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📤 Sending a Tax Return-to-Truss Folder

This article explains how firms deliver completed tax returns using return-to-truss. The process ensures returns are securely stored internally and safely delivered to clients without emailing sensitive documents.

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Written by Jamie Hancock
Updated over a week ago

👉 Before you begin: Please be sure that you have installed the Truss App. You must have the app installed to print returns to Truss. Click below to get it installed.

Send Returns / Files Directly to Truss (Desktop App)

  • At a high level, the workflow looks like this:

    1️⃣ The firm prints the finalized return to Truss
    2️⃣ The return is uploaded into Send Returns
    3️⃣ The client securely receives the return and e-signs

🖨️ Step 1: Print the Return to Truss

This is the starting point of the process. Finalized returns are printed from your tax software to a specific file path, not directly to Truss as a printer.

From your tax software:

  • Select Print or Export

  • Choose your standard file or PDF output option

  • When selecting the save location, choose the following path:

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\return-to-truss

This folder is monitored by Truss AI. Any return placed in this path will automatically be uploaded and routed into the Send Returns section of Truss for secure client delivery.

💡 Tip: Printing to the correct file path is required. Files saved outside of this folder will not be sent to Send Returns.

📂 Step 2: Return Assembly

Now that the return has been uploaded to Truss, it’s time to review, verify, and prepare it for delivery to the client.

Assembly & Delivery

  • From Truss:

    • Navigate to Send Returns

    • Locate the uploaded return

    • Add the return to a project

    • If the signer or ERO will sign within Truss, be sure to add them as a signer

    • Open the return and verify all information is correct

    • Confirm the e-file forms are accurate

    • Select Save or Save & Send to continue

🎉 Congrats! You’re done!! 🎉

Troubleshooting the Truss Desktop App if files do not print to Truss as expected

Basic Troubleshooting Steps (Try These First)

  1. If print-to-truss folder does not send file to Truss

    1. Close/Open the App, see if that restarts the print-to-truss folder working.

    2. Reinstall the app, make special note that Administrator Privileges Required: When installing the Desktop App, you must right-click on the .exe and click "Run as administrator"

    3. Restart computer

    4. Have them send us the process-events.log file, located at: C:\Users\<their user name>\AppData\Roaming\Truss.

  2. If the Truss app is freezing/cursor isn't visible

    1. Make sure they Windows OS is up to date

    2. Restart computer

  3. If they see this error on startup, there is likely a brief hiccup connecting to our update servers, they can try again in a few minutes:

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