Organize client tax document intake
Track which documents each client has sent and what is missing.
Estimated time saved
Estimated: several hours per week during tax season. (Estimate; results vary.)
Tools
- Zapier
- Microsoft Power Automate
- ChatGPT
The problem
Tax season means chasing W-2s, 1099s and K-1s by email and tracking it by hand.
Step by step
- 1Have clients upload to one portal or shared folder.
- 2Trigger an automation on each new file to log client name, document type and date to a tracker sheet.
- 3Compare against last year's document list to flag what is missing.
- 4Use AI to draft a polite reminder email listing missing items for staff to send.
Copy-paste prompt
Prompt
Client prior-year documents: [list]. Received this year: [list]. List what is still missing and draft a short, friendly reminder email to the client asking for those items.
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