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Onkho adds free cloud storage to its practice program

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10th Jul 2018
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Practice software developer onkho has added a document exchange facility to let users share files with clients.

Onkho will offer its customers free cloud storage for client documents as part of its pay as you grow plan and 100 Plan for unlimited clients. Customers signing up for the packages will get 4GB per client or 1 Terabyte respectively.

The formula isn’t a new one; IRIS OpenSpace, for example, offers 1 GB of storage free, while Sage 50 Accounts (v23 and above) has a “backup manager” that schedules automatic backups that link to cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive.

Other providers, prompted by the changes introduced by the new EU data protection regulation, now offer free access to secure client portals that customers can use to share sensitive documents with clients, as is the case of BTCSoftware’s integration with MyDocSafe.

With new generation cloud developers like onkho challenging more established names in an increasingly competitive market, offering free storage is a good way to draw accountants into their sphere of influence. Having documents alongside the application suits the way they work at KWSR & Co, the accountancy practice run by onkho co-founder Susan Rahman.

“Keeping documents with your client and seeing them in your practice management solution makes things so much easier and simpler. I don’t have to keep switching between onkho and my online storage to see files,” she said.

Onkho gives a complete view of clients, notes, messages and meeting notes in one place, enabling accounting teams to work collaboratively. Free cloud storage is a natural progression for the platform, according to onkho CEO Emanur Rahman.

“Document storage is step one in our march towards a new type of client access portal,” he said. “By making it a no-cost extra, our customers are can save money on their existing cloud storage arrangements, particularly because all of our plans are based on unlimited users.”

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