess publishes both, and that is the page worth reading for their half.
Same contract, same shape, a different product on the other side of it.
Run one real engagement through Accute, on your own client list, and hold every answer on this page against what you see. We will set that up with you rather than hand you a trial and hope.
Accounts and plans live in the FinACEverse gateway, so nothing on this page asks you for a card.