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An innovative and easy-to-use bookkeeping application, Client Bookkeeping Solution (CBS) is the ideal tool for managing incoming client data and helps you streamline firm. Designed for your clients who don't have an accountant on staff, CBS helps both cash- and accrual-basis clients manage daily check writing, transaction recording, and business reporting.

As part of the CS Professional Suite client data in CBS transfers seamlessly to Write-Up CS , enabling you to perform client write-up work, prepare tax returns with UltraTax CS or GoSystem Tax RS , and perform billing and invoicing using Practice CS . In fact, since your client data originates in CBS, it is the first step toward zero-time data entry. CBS also enables you to easily import client data from QuickBooks Pro®/Premier/Enterprise, Peachtree®, Microsoft Office Accounting®, Paychex®, and BusinessWorks® via Accountant's Assistant directly into Write-Up CS.

For more information, please visit the Client Bookkeeping Solution section on the CS.ThomsonReuters.com website.

Streamline Processes with the Powerful Features of CBS

Client Bookkeeping Solution (CBS) is a fully functional check writing and bookkeeping program you can customize for your clients with the functions, modules, and capabilities that work best for them—and for you.

With CBS, You Can:
  • Set up each client with a customized system and guidelines based on their needs
  • Set up automatic emails to notify you when your clients perform specific activities or reach designated limits you've set (e.g., writing a check that's over the specified limit)
  • Maintain security control with password protection for any number of users
  • Set individual checkbook security levels
  • Retrieve period-end processing data from your clients via email, any read-write removable media (CD, floppy disk, flash drive), or their portal on your website with CBS ASP
  • Ensure your clients are always using the most current version of CBS available with CBS ASP
With CBS, Your Clients Can:
  • Conduct day-to-day bookkeeping and check writing
  • Perform secure online banking including bill payments and funds transfers (if supported by their bank)
  • Process credit cards through InterceptEFT (available in CBS Accounts Receivable)
  • Allow multiple employees to operate CBS simultaneously
  • Attach electronic notes to explain entries or ask questions
  • Learn and use the program easily, thanks to standard Windows® conventions
With CBS CheckWriter, your clients can:
  • Write checks
  • Post checks to accounts that you've defined
  • Maintain ongoing records of checkbook activity
  • Record bank and ATM activity
  • Print deposit slips
  • Record journal entries
  • Maintain a vendor database
  • Choose check layouts
  • Maintain an unlimited historical data
  • Access checkbook balances
  • Produce management reports easily
With CBS PayCheck, Your Clients Can:
  • Process their payroll—including printing payroll checks that automatically calculate gross pay, withholdings, and net pay
  • Save time by automating payroll check writing, record keeping, and other payroll-related tasks
  • Offer employees direct deposit through InterceptEFT
  • Specify the number of decimal places to use for hours and pay rates on checks
With CBS Accounts Payable, Your Clients Can:
  • Schedule payments
  • Track cash requirements
  • Produce aging reports to enhance cash flow management
With CBS Accounts Receivable, Your Clients Can:
  • Create invoices
  • Process payments received
  • Email invoices and statements
  • Process credit cards through InterceptEFT
  • Track cash receipts
  • Print deposit slips
  • Produce sales information and customer activity reports
With CBS Financial Statements, Your Clients Can:
  • Review a snapshot of their financial position at any time
  • Produce on-demand interim financial statements
  • Choose different features to customize reports
CBS Remote Payment Authorization

Remote Payment Authorization is an option for accountants who use CBS to process accounts payable for their clients. Remote Payment Authorization streamlines the accounts payable process and improves accountant/client communication by letting clients determine which vendor payments to make and the timing of those payments.

General Requirements

CS Professional Suite® and Enterprise Suite™ applications are designed for professional production work. Our system requirements are based on the assumption that professional accounting firms replace their computer hardware and operating systems approximately every three years.

While our software may operate on less powerful hardware and operating systems, we do not believe it will perform at a level suitable for production work in those environments. Of course, as processing speed and RAM are increased, software performance will also improve. We recommend business class computers, which generally offer higher levels of performance than home models when running business applications.

The following links provide access to the general requirements for the current versions of all of our applications. However, some products have more stringent and/or additional requirements beyond those documented in the general requirements sections. Be sure to read the Product-Specific Requirements as well as the general requirements.

CBS ASP Offers Clients Anytime-Anywhere Access to Their CBS Software

CBS is available in an Application Service Provider (ASP) version—so your clients can access CBS software 24 hours a day, seven days a week via the Internet.

How CBS ASP Works

CBS ASP uses secure NetClient CS portal technology to let your clients access their CBS software through a private portal on your website.

With CBS ASP, you can:
  • Give clients access to CBS—anytime, from anywhere
  • Perform client software setup and administration tasks online.
  • Retrieve your client's transaction data at any time, from anywhere you have an Internet connection
  • Be sure that your clients are always using the most up-to-date software version—no manual updating required
  • Serve your clients, even when you're out of the office
  • Transfer client data directly into your Write-Up CS — no data re-entry required

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