That's about what I paid annually for my portal service with all kinds of accounting-related add-ons for maintaining and communicating with a large database. The price was certainly more than reasonable when I had 140 clients, but that plus the infrastructure is overkill for three family members who (now that I don't put them off in favor of paying clients) are done by April 15 and who don't pay me in anything other than love and affection. And sometimes baked goods.
I'm no longer subject to the IRS electronic security regulations - although I still take it seriously, obviously, and I'm only beginning my investigation. This discussion has been very helpful.
I actually did a test drive of Drake some years ago as I looked at shrinking my practice pre-retirement, and I know that a lot of people love it - but I was still doing a lot of trusts at the time, and the conversion utility failed at properly transferring 1041 data, so I happily stuck with ProSeries.
