Property specialists Fylde Tax Accountants “balance their books” when it came to their telecoms

Lancashire based tax and accounting practice, Fylde Tax Accountants are a Small business with a big following. Specialising in serving the needs of property investors and small businesses nationally, they provide good “old-fashioned personal service combined with up-to-date tax expertise and a down-to-earth business approach.” Experts at saving money within the property market, it’s no surprise that Fylde Tax Accountants have their finger on the pulse when it comes to costs within their own business.

Overview

Fylde Tax Accountants wanted to review their current business telephone system and Internet systems primarily to benchmark costs and improve if possible, on Internet access speeds.

Following an introduction to Preston based telecoms company Tech IP from their IT provider, an initial meeting uncovered opportunities for Fylde Tax Accountants to both reduce costs and upgrade their existing phone system and Internet connection at the same time.

Tech IP assisted in reducing the costs for telephone calls by over 50%, whilst also upgrading the broadband Internet connection to a new VoIP ready fibre broadband. The new broadband connection delivered Internet speeds 4 times faster than the existing connection and all at the same price as before.

Due to an existing contract obligation on the phone lines, it meant that Tech IP were initially unable to upgrade the business telephone system for FTA. However, once the phone lines came out of contract, Tech IP got straight to work upgrading the older on-site business phone system using ISDN2 lines, to a new state of the art cloud VoIP phone system.

The cost benefits were delivered by removing any maintenance costs for the older phone system and providing new VoIP phones which included, free calls to UK landline and UK mobile destinations.

Stephen Fay Principal at Fylde Tax Accountants had this to say about working with Tech IP:

“We have been very impressed with the support received through Tech IP. It’s been a refreshing change to have someone working with us with good attention to the detail and who puts a great deal of effort into doing a great job and not just the minimum they can get away with, as has been the case with previous suppliers. I would recommend speaking with Tech IP if you think you might be paying more than you should, or not getting the best support on your telecoms.”