2012 Review of AccountantsWorld Website Relief

AccountantsWorld supplies tax newsletters updated by tax experts that are automatically distributed to its customers’ websites. However, only a short summary appears on a firm’s site, and when a link is clicked, the full article appears in a new window under the AccountantsWorld domain. The firm can claim authorship of the articles supplied by AccountantsWorld, but not third-party content that is available for a fee. Firms can also add stock RSS feeds or custom RSS feeds to their sites.

Other Features

Website Relief includes an appointment scheduler, which website visitors can use to schedule appointments on the firm’s website. Appointments automatically integrate into the Practice Relief application. Also, this tool includes an e-mail reminder feature. Website Relief does not have a built-in blogging engine, however, firms can iframe blogs to a webpage.

Summary & Pricing

Because it offers direct access to the other AccountantsWorld online applications, Website Relief is a good fit for firms using the AccountantsWorld suite that want integrated productivity and online marketing tools.

There is no setup cost with Website Relief, and the basic recurring cost is $59 per month or $595 per year, which includes a standard listing in AccountantsWorld Directory of Accounting Professionals. Firms can upgrade to a Silver listing (enhanced listing) for $195 per year or a Gold listing (top-of-the-page preference) for $495 per year. Firms can add additional e-mail addresses in blocks of five for $50 per block.

AccountantsWorld offers Premier Website Services for firms that either want to customize a website beyond the tools that are offered by Website Relief or don’t have time to use the tools to create their own website. With this service, the designers at AccountantsWorld create a personalized template and custom pages with images and flash files for $99 per hour.