NetSys vs. Stephill Associates
Stephill Associates sells, installs and supports the software that specialty contractors and accounting practices live inside: Wintac, ESC, TruVantage, UltraTax, PracticeCS. It is a specific practice, and worth understanding before comparing anyone to it. We looked at their site in September 2026 alongside ours for a Rye, NY buyer, so here is what each firm publishes.
The short answer
If your business runs on one of the line-of-business applications Stephill Associates names, they sell, install and support that software themselves, which is a real reason to call them. Their published service area is New Jersey, so a buyer in Rye should confirm Westchester coverage before anything else. NetSys is a Brooklyn firm, independent since 1998, covering Westchester on site, with cybersecurity, managed IT, PAM, PIM, AI work and disaster recovery planning in one month to month agreement.
What Stephill Associates is
Stephill Associates was founded in January 2003 by David Streit and works from one office at 101 Fontaine Court in Monroe Township, New Jersey, with over twenty two years of experience stated in their FAQ. Typical clients are described there as small businesses and specialty contractors with up to twenty five computers, running industry applications such as Wintac, ESC and TruVantage. Their software services page lists what they sell and support by vertical, adding Thomson Reuters UltraTax, FileCabinet, PracticeCS and QuickBooks for accounting practices, RealGreen for lawn treatment firms, and Microsoft Office 365 and Sage Act! for general business.
Published headquarters: Monroe Township, NJ (101 Fontaine Court, Monroe Township NJ 08831). stephillassociates.com
Software knowledge as the product
Stephill Associates puts the line-of-business application at the front of what they sell, naming the software they install and support: Wintac, ESC and TruVantage for contractors, UltraTax, FileCabinet, PracticeCS and QuickBooks for accounting practices, RealGreen for lawn treatment businesses. If your entire working day happens inside one of those, a provider who already sells and supports it can be worth more to you than a longer service list. NetSys publishes a different kind of specificity, twenty six industry pages and nine compliance frameworks, aimed at the regulator rather than the software.
Labor hours against one flat agreement
Their Remote Care Plus tier is described as a monthly allotment of labor hours usable for support and project work, plus an advanced security appliance with remote access features, local and cloud backup systems with testing and verification, and optional hosted Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft 365. Work is metered, which some owners prefer because they can see what was consumed. NetSys sells one agreement covering AI adoption and automation, cybersecurity, managed IT with help desk, PAM, PIM and disaster recovery planning, defined by the services in it rather than by an hours allotment. Ask each firm how a long project is handled inside the agreement, because that is where the two models part.
Service area and what we could not find
Their home page publishes one office in Monroe Township and states they serve small businesses in Central and South New Jersey, while the principal's message and FAQ say Central and Northern New Jersey. We could not find a published New York service area anywhere on the site, so a Rye buyer should ask them directly whether Westchester is served before going any further. We also could not find published contract terms, response-time commitments, or privileged access and privileged identity work. NetSys publishes on-site coverage that includes Westchester, and month to month terms.
What each of us publishes
Their column is quoted from pages on stephillassociates.com and links to each one. Ours states what we commit to elsewhere on this site. Nothing below is our opinion of their work.
| The NetSys Group | Stephill Associates | |
|---|---|---|
| Agreement | Month to month. Leave any time, no early-exit penalty. | We could not find contract length or cancellation terms published on their site. |
| What the monthly fee covers | One agreement: AI services, cybersecurity, managed IT with help desk, PAM, PIM and disaster recovery planning. | Their managed services page lists what the Remote Care Plus tier adds: monthly labor hours usable for support and project work, an advanced security appliance with remote access features, local and cloud backup systems with testing and verification, optional hosted Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft 365, and discounted hourly labor rates. (stephillassociates.com) |
| Privileged access and credentials | PAM and PIM in the base agreement, each with a published service page describing the work. | We could not find privileged access, privileged identity management or managed credentials named on their site. |
| AI and automation | In-house practice led by Jamie Baum: readiness assessments, Copilot rollouts, custom agents and workflow automation. | We could not find an AI or automation practice published on their site. |
| Disaster recovery | A written plan plus restores that are performed and timed. More than 30 ransomware incidents handled in three years, every one recovered. | Their online backup page names the backup vendors they resell and manage: eFolder for Replibit Backup and Disaster Recovery software and appliances, eFolder Cloud Backup, and SolarWinds MaxBackup as their recommended centrally managed cloud backup. (stephillassociates.com) |
| Who answers | A NetSys engineer, plus a named account manager who gives you a real cell number. | Their why-choose-us page publishes a "Quick Response" item stating that a live person answers calls and that they log in remotely with permission to resolve issues, and states they manage networks 24 x 7 with network monitoring and management. (stephillassociates.com) |
| Response commitments | Written into the agreement rather than implied on the website. | We could not find published response-time commitments. |
| Proof before you commit | A free Tier 1 external penetration test. The findings are yours whether or not you hire us. | Their online backup page states they offer several cloud backup services with free 30-day trials, and their why-choose-us page publishes a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. (stephillassociates.com) |
| Where they are | One office, in Brooklyn. On-site coverage across the New York metro, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Florida, and remote delivery anywhere in the US. | Their home page publishes one office address, 101 Fontaine Court, Monroe Township, NJ 08831, with phone 732-792-2021, and states they serve small businesses in Central and South New Jersey; the copyright line reads "© Copyright 2026 Stephill Associates, LLC". (stephillassociates.com) |
Stephill Associates appears here because it came up in the search results for IT services in Rye, NY when we checked in September 2026. Everything in their column is drawn from pages published on https://stephillassociates.com/ and links to the source. Where we could not find something published we say so, which means we did not find it, not that it does not exist. We make no claim about the quality of their service. All trademarks belong to their owners and no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Four more things worth knowing about Stephill Associates
Size and history
- Their why-choose-us page states the firm was founded in January 2003, their about-us page names David Streit as the founder, and their FAQ states over 22 years of experience in IT management and support. (stephillassociates.com)
NetSys: Independent since 1998. One office, in Brooklyn, and no private equity owner behind the name.
