As the owner, CEO or President of your CPA firm, chances are that keeping up with technology and dealing with IT challenges is not your core activity.
You must have your data compliant and need to keep your IT Systems up-to-date. These are of the utmost importance when running your business. You would not want to get hacked or fined.
Not having your IT systems working, especially during tax season would be a nightmare.
Having your reputation tarnished due to these factors are what can keep you up at night.
The ideal situation for your firm would be to have a partner that handles all your IT needs, a partner that has a proactive approach and makes sure to put out fires before they even happen.
Data breaches, compliance challenges and downtime are any CPA firm’s worst nightmare.
Having a proactive managed service partner that makes sure to put out any fires before it happens, upgrades your current system to stay compliant and prevents any downtime from happening, is a dream to most firms.
Small to medium CPA firms can go out of business within 6 months of a data breach and can cost up to $200,000 in damages, even with having the right insurance in place.
Noah Mehl, owner of Reperio, is one of the lucky few who has a software engineering background and also owns and runs two businesses.
These two aspects make him and his company a strategic partner for CPA firms.
A common thread that clients mention about Noah is that he thinks like a business owner, is proactive in his service and is available 24/7/365.
Rob from the CPA firm ‘Hebbler and Weickart’ even said that the following:
“After having an IT partner that we had to call each and every time we had an IT issue, it is refreshing to now have Noah and his team at Reper.io be proactive in helping us make sure we have everything in place. I can sleep well at night knowing they are there for us”.
Spending time trying to figure out your IT needs and implement them.
Work with a trusted managed services provider to both act as your CTO/CIO and provide your IT needs.
You waste your energy on activities that don’t drive your business forward, and all the while not knowing if you’re doing things correctly or securely.
Your IT Partner puts out the fires before they happen, upgrades your system to the compliance standards and prevents downtime from happening, especially during tax season. You can finally have daily peace of mind knowing that someone is watching after your data and IT needs 24/7/365.
Paid for reactive or ad hoc support and/or paid for the wrong category of services.
Implement managed services support that is proactive, provides unlimited support to the team and provides adaptable pricing that fits your firm’s budget.
Got the wrong support from your IT Partner which resulted in spending too much time ‘extinguishing’ fires in your business and were therefore not able to keep up with the projected growth.
Sleeping well at night knowing that you have an IT Partner that is available 24/7/365, provides concierge service and adapts to your needs, your budget and your growth plans with no contractual agreement.
You are scrambling to adapt to the new changes in your working environment as the way of working has completely transformed over the past two years. Your IT security is not being updated to match these changes.
Have a Managed Services Provider who not only stays abreast of the latest threats but also goes over your complete IT environment and works with you to implement the right security measures.
Feeling ‘on edge’ not knowing if your system is vulnerable to attacks. These attacks can cost you upwards of $200,000 in fines and can be business ending. You fear losing credibility, brand reputation and operational downtime.
Proactive steps are taken to close vulnerability gaps so you are able to grow and scale your business knowing you are protected against hackers and data breaches.
So you’re probably starting to see how having a Managed Service Provider can help you with your projected growth in the company.
Having a provider that puts out fires before you even know they will happen.
A partner that acts as a concierge service, is available 24/7/365 and has an in-house team in place ranging from software, infrastructure, and networking architects, to software developers to support and telephony/collaboration specialists.
A partner that hosts their own infrastructure in world class data centers, complete with their own IP address space.
You can be rest assured that your compliance, data security and IT needs and challenges will be taken care of, while you and your employees can focus on growing your portfolio of clients.
You can hire a team of IT people to cover you 24/7/365.
You can hire a team of IT people to cover you 24/7/365.
You would have to hire at least 5 IT people for 24/7/365 coverage, which will cost you a minimum of $325,000 in only salary alone, per year.
You’re not going to get 24/7/365 coverage, you’re not going to have a business partner who works with you to help you solve your business problems and you’re not going to get real security, which results in wasting money and stagnant growth of your business.
For you, the owner, CEO, president of your CPA firm, this is all possible.
Many CPA firm leaders have found the help of the right Managed Service Provider that puts out the fires before they happen. And prevents any downtime from happening, especially during tax season.
You can finally have daily peace of mind knowing that someone is watching after your data and IT needs 24/7/365. Not to mention that a concierge service is at your disposal for you to focus on the growth of your company.
Before Joe came to Reper.io, he had a staff member that was dedicated to all the IT systems in his business.
