Technology for CA and accounting firms
Direct answer
Filing season breaks down in the gap between the client and the working file, not inside the tax portal. Sunbeam builds the checklist, the engagement list and the place a client uploads what the firm asked for. The return, the audit opinion and the filing stay in the tools and portals the firm already uses for that professional work.
Where the work breaks
GST workings, TDS files, bank statements and prior-year papers arrive as chat images, email threads and a pen drive in the office. Staff re-ask for items that were already sent to a different person. The deadline pressure is partly a filing problem and partly a collection problem.
'Is my return filed?' is a fair question and an expensive interruption when the answer depends on who handled that entity. Multi-entity families make it worse: the wrong company is easy to open when everything is named by memory.
The statutory calendar is known. The firm's own calendar of who owns which client, which period, and which service — GST, TDS, income tax, audit, bookkeeping — is often a spreadsheet with a single editor. When that person is in a hearing, the list stops being current.
The prior-year file is the fastest way to start this year, and it is often on one machine or in a drive with no structure by client and year. A new joiner cannot tell which folder is the final set.
What we would build
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Each row is a service the firm has agreed to do: the entity, the period, the owner, the due date and the status. Partners can see what is waiting on the client and what is waiting on the firm, across the whole office.
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The firm sends the list it already uses for that service. The client uploads against each item, and the team sees what arrived, what was rejected, and what is still open. Reminders go out from that list, not from memory.
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Working papers live with the engagement, visible to the people on that job. This is not a replacement for the firm's audit software or tax computation tool. It is the place those inputs are collected and found again next year.
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For the questions the front office answers every day — received, in preparation, filed, waiting on you — a short status page or message cuts the interruptions. The firm decides which states are safe to show. Professional conclusions stay inside the firm.
How the system has to behave
Connected capabilities
Custom software development for businesses in Lucknow, across India, and in the Gulf, the UK and the US. Systems built around the workflow you already run.
Internal tools development for dashboards, operations portals and systems that help teams make faster, better-informed decisions.
Business automation services that connect systems, reduce repetitive work and make important workflows more reliable.
AI development workflows for assistants, document handling and integrations, with a review step a person still owns. Built by Sunbeam in Lucknow.
FAQ
Yes. The usual first system is an engagement tracker plus a client upload list for GST, TDS, tax and audit work. We do not replace the tax portal, the audit tool, or the partner's judgment.
They will if the upload link is easier than finding the right person. A message can still be how the link is sent. The file itself should land on the engagement, not in a chat that disappears into a phone.
Yes. The record is the entity and the period, not a single name. That is the distinction that stops a document for one company being filed against another.
As personal and often sensitive business data, with access, hosting and retention decided with the firm before any client is invited in. The professional duties remain the firm's. Our data-privacy guide sets out the practical questions.
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