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Accounting Client Records Onboarding Sequence

Establish the prior-record baseline and release the correct secure organizer before active tax document collection.

2 emails · Request prior records after authority verification; release the organizer when the engagement, taxpayer, entity, and return scope are current. · 3 platform options

Bottom line

An engagement is signed, the client and covered entities are verified, and prior-record and organizer needs are known.

Best for

New clients changing accountants or beginning a governed tax intake.

Use when

Use the documented timing (Request prior records after authority verification; release the organizer when the engagement, taxpayer, entity, and return scope are current.) only while the recipient still needs this follow-up.

Watch for

Clients without a signed engagement or verified authority.

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Best For

New clients changing accountants or beginning a governed tax intake.
Firms with secure transfer, portal, receipt, and checklist-version records.

Not Best For

Clients without a signed engagement or verified authority.
Ordinary-email collection of tax files, identity records, credentials, banking data, or payroll records.

Sequence Steps

Email 1 / Only after the authoritative project, service, account, and exception records reconcile.
Prior Accountant Records Request
Request a defined handoff from a prior accountant after the client and receiving authority, covered entities, periods, records, and secure transfer method are verified.
SubjectRecords needed from your prior accountant
document collectionclient onboarding
Email 2 / Only after the authoritative project, service, account, and exception records reconcile.
Personalized Tax Organizer Available
Tell an engaged client that a tax organizer tailored to the verified taxpayer, entities, return types, and known changes is ready in the secure portal.
SubjectYour {{tax_period}} tax organizer is ready
document collectionclient onboarding

Email Platform Setup

Open after engagement, skip the prior-accountant step when it does not apply, record secure receipt and provenance, release one client-specific organizer, then transition into document collection.