But this staff member was only knowledgeable on one IT solution.
They didn’t know how to solve other IT problems in the company.
After that situation, they had another managed service provider that only knew their solutions and did not try others.
When Reperio started working with Joe, Reper.io demonstrated how to solve one of the firms’ biggest challenges, which was upgrading their current legacy technology stack to the cloud.
Reper.io came up with multiple perspectives and provided solutions based only to the needs of their company. “Reper.io really looked at the legacy of our systems and helped us move to the cloud. Noah mentioned that this would be a challenging tasks but they will get this fixed for us.”
Cybersecurity software helped to protect their data as Joe knows that a hack can cost him up to $200,000 in damages.
Joe’s biggest win: he avoided a hack and grew his clientele by 4x just by switching to cloud and security from his old legacy system.
We evaluate, set up and manage your full IT landscape and security so you can have a proactive partner that puts out fires before it happens.
Have the daily peace of mind knowing that someone is watching after your data and any IT breaches that can occur.
Proven system of managed services that is tailored to your business size, your business deliverables and your business activities.
You can seek out the help of one IT specialist that is not well versed with the technology requirements of growing your company and does not bring the industry experience an MSP has.
What’s the cost? Finding the right IT partner takes time and can cost you upwards of $65,000 on yearly salary on top of all other salaries without the security of knowing if this will work for you.
We leverage our own in-house team of software, infrastructure, and networking architects, software developers and telephony & collaboration specialists. We host our own infrastructure in world class data centers, complete with our own IP address, so your client sensitive data is protected at all times.
You have the security of having a team that has all the knowledge of any IT system and/or landscape in one place.
Hiring an enterprise grade IT managed service provider having the basic options and paying more for add ons. Your IT should not cost you more than you are investing in.
Enterprise grade MSP’s cost Enterprise level prices, which is 5X what you pay for an SMB MSP. If you’re an SMB firm, you need an SMB grade MSP that will adapt to your current needs.
We are available 24/7/365 anytime, any day of the week. You will always have fast communication and reliable services even if you have an IT challenge, at 1am in the morning during tax season.
Peace of mind and sleeping well at night knowing you can focus on driving revenue while we focus on your IT needs.
You can try and do it yourself with the help of an IT person. This will cost you time, and energy that you can better spend on your core activities.
Clients have mentioned that in the past they have lost 20+ hours per week in doing other tasks than their core activities that move the needle in their business.
Reper.io is a 24/7/365 Concierge Managed Services.
Keeping your reputation in tact and having peace of mind and a good night’s rest.
Doing this on our own
Total Cost: $200.000+ in damages from non-compliance and breaches. The cost of downtime not included.
How much would it cost you if you do not have the right IT infrastructure and compliance in place?
Data breaches for SMB CPA firms have increased by over 80% since 2014 and since 2018, the portion of breaches that include ransomware or extortion has risen to over 40%.
Forensic discovery, remediation, determination of exfiltration of data, reporting requirements, and cost of outside counsel to protect the CPA firm’s litigation exposure will typically cost $70,000 to $200,000.
Cyber insurance can cover some of these costs but not nearly all of them.
Don’t let your firm’s reputation be affected by your IT infrastructure.
At Reper.io we provide guarantees.
You are not not fixed to a contract as they are optional.
We only deliver service that is useful to your business. If it’s not, we will cancel, change or refund as necessary.
Customer service is our highest and foremost priority when it comes to your business and we’re available 24/7/365, meaning even if you have an issue on a Sunday evening, we are available to help.
1. We are a service company first before a sales company: We don’t sell our clients things they don’t need. We focus on our clients’ success, and bring industry best practices and solutions to help them achieve it.
We also start with the basics, and then layer on business specific needs.
2.Contracts are optional: Sign up with us, and get started. It’s that simple. We always offer terms for customers that require them, and we’ll be happy to work something out (discounts for term, volume, bundling, etc).
3. We guarantee that what we deliver is helpful, which means we pride ourselves in delivering services that are useful to business. If it’s not, then we’ll cancel/change/refund as necessary.
4. We provide self-service and automation. We have public pricing and we have self-signup for our products and services whenever possible. We provide a web-based (self-developed) portal for all of our customers.
We pride ourselves in delivering services that provide added value to your business and therefore don’t provide trials. If the services are not a match for you, then we’ll cancel/change/refund as necessary.