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.
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.
We deploy your licensed Lacerte software in a managed Windows Server environment engineered for concurrent tax preparation: performant storage for Lacerte’s data patterns, capacity planned around deadline weeks, and encrypted MFA-protected access for every preparer in every location.
Tax data, client files and documents are centralized, backed up with offsite copies, and monitored continuously. Because Lacerte firms rarely run Lacerte alone, we host it alongside QuickBooks Desktop, Microsoft 365 apps and your document tools — with integration behavior reviewed during assessment so imports and links work as expected. Intuit licensing and hosting requirements are reviewed with you before deployment.
Preparers and reviewers sign in to the same Lacerte environment from any office, home or hotel over encrypted, MFA-protected connections. Multi-location working stops being an architecture problem and becomes a login.
Centralized tax data means the return a preparer finishes in your Florida office is the same file a reviewer opens in New York. Statuses, client documents and prior years are consistent firm-wide, and deadline-week handoffs happen in minutes rather than through file transfers.
We size the environment for your true concurrency — how many preparers work simultaneously in your heaviest week — and scale resources seasonally. Performance monitoring runs all season, so slowdowns are caught in the metrics before they're felt in the workflow.
Returns and organizers print from hosted Lacerte to printers in any of your offices; scanned source documents flow into the hosted environment. Multi-office printer setups are configured and tested during onboarding — per site, not in the abstract.
High-volume firms have high-value data. Lacerte data and documents are backed up on schedule with encryption, offsite replication and immutable options, with retention configured to your firm's practices and monitored daily.
Point-in-time restores bring back an individual client file, a folder or a full dataset. Recovery procedures are documented and tested, so even during deadline week a restore is a support ticket — not a crisis meeting.
We provision seasonal preparers in batches before season — accounts, MFA, permissions, printer mappings — and deprovision them completely afterward. Role-based access keeps staff in the clients and functions they should see, with periodic reviews to keep it that way.
Your firm maintains its Lacerte licenses and Intuit agreements. Intuit's licensing and hosting requirements must be reviewed before deployment — we do that review with you during assessment and configure the environment within what your agreements permit.
Enforced for all remote access to hosted servers.
Data encrypted in transit between users and the environment, with encrypted backups at rest.
Managed EDR watches hosted systems for suspicious behavior.
Backup copies are separated from production infrastructure to limit blast radius.
Enforced for all remote access to hosted servers.
Data encrypted in transit between users and the environment, with encrypted backups at rest.
Managed EDR watches hosted systems for suspicious behavior.
Backup copies are separated from production infrastructure to limit blast radius.
Replace aging on-premises hardware before the next failure, warranty expiration or tax season.
Give every location one environment, one dataset and one set of applications.
Host tax, accounting, document management and practice tools together on infrastructure sized for them.
Give hybrid and remote staff full access to firm systems without VPN sprawl or exposed desktops.
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We don’t just fix tech we bring clarity, confidence, and continuity to your business operations.
We work with tax and accounting workloads every day and plan around your season, not ours.
Monitoring, patching, backup and support are included — not a menu of billable extras.
Environments run in US data centers with security controls designed for professional firms.
Tax preparation, accounting, document management, Microsoft Office — installed together in a secure hosted environment that every preparer, reviewer and admin can reach from anywhere.
A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradise
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.
Yes, and most Lacerte customers do exactly that so trial-balance and import workflows stay intact. Integration behavior is verified during pilot testing.
The environment is sized to your firm's actual peak concurrency and can scale as you grow. Sizing comes from your assessment, not a one-size template.
Intuit maintains licensing and hosting requirements for its products. We review them with you before deployment and design the environment to operate within your agreement's terms.
Yes. Prior-year programs and data migrate with you and remain available for amendments and reference.
Yes. The hosted environment delivers the full Windows Lacerte experience to Windows PCs, Macs and tablets alike through the secure client.
Tell us your offices, user counts and integration stack. We’ll design a hosted Lacerte environment sized for deadline week and quote it clearly.
Secure Cloud Hosting Built for Accounting and Tax Firms. Managed cloud, application hosting, backup and cybersecurity for accounting and tax firms across the US.