Industries they name
- Their software services page lists the line-of-business applications they sell, install and support by vertical: TruVantage, Wintac and ESC for contractors; Thomson Reuters UltraTax, FileCabinet, PracticeCS and QuickBooks for CPA/accounting; RealGreen for lawn treatment; plus Microsoft Office 365 and Sage Act! for general business. (stephillassociates.com)
- Their FAQ states they serve small businesses and specialty contractors in Central and Northern New Jersey, with typical clients having up to 25 computers and using industry-specific applications such as Wintac, ESC and TruVantage. (stephillassociates.com)
NetSys: Twenty six industries with a page each, from healthcare and legal to hedge funds, auto dealers and government contractors.
Compliance work published
- Their online backup page states that eFolder's cloud backup software is HIPAA-compliant. (stephillassociates.com)
NetSys: Nine frameworks with a service page each: HIPAA, CMMC 2.0, SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, NY SHIELD, FTC Safeguards, PCI DSS and GLBA.
Rates on the website
- Their FAQ describes their support plans as simple, tailored plans that can include automated services, with or without labor included. (stephillassociates.com)
NetSys: We do not publish rates. We quote per business rather than per seat, after a call, because a thirty person firm with two servers and a thirty person firm with a regulator are not the same job.
What we looked for on their site and could not find
contract length or cancellation terms; privileged access, privileged identity management or managed credentials; an AI or automation practice; response-time commitments.
That means we did not find it published, not that it does not exist. Ask them directly, and ask us the same questions. If Stephill Associates publishes any of this and we missed it, write to info@netsysgroup.com and we will add it.
The honest fit: is NetSys the right Stephill Associates alternative?
When Stephill Associates is the better choice
Hire Stephill Associates if you are a contractor or an accounting practice in Central or Northern New Jersey, running up to twenty five computers, and your business lives inside Wintac, ESC, TruVantage or UltraTax. You get a firm that sells and supports that software directly, a live person answering the phone, backup built on eFolder and SolarWinds with free thirty day trials to test first, and a published satisfaction guarantee.
When NetSys is the better choice
Hire NetSys if you are in Rye or anywhere in Westchester and want a provider whose published on-site coverage already includes you, month to month with no early-exit penalty. One agreement holds the security work, the help desk, PAM and PIM, disaster recovery planning and an AI practice. Independent since 1998, with more than 30 ransomware incidents handled in three years and every one of them fully recovered.
NetSys and Stephill Associates: FAQs
What does Stephill Associates include?
Their managed services page describes the Remote Care Plus tier as monthly labor hours usable for support and project work, an advanced security appliance with remote access features, local and cloud backup systems with testing and verification, and optional hosted Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft 365. Their why-choose-us page states that a live person answers calls and that they manage networks twenty four by seven. Their online backup page names eFolder Replibit, eFolder Cloud Backup and SolarWinds MaxBackup. Contract terms and response-time commitments were not something we could find published, so those are two things to get in writing.
Does Stephill Associates serve Rye or Westchester County?
Their site publishes a New Jersey service area and one office in Monroe Township, and we could not find New York coverage published anywhere on it. Plenty of firms serve past what their website says, so treat that as an open question for them rather than a closed door. If you would rather start with a provider that already publishes Westchester inside its on-site coverage, NetSys does, from a single Brooklyn office, with remote delivery anywhere in the United States and engineers who drive out when the work needs hands.
Is there a Stephill Associates alternative for a Rye, NY business?
NetSys is the obvious one to weigh if location is deciding it for you, though the comparison is not like for like. Stephill Associates is built around specific contractor and accounting applications. NetSys is built around security, with twenty six industry pages, nine compliance frameworks including NY SHIELD and NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, and PAM, PIM, disaster recovery planning and AI work inside one agreement. Weigh it by what breaks your week: a payroll run stuck inside a vertical application, or an audit letter with a deadline on it.
What are the contract terms and how does a switch work?
NetSys sells month to month, with no long-term commitment and no early-exit penalty, so the relationship gets re-decided every thirty days rather than every few years. A takeover follows the same sequence whoever we take over from. We ask the outgoing provider for credentials, documentation and license records, verify a restore before anything is cut over, keep both monitoring stacks live while the environment settles, and retire the old tooling last rather than first. Nothing goes dark on a Friday.
Get both answers in writing.
Fifteen minutes with a NetSys engineer, not a salesperson, and you will have our side of every question on this page in writing. Take it into any comparison you like.