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A practice management system that only one person understands is not a technical problem you should be solving at 8am. Here's what we handle in the industries we see most across Brisbane, Logan, the Redlands and the Gold Coast.

Accountants

Practice software, hosted ledgers and client data that has to survive an audit. The stakes are seasonal: an outage in the last week of October is a different problem to an outage in January, and we schedule everything disruptive around that.

IT support for accountants →

What we handle

  • Hosted ledger and practice software performance
  • Backups with retention that matches record-keeping rules
  • MFA on ATO and banking portals
  • No changes during BAS and tax season

Allied health

Practice management systems that cannot be down during clinic hours, patient records under privacy obligations, and reception staff who need it to just work. We do the disruptive work outside consulting hours, without exception.

IT support for allied health →

What we handle

  • Practice management system support
  • Encrypted backups and access logging
  • Secure messaging and referral workflows
  • After-hours changes only

Trades with an office

Half the business is in vehicles and the other half is one admin person running scheduling, invoicing and job management. The office needs to be reliable and the field needs to be reachable, and neither can wait for a repair booking.

IT support for trades with an office →

What we handle

  • Job management and scheduling software
  • Mobile device and tablet setup for crews
  • Reliable remote access from site
  • Quoting and invoicing integrations

Real estate

Trust accounting has rules, listing portals have deadlines, and most of your team works from a phone in a car. The office network and the CRM have to hold up while nobody is there to look after them.

IT support for real estate →

What we handle

  • Trust accounting software and its backups
  • CRM and portal integrations
  • Laptop and phone fleet management
  • Open-home and off-site connectivity

Legal

Document management with strict confidentiality, retention measured in years rather than months, and court deadlines that don't move because a laptop failed. Discretion matters as much as uptime.

IT support for legal →

What we handle

  • Document and matter management systems
  • Long-retention archives and legal holds
  • Confidentiality and access controls
  • Secure client file exchange

What is actually different

Why industry matters at all

Underneath, most small-business IT is the same: machines, a network, Microsoft 365, backup, and someone to call. Any provider claiming a radically different stack for a law firm than for a landscaper is selling something.

What genuinely differs is three things, and they change the plan more than the hardware does.

  • The software. Practice management, trust accounting, ledger and job-management systems are old, particular, and frequently unsupported. Knowing how they behave saves a day of discovery on every job.
  • The calendar. An accounting practice cannot lose a Tuesday in October. A conveyancer cannot lose a settlement day. Disruptive work gets scheduled around those, which is a planning question rather than a technical one.
  • The obligations. Patient records, matter files and trust accounts carry retention, confidentiality and privacy duties that turn backup and access control into a compliance matter rather than a preference.

If you are not on the list

Most of it still applies

These five have pages because they are what we see most. Plenty of our clients are none of them — a wholesaler, a not-for-profit, a manufacturer with an office at the front of a shed, a physiotherapist working alone.

The approach does not change. We start with the audit, find out what the business actually runs and when it cannot afford to stop, and quote from that rather than from a template.

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Not on the list? Most of what we do is the same underneath. Tell us what you run.

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