ProConnect vs. AbakusProConnect on its own, or built around your firm.
ProConnect Tax is Intuit's cloud-based professional tax software, popular with firms that want browser-based prep and close ties to QuickBooks Online.
ProConnect
Abakus
The short answer
ProConnect stays your system of record for preparing and e-filing returns. What we replace is the stack of separate tools around it (client portals, organizers, document-request apps, and tracking spreadsheets) with one platform built for your firm that handles intake, document collection, data extraction, and review prep, so returns reach ProConnect cleaner and faster and you pay for fewer subscriptions.
What ProConnect does well
- Runs in the browser, with nothing to install or host
- Connects with QuickBooks Online for business returns
- Pay-per-return pricing that suits smaller and growing practices
Where firms hit its limits
- Built to prepare and file returns, not to run the work around them: intake, document chasing, and client follow-up happen somewhere else.
- Keying W-2s, 1099s, and K-1s into input screens is still a large share of prep time.
- Firm-specific review checks live in people's heads, sticky notes, or spreadsheets instead of the software.
ProConnect on its own vs. with Abakus
ProConnect on its own
Off the shelf, built for every firm
ProConnect + Abakus
Rules designed around your firm
Getting source data in
Keyed by hand, or through the vendor's own import options.
AI extracts W-2, 1099, and K-1 data into reviewable workpapers organized by input screen.
Document collection
Outside the tax software: email, portals, and phone calls.
Per-client checklists and reminders that stop the moment the file arrives.
Firm-specific review checks
Whatever the product ships with.
Your own pre-review checks, added in hours.
Changing the process
Wait for the vendor's next release cycle.
Change the automation around it the same day.
What we build around ProConnect
Typical automations for firms that use ProConnect. Each one follows your firm's rules, keeps a human review step where professional judgment matters, and changes in hours when you need something different.
AI extraction of source documents into review-ready workpapers
Intake questionnaires that generate each client's document checklist
Reminders and status updates tied to where each return actually is
Bookkeeping clean-up in QuickBooks Online before business returns start
ProConnect: common questions
Do we have to switch away from ProConnect?
Can Abakus get data into ProConnect?
Will automation change how we review returns?
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