Work From Anywhere

Reach CCH Axcess Tax and every other application your firm runs from home, a client site, or on the road.

Multi-User Collaboration

Preparers, reviewers, and admin staff share the same hosted desktop environment without juggling separate logins.

One Environment, Not Many

Axcess Tax sits alongside Office, your document management system, and any other software your firm relies on — all in one place.

Built-In Disaster Recovery

Automated, redundant backups protect everything stored in your hosted desktop, not just what lives inside Axcess Tax.

Seasonal Scalability

Add seasonal preparers during tax season, scale back after — pay only for what you use.

Zero Learning Curve

CCH Axcess Tax works exactly as it does today; hosting only changes where you’re sitting when you use it.

CCH Axcess Tax keeps working exactly as it does today. What changes is everything sitting next to it — one hosted desktop instead of a patchwork of separate logins and local machines.

Data encrypted in transit and at rest

Multi-factor authentication on every login

Point-in-time recovery, always current

Independently audited security controls

Information security management (facility level)

Payment data handling standards (facility level)

What examiners actually check

Where this usually breaks down

Most small and mid-size firms don’t fail an audit because they’re careless — they fail because the files and software around CCH Axcess Tax (Office documents, local PDFs, other applications) sit on front-desk PCs or an aging in-office server with no documentation trail. There’s no audit log, no written encryption standard, and no answer to “who else has access to this machine.” None of that is a software problem; it’s an infrastructure problem.

Hosting doesn’t replace your WISP — you still need one — but it gives you something concrete to reference in it. A SOC 2 Type 2 report, which Cloud Innovics holds directly, is documentation you can hand to an examiner or a client, instead of trying to describe the security posture of a physical office PC after the fact. Our infrastructure also runs in data-center facilities that maintain further certifications, such as ISO 27001.

A concrete example: an examiner reviewing your WISP might ask who has admin access to the machine storing client returns, and when that access list was last reviewed. On a hosted environment, that’s a logged, auditable answer in one sentence. On a shared office PC, it usually isn’t an answer at all — it’s a guess.

Secure server locations, close to you

Our data centres host the remote desktop environment CCH Axcess Tax runs inside of — alongside Office, your document management system, and everything else your firm uses — sitting in low-risk zones with enterprise power, cooling, and network redundancy.

Support That Gets the SetupHelp from a team that understands hosting a browser-based product alongside everything else, not generic desktop RDP support.

See It Before You CommitTest your actual hosted-desktop workflow alongside Axcess Tax during a free trial.

Flat Per-User PricingOne predictable monthly rate for the environment, no setup surprises.

We Configure the Surrounding SetupOffice, document management, and printer configuration handled without disrupting an active season.

Not a Shared ServerYour firm’s hosted desktop performance doesn’t depend on what another client is doing.

Axcess Tax Plus Everything ElseCCH Axcess Tax sits in the same environment as QuickBooks, Drake, Lacerte, ProSeries, and ATX.

“We were already on CCH Axcess Tax, but our team was still bouncing between that browser tab and a completely separate desktop for everything else. Hosting put it all in one place.”

“One login for Axcess Tax, our document management system, and Office made onboarding new seasonal staff dramatically faster.”

“It sounded odd at first — hosting something that’s already cloud-based — but the value was never about Axcess Tax itself, it was about everything around it.”