Free small business expense tracking tool
By Karen Post, on September 14, 2010
moneytrackin’ is a free online webapp that allows you to track all your expenses and income easily and without effort, thus allowing you to have a clear view of your financial situation. It intends to be a simple yet powerful online budget management tool.
Main features
- Control as many accounts/projects as you want
- Log all your transactions (expenses/income) and tag them to organize them better
- Keep informed of your financial situation at a glance, viewing at any time where your money goes
- Share tips with other users and take advantage of the community knowledge to save money
- Anonymity, we respect your privacy
- Sharing budgets and collaborative working of many people together on the same account
- Public API to allow the integration with third party applications
No cost accounting, timetracking tool for small biz
By Karen Post, on September 14, 2010
www.cashboard.com
Time tracking, expenses, invoicing, estimates, and online payments done your way. Cashboard does it all, and does it for free.
- Send PDF invoices, estimates, and receipts.
- Accept payments online – no more waiting for checks.
- Track expenses and re-bill them to your clients.
- Track billable and non-billable hours for yourself, your employees, and contractors.
- Kee p your clients in the loop and let them know where their money is being spent.
- Fully customize Cashboard’s appearance to look like your own project management and billing solution.
- Integrate smoothly with 37signals’ Basecamp
- No software to install, no money down,
- no long-term contracts to sign – ever.
- Free version
- $0 for life
- 1 Active Employee
- 1 Active Client per month
- 2 Active Projects
- Unlimited Estimates
- Brandable interface
- Bank-grade 128 bit SSL encryption
Spreadsheet & cash flow analysis tool, test drive for free.
By Karen Post, on September 14, 2010
Are you planning on growing your business? Are you tired of the spreadsheet chaos? Did you know that lack of cash flow analysis is often the reason for business ventures to fail?
Budket is an easy and affordable web-based financial planning and cash flow analysis tool. You can try it for free and start working in minutes.
Simple and free bookkeeping tool
By Karen Post, on September 14, 2010
FreshBooks provides fast and simple invoicing and time tracking services that help you manage your business.
Secure, web based tool branded with your business name.
- Invite contractors to join your team and track time on projects. Receive their invoices all in one place. Logins for contractors and staff.
- Share documents with your staff and clients, set access levels to restrict who can see what.
- Create support tickets to help manage additional time spent with customers.
- Send invoices by the mail prepared by the FreshBooks team, just purchase stamp credits. Invoices are sent via first class business mail within one business day.
- Keep track of your expenses, for both projects and yourself. Easily re-bill clients on project expenses.
- iPhone app for remote use
Fresh Books has tons of add ons in the following categories: mobile, time tracking, project management, accounting, expenses, CRM, forms and appointments, marketing, eCommerce and POS, Google document sharing, WebHooks, payment gateway, electronic signatures and customer support
FreshBooks has 5 different paid plan options and 1 free plan. The free plan has many bells and whistles, but you are limited to 3 clients but you can invoice them as much as you need. Also, emails sent from the system will have an added signature at the very bottom that reads: “Save time invoicing with FreshBooks (www.freshbooks.com)“.
Eek!-onomy
By Karen Post, on March 23, 2008
Ok, so they’re telling me that the economy is, like, the worst economy ever in the history of time and space and we’re all gonna’ die from like, some blood-borne sub-prime thing and I know it’s all true because the AP is reporting that we’re all moving back in with our parents. Yeah, even the olds.
But here’s my question. What age do you have to be for this action to be your parents moving in with you? You know, because you’re now taking care of them? Is it who moves their rocking chairs and Preparation H into who’s house? Just asking.
You can all go back to running around in a wild panic now.
Incentives for the turnover
By Karen Post, on March 11, 2008
“Calculating and adding all these costs, given our original example of the $50,000 person can easily reach $75,000 to replace them. As you can see, the costs and impact associated with an employee who leaves the company can be“
Read the 1,800-word breakdown in its fascinating and intricate entirety.
But turnover is inevitable. So what one should look to do is to minimize these costs. And with a little foresight this is possible.
Employees at the end of their line have no real incentive to make their job easier for their replacement. They’re not going to get fired. So why not create incentives for employees that are not going to leave (at least that you know of) to put together a current job description so you’re not left having to train somebody for something that you, let’s face it, probably forgot a long time ago (if you ever knew at all).
Tip: Pick a slow time during your business cycle to ask for this.
Tip: Encourage bullet pointing. We hate it but it works (the Ten Commandments were bullet pointed; are YOU going to argue with God?)
Tip: Ask that a most currently used contacts list be added to the description’s index.
Tip: Encourage them to use screenshots. Pictures are the easiest way to teach somebody. Have them print out screenshots of the steps in commonly-used programs with a red pen. This way the new hire can use it as a visual cheat sheet.
Tip: Finally, incentive it. You get what you pay for; by offering an selfish motivators people will be more willing to take the job seriously. And don’t punk out on the cheap and get everyone a pizza party; this is an investment that hopefully will SAVE you money down the road. Think iTunes gift cards or maybe a restaurant voucher.
Anyone else have suggestions?
