Industry · Accounting & tax
Stay in returns. We'll stay on the phone.
Absorb the surge. Screen prospects. Book consultations. We answer every call so your team stays in returns — without losing new clients to a ringing phone.
Information capture only — no tax, accounting, or financial advice given. · 30-min demo · no credit card · pricing is a fraction of one receptionist's salary.
New client · IRS notice received
- Caller David K.
- Reason Received CP2000 notice
- Business Sole proprietor · S-corp
- Urgency HIGH
Booked: April 16 9:00am · Partner consult
Discipline
Tax-season call volume spikes 200–300% in the weeks your team is buried in returns. The Front-Desk Leak — and new-client calls leak the loudest in exactly that window.
How it answers
Screen, capture, book — never advise.
Tax callers want answers; tax professionals can't give them on a 30-second triage call. We screen the prospect, capture what they need, book the consultation, and route the summary — without ever offering tax, accounting, or financial advice.
Prospect screening · routing
- Caller name captured
- Business type captured
- Reason for call captured
- Urgency triage captured
- Tax advice never
- Accounting opinion never
- Financial guidance never
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24/7 prospect screening
Every new-client call answered, screened, and routed — even at midnight on April 14.
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Tax-season surge absorbed
Call volume 3× normal handled with zero queue. No hold music, no voicemail.
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Existing-client routing
Returning clients flagged and routed to their assigned partner per your rules.
Tuned for your practice
A CPA firm is not a tax-prep shop.
The intake script changes by practice type — qualifying questions, routing rules, urgency criteria — all configured before any live call.
CPA firms
Tax preparation
Bookkeeping
Payroll & advisory
increase in inbound calls to CPA and accounting firms during tax season — exactly when your team is heads-down in returns.
From ring to handoff
Tax-season call to booked consult, hands-off.
Greet the caller. Screen for prospect vs existing client. Capture business type and reason. Either book the consultation or route the call to the assigned partner. Route a summary — within minutes of the call ending.
What it does
Built for the calls that decide your client list.
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New-client screening
Qualifying questions captured so the partner walks into the consult prepared.
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Tax-season overflow
Surge volume absorbed without queue. Existing clients routed; new ones screened and scheduled.
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IRS-notice urgency
Callers describing IRS letters or audit notices flagged and routed urgently per your rules.
How it sounds
Professional. Reassuring. Never advisory.
Tax callers are often stressed — IRS letters, missed deadlines, late returns. The intake stays calm, professional, captures what matters, and books the consult — without ever venturing tax or financial advice.
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Surge-tested
Designed for April 14 call volume — no queue, no voicemail, no dropped calls.
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Speaks any language
Native-quality voice in any language combination your callers use. Pick the pair, we configure it.
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CRM-tagged routing
Prospects vs. existing clients tagged and routed per your firm's structure.
What it never does
No tax advice. No financial guidance. No exceptions.
The AI captures and screens — it never offers tax, accounting, or financial advice. Those judgments stay with your accountants. Caller data handled with confidential routing to your firm only.
Capture, never advise
No tax opinions, no accounting guidance, no financial recommendations — ever.
Confidential routing
Caller details routed only to your firm. No third-party sharing.
Transcripted, searchable
Every call transcripted and retained for compliance review.
Get started
Two ways to begin.
On the web
Pick a time. Demo on a call.
A 30-minute call to walk through your prospect-screening script, hear the AI handle a sample tax-season call, and lock pricing for your call volume.
Talk to sales
Multi-partner firm? Multi-office? Tax-season-only seat?
For multi-partner firms, multi-office practices, or seasonal-only coverage, email directly and we'll line up the right conversation.
Common questions about accounting & tax intake
Can an answering service handle the tax-season call surge?
Yes. An always-on AI answers every call at once with no shared hold queue, which is exactly what a 200–300% tax-season surge demands — a single line or one front-desk person queues callers precisely when they hang up and call the next firm. Carolinas Dev answers the whole spike 24/7, screens prospective clients, books consultations, and routes urgent calls to your line, so your accountants can stay in returns.
Can it screen prospective clients for my accounting firm?
Yes. The AI captures who is calling and screens the inquiry against the questions you set — service needed (individual return, business, bookkeeping, advisory), entity type, rough timeline, and how they found you — then books a consultation or routes a structured summary to you. It captures information only; it never gives tax or financial advice or quotes fees. That judgment stays with your accountants.
Does the accounting answering service work after hours and on weekends?
Yes — 24/7, including the evenings and weekends your firm works straight through during busy season. There is no voicemail mode: every call is answered, prospective clients are screened, consultations are booked, and urgent calls are routed to your line, so a Sunday-night caller racing a deadline reaches a working line instead of a recording.
Can it book consultations into my calendar?
Yes. After screening the inquiry, the AI books the consultation directly into your scheduling system per your rules, and routes a structured summary — service needed, entity type, timeline, contact details — to your team. For anything you have flagged as urgent it forwards the call to your line rather than leaving you to return it between returns.
Will the AI give tax or accounting advice to callers?
No. Carolinas Dev captures and screens information only — it never interprets a tax situation, advises on a return, or quotes fees. It is a fully automated assistant that discloses itself as such at the start of every call, books consultations, and routes urgent calls to your line. All professional judgment stays with your firm's accountants.