CDS

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EMPOWERING CPA SOCIETIES TO SUCCEED FOR 30 YEARS.

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Put top line metrics at your Board’s fingertips, where they matter most. With AM.Net’s data warehouse, robust dashboards can be built with the native BI suite, or external tools such as Power BI and Tableau, to help drive your society’s strategic goals and initiatives. Find trends, opportunities, and data integrity issues using familiar tools.

ANYTIME ACCESS

Enable your workforce with access to AM.Net from off-site CPE locations, coffee shops or home offices with our cloud-hosted service. Optimized for superior performance and built with best-in-class, PCI-compliant security and backup tools, our cloud-hosting provides peace of mind.

SECURE CLOUD

A new data breach hits the news daily. Keeping up with software upgrades and licenses is a hassle. Backing-up your data and ensuring it can be restored is critical. Our cloud solution offers the experience your staff is used to with the security and connectivity today’s market demands.

AUTOMATION

Doing more with less is a fact of business. Use our task automation engine to manage touch points with members. Reduce repetitive tasks and free up staff resources, or create alerts when items aren’t meeting performance goals. It’s as easy as determining the tasks to automate and working with our friendly team to build out your process.

ADMINISTRATION

Back-office efficiency is critical. Our paperless A/P workflow, ACH processing, automatic transactional customer messaging, and batch update tools minimize overhead.

Features

DASHBOARDS

Unlock and visualize your data. Analyze transaction histories to identify trends and patterns. Work with our standard dashboards, build your own dashboards with AM.Net’s integrated tools, or connect your analysis data to PowerBI, Office365, Tableau, and more.

CPE

With support for in-person, live-streaming, and on-demand content, AM.Net integrates with all your content and streaming providers. Our close partnerships with all the major content providers for CPE mean we can get you connected, integrated, and provide support quickly.

ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Digital files for CPE can be maintained directly in AM.Net with document management functions, and made available to your members via website integration.

NASBA

For societies certified by NASBA, automatic reporting is included “in-the-box”.

RECURRING PAYMENTS

Make it easy for members to join, renew, and donate with automatic membership renewals and contributions.

ENGAGEMENT SCORES

Analyze member relationships and identify trends; optionally compare with other societies to see what’s working for your peers.

CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT

Maximize recruitment and retention efforts. Use AM.Net’s Business Intelligence tools to micro-target your messaging strategies.

PAPERLESS A/P WORKFLOW

Don’t pay your highly skilled staff to perform double/triple data entry and shuffle papers. Go digital. With multi-step approvals and tools for check signers, Paperless A/P makes everybody’s job easier.

ACH PROCESSING

Stop wasting paper and printing checks. We work with your bank to create compliant ACH files to pay your vendors.

Support

WHITE GLOVE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Simply stated, your success is our success. Whether troubleshooting, training or developing features, our team is here to help you shine! Contact our experts via phone, email, or the online forum anytime! We're even happy to schedule an on-site visit with you and your staff if you like.

ON CALL AVAILABLITY

Dealing with a network or server migration out of hours? You’ll have 24 hour access to our support team, including a direct line to the company partners while your project is in progress.

ABOVE AND BEYOND

If we happen to notice a problem with your network or servers that falls outside our responsibility, several of our team members have experience with server and network administration. We can usually point you in the right direction, or help coordinate with your technical support team to resolve the issue.

Ecosystem

ENABLING CHOICE

CDS has long understood that while our customers are similar, their needs are often unique. Our focus is being the best AMS we can be, building an easy to use interface and adding data related capabilities. We allow you to choose the partners and products that work best for you. Over the years we’ve made integrations a priority, and each customer has access to any integration we build.

We currently support integrations with:

Email Marketing

Higher Logic (Real Magnet), HighRoad Solution (Adestra, BlueHornet, Cordial)

Web Site Design/Development

Aura Innovative Technologies, Imarc, Sengii, Society Solution

CPE Content Providers

ACPEN, AICPA, BLI Online, CalCPA, CPA Crossings, Gleim, K2, Peach, Surgent

CPE Streaming Platforms

Freestone, INXPO, On24

Online Community

Higher Logic, Sengii

Company

Custom Data Systems, Inc. (CDS) was founded in 1985 by Mark Breen to provide custom FoxBase programming and database services to the local Richmond Virginia market. In 1988 the company contracted to convert the Virginia CPA Society’s DEC mini based membership system to a micro-based system, which in those days meant IBM 286’s.

In 1990, other CPA societies expressed interest and the rest -- as they say -- is history. CDS dubbed the package “The Association Manager”, Ver 1.0 (AM1), and committed 100% of its resources towards its development and sale to state CPA Societies.

We build and treasure our close relationships with our customers and are often considered more of an offsite developer team rather than an arm’s length vendor.

Larry Austin

CEO

Larry joined Custom Data Systems in July, 1993. His business experience includes 15 years in retail accounting and finance with a national department store chain. His various positions included Assistant Controller, Director of Inventory Control and Corporate Internal Auditor. In these capacities he had extensive responsibility for end-user computing and PC-based systems application development. In 1991, Larry returned to school, earning a baccalaureate certificate in Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University in May, 1993. He also has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration.

Philip Sayers

President

Phil joined Custom Data Systems in February 2006. Phil has been breaking & fixing family computers since he was 10 years old. He studied Accounting and Financial Management for two years at the University of Sheffield, England, and completed his education at Lynn University, Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Phil’s experience has included all aspects of office and business technology, from acquisition, equipment installation & maintenance, server and network administration and management, to database design and application development. Prior to working at Custom Data Systems, Phil designed, developed and maintained a large portfolio of clinical and medical billing databases and custom applications for a large mental health services provider and advocacy organization in Rhode Island.

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