5 Great Apps for Accounting
As the dominance of the smartphone grows, the apps that comes with it too mature. They are no longer meant just for wasted hours of gaming or to impress your friends, some apps mean serious business. And where there is business, there is accounting. Whether you love numbers or dread it, you cannot ignore accounting if you are running a business. Now with a smartphone in every pocket and a tablet in every hand, accounting has become more simplified and approachable by everyone.
Here are some accounting apps that are gaining popularity.
Zoho Books
This handy little app keeps track of your expenses while managing your customers and invoices. You can also keep an eye on your bank accounts and transactions while keeping in touch with your accountants in real-time! This clever app allows you to automate recurring invoices and remind you about pending payments. You can even automate thank you notes to show appreciation and strengthen bonds.
You can also use the app’s online payment gateway to make quick and easy transactions in multiple currencies and keep a record of these transactions.
Xero
This is great app has won awards for its incredible performance and ease of use. This hardcore accounting app although cuts out the jargon from accounting, it delivers incredible functionality. You can access your bank accounts to go through all the transactions and verify them. You can generate real-time reports and customize you invoices before sending them out. The unlimited number of user logins means when you want to share the access to a particular account you can do them without any trouble. Moreover, this app integrates over 200 other business applications giving you access to popular apps that often eliminate the need of tireless data entry.
FreeAgent
As the name suggests, this app is not targeted at small businesses as the others. This targets the freelancers more who have multiple projects and clients keeping track of which becomes quite troublesome sometimes. Freelancers can now easily manage their cash inflow, import bank statements and chase payments. They can even submit estimates and proposals, explain transactions and send invoices through this app.
If you do not want to worry about the accounting part of the business, you can even give access to someone who can manage it while keeping you on the loop. With an unlimited number of users allowed access to for a single account, now you can even keep your mother in the loop!
QuickBooks Online
This is the granddaddy of accounting apps as it is one of the earliest cloud based accounting software. The app is a baby of Intuit who are the pioneer developers of tax software. This is a completely web based application so it cannot technically be called an ‘app’. You do not need to download anything; all you need is an active internet connection. You can create and manage sales, apply sales tax as and when applicable and also track payments through multiple options. You can access your bnk accounts, manage your bills and create estimates. The multiple platform capability means a larger audience can enjoy it.
FinancialForce
This cloud accounting application is the newest member of the SalesForce family. This app is easy to learn and implement while providing end-to-end accounting solutions, especially for the sales and services oriented company who strive for a higher profit. The app provides a single UI for your CRM and accounting thus allowing you to carry out real-time reporting. Moreover, the role-based 360 degrees view plus the multidimensional business analysis allows you to keep a pulse on the money matters.
This article is contributed by Evans who is associated with Ksapre.com that offers
Cyprus Accounting services. |