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News Plans, Pricing, and Branding 01 Jun 2011

Author:  Dan Zitting, CPA, CISA

Filed under Workpapers.com News

Over the past two years we have learned a lot about both how our customers use the Workpapers.com audit management system and what is necessary to ensure we are a business that can continue to grow and better serve the needs of those customers. We extremely thankful for every single auditor that trusts us to help manage their audits. We have the greatest customers in the world, love what we do, and are amazed to see what Workpapers.com has grown into.

To that end, today we are releasing two big changes to Workpapers.com: 1) a change to our pricing plans and what each plan includes, and 2) the first overhaul of our company and product branding.


Plans & Pricing Changes

I will discuss the changes to the pricing plans first, as I know that will be of the most interest. Until now, we have basically charged “per user”. This has worked fine, however we’ve observed one ongoing problem… when charging based on the number of users, audit teams tend to leave people like their executives, their clients, and the external auditors out of the system and process because those additional users would create additional cost. The real power of Workpapers.com is realized when everyone with an interest in the audit can collaborate in the system. It enables executives to track status, audit teams to add temporary team members, external audit to review internal audit’s work, and clients to track results and securely upload documents requested from them.

So, for this reason, all of our plans (even the free plan) will include UNLIMITED USERS going forward. We want to remove all barriers in the way of ultimate collaboration. Instead, each plan will be limited by the number of active projects allowed (archived projects don’t count against the limit) and/or the amount of storage used. The standard plans will actually drop slightly in price and range from FREE to $199/month. We have also added an Enterprise Plan that includes additional features and support.

Check out all of the details on the new plans here »


New Workpapers.com Branding

Workpapers.com was originally born out of a CPA firm and, needless to say, most CPAs aren’t the best managing brand. Well after a huge amount of work and bringing in new design experts, Workpapers.com has become more beautiful and our materials and website better illustrate the values on which the system itself is built. We are incredibly proud of this new look and feel and will be extending it further in the future.

As always, thank you so much for the ongoing support and please let us know anytime we can help. Happy auditing!