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Labels and Envelopes
Drake Software knows how important it is to stay in touch with your clients. Now you can easily print name and address information for your clients. Using our query and filtering tools, you can target exactly those customers you want to receive your mailings. You can even generate mailings for birthday cards! Print options include:
  • Standard mailing labels
  • Envelopes
  • Post Cards
  • Post-season and pre-season letters
  • Payment Reminders
  • Appointment Reminders
Files Backup
Having backups of your important tax files is crucial to your business continuity. Drake Software provides an easy-to-use utility to help you accomplish this. You can back up all of your client files, a single client file, or customize a list of exactly which files to backup. In addition you can back up Drake Tax Software setup and configuration files. You can also select to back up to a USB drive, network location or 3.5" floppy drives.
Auto-Entry Features
Quite often your clients share information such as Zip Codes, employers, and child care providers. This sometimes requires you to key identical information more than once in several returns. Drake Software lets you reduce or eliminate the need for repetitive data entry.
  • Thanks to our Zip Code database, after you enter a Zip Code, the software automatically fills in the city and state.
  • As you enter EIN numbers, they are saved in an EIN database. The next time the EIN is used, the provider's information will be automatically filled for you.
Web Updates
Drake Software knows how important it is to have the latest information and updates for your software. This becomes a simple task using our Update Manager. With Update Manager, this task is automatic. Your system will check for updates and determine if one is needed.
  • You decide what programs to update. No wasting resources updating areas you don’t use.
  • Choose to update manually or set up to download and install updates on a predetermined schedule.
  • Install updates immediately or hold them for later installation.
  • Updates are designed to be small and lightweight with no long download times, even if you are using a dial-up connection.
Email
Drake Software hosts free email accounts for our customers. It's great for reminding your clients of appointments! Other features to help streamline your communications include:
  • Send and receive email with attachments.
  • Create mailing lists for clients using the built-in query tool.
  • Organize your contacts with Contact Lists and Address Books.
  • Drake Software Support Address Book.
  • Search client data files for email addresses and add them to your contacts.
  • Send client data files to Drake Support for help resolving issues with a client’s return.
Amortization Schedule
Amortization schedules are an important part of any tax practice. Whether you have to fill in your client’s missing data or you just need to research different scenarios, Drake Tax Software provides you with the tools you need. You get support for several types of standard loans and features including:
  • Automatic calculation of payment amount, interest, or loan length.
  • Amortization schedule with customizable loan start dates and annual and grand totals.
  • Fixed payment loans.
  • Fixed principal loans.
  • Balloon loans.