Take ATX Off the Office PC and Into a Managed Cloud

ATX practices are often small, busy and dependent on one or two machines. Hosting moves the software, returns and documents to a protected environment your preparers can reach securely from anywhere.

The office server has become a liability

Most accounting firms didn’t choose to be in the IT business — they inherited it. A server in a closet, an aging backup drive, a support contract with someone who visits when things break. Every year the machine gets older, the risks get larger and the person who knew how it was set up gets harder to reach.

Meanwhile, the work has changed. Staff expect to work from home during busy season. Reviewers need the same files as preparers in another office. Regulators and insurers expect documented security controls. A physical server bought five years ago wasn’t designed for any of that.

Applications We Commonly Host

MangoCloud provides Windows Server environments in secure US-based data centers, available as cost-efficient shared infrastructure or fully dedicated virtual machines. We size CPU, RAM and storage around your firm’s real workload, install and maintain the operating system, and manage the environment continuously.

Management is the point. Monitoring, patching, firewall administration, user management, performance tuning and backup are handled by our team as part of the service — with monthly reporting so you can see what’s being done on your behalf.

Benefits

Where ATX setups get fragile

One PC is the practice

In many ATX shops, a single workstation holds the software, the returns and the client documents. One theft, failure or infection puts the season at risk.

Backups are manual and unverified

External drives and good intentions are the default backup plan, and nobody has tested a restore.

Working after hours means driving in

Without proper remote access, evening and weekend work — the reality of tax season — happens at the office or over risky remote-control tools.

Growth strains licensing and setup

Adding a preparer raises questions about multi-user access, data sharing and where files actually live.

How MangoCloud hosts ATX

We install your licensed ATX software in a managed Windows environment with your returns, forms and client documents centralized alongside it. Preparers connect through encrypted, MFA-protected sessions from any location and work in the full ATX application.

Where your ATX licensing permits multiple users, we configure shared access so preparers work from the same data without emailing files or juggling copies. The environment is monitored, patched, backed up and supported by our team — your practice gets enterprise-grade infrastructure without hiring anyone.

What Hosted ATX Gives Your Firm

Secure remote ATX access

Sign in from the office, home or a client's site and pick up exactly where you left off. Sessions are encrypted and protected with multi-factor authentication, and client data stays in the hosted environment rather than traveling on laptops.

Multi-user access where licensing allows

For practices licensed for multiple ATX users, we configure genuine shared access: preparers work concurrently against centralized data, and everyone sees the same current version of every return. We review your license terms during assessment and configure only what they permit.

Tax-season capacity

The environment is sized for your busiest weeks and monitored throughout the season. If your volume grows, resources scale without buying new hardware — and small practices don't pay year-round for March-sized capacity.

Printing and document access

Returns and letters print from hosted ATX to your local printers; scanned source documents are available in the environment beside the software. Both are set up during onboarding and covered by day-to-day support, so filing-day printing is never an adventure.

Backup that runs itself

Returns and client documents are backed up automatically on schedule, encrypted, with offsite copies. Jobs are monitored daily by our team — the external-drive ritual, and the doubt that comes with it, is over.

Restores on request

Deleted or overwritten a return or document? Support restores it from the appropriate backup point, typically the same day. Full-environment recovery procedures are documented for larger events, so even a worst case has a rehearsed answer.

User setup handled for you

We create accounts, set permissions, enable MFA and get new preparers productive quickly — and remove access completely the day someone leaves. Your practice stays in control without doing the technical work.

Licensing responsibility

Your practice maintains its ATX licenses and Wolters Kluwer agreements. We configure single- or multi-user access strictly within what your license permits and review those terms with you during assessment.

Security built into the platform

Multi-factor authentication

Enforced for all remote access to hosted servers.

Encryption

Data encrypted in transit between users and the environment, with encrypted backups at rest.

Endpoint detection

Managed EDR watches hosted systems for suspicious behavior.

Isolated backups

Backup copies are separated from production infrastructure to limit blast radius.

Solved

Security built into the platform

Multi-factor authentication

Enforced for all remote access to hosted servers.

Encryption

Data encrypted in transit between users and the environment, with encrypted backups at rest.

Endpoint detection

Managed EDR watches hosted systems for suspicious behavior.

Isolated backups

Backup copies are separated from production infrastructure to limit blast radius.

Where firms use managed cloud servers

Retiring an office server

Replace aging on-premises hardware before the next failure, warranty expiration or tax season.

Centralizing multiple offices

Give every location one environment, one dataset and one set of applications.

Running line-of-business apps

Host tax, accounting, document management and practice tools together on infrastructure sized for them.

Supporting a remote workforce

Give hybrid and remote staff full access to firm systems without VPN sprawl or exposed desktops.

What our support covers

Pricing & Plans

Business Plan

$45

/month

Best for growing businesses

Enterprise Plan

$80

/month

For full-scale tech operations

Enterprise Plan

$80

/month

For full-scale tech operations

Enterprise Plan

$80

/month

For full-scale tech operations

Our Value

Why Firms Choose MangoCloud

We don’t just fix tech we bring clarity, confidence, and continuity to your business operations.

Accounting-industry focus

We work with tax and accounting workloads every day and plan around your season, not ours.

Genuinely managed

Monitoring, patching, backup and support are included — not a menu of billable extras.

US-based infrastructure

Environments run in US data centers with security controls designed for professional firms.

Related Services

Lacerte Hosting

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All Application Hosting

Client records are the product of your firm’s work. We protect them with encrypted, immutable backups, offsite copies and recovery procedures we actually exercise.

Cloud Migration

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FAQs

Small practices are often the strongest fit: hosting replaces the single point of failure — one PC holding everything — with managed infrastructure, real backups and secure remote access, at a small-practice price.

If your ATX licensing supports multiple users, yes — we configure concurrent access against centralized data. We confirm your license terms during assessment and set up only what they allow.

Prior-year installations move with you. Practices routinely keep several years available in the hosted environment for amendments and reference.

We install each year's release and in-season updates in scheduled windows, verified afterward, so you're never the one downloading installers at 11 p.m.

The hosted environment adds MFA, encryption, monitoring, managed patching and verified offsite backup — controls very few small practices can maintain on office hardware. No provider can promise zero risk, but the layered posture is substantially stronger.

Talk Expert

Protect the machine your practice runs on

Tell us about your ATX setup — users, years, data size. We’ll quote a hosted environment that removes the single point of failure before next season.