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    CARET Legal

    Score8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    CARET Legal, previously known as Zola Suite, is a solution for legal professionals to manage their practice and create space for what matters, including delighting clients and maximizing billable time.N/A

    8am™ LawPay

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAffiniPay headquartered in Austin offers LawPay, a legal billing app and mobile solution for payment processing, for law practices.

    $19

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    CARET Legal8am™ LawPay
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    CARET Legal8am™ LawPay
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    CARET Legal8am™ LawPay
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    CARET Legal8am™ LawPay
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
    Well-suited to a small to midsized law firm setting. Would also recommend for management seek easy ways to keep track of a large volume of business and to track which staff are doing what. The software isn't the best suited for running a lot of complex reports--we can obtain simple information in the reports, but sometimes we find ourselves pulling certain data from Zola and working with it in other software environments instead.
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    8am
    LawPay is well suited as a credit card processing system. It provides security needed to meet company insurance requirements. It is interesting because they have acquired MyCase which is another law case management software that we use, yet some of the functionality of LawPay, specifically Affirm, is not available on MyCase. Ideally it would be great to have all the same functionality on MyCase so we could use that only.
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    Pros
    CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
    • Provide me with instant list of assignments.
    • Easily record billable hours.
    • Monitor the work of colleagues whom I supervise.
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    • Payment plans through affirm
    • Recurring payment schedules
    • Ease of use
    • Secure payment storage
    • Clients are able to make payments on their own using a payment link.
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    Cons
    CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
    • The email integration feature has never consistently worked.
    • I can't toggle easily between viewing all time and just my time, have to use the filters.
    • Pulling reports to capture certain notes/details not perfected yet.
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    • Cost comparison to competitors
    • Customer support and response
    • Transparency with pricing
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    Alternatives Considered
    CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
    I didn't have the ultimate decision-making power to choose Zola. Clio was more expensive and may have offered a more robust platform, but with some options we didn't need. Westlaw was good for case management, but we would have likely still needed separate software to patch together something like Zola. Zola support isn't that great, but we rarely need it.
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    8am
    I selected LawPay since they were designed specifically for attorneys and firms. They understand our business and developed their products to meet those business needs.
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    Return on Investment
    CARET (Abacus Data Systems, Inc. )
    • Collections have been better overall.
    • Verifying staff work has been made much easier, potentially leading to more efficiencies.
    • The software itself is costly.
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    • Easier to collect client payments
    • Lends credibility to business
    • Offers payment options for clients
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    ScreenShots

    CARET Legal Screenshots

    Screenshot of Contact ManagementScreenshot of CARET Legal practice management on all platformsScreenshot of Task ManagementScreenshot of Legal CalendarScreenshot of Document ManagementScreenshot of Matter Management

    8am™ LawPay Screenshots

    Screenshot of the main dashboard.Screenshot of invoicing and time entries.Screenshot of the transactions reporting dashboard.Screenshot of scheduled payments.Screenshot of the contact management interface.