Server Requirements

BirdDog Software can be deployed on a dedicated or virtual server that meets the following requirements:

Web Server must be web site ready. System Requirements must be met for the version of software being installed.

Hardware required:

BirdDog server software can be installed on the following:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Supports both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) installs
Microsoft Windows Server 2012. Supports both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) installs
Microsoft Windows Server 2016. Supports both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) installs
NOTE: If you are utilizing Avatax as your tax software, x64 (64-bit) is required and x86 (32-bit) will not function properly.

Hardware requirements:

Minimum: 2 GB of RAM, recommended: 4 GB of RAM
200 MB of available hard disk space. Depending on the number of transactions, additional hard disk space may be required to store large number of transactions.
Document Management, additional hard disk space depending on the amount of documents. 5GB of documents will require 5GB of additional storage. Consider this, Using an estimate of 2,500 pages per file drawer and four file drawers per file cabinet, one can estimate that scanning two four drawer file cabinets full of documents (ten thousand single sided pages) will require 1 GB.

The BirdDog database can be hosted by:

Full-Text Search needs to be installed on your SQL Server for our software to function correctly.